Social experiments do end up with data, after all. Management, are you paying attention?

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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. [...]

Sneak preview of Inforbix Docs and thoughts about PDM on the Cloud

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PDM has been around for decades.  The Cloud is trending.  At Inforbix, we think it’s time to combine PDM and the Cloud into something new.  So we started experimenting on a new kind of PDM we think will be much simpler and easier to deploy, use, and adopt than traditional PDM systems.  We’ll share more [...]

Do we need sophisticated search? Nope, maybe fewer keywords and more navigation

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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 [...]

Inforbix and Windchill: let’s interplay

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We have recently seen growing interest among Creo-Parametric users.  For Creo-Parametric users, a big challenge presented by the growing amount of product data, is how to aggregate, access, and find the product data they need in an intuitive and simple way.  More often than not, the data they need will be sourced amongst different file types, [...]

How Inforbix helps address product data pain

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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 [...]

Inforbix Charts and Dashboard: a cool new look

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So it’s summer time.  For some, time to hit the beach, go on a road trip, or holiday in distant lands.  For Inforbix, it’s a great time to experiment with what we hope are some cool and helpful UI improvements.  I’ll share with you what we’re up too. We’re thinking of adding a new option [...]

How global data availability can help solve electronic manufacturing challenges

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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. [...]

How Inforbix helps connect engineering and service departments

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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 [...]

Data is a new platform for your product development

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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 [...]

Why Inforbix is excited about Office 2013

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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 [...]