For long time, enterprise integration is one of the biggest challenges manufacturing companies are facing during PLM implementations. PLM integration can be very different from simple data exchange to federation.
In many situations, PLM vendors are promoting their “cloud” solutions as a way to escape from IT complexity and simplify software updates. While, those benefits are obvious, “integration” can become a problem and usually comes as an afterthoughts. I shared some of my thoughts about cloud PLM and integration earlier – How to prevent cloud integration mistakes and Integration is holding back cloud PLM adoptions.
