Guy, thanks for your insight! Scalability is not something that immediately related to CAD content. You are right, if you want to share 3D models and do some heavy stuff. However, scalability on a number of participants is not necessarily related to CAD (i.e. If you want to share “BOM” between more than 2 people to discuss on CCB).
You are right. I also see people collaborate about 3D CAD models and then exchange Excel files or other docs. This is a common case. I think, what can be interesting is to share documents for co-editing or collaboration. Google is doing it with Google Docs and GW provided good set technologies to track changes. I had a chance to see other companies that provided such a co-editing functionality. Most of them are working with Office files/formats.
Some of my previous posts that might be relevant.
http://plmtwine.com/2010/06/28/3-steps-to-improve-plm-collaboration/
http://plmtwine.com/2009/10/16/plm-collaboration-on-steroids-google-shared-folders/
Are you guys doing something in PLMPlus that related to Excel-like collaboration style?
Best, Oleg
