Product Lifecycle Management

B2B Analysts tracks the major innovative technologies in the enterprise software space. Having started as CAD, Product Lifecycle Management, or PLM, focuses on how companies design products, and the beginning phases of how they source materials for their new products.

We consider PLM to be synonymous with Collaborative Design, which is one portion of the Supplier Relationship Management, or SRM, process. In the first half of 2002, we will be issuing three research reports on the SRM space. The first will be called Strategic Sourcing, the second Collaborative Design, and the third will be Procurement. The reports will contain assessments of applications from approximately 50 different companies, large and small.

In addition to these reports, each time we meet with a software vendor, we publish an assessment.

Recent SRM assessments include:

September 5, 2001

Creating and Updating Complex BOMs. Agile Software.

For others, see our archive.