According to a press launch statement, “The Digital Business Platform is therefore of interest to many departments within the enterprise. So there is evidently a difference between a (software) product and a platform – and there is evidently a new definition of what we should consider a technology platform to be.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/adrianbridgwater/2015/03/17/whats-the-difference-between-a-software-product-and-a-platform/
What's The Difference Between A Software Product And A Platform? Back at the early dawn of prehistory, we used to reserve our use of the word platform to denote a complete software programming development environment and underlying subsystem with language, runtime, components and all associated libraries and binaries.
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Using the show as a product unveiling platform (pun intended) this year was Software AG. The firm has launched its Digital Business Platform which it says operates “at the interface” between real-time business operations and changing customer and market requirements.
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What’s the difference between a Platform Strategy Vs. Business Strategy Vs. Product Strategy? This is a worthy discussion as the three are different but interrelated. A product platform is basically a broad range of products designed based on a common core technology or design and it is sometimes share by competitors. When it is adopted by a number of key players it has become an industry platform and at that point, you starting to lose control of the platform, as the influence will shift to the industry group although you do own some proprietary IPs.
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platform product. Appliance or equipment (such as Palm's Palm Pilot and Sony's Walkman) whose basic design and some components are used in several products of a product family. See also augmented product.
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Love it or loathe it, Facebook is a good example of a platform AND a software product; and it is this duality that helps to explain the differentiation. The Facebook application is a software product, it’s an app.
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The platform approach to product development is an important success factor in many markets. By sharing components and production processes across a platform of products, companies can develop differentiated products efficiently, increase the flexibility and responsiveness of their manufacturing processes, and take market share away from competitors that develop only one product at a time.
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/planning-for-product-platforms/
Platform is fairly new word in the world of business strategy. It has existed in the engineering world for a long time. What is a Platform? Social network is a platform (Facebook, Ning etc)? Is brand a platform (Easy Jet, Virgin etc)? And there’s product platform (Blackberry) and standard (Blueray). Windows Mobile is a platform. Is Apple a platform? Or is Lotus Notes a platform? Is Nike Air a platform? Is Oprah a platform? Is Google’s new Open Social a platform? What about Kiva, is that a platform too? We have never properly defined what a platform is.
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Definition of platform product: Appliance or equipment (such as Palm's Palm Pilot and Sony's Walkman) whose basic design and some components are used in several products of a product family. See also augmented product.
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definition of product platform
A product platform is basically a broad range of products designed based on a common core technology or design. A product platform is basically a broad range of products designed based on a common core technology or design and it is sometimes share by competitors.