Inexpensive PLM

If you have AuotCAD 2008 & SharePoint 2007 installed an deployed, then you have the basic ingredients for a relatively inexpensive PLM solution.

There is a piece of software called CADnection, currently priced at $6,995 for a bundle of 25 seats [plus a yearly maintenance fee of 18 percent of the purchase price to provide ongoing updates] that connects AutoCAD vaults to SharPoint.

Of course, one still needs to develop and deploy the related PLM workflows in SharePoint.

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