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Caveat: I work for an online PLM app (Arena). Ours is aimed at
small-to-medium businesses while Agile is for the monster companies.
Ours is a subscription-based model for BOM and Change Management. A lot of
our customers do use it for Doc Control, and our file management is quite
robust. Users can make a file an "item", thereby applying revision control.
And you can choose to enforce Change Control at the In Design or In
Production stage of the item lifecycle--setting up Change Control Boards for
approval of new revisions.
Agile works in very much the same way, but their online offering was shelved
when Oracle bought them. I believe they are bringing it back now.
Sorry for any perceived plugging--feel free to contact me off list if you
want any more PLM info.
Chris
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Gene Kim-Eng <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> wrote:
> Agile PLM is a complete product lifecycle management suite, though most
> companies I've seen using it seem to concentrate on it as a document
> control/electronic signoff system. It operates on a concurrent user
> license, so
> you buy enough logins to cover the number of people you expect to be
> working in
> it at the same time. The last version I worked with came as both an
> installable
> app (mostly used by the admins) and a web-based portal.
>
> Gene Kim-Eng
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>
> So, Gene, you have experience with Agile PLM?
> Does everybody who ever breathes on a project document
> need an expensive license to do so?
>
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