PLM Status Report

Corporate Intellectual Capital

Understanding PLM

 

 

 

Understanding PLM

'Understanding PLM' is a report from Datamation Limited explaining the background and emergence of PLM.

Who is this report for?

  • Users - who are looking for solutions for their business problems. They also want to have yardsticks that help them in the evaluation and selection of the solution most suited to their business environment

  • Vendors - want to provide products that address market needs and to be able to position these products accurately for more effective marketing and sales campaigns

  • Analysts - who want to provide trends and meaningful statistics for market size and growth rates

  • Investors - who want to have an accurate assessment of the technology they are proposing to invest in, the size of the market it is aimed at and its potential growth

Content

  • A clear definition of what PLM is

  • A description of what constitutes PLM technology and where it fits in the overall IT picture

  • Classification of PLM related technologies into clearly definable groups that makes them easy to position, and to understand the benefits they deliver

  • An outline of the different approaches adopted by different PLM vendors and their key differentiating features

  • Prediction of how PLM technology is likely to develop over the coming years and what users of this technology can do to derive most benefit from it