(CIMdata: Ann Arbor, MI) -- CIMdata, a global product life-cycle management (PLM) consulting and research firm, has announced an free educational webinar, “Complex Product Development Demands Data Governance.” The webinar will take place on Thurs., Aug. 10, 2023, at 11 a.m. Eastern and will last for one hour.

Companies developing complex products containing embedded software face increasing pressures for innovation, maturity, coordination, and time to market. Historically in mass production companies, important data items are managed in PLM, which caters to mechanical and electrical engineering for products and their factories. Application life-cycle development management (ALM) tools cater to software and systems engineering, mapping features to customer requirements. Development pressure fosters thinking and acting in discipline and domain silos, worsening data sharing and knowledge exchanges. More than ever, it is important that ALM and PLM cooperate. Consistency is needed in the terms and language used for products; that is where data governance comes in.

This webinar will consider what drives data-governance needs within a complex product development environment.

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