Manufacturing Industry
Design vendor harnesses Microsoft portal technology for versatile, low-cost PLM solution.(COLLABORATIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT)
Manufacturing Business Technology, February, 2006
Microsoft doesn't sell product lifecycle management (PLM) applications, but it could increase its presence in the PLM space as more users discover the highly versatile--and cost-effective-solutions other vendors are building on top of Microsoft's SharePoint platform. Among the vendors using SharePoint as the basis for a solution is Actify, which bills itself as a supplier of digital design communications software.
"We offer a solution that's easy to adopt for even the small and medium-size business," says Randy Ochs, Actify's president and CEO. "And we aren't trying to drag a heavier, more expensive PLM solution behind it." Actify's solution, called DesignShare, allows multiple users to collaborate on product designs by accessing the same sets...
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