Archive for February, 2014

Engineers and Contextual Search Experience

Engineers and Contextual Search Experience

Web search became part of our life. We don’t search anymore, we “google” everything . The visible simplicity of Google created a feeling that magic of search can transform and simplify any software product behavior. CAD, PLM and other enterprise software companies liked the idea as well. Search is certainly…

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Why hard to sell PLM over the phone

Why hard to sell PLM over the phone

Life is transforming around us. Technology and communication are coming to our personal and business life. So, it comes to enterprise sales and PLM. The debates between new sales models and enterprise sales old schoolers are heating up. I posted about it last year and enjoyed many lovely conversations with…

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Why WhatsApp is Red Flag for PLM Collaboration

Why WhatsApp is Red Flag for PLM Collaboration

I think Facebook buying WhatsApp for $19B was a refreshing experience for everybody. For the last week, I’ve got tsunami of blog posts, tweets and other messages talking about Facebook, WhatsApp, founders, VCs and investments, influence of Soviet Union past on WhatsApp collaboration ideas and many others. Funny enough, I…

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What cloud PLM vendors can learn about AWS speed

What cloud PLM vendors can learn about AWS speed

Amazon Web Services is one of the most popular cloud platform these days. We can say that Amazon became de-facto standard of public cloud. Amazon cloud keeps growing and remains the leader these days according to Synergy Research Group. A year ago article by Stackdriver published information about popularity of…

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JIT’s impact on PLM and BOM management

JIT’s impact on PLM and BOM management

JIT (Just in Time) is a well-known approach in manufacturing industry. In a nutshell, JIT is a production strategy to reduce inventory and associated cost. The philosophy of JIT is related to processing and transactions of inventories, which adds additional cost. By removal (or reducing) of inventories, you can reduce a…

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How PLM can solve problem of global BOM transparency

How PLM can solve problem of global BOM transparency

Business is going global. It is not only for large manufacturing companies these days. As a result of cost pressure and searches for new market opportunities, manufacturing companies are looking how to optimize their businesses. Distributed engineering, manufacturing and suppliers environments – reality of manufacturing these days. However, outsourcing and…

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CAD, Engineers and Online Communities

CAD, Engineers and Online Communities

Remember our life before internet? The meaning of community was about social group that shares common values. Actually, the history of communities is longer than history of CAD software :). So called “Community Rules” were mentioned in one of the first scrolls found in Qumran Cave. Community word often explains…

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PLM Private Cloud: Yes, No, Maybe?

PLM Private Cloud: Yes, No, Maybe?

While industry is clearly moving to the cloud, the question about choosing right cloud model is getting more important. In my view, this is kind of thing you cannot ignore any more – I expect every manufacturing company is facing a challenging decision about how to improve their collaboration by bringing…

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PLM Open Source Future – Cloud Services?

PLM Open Source Future – Cloud Services?

For the last few years, open source was one of the major disruptive factor in tech. Open source powers world’s leading tech companies. Tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon and many others would not exist without open source. The success of RedHat put a very optimistic business projection on the…

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