Demystifying the Enterprise PLM Sale

There is typically a sequence of phases that a customer goes through when deciding to buy something. As a fundamental rule, the sales cycle must be described from the customer’s perspective. The first phase of the sales cycle may be eith...

5 Success Factors for Establishing and Maintaining Effective BOM

Undoubtedly, Bills of Materials (BOMs) are the lifeblood of manufacturing organizations. They represent core product information that constitutes the backbone of Product Development and Manufacturing, as well as finance, procurement, mar...

10 Business Benefits from Effective Simulation Life-Cycle Management

Broadly speaking, Computer Assisted Engineering (CAE) is the process of solving engineering problems through the use of sophisticated, interactive graphical software. It includes the series of disciplines which aim at digitally testing a...

Internet of PLM

Nowadays everything is getting connected with ‘smart‘ products and devices transmitting and sharing useful information. In the manufacturing industry, data become more and more available with embedded software and sensors for analysis, o...

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...