For many years, PLM companies lived with the vision and value proposition of single source of truth (SSOT). Last month in Chicago during PLMx session, I shared my ideas how PLM can extract more business value from PLM. Check my article here. The idea of digital value chain sounds appealing…
Timing is everything in this life. And you cannot change it. Good skills and wrong timing still means no results. Timing is sales is absolutely critical. No matter what piece of sales puzzle you’re working on, timing is an important factor and element of any sales process. And when you…
Cloud PDM is the topic I’ve been following for some time. Check my articles about cloud PDM here. One of the first company that tried to mix cloud and PDM was GrabCAD Workbench. Several cloud PDM systems were developed since that time to change the way PDM is done at…
PLM universe is buzzing after $70M investment that Goldman Sachs put in Aras. Check my earlier article – Does Aras have enough money to win over Enovia, Teamcenter and Windchill?. Don’t miss comments from Aras Chief Strategy Officer, Marc Lind about who is a buyer for Aras solution and why…
I’m making progress with my work on new Beyond PLM video blog – Musings about Bill of Materials. If you missed my previous updates, you can catch up here Video blog progress – Musings about Bill of Materials or here 10 years of blogging and starting video blog. I define my…
One of the topics of my interest is to compare between PLM and BIM. Let me put a disclaimer from the beginning – my interest is not in three letter acronyms, but in comparison between software that plays very similar role in two different industries – manufacturing and construction. In…
Back in 2011, I published my article saying that Aras lines up against Windchill, Enovia and Teamcenter. The question I asked those days was – is it possible to displace large PLM vendors? Aras demonstrated an interesting path by wining some very interesting deals and growing to support very large manufacturing…
Earlier this month in Chicago, I attended PI PLMx conference. One of my favorite sessions vendors’ panel about standards. Check my article here – [VIDEO] what PLM vendors are thinking about standards. Standards are important – no doubt. But to understand business aspects of standard development is even more important….
General Motors’ decision to close five plants and lay off tens of thousands of workers in the U.S. and Canada was a trending topic today in news. Lot of articles. You can find all of them online. My interests PLMitical and here is my favorite article from Forbes – GM…
My attention was caused by Aras blog – Are You in a Bad PLM Relationship? written by Mark Reisig. Nice write-up with interesting examples made me feel like I’m in a family counseling meeting. There are lot of people in the world that would be happy to give you a…
