There Something Brewing in the PLM Market

March 8, 2012

The product lifecycle management (PLM) market is on the rise. The top three PLM vendors, Dassault, Siemens and PTC, are faced with new challenges and new challengers like Autodesk. The Oleg Shilovitsky’s article PLM Perfect Storm 2012 takes a look at how all of this is brewing and what the aftermath may look like.

It seems that one of the draw backs of all top three vendors is their reliance upon the larger companies. They “failed to deliver scalable PLM solution for mid-range manufacturing companies” and they “didn’t deliver any PLM product to the market of small manufacturing companies” either. Even though Autodesk has entered the PLM market and taken on cloud-based solutions, it is not clear what path they will take.

Shilovitsky believes:

“[l]arge PLM companies have a lot of money to play the future PLM game. They have a lot to win as well as to lose, in case something will go wrong.

So where do smaller, more niche companies fit into this perfect storm? It seems to us that they could be the shining light in this storm. Companies like Inforbix will continue to bring a new look to PLM. They provide cutting-edge solutions that help users access product data located in multiple systems. While the Autodesks and the Dassaults of the world are busy slugging it out for PLM supremecy, Inforbix will be revolutionizing PLM solutions.

Jennifer Wensink, March 8, 2012

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