CIMdata Polls: Taking the pulse of the PLM Industry

Polls

What is the primary hardware platform hosting your current PLM platform environment (i.e., primary PLM server platform)?

Select One

  Dell

  IBM

  Hewlett-Packard

  Sun

  Other

Follow Up: How long has your current PLM hosting environment been in place?

Select One

  Less than 1 year

  1 to 3 years

  3 to 5 years

  More than 5 years

Follow Up: When do you anticipate updating / upgrading your PLM hosting environment?

Select One

  Within 1 year

  1 to 3 years

  3 to 5 years

  No plans

Follow Up: What prevents you from updating/upgrading your PLM hosting environment sooner?

Select One

  Current environment is running fine – no improvements needed

  Currently not aware of any good alternatives – nowhere to go

  Difficulty of internal acquisition process – politics, processes, etc.

  Budget restrictions – can’t consider any investment, even if it is cost saving

  PLM server requirements don’t meet corporate standards

  Other

Follow Up: If you had budget now, what would you do first?

Select One

  Add memory to current PLM server hardware

  Add storage space to current PLM server hardware

  Add CPUs to current PLM server hardware

  Replace current PLM server hardware with total new platform

  Other

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.

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