Webinar: Leverage Best Of Breed Software With Cloud PLM

Traditional PLM solutions fail to integrate across an increasingly splintered software landscape, and businesses can’t or won’t spend the money to buy into enterprise software ecosystems.

Traditional PLM solutions fail to integrate across an increasingly splintered software landscape, and businesses can’t or won’t spend the money to buy into enterprise software ecosystems.

Organizations want to use best of breed software, but inevitably end up stringing their solution together with manual processes and clunky data manipulation.

In this webinar, you’ll see how cloud PLM can help unite disparate best of breed software solutions, so users can leverage the tools they know while still achieving the enterprise governance they need.

In this webinar, you’ll hear from two PLM experts about:

  • The role of cloud PLM in the manufacturing tech stack
  • How cloud PLM helps engineers and business stakeholders collaborate across the value chain
  • What the future holds for manufacturing data

About the Speakers:


James White is a Strategy Practice Director at CIMdata, a global PLM consulting firm. He’s a subject matter expert (SME) for the industrialization of Additive Manufacturing (AM)/3D Printing and has extensive experience in PLM, which provides a governance framework to implement AM into production. He has significant multicultural experience after living in 6 different countries. He also works with investment bankers on due diligence/market potential investigations of technology companies, both in USA and Europe. He brings extensive enterprise solution experience, energy, and passion, to help clients confront, embrace, and benefit through disruptive change.


John Laslavic is the Founder & CEO of Upchain, a cloud PLM solution. He’s a 25-year PLM and software veteran, and he’s helped some of the largest companies in the world solve their PLM challenges including Pratt & Whitney, Boeing, GM, BMW, Fiat, Sandvik, Husky, and, Magna. He’s also worked at companies like EDS, where he grew the PLM department to $8 million in revenue with 50% margins, implemented software projects, and spent six years running his own consulting and training business that offered a full software suite of process and business management tools.

PDH Certificates will be not be provided for the recorded webinar.

This webinar is free to attend thanks to the sponsorship of UPCHAIN. To watch, please complete the form on the right.