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Product Management
A leader in the market for years, Oracle Agile PLM certainly has the name recognition. But is that enough to compensate for these costly pitfalls?
Product Management
December
4 Hidden Costs of Agile PLM
Engineering
When your user interface is so friendly users can teach themselves, the Salesforce administrator role is free to innovate your day-to-day workflows.
Engineering
December
The Process Innovator: Maximizing the Role of Salesforce Admin
Operations
With something as broad and variable as business transformation, the proof is in the pudding (here, the pudding is 5 real stories with real results).
Operations
November
5 Business Transformation Success Stories to Send to Your Manager
Innovation
Episode 20. Rule 20: Delivering PLM Success in an AI-Obsessed World. The world is teeming with conversations about AI—but how often are they backed by Forrester research?
Innovation
November
How AI is Transforming the Manufacturing Industry (George Lawrie)
Product Management
From the beginning, Agile had a vision for the future of product lifecycle management. But did it ever get there?
Product Management
November
What’s Down the Road for Oracle Agile PLM?
Innovation
Learn how personal experience and passion for helping others can fuel business growth in the health and wellness industry.
Innovation
November
How Personal Experience Sparks Product Innovation: 4 Stories from the Healthcare Industry
Product Marketing
Advice from a CEO about ensuring your customers remain happy with—and, crucially, loyal to—your brand when the market is noisier than ever before.
Product Marketing
November
Strategies For CEOs To Amplify The User Experience (Forbes)
Engineering
Episode 19. Rule 19: Exponential Growth Requires Scalable Tech. Learn how one small company managed hypergrowth after a major acquisition.
Engineering
November
Scalability is Key: From Startup to Supply Chain Giant (Heather Multhaupt)
Innovation
Forrester's VP/Principal Analyst George Lawrie and Propel CEO Ross Meyercord discuss how AI-powered PLM solutions allow you to extract more value with larger, standardized, and most importantly—trusted—datasets.
Innovation
November
Delivering PLM Success in an AI-Obsessed World (Forrester Webinar)
Engineering
What does a day look like for a PLM engineer in the era of digital transformation?
Engineering
November
A Day in the Life of a PLM Engineer
Product Management
Build a comprehensive cloud product lifecycle management (PLM) strategy that delivers true product success by optimizing your manufacturing workflows and technologies.
Product Management
November
Three Ways to Drive Organizational Intelligence with Cloud PLM
News & Updates
Learning a customer is unhappy is always scary. But, according to Propel CEO Ross Meyercord, it could also be a golden opportunity to deepen the relationship.
Company
November
Threading the Needle with Unhappy Customers
Product Marketing
Are you stuck in the Marketing Maze? Here's the direct route to getting out.
Product Marketing
October
Getting Your Arms Around Product Data (Multichannel Merchant)
Operations
Business transformation is no longer optional. Fortunately, there's a proven framework to walk you through it.
Operations
October
Business Transformation: Proven Steps for Real Success
Innovation
While everyone else jumped on the AI train, manufacturing companies have watched from the sidelines due to security concerns and proprietary constraints. Until now.
Innovation
October
AI’s Pervasive Future: Manufacturing Finally Joins the Party
Quality
Episode 18. Rule 18: QMS Digital Transformation for Medtechs. Learn how rapid innovation in the medtech industry is affecting digital transformation for QMS processes.
Quality
November
How Medtech is Transforming Quality Management (Nicolle Cannon and Chuck Serrin)
Product Management
Looking to understand value chain analysis? Here's a complete checklist.
Product Management
October
The Fundamental Value Chain Analysis Checklist
Product Management
Determine which approach suits your company’s goals best—and whether your PLM solution is suited to that approach.
Product Management
October
East Coast vs. West Coast Manufacturing: Does PLM Have to Pick a Side?
Quality
Episode 17. Rule 17: Driving Transformation One Process at a Time. How Diana Sehawneh (MaryRuth Organics) transformed QMS workflows by learning the solution, engaging her team, and driving early executive buy-in.
Quality
October
Success Stories from a Change Agent (Diana Sehawneh)
Product Marketing
Learn why a robust PIM platform is a business imperative for keeping up with today’s increasingly competitive landscape.
Product Marketing
October
What Is Product Information Management (PIM)? Unlocking the Power of Product Data
Innovation
Manufacturing Day 2023 falls on a watershed moment for the industry. Let’s examine all the pivotal trends shaping tomorrow’s manufacturing landscape.
Innovation
October
The Manufacturing Revolution: 6 Trends to Watch
Innovation
Episode 16. Rule 16: Solutions for Sustainable Leadership. PLM veteran Michelle Stone shares best practices when it comes to driving sustainable product development.
Innovation
October
Designing for Sustainability from the Start (Michelle Stone)
News & Updates
Overcoming the dread of performance evaluations is easier said than done. Here are some tips from Propel CEO Ross Meyercord.
Company
September
How to Embrace Performance Evaluations
Product Marketing
When you limit the use of the device history record (DHR), you’re limiting your own product’s commercial power.
Product Marketing
September
Beyond the Factory Floor: How DHRs Drive Success in Commercialization
Innovation
As Salesforce unveiled the future of enterprise software, Propel was there, capturing every insight. Here are our key learnings from Dreamforce 2023.
Innovation
September
Elevating with Einstein: Reflections on Dreamforce 2023
Operations
Episode 15. Rule 15: Embrace Change to Drive Growth. BekaertDeslee's Dmitriy Geler details the intricate journey of reshaping an established company's path to success.
Operations
September
Building a Transformation Culture (Dmitriy Geler)
Engineering
Drive Engineer to Order (ETO) by using a modern, unified platform that offers both next-generation PLM and Salesforce's modern cloud CRM capabilities.
Engineering
September
How To Delight Your Customers With ETO
Operations
It’s time to lean into smart technology to help close the skills gap.
Operations
September
Gap or Opportunity? Manufacturing Skills for a Supply-Chain Disrupted World (Quality Digest)
Engineering
Explore how Salesforce Console reshapes the world of product management by powering unparalleled productivity.
Engineering
September
Maximizing Efficiency with Salesforce Console: Product Management Edition
Product Management
What does the manufacturing process actually look like? Here's a deep dive.
Product Management
September
A Holistic View of the Manufacturing Process
Product Management
The foundation of a successful business framework today relies on real-time data visibility. Here’s a comprehensive look at the benefits of democratizing your data.
Product Management
September
Fueling Industry 4.0: Data Democratization and Your Supply Chain
Quality
Modern solutions don’t remove your control of the CAPA process, they simply remove the speedbumps.
Quality
August
7 Modern Approaches to Evolving Your CAPA Process
Innovation
Not only are medtech companies accelerating to meet the evolving demands of consumers, they're using the changing landscape as an opportunity to innovate in three key areas.
Innovation
August
3 Key Areas Where Modern Technologies are Accelerating Medtech (MedCity News)
Product Marketing
Episode 14. Rule 14: Transform Product Data into Market Success. A comprehensive look into the PIM industry landscape, and how modern PIM improves time-to-market and customer satisfaction.
Product Marketing
September
How to Use Product Information to Capture Your Market (Jill Mueller and Mark Boles)
Quality
Episode 13. Rule 13: Adopt Early, Go to Market Faster. Tips for implementing digital solutions with user buy-in and why it's never too early to start future-proofing.
Quality
August
Adopt Early to Help Your Startup Scale-Up (Sandeep Lad)
News & Updates
The three levels of trust that make or break SaaS relationships, according to Propel CEO Ross Meyercord. Part of our blog series “The CEO Lens.”
Company
August
What Makes Trust the Currency of SaaS
Innovation
Digital transformation is by no means a small undertaking and there are bound to be naysayers. Here’s how to help folks through the most common fears.
Innovation
August
How to Overcome Your Team’s Digital Transformation Hang-Ups
News & Updates
From personalized product demos to speakeasy cocktails, there are so many opportunities to get some face time with Propel Software at Dreamforce 2023.
Company
August
Connect and Innovate: Join Propel at Dreamforce 2023
Product Management
We're breaking down a few ways to optimize your value chain to increase your margins.
Product Management
August
4 Ways to Optimize Your Value Chain
Engineering
Episode 12. Rule 12: The No Code Revolution. How to unlock your business users' creativity by lowering the barrier to software development.
Engineering
August
Empowering Creativity: The Magic Behind No Code Tools (Kishore Subramanian)
Product Marketing
How technology is reshaping demand chain resilience, empowering businesses to stay ahead in today's dynamic market. Read the third and final part of our series.
Product Marketing
August
Demand Chain Resilience: Securing Your Competitive Edge in the Market
Operations
Digital transformation is no longer a "nice to have"—it's a business imperative.
Operations
July
Three Areas Where Technology is Impacting Business (CEOWorld)
Product Marketing
Have your commercial teams failed to evolve past long-extinct marketing processes like outdated spreadsheets and systems?
Product Marketing
July
The B2B Omnichannel Evolution is in Full Swing
Product Management
Creating compelling customer experiences is a highly collaborative task. Shouldn't your product and commercialization teams share the same platform?
Product Management
July
6 Ways a Unified PLM and PIM Drastically Improves Customer Experience
Innovation
Episode 11. Rule 11: One Platform, One Vision. How Savant Systems out-innovates competitors with a holistic approach to product development.
Innovation
July
How a Shared Platform Accelerates Innovation (Savant Systems)
Quality
Here’s how modern software solutions revolutionize quality validation processes, streamlining compliance and enhancing efficiency in regulated industries.
Quality
July
Streamlining Compliance: The Modern Approach to Quality Validation
Innovation
The goal of a product value management (PVM) solution isn’t only to drive value for the customer, it’s to embed value in every aspect of the business.
Innovation
July
The 5 Value Drivers of the Modern Marketplace
Engineering
If a picture’s worth a thousand words, what’s a product viewable worth? Here are 6 key benefits of incorporating visual representations of products into the design process.
Engineering
July
How Visual Collaboration Enhances Product Development
Operations
At Propulsion 2023, Heather Multhaupt, VP of Team Services at Alert Innovation, explained how the company is managing rapid growth after its acquisition.
Operations
July
From Startup to Supply Chain Giant: Alert Innovation's Hypergrowth Story
Quality
Good manufacturing practices keep consumers safe and manufacturers compliant.
Quality
July
A Crash Course in Good Manufacturing Practices
Product Management
Essential strategies for enhancing manufacturing resilience, reducing waste, and improving product quality. Read part two of our series.
Product Management
June
Manufacturing Resilience: Key Considerations for Success
Product Marketing
An excerpt of Tech-Clarity’s recent report entitled “Drive Growth by Connecting the Digital Thread Through Product Commercialization.”
Product Marketing
June
Tech-Clarity: Drive Growth by Connecting the Digital Thread Through Product Commercialization
Product Marketing
In the medtech industry, claims are critical to the design, testing, and promotion of products. Without a connected and traceable path, they are often lost or forgotten on the journey from concept to customer.
Product Marketing
June
A Day in the Life of a Medtech Marketing Claim
Product Marketing
There’s only one way to close the gap between what the product team knows and what the customer expects—strengthen your product thread.
Product Marketing
June
A Strong Product Thread Builds Loyalty and Helps Box Out Competitors (SMM)
Engineering
Software development and product development may not be as different as you think. If you’re a product-focused IT leader managing both, consider these parallels.
Engineering
June
Parallel Processes: Physical Product Creation and Software Development
Operations
Being a manufacturing company in the digital age is no small feat, but the rise of technology gives manufacturers access to a critical tool: Data.
Operations
June
33 Manufacturing Metrics You Should Be Tracking
Innovation
What’s the point of digital transformation if you’re still siloed or stuck with rigid processes? Here’s how product value management (PVM) is designed to unleash unfettered innovation.
Innovation
June
Achieving the Impossible with a Hyper-Collaborative Product Strategy
Engineering
Here’s why a strong testing mindset is crucial for identifying gaps in product quality and prioritizing risk mitigation through automation.
Engineering
June
Test Automation: Quality Assurance for Long-Term Success
News & Updates
Propulsion 2023 included real success stories for enduring revenue growth and strategies for uninterrupted product innovation in any market.
Company
June
8 Ways to Keep Evolving in 2023
Product Management
Forrester VP & principal analyst George Lawrie explains how some PLM providers are delivering big innovation pushes to meet customer needs of today and tomorrow.
Product Management
May
PLM and the Future of Manufacturing
Innovation
Savant Systems, the leader in premium smart home products and parent of GE Lighting, is using technology and innovation to disrupt a 100-year-old market. Featuring Savant's Angie Larson and Beth LeClerc.
Innovation
May
Unlocking Business Value With Digital Transformation
Innovation
Three experts—Kirsten Allegri Williams, Cindy Bolt, and Ray Hein—explore how changing consumer behavior is affecting manufacturers and why they need to think differently to succeed in a digitized world.
Innovation
May
The New Game for Product Companies
Operations
How Samsara used digitalization and fast evolution to optimize supply chains while scaling from startup to public company worth $10 billion. Featuring Jeff Faulkner, VP of Operations.
Operations
May
Building a Resilient and Profitable Supply Chain to Fuel Hypergrowth
Innovation
Industry leaders Geoffrey Moore and Alexa Vignone explain how digital transformation maximizes customer lifetime value and the main challenges companies face when implementing their digital strategies.
Innovation
May
Digital Transformation’s Impact on Business Models
News & Updates
Political and economic analyst Bruce Mehlman provides an overview of macroeconomic trends across technology, geopolitics, culture, and climate.
Innovation
May
What to Expect from an Increasingly Complex World
Product Management
Two sustainability leaders share how ESG is impacting business practices, and what companies must do to make a real impact for future generations. Featuring leading experts Kevin O'Marah and Ralph Loura.
Product Management
May
Sustainability: A Crisis Needing Leadership and Change
Product Marketing
Business and IT leaders are connecting their company on a single data thread so employees spend less time looking for information and more time building strong relationships with customers. Featuring Jan Meise and Ulrike Scholuebbers of AMS Technologies.
Product Marketing
May
Do More of What Matters to Your Customers
Engineering
Alert Innovation leveraged its best-in-class robotic technology and solid infrastructure to revolutionize e-grocery fulfillment and fuel hypergrowth that led to their acquisition by Walmart. Featuring Heather Multhaupt, VP of Team Services.
Engineering
May
Scrappy Tech Startup Fuels World’s Largest Supply Chain
Product Marketing
As technology accelerates product innovation cycles, medtech companies are aligning with providers on the continuum of care. Featuring Salesforce's Dr. J. Cris Salinas.
Product Marketing
May
The Device Enabled and Connected Healthcare Ecosystem
Operations
Guardant Health’s revolutionary approach to cancer detection and treatment is saving lives—and the company is embracing continuous digital transformation to increase efficiency as it scales.
Operations
May
Moving Fast and Nimble to Improve Patient Outcomes
Quality
Having a streamlined process to get customer feedback, adhere to regulations, and automate processes not only helps make sure a business delivers the best quality products but also helps ensure that customers are satisfied.
Quality
May
The Importance of Quality Assurance for Customer-Centric Medical Technology (MedCity News)
Innovation
In Propel CEO Ross Meyercord's keynote for Propulsion 2023, he illuminated the path forward for product companies on the fast track to business evolution.
Innovation
May
A Bright Future for Product Companies
Product Marketing
Here's why omnichannel expansion isn't the quick and simple win execs at CPG brands believe it to be.
Product Marketing
May
CPG Brands: Product Data Drives Omnichannel Growth (MCM)
Product Management
Three years after a global reckoning for supply chain leaders, disruptions don’t show any signs of slowing down. Read part I of our series.
Product Management
May
Why Supply Chain Resilience Needs to Stay Top of Mind
News & Updates
Returning May 17 & 18, here’s what to expect at this year’s biggest event for product innovators.
Company
May
Looking Forward to Propulsion 2023
News & Updates
How Propel's Ross Meyercord draws on his experience as CIO of Salesforce to inform success in his role as CEO.
Company
April
CIO To CEO: A Transition That Delivers Immediate Impact (Forbes)
Product Management
Breaking down the ever-pressing need for supply chain diversification based on the timeless wisdom of modern-day bard Weird Al Yankovic.
Product Management
April
How to Design for Your Supply Chain (as Dictated by Weird Al)
Product Management
The need for product value management (PVM) is overwhelmingly evident, but why now? What led us to this inflection point?
Product Management
April
How Product Value Became the New Holy Grail
Innovation
As with any business model evolution, the move toward subscription models is having a big impact on a number of key roles at product companies.
Innovation
April
How Anything as a Service (XaaS) Changes the Definition of Product Success (Fast Company)
Product Marketing
Companies are used to hearing from customers who’ve had the most negative or positive experiences with their product. But the real goldmine is in all those in-between.
Product Marketing
April
The Untapped Value of the Silent Majority
Product Marketing
In an industry where the race to market is cutthroat, don’t overlook the team who’s closest to the market itself. Here’s how to better equip them for your next launch.
Product Marketing
March
The Overlooked Potential of Marketing for MedTech
Operations
Supplier collaboration is inherent to modern-day manufacturing, yet many product companies still aren’t using the most effective and safe tools for data-sharing. Here’s how to tighten up your supplier processes.
Operations
March
Supplier Communities: The New Frontier in Secure External Collaboration
Product Marketing
Can customers trust your product info? Here’s how to avoid sending them running to the competition.
Product Marketing
March
Failing to Connect: 3 Ways to Build Customer Trust
Product Marketing
In this Converged Live webinar, Tech-Clarity's president & founder Jim Brown joins Propel's Tom Shoemaker and Mark Boles to examine the cause of the product information disconnect—and how to solve it.
Product Marketing
March
The Product Information Disconnect | Converged Live
Engineering
Here’s how companies get locked into a system with no ability to upgrade or integrate—and the key to getting out.
Engineering
March
Unlocking Your Business Potential with the Magic of Modern APIs
Innovation
Here are some tips for managing digital transformation to deliver revenue growth and cost savings.
Innovation
March
How to Succeed at Business Transformation (Fast Company)
News & Updates
Coming from all over the world, almost all members of the Propel team convened to kick off FY24, the majority meeting each other in person for the very first time.
Company
March
Business Success from Building Bonds: Why Meeting In-Person Still Matters
News & Updates
In a recent survey conducted by Propel, a majority of business leaders in product and commercial teams indicate a need for product value management (PVM). Here are the findings.
Company
February
Survey Says: Your Value Chain is Broken
Product Management
If your company hasn’t yet implemented a robust design for manufacturing (DfM) process, you’re not only missing out on cost reductions but also tangible revenue growth.
Product Management
February
One Methodology to Streamline Your Whole Value Chain
Product Marketing
If there are holes in your information channels, you could wind up dragging down your brand reputation. Here’s how to close the gaps and get shipshape.
Product Marketing
February
3 Product Information Gaps Sinking Your Customer Experience
Operations
An overview of the very involved world of logistics operations, forecasting, and planning—and the important role technology plays in all of it.
Operations
February
The Inner Workings of Logistics Management
Innovation
As the supply chain continues to grapple with an increasingly digital consumer base, a remote workforce can be a bigger boon than most realize.
Innovation
February
How the Global Supply Chain Benefits from Remote Work
Engineering
Modern product management software doesn’t ask its customers to manage new feature installments. Instead, new releases are ready to adopt on your schedule.
Engineering
February
Ready-to-Adopt Release Cycles: Upgrades That Won’t Upend Your Business
Innovation
How to get a headstart on the top trends of 2023, as predicted by the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM).
Innovation
January
3 Top Manufacturing Tech Trends to Tackle NOW
Innovation
Artificial intelligence is a part of our lives now and we should know what to expect. I’ve done the reading so you don’t have to. Here are my predictions.
Innovation
January
The Upside to Artificial Intelligence: Here’s What I Know
Quality
Learn how to hit the ground running with total quality management (TQM) and make sure it sticks for the long haul in your organization. Read part III of our series.
Quality
January
How to Succeed with Total Quality Management in the Digital Age
Innovation
As in all relationships, technology breeds stronger connection—and medical device companies are reaping the benefits with their contract manufacturing partnerships. Here’s how the trend is driving competitive advantage in the industry.
Innovation
January
How Tech Bolsters the Bond Between Medical Device Companies and CDMOs
Quality
We cover the major benefits and potential challenges of implementing the organization-wide management approach known as total quality management (TQM). Read part II of our series.
Quality
January
The Pros and Cons of Total Quality Management
Product Management
Many legacy systems have fallen to the wayside due to market evolution, but none faster than enterprise resource planning (ERP). Here’s the new solution that’s eradicating the dinosaurs.
Product Management
January
How ERP Became an Endangered Species
News & Updates
An excerpt of CIMdata’s recent report entitled “Product Value Management in the Age of Disruption.”
Company
January
CIMdata: How Product Value Management (PVM) Combats Disruption
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