It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, and most businesses are looking for the edge they need to get past the competition. As many find out the hard way, you need more going on than a lot of Facebook likes in order to start generating more profits and reducing the daily costs of operations. What can your company do in order to create better, sustainable management practices? Here are three tips.

Integware will once again be a sponsor of 3DEXPERIENCE 2013.  And, we have a couple of questions for you:

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Fort Collins, CO., August 8, 2020 – Integware, a leading provider of PLM services and solutions for regulated industries today announced that it has achieved Gold Partner status in Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN). By attaining Gold Level membership, Oracle has recognized Integware for its commitment to establish Oracle related knowledge in delivering solutions that satisfy good quality practices (GxPs) in compliance with worldwide regulatory standards and for uniquely addressing the challenges of joint customers who want to effectively manufacture their products.

PLM is not a new concept. It has expanded well beyond the industries where it started.  A question that we at Integware continue to hear from most companies, and in particular the visionaries within companies new to product lifecycle management, is “how do I show the business value of product lifecycle management?”

I’ve had the opportunity to manage a large number of projects over the years from very large to very small and I have often found that the main challenges related to successful enterprise solution delivery are usually not technical.  Yes technical obstacles will exist, will need to be overcome and engineering tradeoffs made.  But in my experience the major roadblocks to enterprise implementations stem from improper governance, issues related to management of change (by that I mean organizational acceptance and understanding of value) and strategic investment shifts.

This posting describes an approach to PLM implementations when an OOTB approach is not feasible and following this process leads to the characteristics a first rate PLM implementation.  The engagement should be run in an agile manner with frequent deliverables that can be signed-off.  The deliverables start as light-weight easily refined components of a Paper Prototype (PP) and evolve with feedback to a Demo Prototype (DP) and finally to a Conference Room Pilot Prototype (CRP) that shows the total solution.  Each prototype is signed off by the business users.  The purpose of the prototype refinement is to gradually transition the user from a paper-based world into an understanding of a PLM-based solution.