Availl Declassified: Big Joe keeps its data in sync without a PDM/PLM system

摘要

I'M ASHAMED TO admit I've become too class-oriented. No, I'm not claiming certain social privileges as my birthright. I'm referring to the convenient product classification system I've been using to determine my monthly coverage. Whenever someone pitches, me a product, I immediate relegate it to one of the market domains: PLM (product lifecycle management), PDM (product data management), cPDM (collaborative product definition management), ERP (enterprise resource management) and so on. Once in a while, I run into something that doesn't quite fit snugly anywhere in my scheme. When that occurs, despite the product's apparent merits, I might dismiss it as something irrelevant to my concerns. I came quite close to making that mistake with Availl.