Microsoft and its ISVs put product data in offices.(Product Life-Cycle Management)

MSI, October, 2004

The line between product life-cycle management (PLM) software and Microsoft applications, such as its portal and Office solutions, is getting thin. The reason: PLM vendors making use of Microsoft .NET to merge product-based collaboration with office productivity tools, according to PLM vendors, as well as Microsoft Corp.

"These PLM solutions get information to the user in the context needed," says Don Richardson, director of Microsoft's manufacturing industry solutions unit. Richardson's group works with the vendors to promote the use of Microsoft technology in their products. He says, for example, vendors use Web Parts--componentized Web page elements--to better merge PLM and the office. PLM vendors using Microsoft technology extensively in their...

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