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PLM: Spanning All Areas of the Enterprise

By Dick Weisinger

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) systems have always been used in manufacturing companies, but PLM is moving from the engineering back rooms to touch all parts of the manufacturing organization. PLM systems are creating centralized hubs of product information available to

PLM: Convergence of Software

By Dick Weisinger

Software giants like Oracle are changing the scope of Enterprise Software. Oracle’s vision of Fusion is uniting software suites that have long had no relationship. Consider ERP and PLM. While ERP has been the backbone of business infrastructure, PLM has

PLM: Growth Exceeds Forecasts

By Dick Weisinger

Global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market grew 13.5 percent in 2007, higher than analyst predictions to reach a size of $24.3 billion.  That’s the conclusion of consulting and research company CIMData. The better than expected growth came from a strong

PLM: Fueling Product Innovation

By Dick Weisinger

How is it that ever-more-sophisticated electronic gear can be pumped out at continutually shrinking prices in the face of inflation and rising labor wages? Many times the root of this magic is made possible by software. Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)

PLM: SMBs Bulk up on PLM

By Dick Weisinger

PLM market leaders Siemens and PTC are both reporting sales successes in the small and medium sized business. PTC saw strong sales of its WindChill product in fourth quarter 2007, and they report that their growth isn’t coming from the