PLM: In house or Hosted?
I recently did an examination of the tradeoffs of using hosted versus on-site PLM systems. The decisions are challenging and there is no particular right or wrong answer but figured it was time to share my findings.
Traditionally PLM systems have been implemented at a manufacturing site with very much a similar business implementation paradigms as used with ERP systems. However, as with CRM and ERP systems, there is an “on-demand” (that is a hosted) option. So which to use? Small emerging businesses have very different decision based issues than the established businesses. So here are some of the issues that the range of companies would need to examine in the decision of what type of deployment to consider (pick on image to see full sized view):
The challenge is to make a decision when a company is sitting near the boundaries of one profile or another. This discussion has not even covered the cost tradeoffs in the selection process - only the business factors that should be weighed in on.
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