Cloud-Based PLM a Growing Trend World Wide
March 9, 2012
Across the globe companies are looking for ways to encourage growth while simultaneously reduce spending. This is a tall order for every industry but there is one area where it can be accomplished – PLM. A recent article on Manufacturing.Net, The Rise Of Cloud Computing Extends To PLM, explains how PLM solutions employed with cloud technology not only is the wave of the future but helps reduce expenses and has a proven ROI.
By adding the cloud to traditional PLM platforms companies are able to reduce their dependency on physical storage facilities for data. As the article explains of the trend toward combining cloud and PLM services,
“Most industry analysts (Forrester, Gartner, Frost & Sullivan, ARC and The Yankee Group) covering IT agree that the power and potential of cloud computing, properly leveraged and deployed, can have a significant impact on the PLM industry. PLM customers are giving serious consideration and evaluating their PLM business processes in regard to how to run them seamlessly and securely connect them to cloud-based data sets. This is to say that today still few are fully deployed. It is still in the infancy stages of use even if the technology has matured. It is still curing.”
Despite the many benefits cloud computing offers traditional PLM solutions there is a concern regarding accessibility and security, and rightly so. Companies taking the time to convert operations and data to the cloud need the assurance that the right employees will be able to access the right files easily and securely. By choosing platform providers well-versed in cloud computation and how it relates to PLM companies can rest assured that employees will be able to find, re-use and share data without threats to security.
Catherine Lamsfuss, March 9, 2012
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