Manufacturing Industry on Brink of PaaS Revolution
June 28, 2012
Everyone knows how cloud technology has transformed how the world does business and how data is stored and shared. Software-as-a-Service was created solely from the cloud and allowed small and midsized businesses in many industries access to software that traditionally was much too expensive for smaller budgets. The latest cloud-based technology is Platform-as-a-Service according to the SYS-CON Media article, “How PaaS Can Change Manufacturing Software”, and offers even more than SaaS.
The article explains PaaS’s many capabilities by pointing out,
“PaaS also allows manufacturers to:
- Upgrade manufacturing add-ons before vendor releases
- Purchase a wide diversity of apps that are designed to be interoperable
- Get third-party developers to quickly build customized solutions
Beyond that, the cheaper developments costs that PaaS enables can allow third-party developers to pass along these savings to manufacturers. Of course, the PaaS options that can serve the manufacturing industry today are relatively few and are still maturing.”
We expect that as PaaS grows in popularity (there are very limited vendors now for PLM solutions) the manufacturing industry will realize its great potential and an increase in PLM solutions adoptions will be the result. PaaS is now primarily aimed at small and midsized businesses because of its limitations but as it improves larger companies will be able to incorporate it into their existing PLM solutions.
Catherine Lamsfuss, June 28, 2012
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