What’s The Big Deal about Data Migration?

Data migration refers to the movement of data from an old or legacy system to a new system (often linking to data quality in context of: “garbage in, garbage out“). It takes place during the transition from one solution to another, is ty...

Informed Decision Making: Turning Data into Business Insight

Decisions are made in context. They typically involve a problem definition, a decision maker and a feedback loop on action taken. The concept of ‘informed’ decisions is linked to (though distinctly different) the concept of ‘better’ deci...

Create Once, Use Many Times

Robust information and (meta-)data management is one of the core requirements for Engineering and Manufacturing functions to deliver new product developments and innovations with a solid data foundation. Managing effectively (or not) Bil...

PLM Impact on Organizational Cultures (and the reverse)

Product Life-cycle Management (PLM) defines how people create and manage products, following a New Product Development & Introduction (NPDI) process, with the digital information that supports digital product development and digital manu...

Fifty Shades of PLM

Quotes from Engineering VPs and Chief Engineers -alike, captured in various contexts while discussing Product Life-cycle Management (PLM)… Engineering efficiency, I want more PLM. I do believe you’re making my PLM twitch. Global business...

PLM Maturity and CMMI

Information management during the whole product life-cycle is important, utilizing information from multiple different operational sources and sharing across functions to support the decision making in different stages of the product rea...