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April 2007
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CIMdata in the News: PLM Roundtable, Part 2 Closing in on Nirvana?
In the April issue of Desktop Engineering (DE), a seven-member panel of Product Lifecycle Management experts discuss the economics of effective product lifecycle management systems and how improved processes will lead to market success. Ed Miller, President of CIMdata, is one of the featured experts who addresses the following question on the future of data management:
DE : Where will the data management segment of the PLM market go in the future? Will the big ERP and CAD companies dominate? Do you see any place for smaller, independent firms offering only data management?
Miller : Where will it go? It's continuing to evolve. The market has matured a bit, and what you see is that core data management capabilities have become much more robust, with continual expansion of what's included within the core. PLM vendors are expanding their offerings to include capabilities that are useful to particular industry sectors, for example, formulation management for food and beverage companies. The vendors are also expanding functionality that is useful across many industries with capabilities like strategic sourcing, requirements management, or portfolio management.
Regarding your question about the ERP suppliers, they will play a major role but won't dominate. The major CAD suppliers have expanded their solutions into broad PLM offerings and will continue to play a major role as well. In addition, there are certainly market niches where a number of other suppliers have established a key position. For instance, Prodika (recently acquired by Agile Software) is a small firm that is focused specifically on the food and beverage industry and has been well received. There are many other examples of successful PLM suppliers that are not behemoth companies.
To read what all the experts have to say, please access, PLM Roundtable, Part 2 , (Desktop Engineering, April 2007), written by Nancy Rouse-Talley.
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