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PLM Developers – what is the right mobile platform?

April 1, 2013

Mobile is coming to enterprise. Blackberry was a first device who cracked mobile enterprise. Enterprise mobile email delivered by Blackberry was king of the road many years. Then came iPhone, iPad and many other devices. The development for different mobile platforms is skyrocketing. There are many questions here. Every PLM vendors did a first step [...]

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What Oracle Results Mean for PLM vendors?

March 29, 2013

For many years the business model of CAD, PDM and later PLM vendors was structured as high upfront license combined with continues maintenance payments. The same is true for many other enterprise software vendors. PLM vendors built their businesses around expensive licenses sell covering significant sales cycle cost and even pilot implementations. The majority of [...]

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PLM, Social Apps and How to Design Next Airplane on the Facebook?

March 27, 2013

The conversation about social software is getting more mature these days. Do you remember early period of “social software” talks. Navigate to the following link – We are not going to design an airplane on the Facebook! The discussion on Jim Brown’s blog is 3 years old. Jim brings his pros and cons of having [...]

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PLM Cloud and Open Source Coopetition

March 25, 2013

I want to continue the theme of disruption started in my post last week. I can see two major forces that will disrupt traditional PLM approach nowadays - cloud and open source. Both have some strong position points and some weaknesses. I put some of my thoughts about cloud and open source disruption last year – PLM [...]

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Mobile PLM and BaaS

March 22, 2013

I learned a new buzzword yesterday. Have you heard about BaaS? Navigate to the following TechCrunch article – Kinvey Launches Enterprise Back-End Service For Building Mobile Apps That Move Data From Salesforce, Oracle And Other Sources. Kinvey is a startup that put a mission to scrap data from enterprise backend systems and make it available [...]

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3 ways to disrupt PLM today

March 21, 2013

Disruptive innovation, technologies, products, services… I think we like the word “disruption” these days. This is such a tasteful and colored word. It can provide a new look to anything that goes afterwards. So, let me see if I can put a disruptive color on PLM. I’ve been reading Jos Voskuil blog - PLM at risk–it does [...]

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Social PLM: From File Explorer to Activity Streams

March 20, 2013

Social hype is getting down. I can say it about PLM industry too. We can see less “social startups” and less marketing hype about how next big social revolution will come and solve all existing problems in PLM technologies and systems. If you want to catch up with my previous thoughts about social PLM, I [...]

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Angry Birds Developer is Looking for PLM Job

March 16, 2013

Last week I posted about changing faces of product development following PI Congress in Berlin. One of the conclusions I’ve made is that we are starting to see a changing world of enterprise as a result of new generation of employees coming to the world of manufacturing. It is a very interesting shift and, I’m [...]

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PLM, Platform Wars and Software Renaissance

March 11, 2013

Technology is one of my favorite topics. Imagine you want to develop a completely new PLM system. Not a new version of existing PLM product from vendors like Dassault, Siemens PLM, PTC and even Autodesk. Imagine you don’t need to be limited to any restrictions – existing software, historical choices, customer base. What will be [...]

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PLM and DIY Applications

March 10, 2013

I’m sure you are familiar with the term DIY (do it yourself). While the term is not PLM specific, I’m often using it when explaining the way many manufacturing companies are approaching PLM implementations. Because of high cost and complexity of large integrated PLM suites, companies are deciding to make “homegrown” development by using variety [...]

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