Aberdeen Report | August 2007

Profiting from PLM: Strategy and Delivery of the PLM Program

A collaborative report from Aberdeen Group

Between June and July 2007, Aberdeen Group examined the PLM implementation strategies, the experiences, and intentions of more than 185 enterprises. Responding executives completed an online survey that included questions designed to determine the following

• The pressures and subsequent strategies driving the focus of resources on PLM implementation
• Current and planned approaches to implementing PLM
• The approaches that are providing the most value to PLM implementation initiatives

Underwritten, in part, by Linx/AS and several large software companies, the study aimed to identify successful strategies for PLM implementation and the processes that led to successful deployment by Best-in-Class companies to provide a framework by which readers could assess their own implementation strategies.