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PLM Evaluation Center

Nov 23, 2009
Today's usage of Decision Support Systems (DSS), combined with vetted PLM knowledge bases, allows organizations to save time and money, achieving better and more reliable/fully-documented decisions, a quantum improvement over the widely-used subjective process of selecting complex enterprise software...
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Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) in Process Part 1 Proven in Discrete, Ready to Blossom in Process (5 Pages)
by Olin Thompson
Dec 1, 2002 Abstract : Process industry companies could benefit from many of the PLM concepts that have accrued to discrete industries. But PLM has had minimum penetration into the process industries. Why?
Type: Article
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Product Life Cycle Management (PLM) in Process - Part 1 Proven in Discrete, Ready to Blossom in Process (5 Pages)
by Olin Thompson
Nov 20, 2001 Abstract : Process industry companies could benefit from many of the PLM concepts that have accrued to discrete industries. But PLM has had minimum penetration into the process industries. Why?
Type: Article
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The Many Faces of PLM Part One: Event Summary (3 Pages)
by Jim Brown
Dec 29, 2003 Abstract : Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software solutions, like many of the application suites that have come before it, are a collection of different offerings that serve a common theme and contribute to overlapping value propositions. Like previous application suites, there is strategic value in approaching PLM as a set of inter-related requirements as opposed to just a collection of function-specific requirements. This is a report on the observations from the 2003 Product Development Manager’s Association (PDMA) Conference.
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The Different Evolutionary Stages of ERP and PLM (6 Pages)
by Predrag Jakovljevic & Jim Brown
Oct 9, 2003 Abstract : The product development life cycle - innovate, conceptualize, plan, design, procure, produce, deliver, service, and retire - naturally includes multiple people, operating in multiple departments, and typically from multiple companies, each with locations in multiple countries around the world. Solving inherent difficulties that result from managing this complexity are the raison d’être for PLM solutions.
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Project Lifecycle Management Implies Long Term Value; Forget the Total Cost of Ownership Fuss (3 Pages)
by Michael Bittner
Sep 28, 2005 Abstract : Understanding the nature and specifics of your product development life cycles, and especially new product design and initiation, can help you realize tangible cost savings and will offset the total cost of ownership of a product lifecycle management system.
Type: Article
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The Many Faces of PLM Part Two: The Future of the PLM Suite (6 Pages)
by Jim Brown
Dec 30, 2003 Abstract : The future of the PLM Suite will include more applications that cover product-related functionality and further expand the benefits available. As the PLM Suite matures, companies will benefit from increased functionality and increased integration between business processes. The ultimate expression of this more mature solution will result in a broad suite of focused, integrated applications that leverage a core of unified, structured product data - the PLM Platform.
Type: Article
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Vendor Feels the Heat in Hot Product Lifecycle Management Market (3 Pages)
by Michael Bittner
Mar 9, 2006 Abstract : The product lifecycle management (PLM) market is expected to experience double digit growth through 2008, driven by market dynamics like outsourcing and global product development. However, not all PLM software vendors are riding this wave of PLM market growth and profitability.
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Critical Components of an E-PLM System (4 Pages)
by Michael Bittner
Oct 21, 2005 Abstract : E-business has prompted a lot of vendors to move towards creating electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM) suites. However, enterprise resource planning vendors with extensive e-commerce initiatives, development staffs, and renewed interest in PLM, are as likely to lead the way.
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Where is Oracle in the Product Lifecycle Management Software Market? (3 Pages)
by Michael Bittner
Feb 3, 2006 Abstract : Oracle is in the processing of developing their product lifecycle management capabilities. The question is whether they will accomplish this through the acquisition of a pure-play PLM vendor, or through internal technology development.
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