Inforbix - Product Data Applications
Inforbix product data application for engineering and manufacturing
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. [...]
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 [...]
For years, taking better advantage of product data in manufacturing companies meant using traditional data management and collaboration tools available to only a relatively few number of people in an organization – not everyone had the skills nor deep pockets to afford using them. Today, product data continues to play a vital role driving innovation. [...]
Product data is everywhere and has a knack of hiding in different specialized systems, files, and formats. Manufacturing companies generate and use vast amounts of specialized and complex product data that make decision support difficult. Product data is difficult to access because it is sourced within different file types and fragmented across disparate departments and [...]
Have you heard about Gen-Flux? Maybe? Well if you haven’t, here’s what Wikipedia provides as a short intro to Gen-Flux. Generation Flux is a neologism and psychographic (not demographic) designation for American employees who need to make several changes in career throughout their working lives due to the chaotic nature of the job market following the [...]
On today’s post, I want to make your life easier. Following our first product launch last Monday, 24 October, we received a bit of buzz we want to share with you. So rather than using Google search to try and find this buzz on the internet, we’ve collected it all together on one page on our website. [...]
Product Data and everything related to it is a complex topic. As I have written multiple times on this blog, product data resides in multiple places in a manufacturing company. Multiple places can be represented by sources such as multiple databases, files, systems, etc. Unfortunately, all these sources lead to an increase in complexity. I [...]
As usual, on Friday we try to go a bit off-road and bring data stories that focus on product data from different thought provoking angles. We believe doing so may provoke ideas and associations which free the mind to think about other ways to view engineering and product data. So having said that, today we [...]
Social is trending. It sounds very cool to make your business social. I’m thinking of products that adopt the social paradigm like Chatter, SAP StreamWork, PTC Windchill SocialLink and of course, the usual suspects: Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn as adopted, it seems, by every business on the planet. Let’s try to understand what does it mean [...]