Comments on: PLM Collaboration on Steroids – Google Shared Folders

By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:52:38 +0000

Ed, thanks for your comment! I think, simplicity is going to win and we will see more and more “consumer-oriented” products. This is will be challenge for today’s product and it will create new, better, products in my view… Best, Oleg

By: Ed Doctor

Ed Doctor — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:40:41 +0000

Oleg,

Capturing, controlling and managin data is vital to sound collaboration. Yet there is a much larger population of users who will benefit from simply being able to find and view data quickly. This community will benefit from Sharepoint, Google, and new products like Partrieve to a far greater extent than the “collaborative community” will benefit from their use. Just as an aircraft manufacture never relies on a single vendor to supply all the components required to put a plane in the sky I think companies would be wise to look beyond traditional PLM systems and augment implementations with technology you mention. Putting all of your eggs in one basket could result in a great deal of egg on one’s face!

By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:47:28 +0000

Yep, Google reliability in most of the cases outperform enterprise back-ends with small mails and not reliable services. The big question will be to corp. lawyers… … Best, Oleg.

By: Vladislav

Vladislav — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:34:28 +0000

Oleg, actually I think for all sane “persons who making decision” it’s not critical. Just because google distributed servers are much more reliable than some ‘vaults’ within enterprize. And there are many benefits of easy implementing such services for all personal all round the world against classic scheme.

p.s. Tyazhelo po-angliiski pisat’

By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:08:51 +0000

Vladislav, The fundamental question – is it critical or not? Since, I’m talking about short collaboration cycle, the IP infringement, in my view, is very short. And this is information that in most of the cases, already provided out of company for different reasons- suppliers, external designers, manufacturers. Best, Oleg

By: Vladislav

Vladislav — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:05:45 +0000

Oleg, I think that problem of google-docs for enterprizes is that DB server is not located within enterprize

By: olegshilovitsky

olegshilovitsky — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:31:11 +0000

Jerry, yes, you are right. This is somewhat called community collaboration. I just figured out such community collaboration tools or platforms were delivered in the past by special vendors (I think, even TeamCenter still have similar product TeamCenter Community). But time is running fast and such options started to come from different vendors… Thanks for your comment. Best, Oleg

By: Jerry Sarfati

Jerry Sarfati — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:24:04 +0000

Oleg,

I call this “community collaboration”. There are many products that fit into the category. Google Folders, Sharepoint, Lotus Notes, etc…

Some of the key areas to look at are:
* A Secure environment (keeping your IP, secure)
* A Scalable distributed team environment (Will the server crash at the end of the project, when everyone is accessing it?)
* Comprehensive visual issues management (clearly communicate design concerns and route for resolution)
* Business application integration

Jerry