Inforbix - Product Data Applications
Inforbix product data application for engineering and manufacturing
Google has changed both our expectations and the way we do thing online. Today, we expect information on the internet to be instantly available when we want it. Searching for the latest activities of Lady Gaga, Olympic medal standings, or most anything else on the internet has never been easier. However, in the last ten [...]
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 [...]
A part is not a part is not a part. Want proof? Ask a designer, a mechanical engineer, a manufacturing engineer, and a production manager to describe how they define a “part”. In very data rich environments, accessing the “right” or desired data is important. But that is not always an easy task when there’s [...]
It is December at Inforbix; the usual time we see bloggers play Oracle predicting new trends for the New Year. Thinking about what is going to happen in the next year, I came across an interesting article, Technology business trends in 2012 in the Huffington Post Press by Phil Simon. Have a read and tell me what [...]
It is not unusual to hear a lot about information architecture these days. At a time when the amount information streaming has exploded, the quest for the right information architecture seems to sound as something that can bring it all under control again. I’ve seen many companies practically stop their systems deployment as they start [...]
I enjoy reading books by Seth Godin. Seth is a well-known blogger, author, entrepreneur, and public speaker. His viewpoints can be summed up as following (from Wikipedia): Godin believes that the end of the “TV-Industrial complex” means that marketers no longer have the power to command the attention of anyone they choose, whenever they choose. [...]