Inforbix - Product Data Applications
Inforbix product data application for engineering and manufacturing
This week Inforbix will be attending the SemTech conference in San Francisco. In addition, I’ll be given an opportunity to give a presentation on how semantic technology is applied in manufacturing. Navigate here to read a synopsis of what I will present. On today’s post, I want to discuss why using semantic technology to link data together could be [...]
Massachusetts is well known as a place where many engineering and manufacturing software companies were started. In a recent Boston Globe article, Rt. 128 was named as a center of manufacturing software development, navigate here to read the article. Mass is well on it’s way for also taking a leadership role in the important topic of big [...]
Big Data is a term one hears quite often these days. Look at the Big Data trend on Google to validate just how much it’s trending: So it comes as no surprise when I say that many people and vendors are experimenting with Big Data. I was recently reading an interesting article by David Linthicum titled, Big [...]
Manufacturing and engineering software are not known as fast paced industries. Change comes in small, and dare I say, gradual increments. Manufacturing companies are, by and large, conservative. I’m not saying that’s a good or bad thing. Simply that by both nature and nurture, manufacturing companies tend not to rush into technology revolutions. And with regards [...]
When we first started out developing Inforbix, an important guiding principle was to make the installation of the product easy for anyone of any skill to perform. We want people to quickly get the benefits of Inforbix without going through a long deployment and installation process. In today’s fast paced world of meeting deadlines and [...]
A week ago we attended COFES 2012. One of the discussion that caught our attention was a discussion about Big Data and Product Lifecycle. Tony Bayer nicely summarized his thoughts after this discussion on his blog. It’s worth reading. One of the most interesting passages that grabbed my attention was this: Some credit to host Brad Holtz who [...]
All I hear everybody talk about these days is cloud this, and cloud that. You could be forgiven for thinking that the cloud wil solve all problems. However, there’s one thing the cloud cannot solve, at least for now. And that’s the gap between the data you have on premise and want to keep there [...]
Cloud is trending. Autodesk recently launched their new PLM in the cloud product Autodesk PLM 360. Inforbix is very good at linking on-premise data with the cloud; it does so without moving any actual CAD or other sensitive files into the cloud. So as an experiment, we decided to see how Inforbix and Autodesk PLM [...]
The landscape of enterprise systems is changing very fast these days. There are multiple reasons for that, for example, a main disruptor in this space is cloud technologies. These technologies came to us from the consumer oriented internet, web 2.0 and 3.0, and by the fact that these technologies provide the foundation for popular products [...]
Virtualization is an important technology trend these days. I come across it all the time in different settings. Virtualization helps companies improves business operations by helping them optimize processes and making them more effective. Last year, I touched on the topic of virtualization and mentioned a few ideas of how Inforbix can help with one aspect of [...]