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 virtualization: data. Navigate your browser to the article we posted last year, Product Data and Sweet Smell of Data Virtualization.
Earlier this week, I was reading an interesting white paper. Navigate to the following link (registration required): Guide to Virtualization for Midsize Businesses. Here’s an interesting excerpt:
Virtualization is a catalyst for creating an enterprise-wide dynamic infrastructure, enabling integrated management of IT resources, improved resiliency, flexibility and faster service delivery. This white paper explains how virtualization can benefit mid-sized businesses in particular by reducing costs and complexity. Read on and learn about the economics of virtualization for the midmarket.
The description I quote above resonated. Reducing cost and complexity is important for manufacturing companies. Earlier last year, Inforbix was at the starting stage of its first customer deployments, testing, and validations. Since then, we have learn much from those early customer experiences and can now, with some confidence, talk more about how Inforbix helps companies virtualize their data. Think about a library of released documents. I’m sure you have one in your company. In most cases, you probably keep this library (there may be more than one, btw) on separate folders or maybe use a content management system. Sometimes PDM system are used for this purpose. I happen to believe there’s a simpler, more effective and affordable alternative to content management or PDM systems.
Inforbix applies product data crawler to scan and index these libraries of release documents; they automatically gather metadata which is indexed and processed in the cloud (no original data is touched, moved, or migrated to the cloud). Access to all this virtualized data can be granted to anyone, via secure login credentials, in the company via a standard web browser. There’s even an option to use a company internal private cloud if the public cloud is not an option for some reason. Inforbix adds additional value by inferring useful links, connections, and relationships between released documents and pertinent pieces of engineering data. Because it implements cloud, mobile, and semantic technology, Inforbix is able to provide this data virtualization at a fraction of cost and resources usually required of data management systems.
Would you like to experience how Inforbix could help you and your company get more out of engineering and manufacturing data? Give Inforbix a test-drive or register and start using Inforbix for free.
Best, Oleg
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