Category: Engineering Information Management

  • Do you want to manage engineering, or just the results of it? (Part Two)

    Engineering Content Review is Different In part one (https://algray.com/?p=169) we discussed how today’s engineering tools create information rich repositories that require a purpose-built content management system in order to manage information to the depth possible. Having such a system also allows for powerful review environments that can assemble 2D & 3D content (and ancillary data) in order to facilitate…

  • SEI Engineering Uses i-models to Accelerate Design, Review, and Approval

    I had the pleasure of being on the dais with Rafael de Santiago Silva during an SSPE SELECT Series Premier Event/Seminar Series named “Working Smarter, Together” held in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro late in 2011. He provided great insights as to how i-models provided a benefit to SEI on a large project for…

  • Do you want to manage engineering, or just the results of it? (Part One)

    I get asked the following question frequently…”Why, when we have <Insert the name of any general purpose Electronic Document Management System (EDMS) here> do we need another system to manage documents for the engineering team? You have to admit…it’s the right question to be asking. After all, no IT department should agree to manage multiple…

  • SaaS revenues grow dramatically, but will SaaS be a factor in EIM?

    According to Gartner, 2011 SaaS revenues were $12.3 billion and they expect that number to climb to $14.5 billion for 2012. Gartner claims that North America is where much of the growth will come from and that the USA is expected to reach $7.8 billion in 2012, up from $7.8 billion in 2011. But what…