Intelligent Search Vital to Product Lifecycle Management Solutions
December 16, 2011
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is thrown around quite frequently in an effort to entice new customers into buying various software and networking programs. One such company luring new customers with impressive numbers is Infor, a PLM solutions company based in New York. They boast a notable list of current clients and make a strong argument for purchasing their product.
As the website explains PLM and of their solution purports:
To be successful and turn products into profits, you need a product lifecycle management (PLM) system that helps you create higher quality products. Launch new products in less time and at a lower cost. Control your production processes instead of letting them control you. Infor’s PLM software helps you do all of this, reducing your time to scale by 50% or more, reducing materials usage by 20% to 50%, and increasing your on-time launches to 98%.
The one thing we noticed that Infor glossed over was the importance of intelligent search within PLM. We have to ask what good a PLM solution is if man-hours are wasted searching within the enterprise data? Inforbix is a company specializing in enterprise search and data management. They work with engineering companies to make search simpler and more accurate with an approach centered on PLM.
Catherine Lamsfuss, December 13, 2011
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Stephen,
The Infor example you cited is typical of the PLM vendors posture, i.e., not recognizing the importance of “intelligent search.” The reason may well be because most of them don’t support broad-based search applications. What’s more, there is more to ” intelligent search” than within PLM as Catherine states.
We see tha value as extending throughout the enterprises’s data repositories, not just within PLM, e.g., other file systems and applications.
There is an alternative for advanced search applications – Alcove9, http://www.alcove9.com. It is a re-platformed and re-branded search application evolving from already proven software in use by over 100 companies and 120,000 users.
Dick Bourke
VP – Product Marketing, Alcove9