Wayne,

I did mention Agile PLM front end to SAP as the best system I had used.
For a large corporation I'd highly recommend it. 

Pretty certain our data was all on corporate servers .. at least 5 years has
passed since I worked in that environment.

Dave

On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:51:44 -0400, Thayer, Wayne - IIW
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>What about AGILE?  I looked at them a while ago but upper management
couldn't stand the idea of our data being resident off site.  Other than
that, I've heard good things about it.
>
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>I am currently working on implementation of a Product Lifecycle Management
>(PLM) system, the comments about the required effort and time are somewhat
>accurate.
>
>The single biggest hurdle to implementation of these types of systems is
>that they usually end up being bolt-on additions to other systems that lack
>required PLM functionality. It's commonplace for companies to jump into ERP
>solutions without consideration for PLM. Add to the equation several other
>afterthought-type systems established to handle issues not in the scope of a
>standard ERP system.
>
>Task: a system that ties all of the others together.
>
>There's no "out of the box" solution that exists. The PLM systems I've been
>involved with are all add-ons which provide functionality missing from the
>corporate ERP system. The best system was Agile PLM on an existing SAP ERP
>which was highly customized and took a dedicated implementation team about
>24 months to complete.
>
>A few other PLM offerings:
>
>ARAS (opensource)
>Omnify
>PDXpert
>PDMLynx
>
>Some have supported implementation paths with specific ERP systems, but all
>will require customization for your specific needs.
>
>Hth,
>Dave
>
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