Inforbix - Product Data Applications
Inforbix product data application for engineering and manufacturing
Social is the interesting trend today. The power and size of social networks, and how they continue to grow, capture people’s attention. So much so, social has captured the interest of enterprise software vendors (CAD, PLM, ERP) with their attempt to replicate the success of social networks and other social oriented software in the enterprise. [...]
In manufacturing companies, there are different sources of pain. I’ll focus today on a particular kind of pain caused by the growing amount of data generated by designers, engineers, production, suppliers, customers, etc in manufacturing companies. The pain is not caused by the data itself. Rather, for many companies, it’s getting buried in an ever [...]
Today’s manufacturing environment is more dynamic than ever before. We see it every day in different companies and industry segments. One particular segment that is particularly dynamic these days is electronic manufacturing. What makes this segment so dynamic is the high level of integration required between different companies in order to produce a finished product. [...]
One of the topics that often comes up for discussion these days is data privacy. No doubt about it, data privacy (aka security) is an important topic. And certainly your propritairy data needs to remain safe and not to be exposed outside your organization or firewall without your permission. At the same time, product development [...]
At Inforbix we are in constant search of how to apply Inforbix technologies to solve data problems our customers have. Ongoing, we talk to companies and people in a variety of industries, countries, and roles. We are always on the look-out for ways to leverage one of the strongest advantages of Inforbix technologies: ease of [...]
The dream of all software companies (among others…) is to become a “platform”. There is no surprise why this is so. When you become a platform, your business starts to kicks-ass by providing services to all other applications, tools and service providers. That’s been the situation for years, since the mainframe days to the world [...]
Management of documents in a company or organization is not an unusual task. Actually, document management (DM) is a fairly common and necessary job. Normally, IT is the entity within companies responsible for figuring out the how, what, who, etc of DM. IT usually ends up implementing a DM solution that is in practice a [...]
Are you familiar with the theory of “multiples discoveries?” If not, here’s a short explanation courtesy of Wikipedia. The independent invention of Calculus by Newton and Leibniz is a classic example. Also, I recommend you read Malcolm Gladwell’s article in the New Yorker magazine, In the Air. It’s a long but very interesting article for a [...]
For years I’ve observed a growing trend to stoically accept complexity when it comes to data management. More so in manufacturing companies where data is particularly complex, e.g. CAD, BOM, Assemblies, and managing it even more so. Whether homegrown or sourced from product data management vendors, PDM systems tend to be complex and complicated to [...]
Search and information are key operational words in the Inforbix lexicon. We truly believe the ability to find and access information in a manufacturing organization can dramatically change the way people work and the way it does business. Consider the impact information access had on the consumer and web space (remember the days before Google? [...]