CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
2 April 2008
CIMdata News
CIMdata Announces a New Opinion Poll on Who is Leading Your PLM Effort and the Results of the PLM/ERP Implementation Poll
Who is leading your PLM effort, including the development of its strategy? is CIMdata’s new poll for this month.
Results for our poll on the comparison of PLM and ERP implementations:
CIMdata Analysis:
The poll indicates that 35% of responders consider PLM implementation to be as complex as implementing an ERP solution. Another 26% of responders indicated that PLM implementation was more complex than ERP. For large enterprises, PLM implementations generally encompass a significant amount of process change and integration with other business and technology applications. This can require a major amount of services and can have significant impact on how people work. Such change is inherently complex – similar to or more so than many ERP implementations.
Some 39% indicated that PLM implementation was easier than ERP implementation. For smaller enterprises, PLM implementations tend to be more narrowly focused than those at larger companies. This results in less integration, process impact and other changes. PLM implementations of smaller scope can be completed in a much short time than ERP implementations at the same company.
The results of the poll reinforce that larger implementations (and most PLM implementations to date have been in larger enterprises) much be planned and executed as would any other enterprise level system – and can be just as complex.
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