This review report looks at the market and strategic issues within manufacturing companies with respect to product lifecycle management. It also covers PLM software and the market opportunity for vendors targeting this space.
Scope of this title: Looks at market pressures such as regulation, consumer demand cycles and M&A activity. Considers collaboration, information management and PLM technology. Analyzes the current state of the PLM market and provides future predictions and revenue forecasts from 2006 till 2012.
Highlights of this title: Content management is seen as a big area of interest and not just within product lifecycles. Extending the same strategy into product-oriented processes makes sense for manufacturers as it improves customer relations, speeds time taken for maintenance and service and can enhance the time taken to provide replacement parts for a broken product.
Reasons to order your copy: Understand whats driving manufacturers product-oriented processes. Assess the opportunity to sell PLM technology into the manufacturing industry.
