PLM Must Change Warns Respected Blogger
February 17, 2012
There has been a lot of discussion about the future of PLM technologies. With the introduction of cloud technology in the last decade PLM has begun the first truly radical change since it began almost thirty years ago. In the blogpost titled, PLM, RDBMS and Future Data Management Challenges, on PLM Think Tank, author Oleg Shilovitsky points out the effect PLM’s out-of-date technology is having on data.
When PLM first started there was relatively little data floating around in the world. As computer use has increased, the internet explosion and now all systems within a company computerized data is growing at exponential rates. And yet, PLM is still being done basically the same.
As the post summarizes,
“I think, the weak point of existing RDBMS technologies in the context of PLM is a growing complexity of data – both from structural and unstructured aspects. The amount of data will raise lots of questions in front of enterprise IT in manufacturing companies and PLM vendors.”
For a company to stay competitive in this global economy that has really come to exist in the last two decades PLM strategies must be changed and companies must adopt new data management solutions to go along with those changes. Cloud technology now allows for PLM that keeps up with a growing company’s rapidly changing data management needs. The evidence of Shilovitsky’s admonishments can be seen in the growing number of PLM providers switching to the cloud and focusing more on data management in relation to enterprise search.
Catherine Lamsfuss, February 17, 2012
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