CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
28 January 2008
CIMdata News
CIMdata Publishes a New Program Review Report: Share-A-Space from Eurostep
CIMdata consulting and research firm announces the availability of its review of Eurostep’s Share-A-Space program. In this report, CIMdata describes Eurostep’s solution, and provides a review of its ability to support the real life challenges faced when working within a complex and ever changing extended enterprise across a product’s lifecycle.
Mr. Peter Bilello, CIMdata Director of Consulting Services said, “Today’s globally competitive and heterogeneous business environment often requires the quick and efficient formation of virtual organizations, where their various product lifecycles, associated processes, and organizations are integrated.” Mr. Bilello pointed out that lifecycle product management is a critical issue and one that severely challenges most companies. He said, “The complexity associated with these new ways of working cannot be well addressed with relatively static processes and support systems. They require more flexible and dynamic solutions that can absorb and enable business changes—not impede them.”
Mr. Bilello added, “History clearly shows that companies able to rapidly adapt to market changes, while continuing to provide world-class support for their in-service products, are those that best take advantage of their own intellectual assets and those of their partners. This extended enterprise approach to intellectual asset management is critical if companies want to succeed in a highly leveraged supply chain.” In these types of supply chains, companies cannot afford to only optimize themselves; they must find ways to optimize the entire chain. Critically, they must find ways to leverage each company’s strengths and knowledge for the betterment of the entire extended enterprise.
Eurostep’s Share-A-Space is designed to address this problem domain. It is intended to provide a business process neutral environment that enables organizations of all shapes and sizes to work together throughout a product’s life. Share-A-Space provides an approach to information integration and consolidation of heterogeneous systems, processes, and data models that is somewhat unique and is where many of Share-A-space’s strengths lie. The full program review, is available free of charge by downloading it form the CIMdata website.
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