Many Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Return on Investment (ROI) analyses are based on soft-savings such as efficiency gains and time-to-market improvements.  While these are incredibly impactful, possibly transformational, they are also hard to measure and can be less meaningful to some CFOs who are looking for harder savings opportunities.    

PLM is not a new concept. It has expanded well beyond the industries where it started.  A question that we at Integware continue to hear from most companies, and in particular the visionaries within companies new to product lifecycle management, is “how do I show the business value of product lifecycle management?”