Inforbix - Product Data Applications
Inforbix product data application for engineering and manufacturing
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 [...]
Communities. A word everyone seems familiar with these days. Community represents the power of the internet created in the second half of the 2000s. The variety of social networking sites created a new kind of problem: how can all these multiple communities be integrated together? For those of your in the enterprise business, I bet [...]
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 [...]
Today was clearly “Microsoft day” in the news. Even Marissa Mayer’s appointment as a CEO of Yahoo didn’t distract us from the excitement about Microsoft Office 13. So why the excitement? Let me share with you why. First, Microsoft announced the long awaited and BIG release of Office 2013. Navigate here to learn more, Microsoft [...]
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 [...]
We try to make Inforbix as easy and simple to use as possible. We are always looking for ways to make our UX as intuitive as possible for users of all skill levels and experience. However, questions on usage can and do come up. On this post, I’d like to talk about the different HELP [...]
Big Data is trending. According to some sources, there is a confounding amount of data generated on a daily basis. Navigate to this interesting infographic to see what I mean. The way I see it, if a company is not thinking or planning ways of getting value out of all that data being generated, they will be [...]
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 [...]