Category: Engineering Information Management

  • The Case for an “Engineering Specific” Information Management System

    “We already have a system to manage documents (and/or data) and we don’t understand why the engineering team thinks they need yours.”  I’ve heard statements like this many times over my career. And the reasons behind it make sense. It usually comes from someone on the IT or management team that believes that they’ve already spent…

  • ARC Advisory Group – “Bentley is in a unique position to help organizations improve their infrastructure asset operations…”

    “Bentley’s announcement of its AssetWise initiative to improve infrastructure asset operations is the right move at the right time. In today’s challenging economy, owner-operators, including government organizations, have shifted their focus from new capital projects to improved lifecycle management of existing infrastructure assets. This requires an IT strategy that provides owner-operators the ability to quickly…

  • “Cloud computing” as the dominant model in EIM?

    About two years ago I attended a conference in Silicon Valley where Matt Porta from IBM was introduced as “The smartest man in the world.” I recall that Matt has ~ 500 scientists in his organization and one of his roles is to predict industry trends. During a panel discussion he was asked, “Where will…

  • Enterprises Should Implement Change, Not Applications

    “Business benefit comes from the integration of people and process with information technology. Most projects focus too much attention on the technology and too little on people, process and change management.” – Dave Gardner, Dave Gardner’s life’s work has been improving business execution and collaboration within the enterprise and beyond the enterprise into the sales/dealer…