Tag: EIM

  • Milestone vs. In-Progress

    Milestone vs. In-Progress

    Since there’s a mountain of evidence (Search this blog for “Do you want to manage engineering”) that an engineering specific repository is necessary to support the complexity of engineering content management, engineering content review and engineering content publishing, some EDMS vendors will admit that they cannot provide all of the capability of ProjectWise, but that their…

  • 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…

  • Grappling with the change that new systems bring

    Change is good. Really? My observation is that few people accept change easily…which seems to indicate that they aren’t convinced that change is good. Mark Twain once said, “I’m for progress, it’s change I don’t care for.” Does that sound like  someone you know? Implementing information management systems is a notoriously tough business…with a lot…

  • 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…