IMAN also provided us with the ability to electronically release items to the database. That has proved to be a big benefit to us. Beally says PDM also played an important role in the company's overall reengineering program. The PDM business is going away, says Computervision's Gnatovich, and being replaced by systems focused on configuration management. And it doesn't appear to have a usability problem.
All users seem to be able to get their hands on the data they want.
However, the Web is mostly about accessing data, says EDS Unigraphics' Mitchell. It is not about controlling, securing, configuring, and managing access to data. Missing are such important features as accessing the right data, managing configured data, accessing and modifying workflows, and accessing vaults. This is, of course, the role PDM plays, suggesting that a PDM layer will always exist between the user and the data. All Rights Reserved.