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  • About Beyond PLM 

    July 7, 2010, 17:43

    I started my first blog Daily PLM Think Tank on plmtwine.com back in 2008. PLM Think Tank is my attempt to discuss innovative ideas and thoughts about…

  • Daily PLM Think Tank  

    January 10, 2012, 00:10

    Originally, Think Tank is an idea generator. I'm posting my daily thoughts about different aspects of Product Lifecycle Management – technological,…

  • Services 

    October 31, 2010, 10:00

    About Beyond PLM Consulting: Services: I provide consulting services in the domain of Product Lifecycle Management including strategic PLM advising, PLM…

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  • Category: Analytics  (43)
    • Autodesk PLM - Fast Second? by: Oleg

      July 11, 2011, 17:57

      Autodesk and PLM. Do you think these two words have something in common? I had a chance to discuss this topic and make my guesses before. Read my Autodesk and…

    • Autodesk Vault: Enterprise PDM or PLM?  by: Oleg

      April 4, 2011, 04:05

      I've been reading information stream from Autodesk Manufacturing Press Day 2011, which happened last week in Lake Oswgo, Oregon. My blogging buddy, Deelip…

    • Autodesk, Dassault and Free CAD Options?  by: Oleg

      May 14, 2011, 00:03

      It is almost two years passed since I put on my blog a question about FREE as a best future CAD/PLM. Navigate to the following link to read my PLM Prompt: Is…

    • Autodesk: From PDM to MLP?  by: Oleg

      March 28, 2011, 04:04

      Last week Autodesk made a series of significant announcements related to their 2012 product lines. Autodesk is shifting to suites. Monica Schnitger wrote about…

    • BIM Open Source - Stimulus for PLM?  by: Oleg

      September 15, 2011, 04:52

      Open source is trending. I think, Android success and some other OSS projects created some winds towards future open source adoption. In my view, companies are…

    • CAD and PLM Vendor Website Traffic  by: Oleg

      April 6, 2011, 08:46

      I was playing around the data I can take from the website Compete.com. You plug the URL of major CAD or PLM vendor and get the information back for free. I…

    • Cloud, Head's-down CAD Drafters and Technological Analogies  by: Oleg

      October 27, 2011, 23:22

      Earlier this week, my attention was caught the article Cloud is Dead by Ralph Grabowski. Following some of Ralph's thoughts, I found myself in a strong…

    • COFES, Microsoft and Engineering Software Business Models  by: Oleg

      April 16, 2011, 09:58

      COFES is a think tank for engineering software. This is a place where you can drop any idea and see if it resonates. One of the COFES sessions is so called…

    • Design To Manufacturing Process: Bumpy Road?  by: Oleg

      June 11, 2011, 21:09

      Integration between design and manufacturing is one of the topics that normally hits a lot of discussion in the product development and PLM space. To support…

    • ERP vs. PLM: More Competition in The Future?  by: Oleg

      August 11, 2011, 02:16

      Finally, my vacation over and Beyond PLM is back to normal. While screening materials, the following title caught my attention: ERP vs. PLM: What's the…

    • Future Promises and Concerns about PTC after Planet PTC Live by: Oleg

      June 16, 2011, 10:03

      As you probably know, I spent the beginning of the week in Las-Vegas attending Planet PTC Live 2011. Those of my readers who follow me on Twitter already paid…

    • GMail and CAD PLM Cloud - Does it Fit Together?  by: Oleg

      October 2, 2011, 11:26

      I found an interesting article about GMail - Gmail now ‘Viable Alternative’ to Microsoft, says Gartner. Gartner is well known analytical company also…

    • Google+, PLM and the Product Data Sharing Models  by: Oleg

      July 7, 2011, 08:08

      Social is trending. It was specially true this weekend. The social hype taking individuals, organizations and social vendors. Personally, I want to write off,…

    • How Do You Know Your PLM Project is in Trouble?  by: Oleg

      December 19, 2011, 02:55

      Blogosphere and other literature are full of remarks about companies that stuck in different phases of PLM process. You probably had a chance to read Aras'…

    • How to place PLM in a Social Network? Kill M...  by: Oleg

      August 25, 2011, 18:37

      I can hear more and more conversations about social aspects of the future enterprise software. Social is trending. Will it be successful? I think many people…

    • Integrate PDM and PLM: Wrong Question?  by: Oleg

      February 8, 2011, 21:46

      Two weeks ago, during SolidWorks World 2011, I had a chance to talk with Jonathan Scott of Razorleaf about different aspects of integration between SolidWorks…

    • JT Open and the Future of PLM 2.0 by: Oleg

      August 29, 2011, 11:10

      Despite the fact "PLM 2.0" was first articulated by Dassault back in 2006, I think, the term itself has some rights for expanded live beyond DS V6 platform. In…

    • Less Services. More PLM...  by: Oleg

      December 21, 2010, 11:59

      I've been discussing with colleagues Gartner's Predict 2011: Manufacturer Revamp and Enhance Product Lifecycle Management strategies. Without Gartner's…

    • My First Take on PLM Cloud Maturity Model  by: Oleg

      January 3, 2012, 20:35

      The beginning of the year is a good time to think about BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals). Cloud was one of the dominant topics for the past two years of…

    • New PLM: From Definition to Realization?  by: Oleg

      May 12, 2011, 09:25

      The definition of PLM is one of the topics I'm discussing on blog. I think, in the modern enterprise software, PLM buzzword created a biggest amount of…

    • PDM Cartoons, Marketing and Unsolved Problems  by: Oleg

      October 11, 2011, 16:32

      I was watching cartoons over the long Columbus day weekend. Not Disney... I was watching PDM cartoons. You may tell me - who is making PDM cartoons these…

    • PDM ROI Calculator from SolidWorks  by: Oleg

      November 16, 2011, 13:35

      ROI is an important topic, and many times I've seen customers are not focusing on ROI assessment before starting PDM/PLM implementation. At the same time, I…

    • PDM vs. PLM: Implementation Gaps  by: Oleg

      July 6, 2011, 08:36

      One of the topics that people often ask is what is the difference between PDM and PLM. The question is almost rhetoric, since the number of explanation is +1…

    • PDM, Part Numbers and the Future of Identification  by: Oleg

      July 29, 2011, 06:48

      Let me talk again about Part Numbers. The last time I wrote about Part Numbers, it created a healthy discussion. I'd encourage you to refresh your memory and…

    • PLM and Global Product Development Strategy  by: Oleg

      December 13, 2011, 14:42

      Manufacturing business become global even for very small companies these days. It is not unusual to see a company of 100-150 employees having multiple…

    • PLM and IT Consumerization: Top 3 Show Stoppers  by: Oleg

      November 23, 2011, 11:47

      Have you heard about "Consumerization" in IT? I'm sure you had a chance to read about  this trend. If not, navigate to the following Wikipedia link. The…

    • PLM and Multiplatform Development  by: Oleg

      December 28, 2011, 14:59

      Please welcome a new-old word - multiplatform. When did you hear about for the last time? For those of you counting 15+ years in the industry it reminds the…

    • PLM and New Openness  by: Oleg

      July 21, 2011, 04:09

      The topic of openness in PLM software isn't new. In the past decade, I've been hearing lots of good and bad things about PLM and openness. Last year, I…

    • PLM Cloud: differentiation or "anti-cloud rant"?  by: Oleg

      December 22, 2011, 14:30

      After my publication PLM, Autodesk and Cloud Wars Club few days ago, I received few comments from my readers trying to figure out what is PLM vendors'…

    • PLM Definition - Next Round?  by: Oleg

      March 21, 2011, 21:51

      The definition of what is Product Lifecycle Management is one of the most controversial topics in PLM blogosphere and other publications about PLM. Last year,…

    • PLM Enterprise App Store: Bad Idea or Future Promise?  by: Oleg

      September 9, 2011, 23:22

      During the past months, I've seen an increased amount of conversations about the future of App Store software model in the enterprise. You, of course, familiar…

    • PLM Migration and Product Data Rock-n-Roll  by: Oleg

      December 29, 2010, 11:26

      I read The PLM State: PLM Migration, No Data Left Behind on Zero-Wait State blog. Read it and make your opinion. Stephen Porter is discussing a very important…

    • PLM User Experience and The Evil of Folders?  by: Oleg

      May 24, 2011, 05:25

      Ask people about usability of PLM and other enterprise data management systems. From my experience, the answer is simple - it is way too complex. Very few PDM…

    • PLM, Engineering Software and Business Trends in 2011  by: Oleg

      June 24, 2011, 12:19

      It is a middle of the year, and it is a perfect time to evaluate and talking about business trends. Lot's of people are ready to relax before long awaited…

    • PLM: Controversy About Process vs. Data Management  by: Oleg

      November 15, 2011, 23:02

      Process vs. Data. I think, this topic not requires a special introduction. In my view, every PLM implementation is facing this discussion and requires to…

    • PLM: How to Fix Technologies and Stop Fixing People?  by: Oleg

      April 20, 2011, 18:08

      During the last week at COFES, I had a chance to listen to John Gage keynote - But Can It Slice a Pineapple? Gage talked about innovation, computers, changes,…

    • PLM: Share Data or Die  by: Oleg

      January 22, 2011, 07:25

      I'm still digesting a huge amount of information I learned from PLM Innovation Congress earlier this week in London. However, there is one trend that I can…

    • Revisions in CAD/PLM/ERP: Old Problems or New Challenges?  by: Oleg

      June 7, 2011, 16:19

      I want to talk about the topic, which is actually is not very new - revisions. I was reading Autodesk Manufacturing Community blog - Vault 2012 Revision Block…

    • The 3D Mashups – Reality Check  by: Oleg

      July 13, 2011, 16:48

      I like searching for new technologies. One of the technologies I'm following a long time already is so called "mashup technologies" or just "mashups". In the…

    • The Role of Business Intelligence in PLM  by: Oleg

      October 5, 2011, 06:59

      Business Intelligence (BI) is a fascinating combination of words. Each time I hear about BI, I'm confused a bit. The formal definition of BI is very complex.…

    • Top 3 "PLM Cloud" Killers by: Oleg

      May 10, 2011, 20:22

      After talking very positively about PLM and Cloud, it is a time to think about negative sides of the cloud story. Matt Lobard of Dezignstuff came with a…

    • What is PLM Software Associated Cost?  by: Oleg

      November 6, 2011, 22:08

      Buying enterprise software is different experience from busing consumer goods or even automobile. Direct cost (licenses) is very often is a small fraction of…

    • What is the biggest PLM challenge?  by: Oleg

      September 6, 2011, 21:58

      I'm continue the conversation with my PLM blogging buddy - Jos Voskuil at virtualdutchman. For the last two weeks, Jos is running a multi-part blogging series…

  • Category: Basics  (5)
    • BOM and CAD-PDM-PLM-ERP Integration Challenges  by: Oleg

      November 2, 2011, 23:24

      I want to talk about Bill of Material and integration today. The reason why I'm coming to this topic is largely because I have a feeling "integration" will…

    • PLM - Clearer Definition or Problem Solving? by: Oleg

      September 2, 2011, 00:05

      I'm adding another post to my collection of PLM definitions. Gavlin Quinlan came with the blog post on concurrent-engineering blog earlier this week. Here is…

    • PLM Definition from Dassault System's Al Bunshaft  by: Oleg

      August 15, 2011, 17:51

      As you probably know, I'm collecting PLM definitions coming out of vendors, industry analysts and just customers. Here are some links on blog posts with PLM…

    • PLM, ECO and Cost of Change  by: Oleg

      December 21, 2011, 01:37

      Cost is an important topic. Period. Everybody agrees with this statement. I can even say many companies investing a lot in their ability to calculate and…

    • PLM, ERP and Managing of Effectivity  by: Oleg

      May 3, 2011, 09:27

      One of my blog readers asked me few questions about managing of effectivity. I decided to share this information. In my view, the conversation about Effectivity…

  • Category: Companies  (13)
    • Aras PLM lines up against Windchill, Enovia, and TeamCenter  by: Oleg

      May 7, 2011, 13:13

      A week ago, I came back from ACE 2011 (Aras Community Event 2011), which took place in Detroit, MI. Let me propose a very provoking statement: Aras Innovator…

    • Building Engineering Office Around Mac?  by: Oleg

      February 14, 2011, 20:35

      Apple is trending these days. Not surprising me. At the same time, I don't want to make this post a place where Apple fan boys will argue with Wintel aborigines…

    • Crowd-sourcing in CAD / PLM software development by: Oleg

      December 11, 2011, 16:15

      The topic of crowd-sourcing is fascinating these days. Community based development is interesting topic, and I'm continuing to follow different aspects of…

    • Live from SolidWorks 2012 Media Event  by: Oleg

      August 31, 2011, 09:59

      I've been attending SolidWorks Media day in Dassault SolidWorks campus in Concord, MA. Actually, I noted- this is probably the last time event happens in the…

    • Microsoft and Future Online PLM Platforms  by: Oleg

      February 4, 2011, 09:10

      Few days ago I published PLM Cloud: Dedicated, Private, Public. Following this post, I had few interesting conversations about what are possible platforms can…

    • Open Standards and Data Sharing  by: Oleg

      March 23, 2011, 23:54

      What do you think about the role of standards in CAD and PLM? Some of recent development in Open Standards made me think about CAD and PLM related standards…

    • PDM/PLM and Future Competition  by: Oleg

      August 19, 2011, 07:54

      Google-Moto deal created a lot of fuss and speculation. At the same time, it created an example of cross-domain innovation, which in my view, worth being…

    • PLM Highway and New Dassault Waltham Campus by: Oleg

      December 8, 2011, 20:41

      I'm sure, you are familiar with highway 101 crossing Silicon Valley. However, you probably never heard about PLM Highway in Boston. After last week Autodesk…

    • PLM Reflections and "Why Standards?" Question by: Oleg

      May 18, 2011, 19:26

      This evening I had pre-meeting talks in Eurostep office located in Stockholm neighborhood. In preparation for the Eurostep 2011 event, I had a chance to ask…

    • PLM, Enterprise Search and Aras Strategy by: Oleg

      April 27, 2011, 05:30

      I'm attending Aras Community Event 2011 these days in The Henrly Hotel in Dearborn, MI. You can have more information about new coming from the conference…

    • Social PLM and Facebook Data Centers?  by: Oleg

      April 10, 2011, 15:23

      Slow down... Facebook is not creating PLM yet. Facebook is growing their infrastructure. I read about Facebook Open Compute project. Navigate your browser to…

    • SolidEdge and the Future of Micropayments in CAD/PLM?  by: Oleg

      May 17, 2011, 14:08

      In order to succeed in today's business environment, software vendors are thinking how to innovate not only with product and technologies, but with business…

    • Will PLM Channels Survive The Cloud Era?  by: Oleg

      March 1, 2011, 00:30

      Cloud is one of the trending topics these days. Slowly, it comes also to PLM space. With the growing number of companies in this space, it becomes clear that…

  • Category: Customers  (6)
    • PLM and Design Focus by: Oleg

      July 22, 2010, 23:06

      One of my favorite quotes of Peter Drucker is following - "The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer". So, to learn how a customer sees the…

    • PLM and Legacy Data  by: Oleg

      July 26, 2010, 03:56

      When I'm thinking about any PLM project, I can clearly see the step when data available in the organization need to be loaded into the system. This step is…

    • PLM Definition and ERP Implementation Patterns  by: Oleg

      October 15, 2011, 06:49

      Product development and manufacturing is very different from company to company. Therefore, I'm not surprised anymore when I see multiple ways companies are…

    • PLM Trends and Solution Alternatives: Presentation and Roundtable  by: Oleg

      September 22, 2011, 18:11

      The second day of Autodesk Forum in Moscow. Today, I gave my presentation about PLM Trends and Solution Alternatives. You can find my presentation below. I…

    • PLM, ECO and Cost of Change  by: Oleg

      December 21, 2011, 01:37

      Cost is an important topic. Period. Everybody agrees with this statement. I can even say many companies investing a lot in their ability to calculate and…

    • Too Hard To Adopt PLM?... Do What is Right! by: Oleg

      July 23, 2010, 23:05

      The question of the PLM adoption is always raising interest. One of the most important question people are asking in the context of PLM  is about PLM…

  • Category: Daily PLM Think Tank  (391)
    • 2011 ERP Slowdown. Will PLM Gain Benefits?  by: Oleg

      January 14, 2011, 20:29

      I read the article in Yahoo News - ERP investments to slow in 2011. According to the Forrester research, many companies are holding back their plans to run ERP…

    • 3 Key Cloud Principles: Will CAD/PLM follow?  by: Oleg

      October 7, 2011, 18:45

      I've been watching what happens around Oracle Open World 11 earlier this week. Among multiple topics, the announcement about Oracle Cloud and controversy…

    • 3 Steps To Improve PLM Collaboration by: Oleg

      June 28, 2010, 09:08

      In the landscape of PLM, collaboration is overused word. You can hear “collaborative” a lot, and you’d be thinking all problems of collaborati…

    • 3 Steps To Simplify PLM Selection Process  by: Oleg

      October 18, 2010, 15:46

      I was reading Jos Voskuil's PLM Selection: Don't do this on his virtualdutchman blog. Jos made me think again about few mistakes people made when trying to…

    • 3D and Communication Strategy  by: Oleg

      August 24, 2011, 00:16

      Communication methods are interesting. These days lots of things are changing in this space. Internet, Web 2.0, Video communication converted some of our…

    • 3D Shape Search in CAD and PLM  by: Oleg

      October 4, 2010, 11:59

      Last week I had a chance to speak with Andy Sherlock of ShapeSpace. My momentary interest was caught by a blog post - Clean up for PLM published on ShapeSpace…

    • 3D, Games and Product Development  by: Oleg

      January 27, 2011, 10:11

      Almost two years ago, I published the following post - Virtual World: Where is the boarder between game and PLM software? Gaming technology is developing very…

    • 3D/PLM and iPad: Future or Baloney?  by: Oleg

      January 29, 2011, 11:54

      I just discovered one interesting fact. Exactly, a year ago, on Jan 28th, I published my first blog post about iPad - Who can generate 3D/PLM content for iPad?…

    • 3DLive, HD3D, 3D UI and Efficiency  by: Oleg

      July 27, 2010, 06:23

      I read Jim Brown's Can Siemens Make More Fun with HD-PLM? Jim is writing about the future of PLM experience. I made me think about User Experience (or User…

    • 3DSwYm: Future PLM Mainstream or Copycat?  by: Oleg

      November 11, 2010, 16:02

      This week on DSCC 2010 I had a chance to learn more about what Dassault is planing as their next step in the development of their Social Innovation strategies.…

    • A Geek's View on Part Numbers  by: Oleg

      August 17, 2011, 15:03

      I feel a bit geeky today. I posted about part numbers, document number and numbering few times in the past. These posts sparkled an intensive discussion about…

    • Aras Corp: Different PLM and New Open Office by: Oleg

      January 19, 2012, 12:59

      I've been visited Aras Corp. office yesterday night. Marc Lind, Aras VP Marketing invited me to join Aras Open House celebration of new office. Aras Corp.…

    • Aras PLM lines up against Windchill, Enovia, and TeamCenter  by: Oleg

      May 7, 2011, 13:13

      A week ago, I came back from ACE 2011 (Aras Community Event 2011), which took place in Detroit, MI. Let me propose a very provoking statement: Aras Innovator…

    • Aras, SolidWorks and Disruptive PLM Strategies  by: Oleg

      October 26, 2011, 21:40

      BAM! Aras just announced Enterprise PLM for SolidWorks. Here is the new article - Enterprise PLM for Enterprise PDM. Navigate to the following article to read…

    • AU2011: New PLM Software Frontiers by: Oleg

      November 30, 2011, 11:09

      Autodesk University 2011. Day 1. If you visited AU at least once you know how it looks like. Thousands people packed to talk about Autodesk software and…

    • Autodesk and SharePoint: collaboration with no compromises?  by: Oleg

      July 5, 2011, 20:11

      Collaboration and SharePoint are two of my favorite topics. I'm following them for the last couple of years. In one of my very early posts on PLM Think Tank I…

    • Autodesk Cloud and "Business as Usual" Question  by: Oleg

      October 6, 2011, 17:12

      Cloud is a hot topic these days. No, I'm not going to talk about True vs. False cloud and Mark Benioff appearance on Oracle Open World. I want talk about…

    • Autodesk Enters PLM: Everything Changes... for Autodesk  by: Oleg

      December 2, 2011, 04:20

      It finally happened. Autodesk enters PLM business. After talks, speculations, discussions and guesses, Autodesk presented their Autodesk Nexus PLM product…

    • Autodesk PLM - Fast Second? by: Oleg

      July 11, 2011, 17:57

      Autodesk and PLM. Do you think these two words have something in common? I had a chance to discuss this topic and make my guesses before. Read my Autodesk and…

    • Autodesk PLM Nexus - First Hands On Demo  by: Oleg

      December 4, 2011, 10:48

      I’d like to continue Autodesk PLM story I started in my previous post and share some of my thoughts based on hands-on experience with Nexus PLM. The demo…

    • Autodesk PLM story is about to begin. AU 2011. by: Oleg

      November 26, 2011, 09:36

      I'm coming to AU 2011 this year. As you already know, Autodesk is planning to unveil their PLM story. In the pre-announcement Autodesk made it called -…

    • Autodesk Quietly Launched Their Cloud by: Oleg

      September 26, 2011, 18:55

      Time ago, I was discussing on my blog about cloud file storage as one of the potential first step CAD vendors will take to adopt cloud. One of my posts about…

    • Autodesk Vault: Enterprise PDM or PLM?  by: Oleg

      April 4, 2011, 04:05

      I've been reading information stream from Autodesk Manufacturing Press Day 2011, which happened last week in Lake Oswgo, Oregon. My blogging buddy, Deelip…

    • Autodesk, Aras and Integrated PDM / PLM story by: Oleg

      December 7, 2011, 18:13

      Back to the beginning of this year, I came with the post - Integrating PLM and PDM. Wrong question? My initial thoughts about integrating PDM and PLM was…

    • Autodesk, Data Management and "Why PLM?" Question  by: Oleg

      August 26, 2010, 01:40

      I read one of the latest VEKTORRUM re-posts about Autodesk and PLM. Navigate your browser to the following link and read the original article from 2007.…

    • Autodesk, Russia and Local PLM  by: Oleg

      September 26, 2011, 17:41

      One of the most interesting things I learned during Autodesk Forum in Moscow was related to local PLM vendors.  I found it very educational and decided to…

    • Autodesk, SolidWorks and Collaboration Renaissance by: Oleg

      June 27, 2011, 20:13

      Brian Roepke of Autodesk brought my attention to Autodesk Nitrous Lab Project earlier this week. The context of this comment was about some Autodesk viewing…

    • Autodesk: CAD is done. Now PLM. The moment before AU... by: Oleg

      November 29, 2011, 11:10

      As you know, I'm in Las Vegas these days attending AU 2011. Autodesk is preparing some big messages these years, and I hope to share my opinion about that…

    • Autodesk: From PDM to MLP?  by: Oleg

      March 28, 2011, 04:04

      Last week Autodesk made a series of significant announcements related to their 2012 product lines. Autodesk is shifting to suites. Monica Schnitger wrote about…

    • Before DSCC 2011: Learning new Dassault keywords by: Oleg

      November 7, 2011, 17:31

      The information overflow. This is not something surprising you. In many situations, we are not reading, but scanning keywords. Sometimes these keywords and…

    • Beyond PLM - Looking forward to 2012.  by: Oleg

      December 31, 2011, 03:43

      Time is running fast, and 2011 is behind us. It is a moment to take a look in the past, make conclusions and draw plans for 2012. I wanted to share some…

    • Beyond PLM New Year Resolution by: Oleg

      January 10, 2011, 13:15

      Hi Everyone. I never posted New Year Resolution before. However, I decided to make this change and post Beyond PLM New Year resolution for 2011. I want to…

    • Beyond PLM Panel Discussion on ACE 2011  by: Oleg

      April 27, 2011, 16:54

      Earlier today, I was running Beyond PLM panel discussion on ACE 2011. I'd like to say my special thank you to Peter Schroer, Aras CEO; David Sherburne…

    • Beyond PLM Panel on ACE 2011  by: Oleg

      April 25, 2011, 09:43

      I'm on my way to Detroit today to take part in Aras Community Event - ACE 2011. On Wednesday, I will be running a discussion panel "Beyond PLM". In the…

    • BIM Open Source - Stimulus for PLM?  by: Oleg

      September 15, 2011, 04:52

      Open source is trending. I think, Android success and some other OSS projects created some winds towards future open source adoption. In my view, companies are…

    • BOM and CAD-PDM-PLM-ERP Integration Challenges  by: Oleg

      November 2, 2011, 23:24

      I want to talk about Bill of Material and integration today. The reason why I'm coming to this topic is largely because I have a feeling "integration" will…

    • Business Process Management, PLM and Open Source Track  by: Oleg

      September 16, 2011, 14:59

      BPM (Business Process Management) is another interesting topic I'm following already many years. I found it connected to PLM and other product development…

    • CAD & PLM CEOs and Social Channels  by: Oleg

      January 22, 2012, 16:12

      Earlier this week, I learn from Alan Belniak (@abelniak) twitter, that he helped Brian Shepherd at PTC to get going on twitter. First of all - welcome on…

    • CAD / PLM and Patent Wars  by: Oleg

      August 23, 2011, 22:43

      I know, patent stories are hot now. After Google decided to pay Motorola the premium of USD 12.5B to defend Android from potential lawsuits, the question about…

    • CAD and PLM Vendor Website Traffic  by: Oleg

      April 6, 2011, 08:46

      I was playing around the data I can take from the website Compete.com. You plug the URL of major CAD or PLM vendor and get the information back for free. I…

    • CAD Data and PLM  by: Oleg

      October 5, 2010, 08:07

      The following blog article drove my attention yesterday: CAD File Management ≠ PLM. The short blog post published by Peter Schroer of Aras. The summary of…

    • CAD Strategies: Unified Or Diversified?  by: Oleg

      August 10, 2010, 07:37

      In my view, summer time is good for vacations, research papers and strategic projects. During the summer, you are always have an excuse to stop, think and do…

    • CAD, New Collaboration and Online Storage Services  by: Oleg

      October 30, 2011, 20:04

      Let me ask you a very silly question? How many times you abandoned you official company policy for data sharing and shared your files via Google, Dropbox or…

    • CAD, PDM and PLM Diversity  by: Oleg

      October 20, 2010, 17:06

      The following message on twitter from Jonathan Scott of Razorleaf made me think about the future of vertical integration in Engineering Software. In my…

    • CAD, PLM and End of Microsoft Dominance  by: Oleg

      January 25, 2011, 09:45

      Last week, during PLM Innovation Congress in London, I talked about future trends in PLM and engineering software. If you missed my presentation there,…

    • CAD, PLM and Pragmatic Cloud: Do Less  by: Oleg

      December 15, 2010, 17:18

      The conversations about future CAD and PLM solutions is not a new thing these days. I decided to re-read some of my previous writing about cloud and find it…

    • CAD, PLM and Product Cost  by: Oleg

      February 7, 2011, 08:35

      Cost is important. Period. About 70% of product cost is defined during the design phase. So, to have PLM helping you to predict a product cost and drive it…

    • CAD, PLM and Technological Trajectories  by: Oleg

      December 8, 2010, 16:44

      I read CIMData article Windchill Evolving Lineage. Navigate your browser on the following link. I found this read interesting. CIMData is an analytical company…

    • CAD-BOM Missing Links by: Oleg

      August 19, 2010, 10:33

      One of the interesting trends in PLM is growing amount of vertical integrations between components of PLM portfolio. The following Razorleaf blog cough my…

    • CAD-less PLM Puzzle  by: Oleg

      December 14, 2010, 00:55

      Ask people about the connection between CAD and PLM and you will discover a very interesting thing. In the past people draw a bold line connection CAD and PLM…

    • CAD/PLM Strategy and Burning Chrome  by: Oleg

      March 2, 2011, 19:48

      Choose the platform for your software becomes a new issue in 2010s. Platform was kind of easy story for the last 10-15 years. You had a choice of market share…

    • CAD: From Files to Database and Cloud...  by: Oleg

      November 17, 2010, 19:44

      I had a chance to read Matt Lombard's - What if you CAD data were in a database? The discussion around this post made me think more about CAD data organizations…

    • Can "Try For Free" Model Work in PLM?  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2010, 05:57

      In my view, "Free" is continuing to pull people. Recently, I've seen few articles in PLM Blogosphere that was talking about "free" PLM offerings. You can point…

    • Chromebooks: Another Small Step Towards Cloud PLM?  by: Oleg

      May 14, 2011, 09:18

      I've been watching updates from the Google I/O 2011 conference during this week. Google came with the announcement of Chromebook. In my view, this is a logical…

    • Chrysler, PLM Platforms and Business Realities  by: Oleg

      August 2, 2010, 10:05

      I read news from the last week - Chrysler Group LLC contracts with Siemens PLM software for product design and development platform. It wasn't a big surprise,…

    • Closed Thoughts About PLM Openness by: Oleg

      June 29, 2010, 02:23

      My post Open vs. Closed PLM Debates last week and related Fortune CNN Money Blog article by Jon Fortt – Chrysler’s Engineering Software Shift created some…

    • Cloud and Next Generation of BOM  by: Oleg

      October 19, 2011, 09:28

      Few days ago, I was talking about some interesting patterns of PLM and ERP implementation. In a nutshell, the integration between PLM and ERP systems presents…

    • Cloud PLM and Amazon S3 Scale  by: Oleg

      July 25, 2011, 19:06

      I can see cloud PLM is trending. The announcements about running on Amazon are coming from multiple vendors. Dassault just announced few weeks ago the…

    • Cloud PLM and Data Residency Option  by: Oleg

      September 11, 2011, 21:43

      Whenever I had a chance to speak about cloud solutions in the context of PLM, the normal reaction of people was like that - company never agrees to put their…

    • Cloud PLM and IT Basic Instinct  by: Oleg

      January 26, 2012, 22:13

      The amount of publications about PLM and cloud is growing. This is not surprising me. There are two reasons to that. Cloud is clearly hyping. Second - major…

    • Cloud PLM and Security Certification  by: Oleg

      August 22, 2011, 11:17

      Cloud and Security. I hope I've got your attention a bit :). In 99% of my talks about PLM and the cloud, the topic of security was coming very fast. The…

    • Cloud PLM and Service Channels  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2012, 00:38

      About a year ago, I published my post - Will PLM Channels Survive The Cloud Era? Back that time, it was my answer to the growing amount of voices about…

    • Cloud PLM and Small Manufacturers Survival Plan  by: Oleg

      October 1, 2010, 16:11

      While big OEMs are very visible, the majority of manufacturers are represented by small companies. The numbers are different in US and Europe, but my guess is…

    • Cloud, Head's-down CAD Drafters and Technological Analogies  by: Oleg

      October 27, 2011, 23:22

      Earlier this week, my attention was caught the article Cloud is Dead by Ralph Grabowski. Following some of Ralph's thoughts, I found myself in a strong…

    • COFES, Microsoft and Engineering Software Business Models  by: Oleg

      April 16, 2011, 09:58

      COFES is a think tank for engineering software. This is a place where you can drop any idea and see if it resonates. One of the COFES sessions is so called…

    • Collaborative PLM and Oracle 2011 Targets  by: Oleg

      January 3, 2011, 07:49

      I've read the following article Oracle butts into online collaboration space with Cloud Office. It struck me as something important. Forget about Google vs.…

    • Comments and Photos from Dassault PLM Forum in Moscow by: Oleg

      October 14, 2011, 16:38

      I wanted to share some of my notes from yesterday Dassault PLM forum in Moscow. Getting back to previous forums I had a chance to visit, the size of this forum…

    • Corporate iCloud, iPLM Future and Google's Apps?  by: Oleg

      June 8, 2011, 13:43

      Well...It happened. The marketing machine of Apple meets the cloud and cloud marketing. The result is predicted - iCloud. If you haven't had a chance to watch…

    • CRM and PLM: Same Challenges?  by: Oleg

      February 23, 2011, 06:24

      A lot of things happen these days in the enterprise software market. It is interesting sometime to watch the life in PLM neighborhood. CRM is one of them. I…

    • Crowd-sourcing in CAD / PLM software development by: Oleg

      December 11, 2011, 16:15

      The topic of crowd-sourcing is fascinating these days. Community based development is interesting topic, and I'm continuing to follow different aspects of…

    • Daimler PLM Dilemma - PDM First  by: Oleg

      November 26, 2010, 21:55

      This week Siemens PLM announced - "Daimler AG has selected CAD Software from Siemens as their standard for their worldwide vehicle development". The event of…

    • De-confusing PLM Collaboration  by: Oleg

      October 15, 2010, 21:58

      What do you think about "Collaboration"? I think, it confusing a bit. We use it too often. Some people like "collaborative" stories and some don't. My long…

    • Design To Manufacturing Process: Bumpy Road?  by: Oleg

      June 11, 2011, 21:09

      Integration between design and manufacturing is one of the topics that normally hits a lot of discussion in the product development and PLM space. To support…

    • DIY PLM and Zero Email Policy  by: Oleg

      December 15, 2011, 21:27

      Let's talk about emails today. How many of them are you reading or writing daily? A lot? Emails are with us for the last 50 years. Will it stay with us for…

    • Do It Yourself (DIY) PLM and Microsoft Excel Services  by: Oleg

      November 26, 2011, 01:12

      Many of the engineers (and not only) are using Microsoft Excel. People are literally lives inside of Excel spreadsheets. When it comes to PDM and PLM, I…

    • Do We Need To Coach PLM Backbone with NoSQL?  by: Oleg

      December 10, 2010, 04:19

      I'd like to take my Beyond PLM conversation away from social and collaboration trend. Let's think about bits and bytes of data, delivery technology and cloud.…

    • Does Autodesk Smells PLM? First impression from Moscow Forum.  by: Oleg

      September 22, 2011, 01:02

      Things are busy for me this week. It is mostly because of Autodesk Forum in Moscow. I've been invited to talk here about PLM trends and to run a roundtable…

    • DSCC 2011: How Dassault Blends PLM and Search Based Applications?  by: Oleg

      November 11, 2011, 15:17

      Few months ago, I had a chance to write an article about PLM and comprehensive search. It was about enterprise search. Since then some other events happened in…

    • DSCC 2011: Thinking Inside Dassault PLM Box  by: Oleg

      November 10, 2011, 02:45

      I spent my last two days attending Dassault System Customer Conference (DSCC 2011) in Las Vegas. It will take some time to digest and re-think everything I…

    • Dynamics AX Hybrid Cloud. Should PLM Vendors Care?  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2011, 22:47

      I have a feeling "cloud" topic got some dominance for the last days and week. However, the following article about Dynamics AX 2012 and cloud was something I…

    • ECO Management: What Matters?  by: Oleg

      March 30, 2011, 11:07

      Engineering Change is probably one of the most important and complicated disciplines. I had a chance to meet people that told me - all what you are doing is…

    • Electric Design and PLM Roadmap  by: Oleg

      June 29, 2011, 11:02

      In the early beginning, solutions for manufacturing were focusing primarily on machinery and mechanical design. The historical reason here is simple -…

    • Engineering and Social Dashboards  by: Oleg

      December 21, 2010, 08:49

      I found an interesting article in San-Francisco Gate about Dashboards- “Introducing Netvibes Dashboard Intelligence Solutions: Business Intelligence…

    • Engineering Software: Move to the Cloud vs. Born in the Cloud?  by: Oleg

      December 2, 2010, 04:13

      I'm not attending AU this year. My end of the year schedule included too many trips, so I wasn't able to attend Autodesk show in Las-Vegas. However, thanks to…

    • Engineers and FaaP (Facebook As A Platform)?  by: Oleg

      October 20, 2011, 03:40

      There are many discussions these days going around cloud and confrontation between large technological companies. If you miss the following article - The…

    • Engineers and Video Collaboration?  by: Oleg

      July 26, 2011, 13:12

      Think about enterprise software and collaboration. I think, collaboration is boring. It is complicated, requires lots of system configuration and implementation…

    • ERP vs. PLM: More Competition in The Future?  by: Oleg

      August 11, 2011, 02:16

      Finally, my vacation over and Beyond PLM is back to normal. While screening materials, the following title caught my attention: ERP vs. PLM: What's the…

    • Eurostep and Standard-based PLM  by: Oleg

      May 16, 2011, 12:04

      I'm going to attend Eurostep Share-A-Space 2011 forum later this week in Stockholm, Sweden. The history of the invitation to this conference is going back to…

    • Facebook for SIM and PLM Mainstream Revolution  by: Oleg

      February 15, 2011, 19:31

      I read today's news coming from Gemalto and read "Facebook takes over the world, one SIM card at the time". Gemalto announced their new product - Facebook for…

    • Free CAD File Conversion In The Cloud? by: Oleg

      July 9, 2010, 11:11

      The problem of file conversion is CAD is long and never been easy. Engineers are working in multiple CAD systems and conversion is a real problem. Quite many…

    • From iMat to iDesk: The Future of Engineering Appliance  by: Oleg

      January 28, 2012, 12:04

      What do you think about the future designer workspace? I assume some of my readers remember drawing board in multiple variation when it was a primary working…

    • From MultiCAD, to Multi-Cloud. Thoughts about Cloud Realities...  by: Oleg

      September 27, 2011, 18:06

      I think we are actually in the beginning of a very interesting time. Obviously, you know a lot of things about Multi-CAD. No need to explain. However, I…

    • From PDM to PLM: Unify or Integrate?  by: Oleg

      October 31, 2011, 19:29

      Earlier, this year, I post a blog called - Integrated PDM and PLM: Wrong Question? In the beginning, this blog post was inspired by Jonathan Scott's presentatio…

    • Future PLM platforms and SAP / Oracle technological wars  by: Oleg

      January 25, 2012, 22:19

      All existing PDM / PLM technologies were created 15-20 years ago. I hope I've got your attention :). So, let me speak a bit more about technologies today.…

    • Gartner, PLM Social Networking and Technological Enablers  by: Oleg

      January 24, 2012, 22:19

      I want to talk about a social-networking topic again. I was reading Gartner Top Vertical Industry Prediction for 2012 and Beyond. Spend some time reading the…

    • GMail and CAD PLM Cloud - Does it Fit Together?  by: Oleg

      October 2, 2011, 11:26

      I found an interesting article about GMail - Gmail now ‘Viable Alternative’ to Microsoft, says Gartner. Gartner is well known analytical company also…

    • Google Cloud Printing, PLM and Manufacturing  by: Oleg

      November 3, 2010, 21:36

      What do you think about "paperless processes". A good dream I can tell you... So, I decided to talk about paper-related stuff today. I read blog post coming…

    • Google Cloud: Ready for CAD / PLM?  by: Oleg

      March 15, 2011, 05:37

      Cloud is continuously discussed among the people in CAD/PLM industry. The opinions are varying and discussion is going up and down. Vendors are arguing about…

    • Google Docs Revisions and PLM Collaboration  by: Oleg

      October 8, 2010, 09:52

      The following Google Apps Blog caught my attention few days ago - More Tools For Viewing Document Revisions. I found it interesting for several reasons. First,…

    • Google vs. Microsoft at General Motors: What does it mean for PLM Cloud?  by: Oleg

      November 17, 2011, 20:34

      Cloud big time... It is probably coming to General Motors. Google is fighting against Microsoft to supply 100'00 license deal for GM. Navigate your browser…

    • Google+ potential for PLM and Business Use  by: Oleg

      July 20, 2011, 06:20

      Well, time is running fast, and I counted my first week of G+ experience. It is still too early to share any specific experience, but probably a good time to…

    • Google+, PLM and the Product Data Sharing Models  by: Oleg

      July 7, 2011, 08:08

      Social is trending. It was specially true this weekend. The social hype taking individuals, organizations and social vendors. Personally, I want to write off,…

    • GrabCAD, New Openness and Future Business Models  by: Oleg

      February 1, 2012, 12:32

      The world is changing fast. What was near to impossible 10 years ago tomorrow, becomes a reality today. It related to the field of engineers as well as to…

    • GSA and How to Reduce PLM Collaboration Cost?  by: Oleg

      December 8, 2010, 20:40

      Navigate your browser to the following link. GSA is moving to Google Apps. According to the Google blog, US GSA becomes a first US federal organization is…

    • Historical Perspective: From Ivan Satherland to Modern 2D/3D Sketch Apps  by: Oleg

      November 27, 2011, 13:56

      The announcement made by Dassault System last week, made me think about a huge distance CAD industry passed for the almost 50 years, since Ivan Sutherland…

    • Honeycomb PLM Attraction  by: Oleg

      February 3, 2011, 08:49

      Yesterday morning Google held an event presenting Android Honecomb - a new operational system completely focused on Tablet devices. Navigate your browser to…

    • How Big Is Product Lifecycle Data? by: Oleg

      July 6, 2010, 00:07

      Product-related data is one of the very aspects of PLM implementations. When you talk about PLM implementation, the topic of product-related data (or IP) is…

    • How Do You Know Your PLM Project is in Trouble?  by: Oleg

      December 19, 2011, 02:55

      Blogosphere and other literature are full of remarks about companies that stuck in different phases of PLM process. You probably had a chance to read Aras'…

    • How PLM Can Catch Up Cloud 2? by: Oleg

      July 2, 2010, 00:42

      I have been discussing Cloud-related topics on PLM Think Tank actively since last year. I think, the term is hugely overloaded, I can see horizons where cloud…

    • How PLM can Remove Business Waste?  by: Oleg

      September 17, 2010, 08:14

      I've been attending Technia PLM Innovation Forum early this week in Stockholm. My conclusion from this forum is that all organizations are looking how to…

    • How To Choose PDM? (Another visual guide)  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2010, 05:18

      Last week I published my visual guide how to choose PLM. This post was the most popular during the whole week. So, I decide to try another one this week about…

    • How To Choose PLM? (Visual guide) by: Oleg

      September 6, 2010, 14:53

      I decided to make an unusual post today. Because of holiday (Labor Day in USA), I spent most of the day working on emails, RSS, twits and  blog comments.…

    • How To Disrupt PLM Price with Technologies? by: Oleg

      June 21, 2010, 11:12

      My post “How To Manage ECO Without Paying ’500 Per Seat” raised a very interesting discussion on Zero-Waite State blog about PLM price.…

    • How to host PDM/PLM database on the cloud? by: Oleg

      October 30, 2011, 21:00

      I was reading Oracle journal early today. Navigate your browser to read a short article - Which Cloud Service Provider Should Host Your Oracle Databases? The…

    • How to Manage ECO without paying ’500 per seat? by: Oleg

      June 17, 2010, 10:40

      I had chance to read Buzz message thread about ECO management, initiated by Josh Mings. I found it worth reading. One of the questions stick in my memory, and…

    • How to place PLM in a Social Network? Kill M...  by: Oleg

      August 25, 2011, 18:37

      I can hear more and more conversations about social aspects of the future enterprise software. Social is trending. Will it be successful? I think many people…

    • How To Reset PLM Collaboration?  by: Oleg

      October 27, 2010, 21:58

      Almost 2 weeks ago, I wrote about De-confusing of PLM Collaboration. Today, I want to suggest a different angle and talk about how we can re-think PLM…

    • How To Stop Searching for PLM Killer App?  by: Oleg

      March 11, 2011, 21:29

      Are you familiar with the "Killer App" syndrome? In my view, conversations about a "Killer App" are very popular when some technological device or broad…

    • How to streamline PLM? by: Oleg

      December 10, 2011, 01:10

      One of the biggest problem I can see in all PDM / PLM tools is a high level of the complexity. I've been thinking about it many times. After observing this…

    • How to Virtualize PLM?  by: Oleg

      March 10, 2011, 16:57

      Virtualization becomes an important piece of modern technological solutions. The time of physical servers is over. Businesses are actively seeking how to…

    • HP, PLM Cloud and Services Aggregation  by: Oleg

      April 12, 2011, 16:38

      Following my yesterday post about Facebook and data centers infrastructure, I thought it will be an interesting to discover more trends around enterprise and…

    • Hyper-Social Organization for PLM Dummies  by: Oleg

      November 8, 2010, 21:54

      Today, I had an interesting experience in my life. I had a chance to attend Dassault System Enovia Collaborative Innovation Forum. Be-careful, before you…

    • Integrate PDM and PLM: Wrong Question?  by: Oleg

      February 8, 2011, 21:46

      Two weeks ago, during SolidWorks World 2011, I had a chance to talk with Jonathan Scott of Razorleaf about different aspects of integration between SolidWorks…

    • iPad and Enterprise PLM  by: Oleg

      July 28, 2010, 06:06

      iPad sales are skyrocketing. I read “Global CIO: Top 10 Reasons Steve Jobs & Apple Are The Future Of IT”. Take a look and make your opinion. My first…

    • JT Open and the Future of PLM 2.0 by: Oleg

      August 29, 2011, 11:10

      Despite the fact "PLM 2.0" was first articulated by Dassault back in 2006, I think, the term itself has some rights for expanded live beyond DS V6 platform. In…

    • Less Services. More PLM...  by: Oleg

      December 21, 2010, 11:59

      I've been discussing with colleagues Gartner's Predict 2011: Manufacturer Revamp and Enhance Product Lifecycle Management strategies. Without Gartner's…

    • Live Blog: No PLM, PLM, Beyond PLM...  by: Oleg

      November 5, 2010, 23:47

      Yesterday, I had the unique opportunity to participate in the webinar with a very intriguing name - Why Hasn't PLM Taken Over the World? You can listen to the…

    • Live from SolidWorks 2012 Media Event  by: Oleg

      August 31, 2011, 09:59

      I've been attending SolidWorks Media day in Dassault SolidWorks campus in Concord, MA. Actually, I noted- this is probably the last time event happens in the…

    • Lucene Revolution and PLM Open Source Thoughts  by: Oleg

      October 11, 2010, 14:52

      Last week, I attended a conference Lucene Revolution. The show was organized by a company Lucid Imagination, an outfit focusing how to repeat a success Red Hat…

    • Manufacturing Companies and SaaS Business Opportunity  by: Oleg

      January 11, 2011, 17:23

      I had a chance to watch Jason Green's video interview by TechCrunchTV Sarah Lacy. Take a time, watch and make an opinion. I found interesting to listen to…

    • Manufacturing Crowd-Sourcing and Cloud PLM Opportunity  by: Oleg

      December 5, 2011, 15:25

      Crowd-sourcing is a popular trend these days. For those of you out of sync, in a nutshell, crowd-sourcing is a way for a community of people to build,…

    • Marketplaces and Engineering Software  by: Oleg

      October 14, 2010, 16:47

      Few days ago I had a chance to speak with Hardi Meybaum of GrabCAD. We spent almost two hours speaking about what GrabCAD is up to. It made me think about…

    • Microsoft and Future Online PLM Platforms  by: Oleg

      February 4, 2011, 09:10

      Few days ago I published PLM Cloud: Dedicated, Private, Public. Following this post, I had few interesting conversations about what are possible platforms can…

    • Microsoft Azure and Toyota Cloud: Should PLM Care?  by: Oleg

      April 10, 2011, 15:01

      I read the following Reuter article: Microsoft Toyota team team up on digital auto network. It made me think about cloud again. Time ago, I wrote about the…

    • Microsoft in the PLM Spotlight  by: Oleg

      November 15, 2010, 06:54

      Last week in Orlando, I had a chance to attend Microsoft's presentation during DSCC2010 keynote presentation. Microsoft's trajectory is interesting. Think…

    • Microsoft Office, Google Cloud and noPLM option  by: Oleg

      May 4, 2011, 19:49

      Microsoft Office plays a significant role in your engineering environment. Just think about the number of Excels you have to manage your bill of materials,…

    • Microsoft Socl and Social PLM Thoughts by: Oleg

      November 21, 2011, 16:52

      Do you know what is Microsoft Socl? I didn't know until yesterday. However, now I know. It is a new research project by Microsoft, which supposed to become a…

    • Migrations Between PLM Systems  by: Oleg

      August 31, 2010, 07:04

      Microsoft announce SQL Server migration assistant for MySQL. It seems to me, Microsoft is thinking about how to expand their SQL tool's market share. As a step…

    • Mini PLM and Google Shared Spaces  by: Oleg

      December 22, 2010, 12:39

      Google Wave gone. Developers moved to Facebook. Nevertheless, Google comes with an interesting Labs project Google Shared Space. You can get more info on the…

    • Mobile, Photo, Video and Manufacturing Collaboration  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2011, 08:12

      Mobile communication is evolving. Lots of new things happen. iPhone was a revolutionary device that introduced back-end camera and allowed to share photos and…

    • Moving from PLM to PLMSocial?  by: Oleg

      March 31, 2011, 03:23

      Social Media and Networking are important. There are vendors in the business world that are paying attention to the importance of "social". Just think about…

    • My Experience with Dassault V6 PLM Cloud on Amazon by: Oleg

      July 1, 2011, 16:36

      This week was packed with multiple announcements and events. One of them happened in Paris - first Dassault Application Innovation Summit. I wasn't able to…

    • My First Take on PLM Cloud Maturity Model  by: Oleg

      January 3, 2012, 20:35

      The beginning of the year is a good time to think about BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals). Cloud was one of the dominant topics for the past two years of…

    • New PLM and Digital Content  by: Oleg

      September 29, 2010, 22:19

      We are in the middle of a very interesting process of digitalizing our life. We are moving more and more pieces from old-fashioned-content to new , completely…

    • New PLM: From Definition to Realization?  by: Oleg

      May 12, 2011, 09:25

      The definition of PLM is one of the topics I'm discussing on blog. I think, in the modern enterprise software, PLM buzzword created a biggest amount of…

    • NoPLM and Quirky Social Product Development by: Oleg

      April 12, 2011, 17:23

      Social Product Development. I've been talking about that before. PTC Social Link, Vuuch, 3DSwYm. These are names led my previous conversations. You can take a…

    • noSQL Use Case for PLM  by: Oleg

      September 15, 2010, 01:08

      I had a chance to read SQL vs. noSQL article in Linux Journal yesterday on the plane. I found it interesting and despite a bit up-level of a technical terms,…

    • Not-Linear BOM Perspectives by: Oleg

      September 2, 2010, 03:09

      Summer is finally over. This is a good reason to stop talking about fancy social software and cool Apple's features. Let's move back to the core of design,…

    • Open Cloud, PLM Backbone and Vendor Lock-In by: Oleg

      November 30, 2010, 05:00

      Vendor Lock-In is painful. I think, customers in the space of CAD/PLM even more sensitive to this issue. Proprietary CAD formats used by vendors many years,…

    • Open PLM – A Climb For Losers? by: Oleg

      July 8, 2010, 11:48

      Almost two months ago, I had chance to read a blog article by Mobile Beat with some intriguing name “Open is for losers” by Dave McClure. Take a…

    • Open Source PLM Factoids by: Oleg

      June 30, 2010, 03:49

      I’d like to continue discussion of Openness and PLM (see my yesterday post – Closed Thoughts about PLM Openness) with the discussion about Open…

    • Open Standards and Data Sharing  by: Oleg

      March 23, 2011, 23:54

      What do you think about the role of standards in CAD and PLM? Some of recent development in Open Standards made me think about CAD and PLM related standards…

    • Open vs. Closed PLM Debates by: Oleg

      June 24, 2010, 11:04

      I read Fortune CNN Money Blog article by Jon Fortt – Chrysler’s Engineering Software Shift. In the competitive world of PLM software it raises…

    • Oracle, Google and Aras' 226% Growth  by: Oleg

      August 30, 2010, 00:20

      I read the following article "Oracle v Google: Why?". I found it as a very deep analysis of the latest Oracle's bold move against Google. It is hard to predict…

    • PDF, CAD rendering and HTML5 by: Oleg

      June 19, 2011, 22:59

      I'm spending this weekend in Israel these days. My visit is mostly personal because of Bar Mitzvah of my older son, Jonathan. At the same time, I had a…

    • PDM Cartoons, Marketing and Unsolved Problems  by: Oleg

      October 11, 2011, 16:32

      I was watching cartoons over the long Columbus day weekend. Not Disney... I was watching PDM cartoons. You may tell me - who is making PDM cartoons these…

    • PDM in 2010s: Commodity or Competitive Advantage?  by: Oleg

      September 5, 2011, 08:16

      Product Data Management is not a new term. The first appearance of PDM software goes back in early 1990s (I believe veterans of the industry will come with…

    • PDM ROI Calculator from SolidWorks  by: Oleg

      November 16, 2011, 13:35

      ROI is an important topic, and many times I've seen customers are not focusing on ROI assessment before starting PDM/PLM implementation. At the same time, I…

    • PDM vs. PLM: A Data Perspective  by: Oleg

      July 23, 2010, 22:09

      I want to talk about what I consider as one of the most controversial topics in the industry - PDM vs. PLM. How many times, you had a chance to hear the…

    • PDM vs. PLM: A Process Perspective  by: Oleg

      August 17, 2010, 13:12

      I want to continue the discussion started last week in my post 'PDM vs. PLM: A Data Perspective'. Thank you all for comments and your contribution to…

    • PDM vs. PLM: An Integration Perspective  by: Oleg

      August 30, 2010, 06:44

      I'm continuing discussions about PDM vs. PLM differences. I'd encourage you to take a look on my previous two posts related to this topic: PDM vs. PLM: A Data…

    • PDM vs. PLM: Implementation Gaps  by: Oleg

      July 6, 2011, 08:36

      One of the topics that people often ask is what is the difference between PDM and PLM. The question is almost rhetoric, since the number of explanation is +1…

    • PDM, Part Numbers and the Future of Identification  by: Oleg

      July 29, 2011, 06:48

      Let me talk again about Part Numbers. The last time I wrote about Part Numbers, it created a healthy discussion. I'd encourage you to refresh your memory and…

    • PDM. Pre-configured? Painless?  by: Oleg

      April 8, 2011, 21:01

      I want to get back to the topic of Out-of-the-Box PDM systems. The topic isn't new. The following post by Jim Brown was a trigger for me to get back and…

    • PDM/PLM and Future Competition  by: Oleg

      August 19, 2011, 07:54

      Google-Moto deal created a lot of fuss and speculation. At the same time, it created an example of cross-domain innovation, which in my view, worth being…

    • PLM & Market and Technology Trends by: Oleg

      October 14, 2011, 00:32

      Yesterday I spent my day on Dassault PLM Forum in Moscow. The event website is here. You can see the agenda of the forum in English here. I was talking about…

    • PLM - Clearer Definition or Problem Solving? by: Oleg

      September 2, 2011, 00:05

      I'm adding another post to my collection of PLM definitions. Gavlin Quinlan came with the blog post on concurrent-engineering blog earlier this week. Here is…

    • PLM - Do The Right Thing?  by: Oleg

      July 20, 2010, 11:56

      I read two blog articles written by Mark Suster in his blog Both Sides of the Table - The Benefits Of Top Down Thinking and Doing the Right Things is More…

    • PLM 2.0: Born to Die?  by: Oleg

      August 26, 2011, 00:28

      PLM 2.0 is a new term that was born about 5 years ago. The term was introduced by Dassault Sysetemes as part of their V6 platform. At the same time, Dassault…

    • PLM and "Almost Enterprise" Apps?  by: Oleg

      April 29, 2011, 05:01

      The cost of development enterprise apps was one of the topics discussed among the people on Aras ACE 2011 conference earlier this week in Detroit, MI. Where…

    • PLM and A Single Point Of Disagreement by: Oleg

      June 25, 2010, 12:48

      When you talk to a sales person from one of the PLM companies, you for sure will be exposed to a “Single Point of Truth” vision. On the surface,…

    • PLM and Amazon Enterprise Cloud  by: Oleg

      February 1, 2012, 01:15

      An interesting addition to my yesterday post about technological options for cloud PLM. I was reading Amazon's announcement that came earlier this month -…

    • PLM and Bottom Up Option  by: Oleg

      August 20, 2010, 12:07

      The following publication in VEKTORRUM got me to review again a book “3D Manufacturing Innovation” by Dr. Hiroshi Toriya. I had a chance to read this book…

    • PLM and Cloud - Hold the Promise?  by: Oleg

      December 18, 2010, 06:46

      Cloud is trending. This is not a first time I'm touching the topic of cloud. During the past days, I had lots of healthy debates about different topics around…

    • PLM and COFES Israel: People Just Want to Drink a Beer! by: Oleg

      December 18, 2010, 03:30

      Last three days I spent my time with COFES Israel. Navigate your browser to the following link to see agenda and people attended the event. The main topic of…

    • PLM and Complex Products  by: Oleg

      October 26, 2010, 18:47

      Early this week I had a chance to read the following blog post by Accidental Product Manager - Really, Really Complex Products: Is PLM Software the Solution? I…

    • PLM and Comprehensive Search  by: Oleg

      March 30, 2011, 19:33

      For the last few months, I've been asked multiple times about the role of Enterprise search and PLM. Since last year, after Exalead a French search company was…

    • PLM and Control Your Home  by: Oleg

      May 26, 2011, 01:19

      In the old days, the focus of manufacturing companies was mostly about how to produce stuff. Most of the products were disappearing from the horizons of…

    • PLM and Data Model Pyramid  by: Oleg

      January 10, 2012, 17:15

      There is a lot going on in database space these days. Few days ago I posted - PLM, RDBMS and Future Data Management Challenges and I've got quite a few…

    • PLM and Engineering Documents Identification  by: Oleg

      July 15, 2010, 11:08

      The question of identification is probably of the most complicated and always raises lots of interest. I had a chance to discuss early on my blog a topic…

    • PLM and Enterprise 2.0: No Fight… Yet. by: Oleg

      June 16, 2010, 13:43

      Yesterday, I spent my day on Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. It wasn’t overcrowded, although Expo pass registration that included Keynote presentatio…

    • PLM and Enterprise View of Product Cost  by: Oleg

      October 6, 2010, 07:48

      Yesterday, I touched a topic of connection between CAD and PLM. The discussion started by Peter Schroer of Aras and my post, generated a very interesting…

    • PLM and Future of Gamification  by: Oleg

      September 19, 2011, 09:06

      It is already more than 2 years I first asked on my blog if there is a border between games and PLM software. For some of the people back that days it was…

    • PLM and Future Semantic Enterprise  by: Oleg

      July 12, 2011, 21:27

      This blog is my thoughts following Semantic Technology Conference (SemTech 2011), which took place in San-Francisco last month. I attended this conference as…

    • PLM and Global Product Development Strategy  by: Oleg

      December 13, 2011, 14:42

      Manufacturing business become global even for very small companies these days. It is not unusual to see a company of 100-150 employees having multiple…

    • PLM and Google TV: Not for Average People?  by: Oleg

      November 21, 2010, 23:28

      I was reading NYT on my flight today. The following article made me feel bad. Google TV, Usability is Not Included. I didn't buy Google TV yet. I'm still…

    • PLM and IT Consumerization: Top 3 Show Stoppers  by: Oleg

      November 23, 2011, 11:47

      Have you heard about "Consumerization" in IT? I'm sure you had a chance to read about  this trend. If not, navigate to the following Wikipedia link. The…

    • PLM and Legacy Product Data Management Systems  by: Oleg

      August 16, 2010, 09:19

      Bloomberg Business Week published an interesting story - Big Tech Problem as Mainframes Outlast Workforce. Some facts about IBM mainframe business: aged…

    • PLM and Location Based Intelligence  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2011, 04:53

      I learn about SAP and Google Maps collaboration from LBZone few days ago. Navigate your browser to the the following link - Intuitive Overlay of Enterprise…

    • PLM and Multiplatform Development  by: Oleg

      December 28, 2011, 14:59

      Please welcome a new-old word - multiplatform. When did you hear about for the last time? For those of you counting 15+ years in the industry it reminds the…

    • PLM and My Reading List  by: Oleg

      November 26, 2011, 00:01

      It is a long weekend in US. Even if my day-to-day business activities are not completely US oriented, I can feel some relaxing moments since yesterday. I was…

    • PLM and New Openness  by: Oleg

      July 21, 2011, 04:09

      The topic of openness in PLM software isn't new. In the past decade, I've been hearing lots of good and bad things about PLM and openness. Last year, I…

    • PLM and Open Source Big Games by: Oleg

      July 1, 2010, 04:07

      I have been paying more attention to open source last time. What I wanted to analyze is how Open Source will influence future enterprise software landscape and…

    • PLM and Open Source Licenses  by: Oleg

      September 23, 2010, 11:46

      I want to talk about licenses. The topic I'd normally prefer to avoid. Deelip Menezes made a good post about Sales and Licensing of software. However, I want…

    • PLM and Open Standards: Money Talks?  by: Oleg

      March 5, 2011, 10:30

      I'm keeping my eyes open for everything that happens in the space associated with open source and open standards. Open standards are not well developed in…

    • PLM and Post-PC Era by: Oleg

      April 5, 2011, 20:25

      I found an increased trend of conversation around the "post-PC" topic. I found the conversation fascinating. Are we going to replace our PCs, workstations,…

    • PLM and Process Tools: Opportunity or Complication?  by: Oleg

      January 18, 2012, 17:48

      I'd like to talk about BPM again. I was writing about BPM in the past. Navigate to this link to take a look on few pasts topics related to Business Process…

    • PLM and Project Management Options  by: Oleg

      October 19, 2010, 22:46

      Few days ago, I run into Gartner Magic Quadrant about IT Project and Portfolio Management. You can get it by navigating to the following link (the link was…

    • PLM and Re-thinking UI paradigms  by: Oleg

      October 11, 2011, 09:30

      I'm spending more and more time with alternative UIs. It first started from mobile and web. Now it is coming from everywhere. Retrieving my old memories…

    • PLM and Real Time Data by: Oleg

      June 15, 2010, 10:14

      I had chance to read “SAP, Oracle and ‘Real’ Real-Time Apps“. I think it is an interesting read. SAP and Oracle are two large players…

    • PLM and Seamless Multi-lingual Collaboration  by: Oleg

      February 10, 2011, 08:00

      Global environment is the reality of today's business. Engineering and manufacturing organizations are located in multiple places worldwide. To help people to…

    • PLM and SharePoint Scalability  by: Oleg

      March 14, 2011, 11:08

      Since Microsoft first released MOSS 2007, I can see an increased amount of manufacturing companies are investigating a potential move to SharePoint. Microsoft…

    • PLM and SharePoint: Business Together?  by: Oleg

      November 19, 2010, 23:04

      I want to learn more about Microsoft's strategies these days. The "big PC" is preparing to become the biggest supplier of enterprise software Office boxes and…

    • PLM and Social Connections by: Oleg

      August 24, 2010, 08:42

      I'm continuing to explore various aspects of relations between PLM and social systems and tools in my blog. The social topic becomes interesting. However, I…

    • PLM and Social Enterprise: Files vs. People?  by: Oleg

      September 8, 2011, 02:22

      For the last couple of days, I'm digesting materials from the Dreamforce conference organized by Saleforce.com. I wasn't able to make it this year, but the…

    • PLM and Strategic Technologies for 2012  by: Oleg

      October 26, 2011, 03:40

      We are in the Q4 of 2011. It is a traditional time start thinking about what is going to happen in 2012. I was reading Gartner's Top 10 strategic technologies…

    • PLM and Texting? by: Oleg

      March 8, 2011, 23:30

      Earlier today, I discovered an interesting company solution called Tigertext. At the time companies are talking about 2D vs. 3D iPad 2, business processes,…

    • PLM and the Evolution of Integration  by: Oleg

      January 10, 2012, 03:48

      Integration is an important topic in PLM. Few days ago, I was reading Aras' blog - Understanding of integration and federation with Aras. This blog caught my…

    • PLM and The Future of Appification by: Oleg

      December 6, 2011, 11:55

      Mobile is very important nowadays. More and more people these days discovering opportunities to use "mobile version of something". It is interesting to see…

    • PLM and The Power Of Pull by: Oleg

      June 23, 2010, 11:19

      I had chance to have a talk with David Siegel, entrepreneur, speaker and the author of a new book “Pull“. We met during the Semantic Technology…

    • PLM and Unexpected Office Collaboration Option?  by: Oleg

      August 30, 2011, 14:13

      I think the world around us is about to change. A couple of weeks ago I posted PLM and Future Competition. The existing traditional structures of vendors,…

    • PLM App Store and The Future of Sales  by: Oleg

      January 10, 2011, 15:36

      Talking about App Store is not a big news nowadays. Companies in CAD, PLM and other companies in enterprise market segment are talking a lot about app stores.…

    • PLM Appliance Game Changer?  by: Oleg

      December 23, 2010, 10:00

      People making software sometimes get excited about appliance. There is something magical in the way appliance can solve a problem. Especially for people…

    • PLM architecture discussion with Peter Schroer of Aras by: Oleg

      February 3, 2012, 12:58

      If you followed my comments on one of previous posts - Cloud PLM and IT Basic Instincts, I promised to have a conversation with Aras about PLM architecture.…

    • PLM Backbones and Engineering Process Complexity  by: Oleg

      November 24, 2010, 17:34

      My blogging friend Deelip Menezes (www.deelip.com) wrote few days ago in his twitter - "Mapping engineering processes to PLM backbones is this most difficult…

    • PLM Basics: Reference Designator and Find Numbers  by: Oleg

      September 24, 2010, 06:51

      Some time ago, one of my readers wrote me a comment with the question about Reference Designators and Find Numbers. With all our interest to talk about modern…

    • PLM Cloud an Gartner Flip Flop  by: Oleg

      November 5, 2011, 18:31

      Cloud conversation is taking a sharp turn. Private cloud vs. public cloud. This is actually can be a very interesting and quite a big game changer for PLM…

    • PLM Cloud Future: Back to Database?  by: Oleg

      December 30, 2010, 15:32

      I was reading Salesforce.com announcement made earlier this month during Dreamforce 2010 conference about introduction of a new database.com platform. I found…

    • PLM Cloud, Data Replication and Pig Latin.  by: Oleg

      November 11, 2011, 20:37

      Have you had a chance to read about cloud in Pig Latin? No? Actually, I did. Recently, I came across an interesting blog post and video on Aras PLM website.…

    • PLM Cloud: Dedicated, Private, Public  by: Oleg

      February 1, 2011, 01:01

      The conversation about cloud is trending these days. Earlier last week, during SolidWorks World 2011, I had a chance to share my opinion about cloud application…

    • PLM Cloud: differentiation or "anti-cloud rant"?  by: Oleg

      December 22, 2011, 14:30

      After my publication PLM, Autodesk and Cloud Wars Club few days ago, I received few comments from my readers trying to figure out what is PLM vendors'…

    • PLM Collaboration and "New Socials" by: Oleg

      September 7, 2010, 21:21

      How to make people to work more efficiently? I think this is an important question. This is a challenge for every product development organization. You have a…

    • PLM Collaboration and Email Innovation  by: Oleg

      December 23, 2010, 11:35

      Short note this morning. I just learned about Etacts, company that launched their solution earlier this year. Etacts wizards understood the value of email…

    • PLM Collaboration and SaaS Wake-Up Call  by: Oleg

      January 17, 2011, 22:25

      I read on Forrester Blog about acquisition of Dimdim by Salesforce.com. T.J. Keits of Forrester is discussing various aspects of Dimdim advantages as well as…

    • PLM Collaboration, Social Trend and Lotus Notes Memories  by: Oleg

      September 1, 2010, 06:31

      There are few terms in enterprise software and specifically in engineering software that was completely overused. In my view, collaboration is one of them.…

    • PLM Collaboration. Not virtual. Whiteboard...  by: Oleg

      August 31, 2011, 17:12

      Collaboration is an important thing. I think you agree with me. However, speaking about collaboration how many of you are looking how to collaborate and…

    • PLM Collaboration: 5 Questions to Ask Before You Make a Choice  by: Oleg

      August 3, 2010, 03:39

      Collaboration is a widely used term, and I found it sometime even overused. Collaborative development, Collaborative PDM, Collaborative PLM, Collaborative…

    • PLM Collaboration: From Old Concepts to a New Reality  by: Oleg

      July 18, 2011, 21:42

      I wanted to touch the topic of "collaboration" today. The term collaboration is very broad. Hit Google to search for "collaboration" and you will see Google…

    • PLM Competition and "True Cloud" Solutions  by: Oleg

      July 2, 2011, 10:24

      CAD, PLM and engineering software world is very competitive. Time ago, CAD vendors competed on the number of features. It is not unusual to see lists that…

    • PLM Complexity: What Does The Future Hold?  by: Oleg

      March 21, 2011, 12:01

      One of my blog readers shared with me slides of Paul Saunders presentation about MRO software from the Miami Aircraft Commerce Aviation IT Conference March…

    • PLM Compound Data and Google Collaboration  by: Oleg

      January 13, 2011, 21:59

      I made a short note today. Google enhanced the capability of Google Docs with embedding video playback. Navigate your browser to the following Google blog…

    • PLM Cost and Enterprisey Clouds  by: Oleg

      December 29, 2011, 20:47

      PLM is a costly piece of software. Software licenses, installation, implementation, support, services. All these components of PLM software make the decision…

    • PLM Data Warehouse: Dream Or Nightmare?  by: Oleg

      July 12, 2010, 10:28

      PLM is certainly dealing with lots of data about products: design, engineering, lifecycle data, manufacturing, processes. When/If you speak to PLM software…

    • PLM Definition - Next Round?  by: Oleg

      March 21, 2011, 21:51

      The definition of what is Product Lifecycle Management is one of the most controversial topics in PLM blogosphere and other publications about PLM. Last year,…

    • PLM Definition and ERP Implementation Patterns  by: Oleg

      October 15, 2011, 06:49

      Product development and manufacturing is very different from company to company. Therefore, I'm not surprised anymore when I see multiple ways companies are…

    • PLM Definition from Dassault System's Al Bunshaft  by: Oleg

      August 15, 2011, 17:51

      As you probably know, I'm collecting PLM definitions coming out of vendors, industry analysts and just customers. Here are some links on blog posts with PLM…

    • PLM Definitions- Multiple Dimensions by Prof. Eigner by: Oleg

      April 24, 2011, 10:30

      I'm continue to publish references on various definitions of PLM. A month ago I posted PLM Definition - Corporate vs. Consumer Style presenting a consumer…

    • PLM Downstream - Sent from my iPad? by: Oleg

      August 6, 2010, 06:40

      I had a chance to read "Sent from my iPad"  on VEKTORRM last week. Dave Angelotti discussed an option to use iPad as a field device. It seems interesting. It…

    • PLM Enterprise App Store: Bad Idea or Future Promise?  by: Oleg

      September 9, 2011, 23:22

      During the past months, I've seen an increased amount of conversations about the future of App Store software model in the enterprise. You, of course, familiar…

    • PLM Excels and Microsoft Cloud Office 365 by: Oleg

      June 28, 2011, 17:35

      Do you know what is the most widely adopted PLM system in the world? You probably can guess based on the title of this blog post - Microsoft Excel. I've been…

    • PLM Implementations and KISSASSing  by: Oleg

      May 26, 2011, 16:59

      Services is a significant part of every PLM implementation. According to CIMData, about 60% of cPDM revenues is coming from services. This is a huge number.…

    • PLM In The Azure Box? by: Oleg

      July 19, 2010, 12:51

      If you listened to the news stream from Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference last week, you probably had a chance to get some information about…

    • PLM Innovation 2011: PLM and Engineering Software Trends by: Oleg

      January 20, 2011, 04:40

      I'm attending PLM Innovation Congress 2011 in London these days. Lots of interesting presentations and discussions are going here. I recommend you to…

    • PLM Innovation and Packaging Trajectories  by: Oleg

      December 18, 2010, 04:57

      Innovation is a popular word these days. It sounds modern and trending. Everybody wants to jump to this bandwagon. I found myself reading and listening a lot…

    • PLM Innovaton 2011: Short Summary and Hashtag Album  by: Oleg

      January 21, 2011, 13:02

      During last two days I've been busy attending PLM Innovation Congress 2011 in London. This is a short statistic of the event: 200+ attendees, two full days of…

    • PLM Integration Failures  by: Oleg

      January 12, 2011, 20:01

      There is one topic that always raises lots of controversy, in my view. I'm talking about integrations or even more specifically about PLM-oriented integration.…

    • PLM Interest To Enterprise Search by: Oleg

      September 8, 2010, 22:57

      I can see a growing interest of PLM providers to explore the story of enterprise search. This morning I've seen a mutual press release of Aras Corp. and…

    • PLM Jungle or PLM State?  by: Oleg

      October 7, 2010, 11:02

      I read a blog post by Stephen Porter of Zero Wait State called - The PLM State: Why can’t we all just get along?. I think Stephen raised an important…

    • PLM Migration and Product Data Rock-n-Roll  by: Oleg

      December 29, 2010, 11:26

      I read The PLM State: PLM Migration, No Data Left Behind on Zero-Wait State blog. Read it and make your opinion. Stephen Porter is discussing a very important…

    • PLM Mirror and Google Cars  by: Oleg

      October 12, 2010, 15:51

      I loved this - "Look ma, no hands". Did you try it in your childhood? Even so, I'm sure it wasn't about cars. So, now some people in California can say - "No…

    • PLM Mobile Networks - Big Time?  by: Oleg

      September 20, 2010, 10:30

      One of my blog readers asked about who is developing Mobile PLM? The question of mobile is not new. Everybody is going mobile these days. Lots of functions…

    • PLM Network Effect and Single Point of Truths  by: Oleg

      October 22, 2010, 22:17

      Few weeks ago, I had a chance to attend a webinar - Learn How PLM Propels Innovation at Mercury Marine. The webinar is available now on demand. Navigate you…

    • PLM Online Data Sharing: From Spreadsheets to Databases?  by: Oleg

      July 17, 2011, 14:47

      What is the most popular PDM/PLM system in the world? My bet it is probably MS Excel. The flexibility and ease of availability, made Excel so popular between…

    • PLM Open Source: Strategic or Off Road?  by: Oleg

      March 17, 2011, 09:42

      I'm watching closely everything that happens around with Open Source. The world of Open Source is changing all the time. Remember, in the beginning it was…

    • PLM Out-of-the-Box: Misleading or Focusing? by: Oleg

      December 13, 2010, 05:55

      I've seen a new splash in the discussion around PLM out-of-the-box during the last couple of weeks. The initial hit was done by Marc Lind of Aras publishing…

    • PLM Philosophies Collide?  by: Oleg

      September 28, 2010, 21:23

      Somebody asked me last week about how I see th future of PLM... Does it look like-BOM or like-Workflow? I found this question very interesting. Bill of…

    • PLM Platform Wars: Who is Right or Who is Left?  by: Oleg

      February 25, 2011, 13:16

      CAD and PLM world is extremely competitive. The decision process in the manufacturing industry is not fast. Companies are spending significant budgets…

    • PLM Platforms and PLM Automotive Future  by: Oleg

      March 7, 2011, 17:27

      A couple of weeks ago, I posted PLM Platform Wars: Who is Right or Who is Left? The following short article in Dasssault 3D Perspective struck me to think more…

    • PLM Practice in Building Industry?  by: Oleg

      February 23, 2011, 07:00

      I read TechCrunch publication New York City To Put QR Codes On All Building Permits By 2013 this morning. This publication made me think about some common…

    • PLM Processes, Lists and Implementation Confusion  by: Oleg

      December 6, 2010, 23:38

      I read the following blog post by Christine Longwell - Do we really need structured workflows if we have visibility and status? In my view, the question asked…

    • PLM Reflections and "Why Standards?" Question by: Oleg

      May 18, 2011, 19:26

      This evening I had pre-meeting talks in Eurostep office located in Stockholm neighborhood. In preparation for the Eurostep 2011 event, I had a chance to ask…

    • PLM Reset 2011  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2011, 06:12

      Winter break is a time to make a traditional "lesson learned" or "next year" blog posts. I wanted to come with some thoughts about what I see happens in the…

    • PLM SharePoint Thoughts  by: Oleg

      October 21, 2010, 23:06

      I've been attending SPTech Boston Conference today. Navigate your browser on this link. You can get some information there. Microsoft is rolling SharePoint…

    • PLM SharePoint: Silver Bullet or Fierce Criticism?  by: Oleg

      September 30, 2010, 06:39

      It was a long time I didn't talk about Microsoft SharePoint. I tried to recall and found that my previous significant thoughts about Microsoft SharePoint are…

    • PLM Simplification, Alfresco and AutoCAD Integration  by: Oleg

      May 31, 2011, 12:21

      One of the trends I am following constantly on my blog is the simplification. PLM is very complex and still way too expensive. However, I can see multiple…

    • PLM Simplification. First drop PLM word...  by: Oleg

      January 17, 2012, 20:34

      Simplification is a significant trend. I've been watching it a lot in consumer space. People got really obsessed by simplification after Apple. And these are…

    • PLM Software and Business Process Scalability  by: Oleg

      August 12, 2010, 06:48

      Scaling up is a tough problem. I want to talk today and PLM Software scalability in unusual aspects - business processes. In the past, CAD and PLM vendors…

    • PLM Standard: From Formats to Frameworks  by: Oleg

      February 16, 2011, 23:39

      I want to talk about PLM and Standards today. In my view view, the story of standards is over complicated and confusing. The number of articles about CAD…

    • PLM Storm and Infinite Processes  by: Oleg

      August 8, 2011, 09:52

      I'm still off on vacation until Wednesday. However, as my PLM blogging buddy Jim Brown mentioned on the Facebook - "Blogging is my crack habit" :). I started…

    • PLM Think Tank - April Top 5  by: Oleg

      April 28, 2011, 21:14

      What do you think is the most hard thing in everything we do? This month for me was overloaded by conferences. It started from COFES 2011 in sunny Scottsdale,…

    • PLM Think Tank - August Top 5  by: Oleg

      September 25, 2010, 08:22

      I'm coming late this month with my top 5 post. It was mostly caused by me attending two conferences as an invited speaker. Technia PLM Innovation Forum in…

    • PLM Think Tank - February Top 5  by: Oleg

      March 9, 2011, 00:30

      What is the most genius invention I've heard during the last week? What is your guess? Right! The cover of iPad 2. It was magically simple as everything in…

    • PLM Think Tank - January Top 5  by: Oleg

      February 6, 2011, 12:56

      My January was busy with travels. If you followed my blog and twitter over the past month, you've seen my posts and twitter messages from PLM Innovation 2011…

    • PLM Think Tank - May Top 5  by: Oleg

      May 27, 2011, 11:59

      What do you think about standards and PLM? For the long time, I thought about standards as toothbrushes. Everybody needs one, but nobody wants to use somebody…

    • PLM Think Tank - Top 5 August, 2011 by: Oleg

      September 5, 2011, 22:14

      Summer is over. Last week I was attending SolidWorks media event in Concord Mass. September is going to be a traveling month for me. I'm going to attend…

    • PLM Think Tank In Numbers by: Oleg

      July 20, 2010, 10:09

      I'm proud to share some numbers about live discussions that happen in PLM Think Tank: Think Tank Topics: 500. Total Page Views: 250'000. Number…

    • PLM Think Tank July - Top 5  by: Oleg

      July 6, 2011, 06:02

      The big weekend finally over and this is a time to get back on track with a long list of blogging topics. The weekend was well spent reading my feeds andmaking…

    • PLM Think Tank July Top 5 by: Oleg

      August 5, 2011, 01:28

      Summer time is usually good for vacation. I'm taking this week off with family traveling from Boston to Quebec and Montreal. I'm sharing with readers on…

    • PLM Think Tank November top 5  by: Oleg

      December 11, 2011, 17:19

      I'm a bit late with my top 5 review for November. It was a tough month for me because of travels. I made double-Vegas. What does it mean you can ask? It…

    • PLM Think Tank October Top 5  by: Oleg

      November 1, 2011, 23:00

      The last week snow in Boston was kind of an event. I think, many of New England residents are still sitting without power and the internet. Which made me…

    • PLM Think Tank Top 5 - December and 2011  by: Oleg

      January 16, 2012, 16:27

      Silicon Valley is well known by the high concentration of web start-up companies. My recent conclusion about PLM Highway (Rt. 128) in Greater Boston was…

    • PLM Think Tank Top 5 - November, 2010 by: Oleg

      December 2, 2010, 09:48

      I was reading GigaOM article Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? I found it interesting. Take your time, read and make an opinion. I found some…

    • PLM Think Tank Top 5, September 2010 by: Oleg

      October 31, 2010, 14:46

      I postponed my monthly writing this month to give few words PTC Creo launch this week. CAD community already started to discuss this event. You cannot dismiss…

    • PLM Trends and Solution Alternatives: Presentation and Roundtable  by: Oleg

      September 22, 2011, 18:11

      The second day of Autodesk Forum in Moscow. Today, I gave my presentation about PLM Trends and Solution Alternatives. You can find my presentation below. I…

    • PLM User Experience and Google Related by: Oleg

      August 17, 2011, 15:48

      PLM User Experience... Yes, I know. This is a painful point. Everybody wants it simpler, intuitive and easy. My best quotes about how to design a good user…

    • PLM User Experience and The Evil of Folders?  by: Oleg

      May 24, 2011, 05:25

      Ask people about usability of PLM and other enterprise data management systems. From my experience, the answer is simple - it is way too complex. Very few PDM…

    • PLM User Experience, Windows 8 and the End of Desktop  by: Oleg

      June 5, 2011, 02:20

      Some time ago, I wrote about future user experience - PUI: Not PLM UI. Future User experience. One of the fundamental elements of user experience for the last…

    • PLM Vendors and "Cloud Marketing" Hype  by: Oleg

      October 19, 2011, 04:58

      From time to time, I'm experimenting with Google Trends. These results, obviously, cannot be counted as a serious research. At the same time, they can provide…

    • PLM Vendors, IT and Cloud Strategy  by: Oleg

      November 2, 2010, 21:14

      I was reading CloudAve yesterday. The post named - IT: Become Relevant or Die. Read this blog and make your opinion. The discussion about cloud is not new.…

    • PLM Wave Or "Good Enough" Collaboration  by: Oleg

      August 5, 2010, 06:57

      Six months ago, I posted "Collaboration Trends or Why I Stopped Using Google Wave?". After Google's announcement about Google Wave termination yesterday, I…

    • PLM Wood and Open Source Termites? by: Oleg

      July 5, 2010, 00:20

      Last week I wrote about PLM and Open Source Big Games. One of my conclusions was that PLM Open Source can become an interesting option in PLM and Enterprise…

    • PLM+ERP: Outside of Equations?  by: Oleg

      November 23, 2010, 03:09

      I've been watching a recorded webinar with a fascinating name: PLM+ERP = Manufacturing Success. The tweet about this webinar caught my attention. Navigate…

    • PLM, Autodesk and Cloud Wars Club?  by: Oleg

      December 19, 2011, 05:23

      Companies are looking for differentiation in the way they are making business. PLM companies are not different. Dassault, PTC, Siemens PLM, Aras, etc. Nobody…

    • PLM, BOM, Excel - How To Make It Right?  by: Oleg

      July 30, 2010, 12:10

      The following blog article caught my attention last week - "Four recommendations for better Excel BOMs" in Arena Solutions blog by Jennifer Bomze. I found it…

    • PLM, Cloud and Open Source Separation?  by: Oleg

      June 2, 2011, 17:59

      Cloud and Open source are two topics I'm often touching on my blog. In my view, these two trends are notable if you think about where PLM innovation is going…

    • PLM, Cloud Mashup and Terminological Games  by: Oleg

      January 8, 2011, 01:31

      One of my twitting buddies, Jonathan Scott, re-twitted the link to the following article - CIO Strategies: The Private and Public Clouds Mashup. I found it…

    • PLM, Collaborative Sandbox and Facebook Pills  by: Oleg

      July 29, 2010, 13:35

      What do you think is the most adopted mainstream collaboration tool? My conclusion is that most of the companies are running by email these days. Email is the…

    • PLM, ECO and Cost of Change  by: Oleg

      December 21, 2011, 01:37

      Cost is an important topic. Period. Everybody agrees with this statement. I can even say many companies investing a lot in their ability to calculate and…

    • PLM, Emails, and Social Links  by: Oleg

      September 16, 2010, 09:06

      Email is playing a significant role in the way every organization is management today. Organizations are run by emails these days. I've heard from many…

    • PLM, Engineering Software and Business Trends in 2011  by: Oleg

      June 24, 2011, 12:19

      It is a middle of the year, and it is a perfect time to evaluate and talking about business trends. Lot's of people are ready to relax before long awaited…

    • PLM, Enterprise Search and Aras Strategy by: Oleg

      April 27, 2011, 05:30

      I'm attending Aras Community Event 2011 these days in The Henrly Hotel in Dearborn, MI. You can have more information about new coming from the conference…

    • PLM, ERP and Managing of Effectivity  by: Oleg

      May 3, 2011, 09:27

      One of my blog readers asked me few questions about managing of effectivity. I decided to share this information. In my view, the conversation about Effectivity…

    • PLM, Expensive Documentation and Cheap Texbooks  by: Oleg

      January 20, 2012, 21:38

      Apple is going to eduction. Bam... It sounds fantastic. Textbooks are on the iPad. I was screening few publications about this event yesterday. One of them…

    • PLM, Google and Cloud Babysitting...  by: Oleg

      May 9, 2011, 12:04

      I'm continuing to think about Amazon cloud failure. As you may have noticed, the "cloud" is a frequent topic on my blog. I've been talking about the cloud with…

    • PLM, Google Cloud Connect and Social Information by: Oleg

      October 19, 2010, 08:11

      I found an interesting news came from Google yesterday. Google introduced Google Cloud Connect function as part of the new GSA 6.8 release. You can read more…

    • PLM, Manufacturers and Mobile Apps Hysteria  by: Oleg

      June 1, 2011, 14:24

      I can see around more and more people are playing with mobile devices. Last 3-4 months contained many announcements coming from hardware and software manufactur…

    • PLM, Microblogging and Communication  by: Oleg

      April 23, 2011, 12:31

      Communication is a vital part of everything we do. How do we communicate these days? Email is one of the most popular ways to communicate. Recently talking to…

    • PLM, Organization and Information Silos: Good, Bad and Ugly  by: Oleg

      October 2, 2011, 04:11

      Earlier this month, I posted What is the biggest PLM challenge? Since then I had multiple conversations on twitter, blog and LinkedIn groups. Discussing a…

    • PLM, Projects, Tasks and Social Productivity  by: Oleg

      February 2, 2011, 17:00

      I've got an email from one of the blogging colleagues about the acquisition of Manymoon by Salesforce.com. Manymoon was a company developed so called "social…

    • PLM, RDBMS and Future Data Management Challenges  by: Oleg

      January 4, 2012, 23:32

      It is not unusual to hear about problems with PLM systems. It is costly, complicated, hard to implement and non-intuitive. However, I want to raise a voice…

    • PLM, SharePoint and Future Virtualization  by: Oleg

      February 11, 2011, 09:35

      Today everything can be virtualized. If you think about your dedicated IT environment, proprietary or public cloud, the ability to virtualize environment can…

    • PLM, SharePoint and ProductPoint Lessons  by: Oleg

      May 5, 2011, 08:57

      I'm following SharePoint and PLM. One of point of my interest was to analyze how Microsoft SharePoint can be used in PDM/PLM as a technological platform and…

    • PLM, Sharing Information and Googe+ Circles  by: Oleg

      October 1, 2011, 13:04

      If you developed or implemented PDM or PLM system, you probably know that definition of users, groups and roles are an essential piece of your implementation.…

    • PLM, Smart Products and Internet of Things  by: Oleg

      January 11, 2012, 23:11

      In my view, the power of the internet is going much beyond current horizons. Back in 2009 I published my first post - PLM and Internet of things. The idea I…

    • PLM, Supply Chain and Cloud Adoption  by: Oleg

      April 21, 2011, 23:39

      Cloud is one of the most discussable topics in the industry. In the consumer web, cloud seems to be a proven option. I think, people are feeling very…

    • PLM, Technological Choice and Open Source Revolution  by: Oleg

      July 22, 2010, 22:07

      The acceptance of Open Source technologies is growing. One of the latest examples of products in open source movement that caught my attention was Lucid…

    • PLM: Controversy About Process vs. Data Management  by: Oleg

      November 15, 2011, 23:02

      Process vs. Data. I think, this topic not requires a special introduction. In my view, every PLM implementation is facing this discussion and requires to…

    • PLM: From Work To Home via Microsoft and Open Cloud  by: Oleg

      May 30, 2011, 04:15

      Let's talk about PLM software development today. Rewind pre-Web 2.0 and pre- iPhone era. Life was simlpe. After SolidWorks finally proved Windows is good…

    • PLM: How to Fix Technologies and Stop Fixing People?  by: Oleg

      April 20, 2011, 18:08

      During the last week at COFES, I had a chance to listen to John Gage keynote - But Can It Slice a Pineapple? Gage talked about innovation, computers, changes,…

    • PLM: Mobile-Optimized Sites vs. Mobile Apps by: Oleg

      January 23, 2012, 21:25

      For most non-technology-savvy people, the title of this post can sound like a joke. Mobile apps are trending today. App store, Android stores, Microsoft is…

    • PLM: Open Source vs. Free?  by: Oleg

      September 27, 2010, 01:02

      I posted PLM and Open Source Licenses few days ago. The main trigger of this post was Google's announcement about acceptance of all OSI licenses. However, as…

    • PLM: Share Data or Die  by: Oleg

      January 22, 2011, 07:25

      I'm still digesting a huge amount of information I learned from PLM Innovation Congress earlier this week in London. However, there is one trend that I can…

    • PLM: Standards, Openness, Open Source and more...  by: Oleg

      May 21, 2011, 01:01

      Yesterday, I had a chance to join a discussion panel on Eurostep Share-A-Space Forum. The formal name of the panel was "The plan ahead -Share-A-Space".…

    • PLM: Work-in-progress vs. System of Records?  by: Oleg

      June 6, 2011, 10:18

      Recently, I've been in a very interesting conversation with one of my industry buddies. It was about a role PDM and PLM systems are playing today manufacturing…

    • Post COFES, Dropbox and PLM Made Simple?  by: Oleg

      April 19, 2011, 10:42

      As you know, I spent end of my last week, including the weekend at COFES (The Congress of the Future of Engineering Software). It was my 6th COFES. It was…

    • Process Simplification - the next goal for PLM companies?  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2012, 19:37

      It was a long time I didn't talk about process management. The importance of process management is obvious. One of the main questions, companies are asking…

    • Product Data Formats for the 21st Century  by: Oleg

      July 21, 2010, 19:26

      Data formats is an interesting topic in the context of engineering and manufacturing. Manufacturing company is relaying on a significant amount of information…

    • Product Design and Collaboration in Multiple Languages  by: Oleg

      September 3, 2010, 14:46

      Manufacturers are going global these days. Nobody is surprised to have design, manufacturing and support are going across the globe. However, when it comes to…

    • PTC Creo - AnyThing Possible? by: Oleg

      October 29, 2010, 00:05

      So, it finally happened. After almost 6 months of official preparation, PTC launched a new product line - CREO. CREO will replace existing Pro-E, CoCreate and…

    • PTC Social Link and SharePoint: What the Future Holds?  by: Oleg

      June 17, 2011, 02:49

      One of the products I had a chance to review more closely earlier this week was PTC Social Link. I had a chance to post about social technologies before.…

    • PUI: Not PLM UI. Future User Experience. by: Oleg

      June 22, 2010, 09:39

      I’d suggest to have some fun in the beginning. What is PUI? Do you think this is a new PLM UI? No, marketing didn’t get it yet… I hope, they…

    • Revisions in CAD/PLM/ERP: Old Problems or New Challenges?  by: Oleg

      June 7, 2011, 16:19

      I want to talk about the topic, which is actually is not very new - revisions. I was reading Autodesk Manufacturing Community blog - Vault 2012 Revision Block…

    • RSS, PLM Collaboration and Activity Streams  by: Oleg

      June 9, 2011, 15:23

      Do you know what is RSS? I'm pretty sure a large amount of casual internet users are not aware about what is RSS and what is RSS readers (Aggregators). I even…

    • SaaS PLM - New, Complex, Expensive?  by: Oleg

      September 21, 2010, 02:29

      Last week I had healthy debates with one of my blog readers about different options to deploy PLM for the small manufacturing companies. Here is the part of…

    • SharePoint: PLM and Widget Libraries  by: Oleg

      March 18, 2011, 11:08

      What do you think about SharePoint? During the last few months, I'm getting this question very often. After my post - CAD, PLM and End of Microsoft Dominance,…

    • Should we "pack" PLM data into 3D PDF? by: Oleg

      May 3, 2011, 23:55

      The ability to use PLM in downstream applications was always a challenge. There are multiple reasons for that - complexity of products, expensive licenses,…

    • Siemens' Active Workspace - PLM Next Big Thing?  by: Oleg

      September 29, 2011, 23:12

      PLM is a lot of lifecycle. It is a very important characteristic of PLM to support product access the multiple lifecyle phases. As a result of this PLM…

    • Social Enterprise Discussion and Next Collaboration Buzz?  by: Oleg

      December 3, 2010, 17:03

      Collaboration is a tough word. PLM Is using this word all the time. For the last 10-15 years in this industry, I had a chance to see lots of variations on what…

    • Social Enterprise, Twitting Cars, Siri and Furbi  by: Oleg

      November 14, 2011, 15:07

      Few months ago, I had a chance already to write about so-called "social enterprise". The term was unveiled and supported by Marc Benioff during the last…

    • Social Intranet and PLM Apps  by: Oleg

      November 1, 2010, 11:39

      One of the very interesting trends in the modern IT, I'm observing these days is adopting consumer technologies in the enterprise. In general, I can see…

    • Social PLM and Email Lock-in?  by: Oleg

      December 9, 2010, 17:44

      I found the following WSJ Pool interesting. Will you use your Facebook's email service as you primary email? You can read about this poll in the following…

    • Social PLM and Facebook Data Centers?  by: Oleg

      April 10, 2011, 15:23

      Slow down... Facebook is not creating PLM yet. Facebook is growing their infrastructure. I read about Facebook Open Compute project. Navigate your browser to…

    • Social PLM Inbox and Changing Paradigms by: Oleg

      November 18, 2010, 21:04

      The Facebook announcement about introducing of FB messaging system triggered a flood of posts. I've been looking over them for the last couple of days. I liked…

    • Social PLM, Collaboration and Google Structured Discussion  by: Oleg

      March 18, 2011, 06:26

      Collaboration is one of the most overused words in Product Lifecycle Management. Even outside of PLM world, this term creates confusing. You never know what…

    • Social PLM: More Syndication and Less Communities by: Oleg

      July 7, 2010, 05:12

      I’ve been thinking more about what are the gaps in taking PLM to the next level of collaboration. Social trend started on Web 2.0 sites got explored more…

    • SolidEdge and the Future of Micropayments in CAD/PLM?  by: Oleg

      May 17, 2011, 14:08

      In order to succeed in today's business environment, software vendors are thinking how to innovate not only with product and technologies, but with business…

    • SolidWorks Lifecycle Management  by: Oleg

      January 8, 2011, 07:40

      Bertrand Sicot appointed CEO of SolidWorks. In my view, it becomes a corporate news of this week. I think, almost all CAD-affiliated bloggers wrote something…

    • SolidWorks n!Fuze: The Cloud Remake of PLM Collaboration?  by: Oleg

      January 26, 2011, 09:49

      This week SolidWorks presents the new product SolidWorks n!Fuze. The actual presentation didn't happen yet. Today is the 3rd day of SolidWorks World. The 3rd…

    • SolidWorks PDM Customers Focus on Office. Cloud? Meh...  by: Oleg

      August 2, 2011, 01:04

      August is a typical vacation time. At least, I was thinking so... Not any more. Today's news brought me at least two acquisition notices. One from Autodesk…

    • SolidWorks: From Files To PLM?  by: Oleg

      January 24, 2011, 09:35

      SolidWorks World 2011 is about to start, and I'm preparing to learn about what SolidWorks and partners are up to this year. I will take a special look this…

    • Stuck PLM Project and Leo Tolstoy  by: Oleg

      October 25, 2010, 11:03

      I read a very short post from Aras by Jennifer McCullough of Aras - Frustrated by a Stuck PLM Project?. The whole purpose of this blog is to point on the link…

    • Swearch and the Future Applification of PLM by: Oleg

      November 10, 2010, 07:13

      I spent my yesterday on Dassault Systems Customer conference (DSCC 2010). I had a chance to talk with DS executives and learned a lot of things about DS…

    • Technia and PLM Implementation Secret Sauce  by: Oleg

      November 16, 2010, 14:07

      The following announcement came to my attention yesterday. Technia annouces Technia Value Components Release 2010-3 future increase the value of ENOVIA. I…

    • Technological Options for PLM on the cloud  by: Oleg

      January 30, 2012, 04:38

      Cloud is hyping in 2012. Coming Facebook IPO can only supercharge the future of cloud computing. Last year Autodesk announcement about Nexus 360 cloud PLM…

    • The 3D Mashups – Reality Check  by: Oleg

      July 13, 2011, 16:48

      I like searching for new technologies. One of the technologies I'm following a long time already is so called "mashup technologies" or just "mashups". In the…

    • The Enterprise and PLM will rock 2012?  by: Oleg

      December 18, 2011, 12:03

      As usual, at the end of the year, there is a time for blog posts with predictions, opinions and future trends. Last 2-3 years of technological boom were…

    • The future of CAD without files?  by: Oleg

      July 27, 2011, 14:20

      No files any more. Period. I hope I've got your attention. File system is one of the most stable paradigms for storing data for the last 20-25 years. However,…

    • The Future of Engineering Communities  by: Oleg

      March 25, 2011, 18:00

      Almost a half year ago, I had a chance to grab a coffee with GrabCAD's Hardi Meybaum in one of Starbucks' coffee shops around Chestnut Hill, MA. We discussed…

    • The Future Of PLM Walmarting by: Oleg

      June 18, 2010, 12:25

      Say “PLM” to anyone, and you hear the words “complex” and “expensive”. However, thinking about trajectories of different…

    • The Future of TLA in Engineering Software by: Oleg

      September 22, 2010, 09:45

      Yesterday, I attended COFES Russia / isicad 2010 forum in Moscow. My presentation on the forum was about my view on the future of TLA (Three Letter…

    • The PLM Gutenberg Revolution by: Oleg

      August 13, 2010, 18:28

      I was thinking about how PLM balance product lifecycle from the standpoint of producing and consuming product data. The product development process, obviously…

    • The Role of Business Intelligence in PLM  by: Oleg

      October 5, 2011, 06:59

      Business Intelligence (BI) is a fascinating combination of words. Each time I hear about BI, I'm confused a bit. The formal definition of BI is very complex.…

    • Thinking About PLM on the Planet PTC Live -Day 1  by: Oleg

      June 14, 2011, 10:04

      I'm attending PTC Live 2011 event these days in HOT Las Vegas. Actually, you have no chance to feel Las Vegas weather when you are on the conference. Hotels…

    • Top 3 "PLM Cloud" Killers by: Oleg

      May 10, 2011, 20:22

      After talking very positively about PLM and Cloud, it is a time to think about negative sides of the cloud story. Matt Lobard of Dezignstuff came with a…

    • Top 3 Elements of a Successful Social PLM Strategy  by: Oleg

      July 14, 2010, 10:08

      Social is trending these days. We can see this, analyzing the broad change in the Internet trend usages these days. What happens is a shift towards social…

    • Top 3 Reasons Why Data Sharing is Important for PLM  by: Oleg

      July 14, 2011, 22:00

      I want to talk today about data sharing. The interest of engineers and other people in manufacturing organization in data sharing is obvious. However, I think…

    • Top 5 API Mistakes in PLM Software  by: Oleg

      October 13, 2010, 05:39

      In any enterprise software, there is a point of time we are asking the following question - "what APIs are supported?" We anticipate the need of API in order…

    • Total Integration and the Future of PLM  by: Oleg

      August 12, 2011, 01:09

      I'm still cleaning my post-vacation backlog of feeds and messages. One of the articles by UK Eureca Magazine caught my attention, since it was named exactly as…

    • Vertical PLM Medley  by: Oleg

      July 16, 2010, 17:19

      I read an article "PLM's Vertical Challenge" in High Tech Views. The High Tech article is presenting advantages of industry-oriented PLM implementations. Read…

    • Visiting PTC HQ: Social Link, AnyBOM, Mobile and more... by: Oleg

      January 13, 2012, 01:56

      Remember my post few weeks ago about PLM highway? Boston is certainly a place where you can see a concentration of major CAD / PLM companies. As part of my…

    • What 2012 holds for Product Lifecycle Management?  by: Oleg

      January 2, 2012, 20:40

      Beginning of the year is a time for New Year resolutions and "annual predictions". Few days ago, I shared my plans for Beyond PLM activities in 2012. To…

    • What if... "PLM on the cloud" succeeds?  by: Oleg

      May 24, 2011, 08:54

      Push aside our fear about security and PLM on the cloud. I was reading Washington Post's "Video Viewing on Netflix Accounts for Up to 30 Percent of Online…

    • What is PLM Software Associated Cost?  by: Oleg

      November 6, 2011, 22:08

      Buying enterprise software is different experience from busing consumer goods or even automobile. Direct cost (licenses) is very often is a small fraction of…

    • What is the biggest PLM challenge?  by: Oleg

      September 6, 2011, 21:58

      I'm continue the conversation with my PLM blogging buddy - Jos Voskuil at virtualdutchman. For the last two weeks, Jos is running a multi-part blogging series…

    • What Is The Future of PLM Strategic Presentations?  by: Oleg

      August 25, 2010, 01:54

      Have you had a chance to see any PLM strategic presentation? I'm sure you did. You can find easy few of them by Google "PLM Strategy". How many times you've…

    • What Will Impact PLM in the Next 10 years? by: Oleg

      April 29, 2011, 06:29

      BeyondPLM panel discussion on ACE 2011 View more presentations from Oleg Shilovitsky

    • Why Apple isn't cool for engineers? Or you are here to work...  by: Oleg

      July 8, 2011, 23:54

      Apple isn't cool.. Got your attention? Okay... Today is two years, since I switched my everyday life to MacBook. It is enough time to make some conclusion. I…

    • Why Do We Struggle With File Names in PDM / PLM?  by: Oleg

      November 4, 2010, 22:15

      I read David Dillon blog post on SolidWorks Geeks - File Name and PDM. This short write-up made me think about relations between File Naming and Data…

    • Why PLM Should Care of SharePoint?  by: Oleg

      August 15, 2011, 19:22

      Business professionals around the world are using SharePoint to organize information and streamline the business processes. I talked with many people about…

    • Why to plot a drawing from mobile device? by: Oleg

      December 14, 2011, 23:09

      Mobile becomes more and more important in our everyday life. "You don't have to be at your desk to make your work". This is a new slogan, that in my view,…

    • Why you should (or not) be using Arena PDXViewer by: Oleg

      November 27, 2011, 19:02

      The story of standards is always fascinating. I love these stories on my blog and spent quite a lot of time talking to people about standards. Do you know…

    • Wikipedia: PLM Open Source Reference?  by: Oleg

      August 4, 2010, 07:50

      It becomes very common to use Wikipedia for most research projects. It becomes an ultimate source of information open for everybody. Do you think…

    • Will ChromeOS be the Next Big Thing for PLM?  by: Oleg

      December 29, 2010, 12:58

      I read GigaOM - The network computer arrives... finally! About three weeks ago, Google launched the Chrome application store and demonstrated Chrome OS, its…

    • Will Database in the Cloud supercharge PLM for Small Companies?  by: Oleg

      October 23, 2011, 10:01

      I want to talk about an interesting segment of cloud technologies - cloud SQL Database. For the last months, I've seen multiple announcements of vendors in…

    • Will Google Develop A Better PLM for Motorola?  by: Oleg

      August 17, 2011, 12:50

      Note. To be honest, I don't have much to say with regards to the last Google purchase - Motorola. I've been listening, reading and thinking about various…

    • Will Google Docs Goes 3D?  by: Oleg

      February 28, 2011, 18:32

      Few days ago, I attended webinar One the Edge with Cadalyst - MCAD Smackdown: Direct vs .Parametric CAD. Navigate to the following link to listed the recorded…

    • Will New Enterprise Software Move to cloud platforms?  by: Oleg

      January 13, 2012, 23:06

      Do you have any plans to develop enterprise software in 2012? Interesting set of predictions is coming from Christian Verstraete and his HP blog about cloud…

    • Will PLM Channels Survive The Cloud Era?  by: Oleg

      March 1, 2011, 00:30

      Cloud is one of the trending topics these days. Slowly, it comes also to PLM space. With the growing number of companies in this space, it becomes clear that…

    • Will PLM Handbook for SMEs solve customer problems?  by: Oleg

      October 24, 2011, 21:35

      I want to continue the topic I started in my previous posts - PLM for SME (Small to Medium Enterprise). SME are interesting companies. In my view, "previous…

    • Win8, metro and the future of PLM client apps  by: Oleg

      September 23, 2011, 07:27

      I wanted to talk about Windows 8 today. Despite lots of talks we had about Macs, iPads and web during last months, most of the manufacturing companies are…

    • Winter Slowdown, SharePoint and Enterprise PLM Scale?  by: Oleg

      December 27, 2010, 12:41

      Winter slowdown is a good time to clean back logs of RSS readers and work on urgent development projects. Especially when it comes together with the snow…

  • Category: News and Press  (103)
    • 3 Key Cloud Principles: Will CAD/PLM follow?  by: Oleg

      October 7, 2011, 18:45

      I've been watching what happens around Oracle Open World 11 earlier this week. Among multiple topics, the announcement about Oracle Cloud and controversy…

    • 3D and Communication Strategy  by: Oleg

      August 24, 2011, 00:16

      Communication methods are interesting. These days lots of things are changing in this space. Internet, Web 2.0, Video communication converted some of our…

    • 3D CAD Access in Manufacturing and PLM Improvement  by: Oleg

      August 22, 2010, 23:10

      An interesting report was published by SearchManufacturingERP.com few days ago - Report: Wider access to 3D CAD images can improve PLM by David Essex.…

    • 3D, Games and Product Development  by: Oleg

      January 27, 2011, 10:11

      Almost two years ago, I published the following post - Virtual World: Where is the boarder between game and PLM software? Gaming technology is developing very…

    • 50 Free Alternatives for Expensive Software, PLM is not listed by: Oleg

      September 20, 2010, 02:39

      I want to share an interesting list of 50 top Open Source alternatives for expensive software. From the standpoint of customers, expensive software starts at…

    • Aras, SolidWorks and Disruptive PLM Strategies  by: Oleg

      October 26, 2011, 21:40

      BAM! Aras just announced Enterprise PLM for SolidWorks. Here is the new article - Enterprise PLM for Enterprise PDM. Navigate to the following article to read…

    • AU2011: New PLM Software Frontiers by: Oleg

      November 30, 2011, 11:09

      Autodesk University 2011. Day 1. If you visited AU at least once you know how it looks like. Thousands people packed to talk about Autodesk software and…

    • Autodesk Enters PLM: Everything Changes... for Autodesk  by: Oleg

      December 2, 2011, 04:20

      It finally happened. Autodesk enters PLM business. After talks, speculations, discussions and guesses, Autodesk presented their Autodesk Nexus PLM product…

    • Autodesk PLM story is about to begin. AU 2011. by: Oleg

      November 26, 2011, 09:36

      I'm coming to AU 2011 this year. As you already know, Autodesk is planning to unveil their PLM story. In the pre-announcement Autodesk made it called -…

    • Autodesk Quietly Launched Their Cloud by: Oleg

      September 26, 2011, 18:55

      Time ago, I was discussing on my blog about cloud file storage as one of the potential first step CAD vendors will take to adopt cloud. One of my posts about…

    • Autodesk, Dassault and Free CAD Options?  by: Oleg

      May 14, 2011, 00:03

      It is almost two years passed since I put on my blog a question about FREE as a best future CAD/PLM. Navigate to the following link to read my PLM Prompt: Is…

    • Autodesk, Russia and Local PLM  by: Oleg

      September 26, 2011, 17:41

      One of the most interesting things I learned during Autodesk Forum in Moscow was related to local PLM vendors.  I found it very educational and decided to…

    • Autodesk: CAD is done. Now PLM. The moment before AU... by: Oleg

      November 29, 2011, 11:10

      As you know, I'm in Las Vegas these days attending AU 2011. Autodesk is preparing some big messages these years, and I hope to share my opinion about that…

    • Avatar, Gaming and PLM… by: Oleg

      May 27, 2010, 22:14

      I'd like you to get into a very shortvideo. The  technology from James Cameron "Avatar" is coming to PLM. In the following video, you can see how…

    • Before DSCC 2011: Learning new Dassault keywords by: Oleg

      November 7, 2011, 17:31

      The information overflow. This is not something surprising you. In many situations, we are not reading, but scanning keywords. Sometimes these keywords and…

    • Beyond PLM - Looking forward to 2012.  by: Oleg

      December 31, 2011, 03:43

      Time is running fast, and 2011 is behind us. It is a moment to take a look in the past, make conclusions and draw plans for 2012. I wanted to share some…

    • Beyond PLM New Year Resolution by: Oleg

      January 10, 2011, 13:15

      Hi Everyone. I never posted New Year Resolution before. However, I decided to make this change and post Beyond PLM New Year resolution for 2011. I want to…

    • Beyond PLM Panel on ACE 2011  by: Oleg

      April 25, 2011, 09:43

      I'm on my way to Detroit today to take part in Aras Community Event - ACE 2011. On Wednesday, I will be running a discussion panel "Beyond PLM". In the…

    • Beyond PLM: Hello World! by: Oleg

      July 12, 2010, 05:57

      Welcome! The new web site "Beyond PLM" is up and running. This site was work-in-progress for some time, so if you discovered it before, please keep it…

    • BIM Open Source - Stimulus for PLM?  by: Oleg

      September 15, 2011, 04:52

      Open source is trending. I think, Android success and some other OSS projects created some winds towards future open source adoption. In my view, companies are…

    • Business Process Management, PLM and Open Source Track  by: Oleg

      September 16, 2011, 14:59

      BPM (Business Process Management) is another interesting topic I'm following already many years. I found it connected to PLM and other product development…

    • CAD / PLM and Patent Wars  by: Oleg

      August 23, 2011, 22:43

      I know, patent stories are hot now. After Google decided to pay Motorola the premium of USD 12.5B to defend Android from potential lawsuits, the question about…

    • CAD, New Collaboration and Online Storage Services  by: Oleg

      October 30, 2011, 20:04

      Let me ask you a very silly question? How many times you abandoned you official company policy for data sharing and shared your files via Google, Dropbox or…

    • CAD, PLM and End of Microsoft Dominance  by: Oleg

      January 25, 2011, 09:45

      Last week, during PLM Innovation Congress in London, I talked about future trends in PLM and engineering software. If you missed my presentation there,…

    • Chromebooks: Another Small Step Towards Cloud PLM?  by: Oleg

      May 14, 2011, 09:18

      I've been watching updates from the Google I/O 2011 conference during this week. Google came with the announcement of Chromebook. In my view, this is a logical…

    • Chrysler, PLM Platforms and Business Realities  by: Oleg

      August 2, 2010, 10:05

      I read news from the last week - Chrysler Group LLC contracts with Siemens PLM software for product design and development platform. It wasn't a big surprise,…

    • COFES Russia / isicad 2010 Plenary Session and Working Groups  by: Oleg

      September 10, 2010, 18:19

      I'm going to join this first COFES Russia event on 21th September. Earlier this week David Levin of LEDAS announced his vision of isicad 2010 / COFES…

    • COFES Russia: New Trends In PLM (Working Group) by: Oleg

      September 26, 2010, 18:08

      I've been running the working group "New Trends in PLM" on COFES Russia / isicad-2010. I had no idea how actually the working group discussion will go. The…

    • COFES, PLM, BIM and Augmented Reality by: Oleg

      April 15, 2011, 04:55

      The first day at COFES 2011 over. I hope, you had a chance to follow COFES 2011 via twitter (COFES2011). If not, navigate your browser to the following link.…

    • COFES: Russian Style!  by: Oleg

      September 26, 2010, 05:41

      COFES Russia is a history now. I wanted to put some thoughts and links for non-Russian speaking readers about what I call "COFES: Russian Style". COFES in…

    • Collaborative PLM and Oracle 2011 Targets  by: Oleg

      January 3, 2011, 07:49

      I've read the following article Oracle butts into online collaboration space with Cloud Office. It struck me as something important. Forget about Google vs.…

    • Comments and Photos from Dassault PLM Forum in Moscow by: Oleg

      October 14, 2011, 16:38

      I wanted to share some of my notes from yesterday Dassault PLM forum in Moscow. Getting back to previous forums I had a chance to visit, the size of this forum…

    • Communism and 10-Year PLM Vision by: Oleg

      July 21, 2010, 20:52

      I read MCADCafe article - PLMIG announces a 10-Year PLM Industry Vision. It navigates you to PLM IG (Interest Group) where you can read a short article…

    • Corporate iCloud, iPLM Future and Google's Apps?  by: Oleg

      June 8, 2011, 13:43

      Well...It happened. The marketing machine of Apple meets the cloud and cloud marketing. The result is predicted - iCloud. If you haven't had a chance to watch…

    • Department of Free and PLM by: Oleg

      July 27, 2010, 07:01

      What do you think about the power of FREE? The following article in UK Guardian made me think again about the power of free influence. Times loses almost…

    • Does Autodesk Smells PLM? First impression from Moscow Forum.  by: Oleg

      September 22, 2011, 01:02

      Things are busy for me this week. It is mostly because of Autodesk Forum in Moscow. I've been invited to talk here about PLM trends and to run a roundtable…

    • DSCC 2011: How Dassault Blends PLM and Search Based Applications?  by: Oleg

      November 11, 2011, 15:17

      Few months ago, I had a chance to write an article about PLM and comprehensive search. It was about enterprise search. Since then some other events happened in…

    • DSCC 2011: Thinking Inside Dassault PLM Box  by: Oleg

      November 10, 2011, 02:45

      I spent my last two days attending Dassault System Customer Conference (DSCC 2011) in Las Vegas. It will take some time to digest and re-think everything I…

    • Dynamics AX Hybrid Cloud. Should PLM Vendors Care?  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2011, 22:47

      I have a feeling "cloud" topic got some dominance for the last days and week. However, the following article about Dynamics AX 2012 and cloud was something I…

    • Engineering and Social Dashboards  by: Oleg

      December 21, 2010, 08:49

      I found an interesting article in San-Francisco Gate about Dashboards- “Introducing Netvibes Dashboard Intelligence Solutions: Business Intelligence…

    • From MultiCAD, to Multi-Cloud. Thoughts about Cloud Realities...  by: Oleg

      September 27, 2011, 18:06

      I think we are actually in the beginning of a very interesting time. Obviously, you know a lot of things about Multi-CAD. No need to explain. However, I…

    • Future Promises and Concerns about PTC after Planet PTC Live by: Oleg

      June 16, 2011, 10:03

      As you probably know, I spent the beginning of the week in Las-Vegas attending Planet PTC Live 2011. Those of my readers who follow me on Twitter already paid…

    • Google vs. Microsoft at General Motors: What does it mean for PLM Cloud?  by: Oleg

      November 17, 2011, 20:34

      Cloud big time... It is probably coming to General Motors. Google is fighting against Microsoft to supply 100'00 license deal for GM. Navigate your browser…

    • Google+, PLM and the Product Data Sharing Models  by: Oleg

      July 7, 2011, 08:08

      Social is trending. It was specially true this weekend. The social hype taking individuals, organizations and social vendors. Personally, I want to write off,…

    • Happy Holidays from Beyond PLM! by: Oleg

      December 23, 2010, 14:59

      Just a short note to wish everyone a great Holiday Season and Happy New Year! Best, Oleg

    • Historical Perspective: From Ivan Satherland to Modern 2D/3D Sketch Apps  by: Oleg

      November 27, 2011, 13:56

      The announcement made by Dassault System last week, made me think about a huge distance CAD industry passed for the almost 50 years, since Ivan Sutherland…

    • How To Define PLM?  by: Oleg

      July 14, 2010, 21:44

      What is the proper definition of PLM? This is a simple and complex question at the same time... Recently, I had a chance to see few interesting definitions of…

    • Introducing Inforbix Product Data Apps  by: Oleg

      November 1, 2010, 22:59

      I'd like to take an opportunity and introduce a new company, I founded together with my colleagues - Inforbix. Our vision is to revolutionize the way…

    • Knovel and Engineering Information  by: Oleg

      July 21, 2010, 21:42

      The ability to have an important engineering information reference seems to me obvious. Thanks for one of my readers, who sent me information about Knovel.…

    • Live from SolidWorks 2012 Media Event  by: Oleg

      August 31, 2011, 09:59

      I've been attending SolidWorks Media day in Dassault SolidWorks campus in Concord, MA. Actually, I noted- this is probably the last time event happens in the…

    • Microsoft in the PLM Spotlight  by: Oleg

      November 15, 2010, 06:54

      Last week in Orlando, I had a chance to attend Microsoft's presentation during DSCC2010 keynote presentation. Microsoft's trajectory is interesting. Think…

    • Open Cloud, PLM Backbone and Vendor Lock-In by: Oleg

      November 30, 2010, 05:00

      Vendor Lock-In is painful. I think, customers in the space of CAD/PLM even more sensitive to this issue. Proprietary CAD formats used by vendors many years,…

    • PLM and COFES Israel: People Just Want to Drink a Beer! by: Oleg

      December 18, 2010, 03:30

      Last three days I spent my time with COFES Israel. Navigate your browser to the following link to see agenda and people attended the event. The main topic of…

    • PLM and Comprehensive Search  by: Oleg

      March 30, 2011, 19:33

      For the last few months, I've been asked multiple times about the role of Enterprise search and PLM. Since last year, after Exalead a French search company was…

    • PLM and Control Your Home  by: Oleg

      May 26, 2011, 01:19

      In the old days, the focus of manufacturing companies was mostly about how to produce stuff. Most of the products were disappearing from the horizons of…

    • PLM and Excel-lence by: Oleg

      January 12, 2011, 20:43

      What is the most popular PLM system in the world? Yes, Microsoft Excel. In my view, every time PLM system fails Excel is making this job. Not easier.…

    • PLM and Location Based Intelligence  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2011, 04:53

      I learn about SAP and Google Maps collaboration from LBZone few days ago. Navigate your browser to the the following link - Intuitive Overlay of Enterprise…

    • PLM and Project Management Options  by: Oleg

      October 19, 2010, 22:46

      Few days ago, I run into Gartner Magic Quadrant about IT Project and Portfolio Management. You can get it by navigating to the following link (the link was…

    • PLM and Social Enterprise: Files vs. People?  by: Oleg

      September 8, 2011, 02:22

      For the last couple of days, I'm digesting materials from the Dreamforce conference organized by Saleforce.com. I wasn't able to make it this year, but the…

    • PLM and Social Media 101 by: Oleg

      September 17, 2010, 07:11

      I've been presenting on Technia PLM Innovation Forum in Stockholm early this week. My presentation shows how to get into a space called Social Media and…

    • PLM and Social Technologies Dating?  by: Oleg

      February 18, 2011, 00:05

      In my view, Salesforce.com has been discovered a significant bias towards collaboration and collaborative software. Since last year Salesforce made strong…

    • PLM and Texting? by: Oleg

      March 8, 2011, 23:30

      Earlier today, I discovered an interesting company solution called Tigertext. At the time companies are talking about 2D vs. 3D iPad 2, business processes,…

    • PLM and Top 5 American Enterprise Software Companies by: Oleg

      May 31, 2010, 13:11

      Two PLM software providers were mentioned in Business Review USA in the list of top 5 American Enterprise Software Companies. These two are Siemens PLM and…

    • PLM and Unexpected Office Collaboration Option?  by: Oleg

      August 30, 2011, 14:13

      I think the world around us is about to change. A couple of weeks ago I posted PLM and Future Competition. The existing traditional structures of vendors,…

    • PLM Appliance Game Changer?  by: Oleg

      December 23, 2010, 10:00

      People making software sometimes get excited about appliance. There is something magical in the way appliance can solve a problem. Especially for people…

    • PLM Collaboration and Email Innovation  by: Oleg

      December 23, 2010, 11:35

      Short note this morning. I just learned about Etacts, company that launched their solution earlier this year. Etacts wizards understood the value of email…

    • PLM Customers and Social Open Source Bomb  by: Oleg

      August 2, 2010, 11:27

      Some very interesting news is coming from Lockheed Martin. Navigate to the following link - Lockheed Martin Launches Open-Source Social Networking…

    • PLM Definitions- Multiple Dimensions by Prof. Eigner by: Oleg

      April 24, 2011, 10:30

      I'm continue to publish references on various definitions of PLM. A month ago I posted PLM Definition - Corporate vs. Consumer Style presenting a consumer…

    • PLM Highway and New Dassault Waltham Campus by: Oleg

      December 8, 2011, 20:41

      I'm sure, you are familiar with highway 101 crossing Silicon Valley. However, you probably never heard about PLM Highway in Boston. After last week Autodesk…

    • PLM Innovation 2011: PLM and Engineering Software Trends by: Oleg

      January 20, 2011, 04:40

      I'm attending PLM Innovation Congress 2011 in London these days. Lots of interesting presentations and discussions are going here. I recommend you to…

    • PLM Innovation Congress 2011  by: Oleg

      January 17, 2011, 21:41

      I'm going to attend PLM Innovation Congress 2011 in London this week. Navigate to this link to see the program and list of delegates. Please use the following…

    • PLM Innovaton 2011: Short Summary and Hashtag Album  by: Oleg

      January 21, 2011, 13:02

      During last two days I've been busy attending PLM Innovation Congress 2011 in London. This is a short statistic of the event: 200+ attendees, two full days of…

    • PLM Platform Wars: Who is Right or Who is Left?  by: Oleg

      February 25, 2011, 13:16

      CAD and PLM world is extremely competitive. The decision process in the manufacturing industry is not fast. Companies are spending significant budgets…

    • PLM Practice in Building Industry?  by: Oleg

      February 23, 2011, 07:00

      I read TechCrunch publication New York City To Put QR Codes On All Building Permits By 2013 this morning. This publication made me think about some common…

    • PLM Reflections and "Why Standards?" Question by: Oleg

      May 18, 2011, 19:26

      This evening I had pre-meeting talks in Eurostep office located in Stockholm neighborhood. In preparation for the Eurostep 2011 event, I had a chance to ask…

    • PLM SharePoint Thoughts  by: Oleg

      October 21, 2010, 23:06

      I've been attending SPTech Boston Conference today. Navigate your browser on this link. You can get some information there. Microsoft is rolling SharePoint…

    • PLM Think Tank In Numbers by: Oleg

      July 20, 2010, 10:09

      I'm proud to share some numbers about live discussions that happen in PLM Think Tank: Think Tank Topics: 500. Total Page Views: 250'000. Number…

    • PLM User Experience, Windows 8 and the End of Desktop  by: Oleg

      June 5, 2011, 02:20

      Some time ago, I wrote about future user experience - PUI: Not PLM UI. Future User experience. One of the fundamental elements of user experience for the last…

    • PLM, Google Cloud Connect and Social Information by: Oleg

      October 19, 2010, 08:11

      I found an interesting news came from Google yesterday. Google introduced Google Cloud Connect function as part of the new GSA 6.8 release. You can read more…

    • PLM: Mobile-Optimized Sites vs. Mobile Apps by: Oleg

      January 23, 2012, 21:25

      For most non-technology-savvy people, the title of this post can sound like a joke. Mobile apps are trending today. App store, Android stores, Microsoft is…

    • PLM: Standards, Openness, Open Source and more...  by: Oleg

      May 21, 2011, 01:01

      Yesterday, I had a chance to join a discussion panel on Eurostep Share-A-Space Forum. The formal name of the panel was "The plan ahead -Share-A-Space".…

    • PTC and Boston Weather Frustration by: Oleg

      October 26, 2010, 20:43

      Later this week I'm going to attend PTC Lightening Event in Boston. For the last few months, I followed how PTC was preparing for this event. I have to…

    • PTC Creo - AnyThing Possible? by: Oleg

      October 29, 2010, 00:05

      So, it finally happened. After almost 6 months of official preparation, PTC launched a new product line - CREO. CREO will replace existing Pro-E, CoCreate and…

    • PTC, SolidWorks and Windchill PLM Success.  by: Oleg

      February 28, 2011, 20:01

      I read Martyn Day article The Jim Heppelmann Interview. Mr. Heppelmann shared his thoughts about different aspects related to PTC, CAD, PLM and competitors.…

    • Real Time 3D Virtual Hand Tracking by: Oleg

      May 25, 2010, 17:49

      A very interesting video presenting how you can track hand motion in the virtual 3D Model. The demo prepared by Robert Y. Wang and Jovan Popović. We…

    • RSS, PLM Collaboration and Activity Streams  by: Oleg

      June 9, 2011, 15:23

      Do you know what is RSS? I'm pretty sure a large amount of casual internet users are not aware about what is RSS and what is RSS readers (Aggregators). I even…

    • Siemens' Active Workspace - PLM Next Big Thing?  by: Oleg

      September 29, 2011, 23:12

      PLM is a lot of lifecycle. It is a very important characteristic of PLM to support product access the multiple lifecyle phases. As a result of this PLM…

    • SolidEdge and the Future of Micropayments in CAD/PLM?  by: Oleg

      May 17, 2011, 14:08

      In order to succeed in today's business environment, software vendors are thinking how to innovate not only with product and technologies, but with business…

    • SolidWorks Lifecycle Management  by: Oleg

      January 8, 2011, 07:40

      Bertrand Sicot appointed CEO of SolidWorks. In my view, it becomes a corporate news of this week. I think, almost all CAD-affiliated bloggers wrote something…

    • SolidWorks n!Fuze: The Cloud Remake of PLM Collaboration?  by: Oleg

      January 26, 2011, 09:49

      This week SolidWorks presents the new product SolidWorks n!Fuze. The actual presentation didn't happen yet. Today is the 3rd day of SolidWorks World. The 3rd…

    • SolidWorks PDM Customers Focus on Office. Cloud? Meh...  by: Oleg

      August 2, 2011, 01:04

      August is a typical vacation time. At least, I was thinking so... Not any more. Today's news brought me at least two acquisition notices. One from Autodesk…

    • SolidWorks: From Files To PLM?  by: Oleg

      January 24, 2011, 09:35

      SolidWorks World 2011 is about to start, and I'm preparing to learn about what SolidWorks and partners are up to this year. I will take a special look this…

    • Stuck PLM Project and Leo Tolstoy  by: Oleg

      October 25, 2010, 11:03

      I read a very short post from Aras by Jennifer McCullough of Aras - Frustrated by a Stuck PLM Project?. The whole purpose of this blog is to point on the link…

    • Technia and PLM Implementation Secret Sauce  by: Oleg

      November 16, 2010, 14:07

      The following announcement came to my attention yesterday. Technia annouces Technia Value Components Release 2010-3 future increase the value of ENOVIA. I…

    • Technia PLM Innovation Forum  by: Oleg

      September 9, 2010, 15:19

      I'm going to attend Technia PLM Innovation Forum 2010 next week in Stockholm.  You can learn more about the event and see the main agenda and afternoon round…

    • Thinking About PLM on the Planet PTC Live -Day 1  by: Oleg

      June 14, 2011, 10:04

      I'm attending PTC Live 2011 event these days in HOT Las Vegas. Actually, you have no chance to feel Las Vegas weather when you are on the conference. Hotels…

    • Thinking Outside the Box about PLM by: Oleg

      May 19, 2011, 18:58

      This is my presentation from today's discussion on Eurostep 2011 forum. Thinking outside the box about PLM View more presentations from Oleg Shilovitsky…

    • Virtual and Physical Convergence  by: Oleg

      July 19, 2010, 10:22

      The things are moving fast these days. One of the most fascinating trends is the emerging connection between physical and virtual words. PLM vendors are…

    • What Is The Future of PLM Strategic Presentations?  by: Oleg

      August 25, 2010, 01:54

      Have you had a chance to see any PLM strategic presentation? I'm sure you did. You can find easy few of them by Google "PLM Strategy". How many times you've…

    • Will ChromeOS be the Next Big Thing for PLM?  by: Oleg

      December 29, 2010, 12:58

      I read GigaOM - The network computer arrives... finally! About three weeks ago, Google launched the Chrome application store and demonstrated Chrome OS, its…

    • Will Google Develop A Better PLM for Motorola?  by: Oleg

      August 17, 2011, 12:50

      Note. To be honest, I don't have much to say with regards to the last Google purchase - Motorola. I've been listening, reading and thinking about various…

    • Will Google Docs Goes 3D?  by: Oleg

      February 28, 2011, 18:32

      Few days ago, I attended webinar One the Edge with Cadalyst - MCAD Smackdown: Direct vs .Parametric CAD. Navigate to the following link to listed the recorded…

    • Will PLM Handbook for SMEs solve customer problems?  by: Oleg

      October 24, 2011, 21:35

      I want to continue the topic I started in my previous posts - PLM for SME (Small to Medium Enterprise). SME are interesting companies. In my view, "previous…

  • Category: Presentations  (6)
    • PLM & Market and Technology Trends by: Oleg

      October 14, 2011, 00:32

      Yesterday I spent my day on Dassault PLM Forum in Moscow. The event website is here. You can see the agenda of the forum in English here. I was talking about…

    • PLM - Clearer Definition or Problem Solving? by: Oleg

      September 2, 2011, 00:05

      I'm adding another post to my collection of PLM definitions. Gavlin Quinlan came with the blog post on concurrent-engineering blog earlier this week. Here is…

    • PLM Implementations and KISSASSing  by: Oleg

      May 26, 2011, 16:59

      Services is a significant part of every PLM implementation. According to CIMData, about 60% of cPDM revenues is coming from services. This is a huge number.…

    • PLM, Expensive Documentation and Cheap Texbooks  by: Oleg

      January 20, 2012, 21:38

      Apple is going to eduction. Bam... It sounds fantastic. Textbooks are on the iPad. I was screening few publications about this event yesterday. One of them…

    • Thinking Outside the Box about PLM by: Oleg

      May 19, 2011, 18:58

      This is my presentation from today's discussion on Eurostep 2011 forum. Thinking outside the box about PLM View more presentations from Oleg Shilovitsky…

    • What Will Impact PLM in the Next 10 years? by: Oleg

      April 29, 2011, 06:29

      BeyondPLM panel discussion on ACE 2011 View more presentations from Oleg Shilovitsky

  • Category: Products  (89)
    • 3 Steps To Simplify PLM Selection Process  by: Oleg

      October 18, 2010, 15:46

      I was reading Jos Voskuil's PLM Selection: Don't do this on his virtualdutchman blog. Jos made me think again about few mistakes people made when trying to…

    • 3D Shape Search in CAD and PLM  by: Oleg

      October 4, 2010, 11:59

      Last week I had a chance to speak with Andy Sherlock of ShapeSpace. My momentary interest was caught by a blog post - Clean up for PLM published on ShapeSpace…

    • 3D, Games and Product Development  by: Oleg

      January 27, 2011, 10:11

      Almost two years ago, I published the following post - Virtual World: Where is the boarder between game and PLM software? Gaming technology is developing very…

    • 3D/PLM and iPad: Future or Baloney?  by: Oleg

      January 29, 2011, 11:54

      I just discovered one interesting fact. Exactly, a year ago, on Jan 28th, I published my first blog post about iPad - Who can generate 3D/PLM content for iPad?…

    • 3DLive, HD3D, 3D UI and Efficiency  by: Oleg

      July 27, 2010, 06:23

      I read Jim Brown's Can Siemens Make More Fun with HD-PLM? Jim is writing about the future of PLM experience. I made me think about User Experience (or User…

    • 3DSwYm: Future PLM Mainstream or Copycat?  by: Oleg

      November 11, 2010, 16:02

      This week on DSCC 2010 I had a chance to learn more about what Dassault is planing as their next step in the development of their Social Innovation strategies.…

    • Alfresco and BPM Shakeout for PLM? by: Oleg

      July 25, 2010, 23:41

      Just few days ago, I mentioned Alfresco in this list of the companies that potentially can challenge enterprise software vendors in their nirvana. The…

    • Aras PLM lines up against Windchill, Enovia, and TeamCenter  by: Oleg

      May 7, 2011, 13:13

      A week ago, I came back from ACE 2011 (Aras Community Event 2011), which took place in Detroit, MI. Let me propose a very provoking statement: Aras Innovator…

    • Autodesk and SharePoint: collaboration with no compromises?  by: Oleg

      July 5, 2011, 20:11

      Collaboration and SharePoint are two of my favorite topics. I'm following them for the last couple of years. In one of my very early posts on PLM Think Tank I…

    • Autodesk Enters PLM: Everything Changes... for Autodesk  by: Oleg

      December 2, 2011, 04:20

      It finally happened. Autodesk enters PLM business. After talks, speculations, discussions and guesses, Autodesk presented their Autodesk Nexus PLM product…

    • Autodesk PLM Nexus - First Hands On Demo  by: Oleg

      December 4, 2011, 10:48

      I’d like to continue Autodesk PLM story I started in my previous post and share some of my thoughts based on hands-on experience with Nexus PLM. The demo…

    • Autodesk, Aras and Integrated PDM / PLM story by: Oleg

      December 7, 2011, 18:13

      Back to the beginning of this year, I came with the post - Integrating PLM and PDM. Wrong question? My initial thoughts about integrating PDM and PLM was…

    • Autodesk, SolidWorks and Collaboration Renaissance by: Oleg

      June 27, 2011, 20:13

      Brian Roepke of Autodesk brought my attention to Autodesk Nitrous Lab Project earlier this week. The context of this comment was about some Autodesk viewing…

    • CAD Strategies: Unified Or Diversified?  by: Oleg

      August 10, 2010, 07:37

      In my view, summer time is good for vacations, research papers and strategic projects. During the summer, you are always have an excuse to stop, think and do…

    • CAD, PLM and Product Cost  by: Oleg

      February 7, 2011, 08:35

      Cost is important. Period. About 70% of product cost is defined during the design phase. So, to have PLM helping you to predict a product cost and drive it…

    • CAD, PLM and Visual Reporting by: Oleg

      October 17, 2011, 17:07

      Reporting is a very important part of product lifecycle management. Actually, without reporting it is hard to imaging how you can make all information about…

    • CAD-BOM Missing Links by: Oleg

      August 19, 2010, 10:33

      One of the interesting trends in PLM is growing amount of vertical integrations between components of PLM portfolio. The following Razorleaf blog cough my…

    • De-confusing PLM Collaboration  by: Oleg

      October 15, 2010, 21:58

      What do you think about "Collaboration"? I think, it confusing a bit. We use it too often. Some people like "collaborative" stories and some don't. My long…

    • Electric Design and PLM Roadmap  by: Oleg

      June 29, 2011, 11:02

      In the early beginning, solutions for manufacturing were focusing primarily on machinery and mechanical design. The historical reason here is simple -…

    • Engineering and Social Dashboards  by: Oleg

      December 21, 2010, 08:49

      I found an interesting article in San-Francisco Gate about Dashboards- “Introducing Netvibes Dashboard Intelligence Solutions: Business Intelligence…

    • Google Cloud: Ready for CAD / PLM?  by: Oleg

      March 15, 2011, 05:37

      Cloud is continuously discussed among the people in CAD/PLM industry. The opinions are varying and discussion is going up and down. Vendors are arguing about…

    • Google Docs Revisions and PLM Collaboration  by: Oleg

      October 8, 2010, 09:52

      The following Google Apps Blog caught my attention few days ago - More Tools For Viewing Document Revisions. I found it interesting for several reasons. First,…

    • Google+ potential for PLM and Business Use  by: Oleg

      July 20, 2011, 06:20

      Well, time is running fast, and I counted my first week of G+ experience. It is still too early to share any specific experience, but probably a good time to…

    • Honeycomb PLM Attraction  by: Oleg

      February 3, 2011, 08:49

      Yesterday morning Google held an event presenting Android Honecomb - a new operational system completely focused on Tablet devices. Navigate your browser to…

    • How To Choose PDM? (Another visual guide)  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2010, 05:18

      Last week I published my visual guide how to choose PLM. This post was the most popular during the whole week. So, I decide to try another one this week about…

    • How To Choose PLM? (Visual guide) by: Oleg

      September 6, 2010, 14:53

      I decided to make an unusual post today. Because of holiday (Labor Day in USA), I spent most of the day working on emails, RSS, twits and  blog comments.…

    • How To Stop Searching for PLM Killer App?  by: Oleg

      March 11, 2011, 21:29

      Are you familiar with the "Killer App" syndrome? In my view, conversations about a "Killer App" are very popular when some technological device or broad…

    • Integrate PDM and PLM: Wrong Question?  by: Oleg

      February 8, 2011, 21:46

      Two weeks ago, during SolidWorks World 2011, I had a chance to talk with Jonathan Scott of Razorleaf about different aspects of integration between SolidWorks…

    • iPad and Enterprise PLM  by: Oleg

      July 28, 2010, 06:06

      iPad sales are skyrocketing. I read “Global CIO: Top 10 Reasons Steve Jobs & Apple Are The Future Of IT”. Take a look and make your opinion. My first…

    • iPad: PLM and non-PLM User Experience  by: Oleg

      July 16, 2010, 11:51

      I think, we are going to see more iPad applications in coming year. Will PLM and other enterprise software vendors adopt new Apple tablet? This is a very good…

    • Knovel and Engineering Information  by: Oleg

      July 21, 2010, 21:42

      The ability to have an important engineering information reference seems to me obvious. Thanks for one of my readers, who sent me information about Knovel.…

    • Microsoft Office, Google Cloud and noPLM option  by: Oleg

      May 4, 2011, 19:49

      Microsoft Office plays a significant role in your engineering environment. Just think about the number of Excels you have to manage your bill of materials,…

    • Migrations Between PLM Systems  by: Oleg

      August 31, 2010, 07:04

      Microsoft announce SQL Server migration assistant for MySQL. It seems to me, Microsoft is thinking about how to expand their SQL tool's market share. As a step…

    • Multi-tenant SaaS PLM, SAP's Business ByDesign and Google App Engine  by: Oleg

      August 25, 2010, 05:52

      Cloud or SaaS application continue intriguing developers and vendors. In my view, during the last 2 years, talks around cloud and SaaS moved from the position…

    • My Experience with Dassault V6 PLM Cloud on Amazon by: Oleg

      July 1, 2011, 16:36

      This week was packed with multiple announcements and events. One of them happened in Paris - first Dassault Application Innovation Summit. I wasn't able to…

    • Not-Linear BOM Perspectives by: Oleg

      September 2, 2010, 03:09

      Summer is finally over. This is a good reason to stop talking about fancy social software and cool Apple's features. Let's move back to the core of design,…

    • PDM vs. PLM: A Data Perspective  by: Oleg

      July 23, 2010, 22:09

      I want to talk about what I consider as one of the most controversial topics in the industry - PDM vs. PLM. How many times, you had a chance to hear the…

    • PDM vs. PLM: A Process Perspective  by: Oleg

      August 17, 2010, 13:12

      I want to continue the discussion started last week in my post 'PDM vs. PLM: A Data Perspective'. Thank you all for comments and your contribution to…

    • PDM vs. PLM: An Integration Perspective  by: Oleg

      August 30, 2010, 06:44

      I'm continuing discussions about PDM vs. PLM differences. I'd encourage you to take a look on my previous two posts related to this topic: PDM vs. PLM: A Data…

    • PDM. Pre-configured? Painless?  by: Oleg

      April 8, 2011, 21:01

      I want to get back to the topic of Out-of-the-Box PDM systems. The topic isn't new. The following post by Jim Brown was a trigger for me to get back and…

    • PLM 2.0: Born to Die?  by: Oleg

      August 26, 2011, 00:28

      PLM 2.0 is a new term that was born about 5 years ago. The term was introduced by Dassault Sysetemes as part of their V6 platform. At the same time, Dassault…

    • PLM and Comprehensive Search  by: Oleg

      March 30, 2011, 19:33

      For the last few months, I've been asked multiple times about the role of Enterprise search and PLM. Since last year, after Exalead a French search company was…

    • PLM and Enterprise View of Product Cost  by: Oleg

      October 6, 2010, 07:48

      Yesterday, I touched a topic of connection between CAD and PLM. The discussion started by Peter Schroer of Aras and my post, generated a very interesting…

    • PLM and Excel-lence by: Oleg

      January 12, 2011, 20:43

      What is the most popular PLM system in the world? Yes, Microsoft Excel. In my view, every time PLM system fails Excel is making this job. Not easier.…

    • PLM and New Openness  by: Oleg

      July 21, 2011, 04:09

      The topic of openness in PLM software isn't new. In the past decade, I've been hearing lots of good and bad things about PLM and openness. Last year, I…

    • PLM and Pointless Visualization by: Oleg

      July 25, 2010, 23:57

      Data management is boring. Data, Numbers, Tables... Even, if I completely disagree, I guess lots of people think so. Nevertheless, even if you work on…

    • PLM and Public Data by: Oleg

      July 30, 2010, 20:09

      Do you see any connection between Product Lifecycle Management and Public data? Actually, I do. I think, one of the PLM functions can be to bring publicly…

    • PLM and SharePoint Scalability  by: Oleg

      March 14, 2011, 11:08

      Since Microsoft first released MOSS 2007, I can see an increased amount of manufacturing companies are investigating a potential move to SharePoint. Microsoft…

    • PLM and SharePoint: Business Together?  by: Oleg

      November 19, 2010, 23:04

      I want to learn more about Microsoft's strategies these days. The "big PC" is preparing to become the biggest supplier of enterprise software Office boxes and…

    • PLM and Texting? by: Oleg

      March 8, 2011, 23:30

      Earlier today, I discovered an interesting company solution called Tigertext. At the time companies are talking about 2D vs. 3D iPad 2, business processes,…

    • PLM and The Future of Appification by: Oleg

      December 6, 2011, 11:55

      Mobile is very important nowadays. More and more people these days discovering opportunities to use "mobile version of something". It is interesting to see…

    • PLM Backbones and Engineering Process Complexity  by: Oleg

      November 24, 2010, 17:34

      My blogging friend Deelip Menezes (www.deelip.com) wrote few days ago in his twitter - "Mapping engineering processes to PLM backbones is this most difficult…

    • PLM Collaboration and SaaS Wake-Up Call  by: Oleg

      January 17, 2011, 22:25

      I read on Forrester Blog about acquisition of Dimdim by Salesforce.com. T.J. Keits of Forrester is discussing various aspects of Dimdim advantages as well as…

    • PLM Collaboration: From Old Concepts to a New Reality  by: Oleg

      July 18, 2011, 21:42

      I wanted to touch the topic of "collaboration" today. The term collaboration is very broad. Hit Google to search for "collaboration" and you will see Google…

    • PLM Excel and SharePoint Search Option by: Oleg

      August 6, 2010, 07:09

      I read a very good summary of SharePoint 2010 Search Features by Agnes Molnar on End User SharePoint blog. Take a look and make an opinion if this is…

    • PLM Excels and Microsoft Cloud Office 365 by: Oleg

      June 28, 2011, 17:35

      Do you know what is the most widely adopted PLM system in the world? You probably can guess based on the title of this blog post - Microsoft Excel. I've been…

    • PLM Migration to... Text?  by: Oleg

      February 21, 2011, 03:08

      Sometime data management Q&A looks funny. World Online Review published the following solution on the request about how to migrate data into the text. Hit…

    • PLM Online Data Sharing: From Spreadsheets to Databases?  by: Oleg

      July 17, 2011, 14:47

      What is the most popular PDM/PLM system in the world? My bet it is probably MS Excel. The flexibility and ease of availability, made Excel so popular between…

    • PLM SharePoint Thoughts  by: Oleg

      October 21, 2010, 23:06

      I've been attending SPTech Boston Conference today. Navigate your browser on this link. You can get some information there. Microsoft is rolling SharePoint…

    • PLM SharePoint: Silver Bullet or Fierce Criticism?  by: Oleg

      September 30, 2010, 06:39

      It was a long time I didn't talk about Microsoft SharePoint. I tried to recall and found that my previous significant thoughts about Microsoft SharePoint are…

    • PLM Simplification, Alfresco and AutoCAD Integration  by: Oleg

      May 31, 2011, 12:21

      One of the trends I am following constantly on my blog is the simplification. PLM is very complex and still way too expensive. However, I can see multiple…

    • PLM Social Detours  by: Oleg

      August 18, 2010, 12:13

      I had a chance to read Enterprise Road Kill by The Vuuch Voice. The discussion Chris suggested in his post is going around usage of social tools in the…

    • PLM Usability and Social News Aggregators  by: Oleg

      September 10, 2010, 22:14

      Yesterday discussion about PLM usability made me think more about how to come with ideas to improve usability of PLM systems. I wanted to come to something…

    • PLM User Experience and Google Related by: Oleg

      August 17, 2011, 15:48

      PLM User Experience... Yes, I know. This is a painful point. Everybody wants it simpler, intuitive and easy. My best quotes about how to design a good user…

    • PLM Wave Or "Good Enough" Collaboration  by: Oleg

      August 5, 2010, 06:57

      Six months ago, I posted "Collaboration Trends or Why I Stopped Using Google Wave?". After Google's announcement about Google Wave termination yesterday, I…

    • PLM, Emails, and Social Links  by: Oleg

      September 16, 2010, 09:06

      Email is playing a significant role in the way every organization is management today. Organizations are run by emails these days. I've heard from many…

    • PLM, Google Cloud Connect and Social Information by: Oleg

      October 19, 2010, 08:11

      I found an interesting news came from Google yesterday. Google introduced Google Cloud Connect function as part of the new GSA 6.8 release. You can read more…

    • PLM, Projects, Tasks and Social Productivity  by: Oleg

      February 2, 2011, 17:00

      I've got an email from one of the blogging colleagues about the acquisition of Manymoon by Salesforce.com. Manymoon was a company developed so called "social…

    • PLM, SharePoint and Future Virtualization  by: Oleg

      February 11, 2011, 09:35

      Today everything can be virtualized. If you think about your dedicated IT environment, proprietary or public cloud, the ability to virtualize environment can…

    • PLM, SharePoint and Migration Madness  by: Oleg

      November 29, 2010, 06:26

      I just learned that SharePoint migration projects require user's involvement to be really successful. Navigate your browser to the following link and read -…

    • PLM, SharePoint and ProductPoint Lessons  by: Oleg

      May 5, 2011, 08:57

      I'm following SharePoint and PLM. One of point of my interest was to analyze how Microsoft SharePoint can be used in PDM/PLM as a technological platform and…

    • Product Information and Social Syndication  by: Oleg

      July 22, 2010, 22:52

      A very interesting video drove my attention today. Take a look on the new iPad application from a Valley company - Flipboard. The original idea is to make…

    • PTC Social Link and SharePoint: What the Future Holds?  by: Oleg

      June 17, 2011, 02:49

      One of the products I had a chance to review more closely earlier this week was PTC Social Link. I had a chance to post about social technologies before.…

    • Real Time 3D Virtual Hand Tracking by: Oleg

      May 25, 2010, 17:49

      A very interesting video presenting how you can track hand motion in the virtual 3D Model. The demo prepared by Robert Y. Wang and Jovan Popović. We…

    • Revisions in CAD/PLM/ERP: Old Problems or New Challenges?  by: Oleg

      June 7, 2011, 16:19

      I want to talk about the topic, which is actually is not very new - revisions. I was reading Autodesk Manufacturing Community blog - Vault 2012 Revision Block…

    • SAP-Hemisphere PLM Trend?  by: Oleg

      July 16, 2010, 13:10

      I read the following article by Manufacturing Automation - SAP Taps Partnership for Manufacturing Software Enhancement. (you need to be a member to read…

    • SharePoint: PLM and Widget Libraries  by: Oleg

      March 18, 2011, 11:08

      What do you think about SharePoint? During the last few months, I'm getting this question very often. After my post - CAD, PLM and End of Microsoft Dominance,…

    • Should we "pack" PLM data into 3D PDF? by: Oleg

      May 3, 2011, 23:55

      The ability to use PLM in downstream applications was always a challenge. There are multiple reasons for that - complexity of products, expensive licenses,…

    • Social Inbox Aggregator For Enterprise PLM? by: Oleg

      May 26, 2010, 20:40

      The market of social is growing up. Social software is trying to get into enterprise space too. Engineering and Manufacturing companies are definitely i…

    • Social PLM, Collaboration and Google Structured Discussion  by: Oleg

      March 18, 2011, 06:26

      Collaboration is one of the most overused words in Product Lifecycle Management. Even outside of PLM world, this term creates confusing. You never know what…

    • SolidWorks n!Fuze: The Cloud Remake of PLM Collaboration?  by: Oleg

      January 26, 2011, 09:49

      This week SolidWorks presents the new product SolidWorks n!Fuze. The actual presentation didn't happen yet. Today is the 3rd day of SolidWorks World. The 3rd…

    • Technia and PLM Implementation Secret Sauce  by: Oleg

      November 16, 2010, 14:07

      The following announcement came to my attention yesterday. Technia annouces Technia Value Components Release 2010-3 future increase the value of ENOVIA. I…

    • The 3D Mashups – Reality Check  by: Oleg

      July 13, 2011, 16:48

      I like searching for new technologies. One of the technologies I'm following a long time already is so called "mashup technologies" or just "mashups". In the…

    • The PLM Gutenberg Revolution by: Oleg

      August 13, 2010, 18:28

      I was thinking about how PLM balance product lifecycle from the standpoint of producing and consuming product data. The product development process, obviously…

    • To Harmonize PLM?  by: Oleg

      July 17, 2010, 22:18

      I read an interesting write up yesterday in UK Eureca magazine - EADS is flying harmonised PLM. The background for this message is EADS 2007 decision to…

    • Top 5 API Mistakes in PLM Software  by: Oleg

      October 13, 2010, 05:39

      In any enterprise software, there is a point of time we are asking the following question - "what APIs are supported?" We anticipate the need of API in order…

    • Total Integration and the Future of PLM  by: Oleg

      August 12, 2011, 01:09

      I'm still cleaning my post-vacation backlog of feeds and messages. One of the articles by UK Eureca Magazine caught my attention, since it was named exactly as…

    • Winter Slowdown, SharePoint and Enterprise PLM Scale?  by: Oleg

      December 27, 2010, 12:41

      Winter slowdown is a good time to clean back logs of RSS readers and work on urgent development projects. Especially when it comes together with the snow…

    • Workflow and Process Automation Comes from Cloud by: Oleg

      July 17, 2010, 23:12

      PLM is heavy focused on workflow, processes and workflow automation. What if... all these capabilities will be coming from cloud and integrated into a…

  • Category: Technologies  (142)
    • 3D and Communication Strategy  by: Oleg

      August 24, 2011, 00:16

      Communication methods are interesting. These days lots of things are changing in this space. Internet, Web 2.0, Video communication converted some of our…

    • 3D Shape Search in CAD and PLM  by: Oleg

      October 4, 2010, 11:59

      Last week I had a chance to speak with Andy Sherlock of ShapeSpace. My momentary interest was caught by a blog post - Clean up for PLM published on ShapeSpace…

    • A Geek's View on Part Numbers  by: Oleg

      August 17, 2011, 15:03

      I feel a bit geeky today. I posted about part numbers, document number and numbering few times in the past. These posts sparkled an intensive discussion about…

    • Autodesk Cloud and "Business as Usual" Question  by: Oleg

      October 6, 2011, 17:12

      Cloud is a hot topic these days. No, I'm not going to talk about True vs. False cloud and Mark Benioff appearance on Oracle Open World. I want talk about…

    • BOM and CAD-PDM-PLM-ERP Integration Challenges  by: Oleg

      November 2, 2011, 23:24

      I want to talk about Bill of Material and integration today. The reason why I'm coming to this topic is largely because I have a feeling "integration" will…

    • CAD Data and PLM  by: Oleg

      October 5, 2010, 08:07

      The following blog article drove my attention yesterday: CAD File Management ≠ PLM. The short blog post published by Peter Schroer of Aras. The summary of…

    • CAD, PLM and Technological Trajectories  by: Oleg

      December 8, 2010, 16:44

      I read CIMData article Windchill Evolving Lineage. Navigate your browser on the following link. I found this read interesting. CIMData is an analytical company…

    • CAD-less PLM Puzzle  by: Oleg

      December 14, 2010, 00:55

      Ask people about the connection between CAD and PLM and you will discover a very interesting thing. In the past people draw a bold line connection CAD and PLM…

    • CAD/PLM Strategy and Burning Chrome  by: Oleg

      March 2, 2011, 19:48

      Choose the platform for your software becomes a new issue in 2010s. Platform was kind of easy story for the last 10-15 years. You had a choice of market share…

    • Chromebooks: Another Small Step Towards Cloud PLM?  by: Oleg

      May 14, 2011, 09:18

      I've been watching updates from the Google I/O 2011 conference during this week. Google came with the announcement of Chromebook. In my view, this is a logical…

    • Cloud and Next Generation of BOM  by: Oleg

      October 19, 2011, 09:28

      Few days ago, I was talking about some interesting patterns of PLM and ERP implementation. In a nutshell, the integration between PLM and ERP systems presents…

    • Cloud PLM and Amazon S3 Scale  by: Oleg

      July 25, 2011, 19:06

      I can see cloud PLM is trending. The announcements about running on Amazon are coming from multiple vendors. Dassault just announced few weeks ago the…

    • Cloud PLM and Data Residency Option  by: Oleg

      September 11, 2011, 21:43

      Whenever I had a chance to speak about cloud solutions in the context of PLM, the normal reaction of people was like that - company never agrees to put their…

    • Cloud PLM and Security Certification  by: Oleg

      August 22, 2011, 11:17

      Cloud and Security. I hope I've got your attention a bit :). In 99% of my talks about PLM and the cloud, the topic of security was coming very fast. The…

    • COFES, PLM, BIM and Augmented Reality by: Oleg

      April 15, 2011, 04:55

      The first day at COFES 2011 over. I hope, you had a chance to follow COFES 2011 via twitter (COFES2011). If not, navigate your browser to the following link.…

    • Corporate iCloud, iPLM Future and Google's Apps?  by: Oleg

      June 8, 2011, 13:43

      Well...It happened. The marketing machine of Apple meets the cloud and cloud marketing. The result is predicted - iCloud. If you haven't had a chance to watch…

    • Deeper Understanding. Not In PLM... Yet by: Oleg

      July 16, 2010, 20:07

      Time ago, I had chance to write about PLM and Internet of Things on PLM Think Tank. Some interesting news happened today, in my view. Google acquired Metaweb.…

    • Design To Manufacturing Process: Bumpy Road?  by: Oleg

      June 11, 2011, 21:09

      Integration between design and manufacturing is one of the topics that normally hits a lot of discussion in the product development and PLM space. To support…

    • Do It Yourself (DIY) PLM and Microsoft Excel Services  by: Oleg

      November 26, 2011, 01:12

      Many of the engineers (and not only) are using Microsoft Excel. People are literally lives inside of Excel spreadsheets. When it comes to PDM and PLM, I…

    • Do We Need To Coach PLM Backbone with NoSQL?  by: Oleg

      December 10, 2010, 04:19

      I'd like to take my Beyond PLM conversation away from social and collaboration trend. Let's think about bits and bytes of data, delivery technology and cloud.…

    • ECO Management: What Matters?  by: Oleg

      March 30, 2011, 11:07

      Engineering Change is probably one of the most important and complicated disciplines. I had a chance to meet people that told me - all what you are doing is…

    • Engineering Software: Move to the Cloud vs. Born in the Cloud?  by: Oleg

      December 2, 2010, 04:13

      I'm not attending AU this year. My end of the year schedule included too many trips, so I wasn't able to attend Autodesk show in Las-Vegas. However, thanks to…

    • Engineers and Video Collaboration?  by: Oleg

      July 26, 2011, 13:12

      Think about enterprise software and collaboration. I think, collaboration is boring. It is complicated, requires lots of system configuration and implementation…

    • ERP vs. PLM: More Competition in The Future?  by: Oleg

      August 11, 2011, 02:16

      Finally, my vacation over and Beyond PLM is back to normal. While screening materials, the following title caught my attention: ERP vs. PLM: What's the…

    • Eurostep and Standard-based PLM  by: Oleg

      May 16, 2011, 12:04

      I'm going to attend Eurostep Share-A-Space 2011 forum later this week in Stockholm, Sweden. The history of the invitation to this conference is going back to…

    • Facebook for SIM and PLM Mainstream Revolution  by: Oleg

      February 15, 2011, 19:31

      I read today's news coming from Gemalto and read "Facebook takes over the world, one SIM card at the time". Gemalto announced their new product - Facebook for…

    • From iMat to iDesk: The Future of Engineering Appliance  by: Oleg

      January 28, 2012, 12:04

      What do you think about the future designer workspace? I assume some of my readers remember drawing board in multiple variation when it was a primary working…

    • Future PLM platforms and SAP / Oracle technological wars  by: Oleg

      January 25, 2012, 22:19

      All existing PDM / PLM technologies were created 15-20 years ago. I hope I've got your attention :). So, let me speak a bit more about technologies today.…

    • Gartner, PLM Social Networking and Technological Enablers  by: Oleg

      January 24, 2012, 22:19

      I want to talk about a social-networking topic again. I was reading Gartner Top Vertical Industry Prediction for 2012 and Beyond. Spend some time reading the…

    • Google Cloud Printing, PLM and Manufacturing  by: Oleg

      November 3, 2010, 21:36

      What do you think about "paperless processes". A good dream I can tell you... So, I decided to talk about paper-related stuff today. I read blog post coming…

    • Google Cloud: Ready for CAD / PLM?  by: Oleg

      March 15, 2011, 05:37

      Cloud is continuously discussed among the people in CAD/PLM industry. The opinions are varying and discussion is going up and down. Vendors are arguing about…

    • Google+ potential for PLM and Business Use  by: Oleg

      July 20, 2011, 06:20

      Well, time is running fast, and I counted my first week of G+ experience. It is still too early to share any specific experience, but probably a good time to…

    • GSA and How to Reduce PLM Collaboration Cost?  by: Oleg

      December 8, 2010, 20:40

      Navigate your browser to the following link. GSA is moving to Google Apps. According to the Google blog, US GSA becomes a first US federal organization is…

    • How PLM can Remove Business Waste?  by: Oleg

      September 17, 2010, 08:14

      I've been attending Technia PLM Innovation Forum early this week in Stockholm. My conclusion from this forum is that all organizations are looking how to…

    • How To Disrupt PLM Price with Technologies? by: Oleg

      June 21, 2010, 11:12

      My post “How To Manage ECO Without Paying ’500 Per Seat” raised a very interesting discussion on Zero-Waite State blog about PLM price.…

    • How to host PDM/PLM database on the cloud? by: Oleg

      October 30, 2011, 21:00

      I was reading Oracle journal early today. Navigate your browser to read a short article - Which Cloud Service Provider Should Host Your Oracle Databases? The…

    • How to place PLM in a Social Network? Kill M...  by: Oleg

      August 25, 2011, 18:37

      I can hear more and more conversations about social aspects of the future enterprise software. Social is trending. Will it be successful? I think many people…

    • How To Reset PLM Collaboration?  by: Oleg

      October 27, 2010, 21:58

      Almost 2 weeks ago, I wrote about De-confusing of PLM Collaboration. Today, I want to suggest a different angle and talk about how we can re-think PLM…

    • How to Virtualize PLM?  by: Oleg

      March 10, 2011, 16:57

      Virtualization becomes an important piece of modern technological solutions. The time of physical servers is over. Businesses are actively seeking how to…

    • HP, PLM Cloud and Services Aggregation  by: Oleg

      April 12, 2011, 16:38

      Following my yesterday post about Facebook and data centers infrastructure, I thought it will be an interesting to discover more trends around enterprise and…

    • Invisible PLM or Document Collaboration with Gmail?  by: Oleg

      July 17, 2010, 22:46

      In my view, the majority of organizations are collaborating using pure email. PLM implementation has hard time to compete with email to become first class…

    • IT, Architecture, Cloud and Impact on PLM by: Oleg

      May 26, 2010, 21:32

      If you think about the future of enterprise systems, this is a "must see" video presentation. Core Content and the Cloud with Geoffrey Moore, Best Selling…

    • Microsoft Azure and Toyota Cloud: Should PLM Care?  by: Oleg

      April 10, 2011, 15:01

      I read the following Reuter article: Microsoft Toyota team team up on digital auto network. It made me think about cloud again. Time ago, I wrote about the…

    • Microsoft in the PLM Spotlight  by: Oleg

      November 15, 2010, 06:54

      Last week in Orlando, I had a chance to attend Microsoft's presentation during DSCC2010 keynote presentation. Microsoft's trajectory is interesting. Think…

    • Microsoft Office, Google Cloud and noPLM option  by: Oleg

      May 4, 2011, 19:49

      Microsoft Office plays a significant role in your engineering environment. Just think about the number of Excels you have to manage your bill of materials,…

    • Mini PLM and Google Shared Spaces  by: Oleg

      December 22, 2010, 12:39

      Google Wave gone. Developers moved to Facebook. Nevertheless, Google comes with an interesting Labs project Google Shared Space. You can get more info on the…

    • Mobile, Photo, Video and Manufacturing Collaboration  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2011, 08:12

      Mobile communication is evolving. Lots of new things happen. iPhone was a revolutionary device that introduced back-end camera and allowed to share photos and…

    • My First Take on PLM Cloud Maturity Model  by: Oleg

      January 3, 2012, 20:35

      The beginning of the year is a good time to think about BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals). Cloud was one of the dominant topics for the past two years of…

    • New PLM and Digital Content  by: Oleg

      September 29, 2010, 22:19

      We are in the middle of a very interesting process of digitalizing our life. We are moving more and more pieces from old-fashioned-content to new , completely…

    • PDF, CAD rendering and HTML5 by: Oleg

      June 19, 2011, 22:59

      I'm spending this weekend in Israel these days. My visit is mostly personal because of Bar Mitzvah of my older son, Jonathan. At the same time, I had a…

    • PDM in 2010s: Commodity or Competitive Advantage?  by: Oleg

      September 5, 2011, 08:16

      Product Data Management is not a new term. The first appearance of PDM software goes back in early 1990s (I believe veterans of the industry will come with…

    • PDM vs. PLM: Implementation Gaps  by: Oleg

      July 6, 2011, 08:36

      One of the topics that people often ask is what is the difference between PDM and PLM. The question is almost rhetoric, since the number of explanation is +1…

    • PDM, Part Numbers and the Future of Identification  by: Oleg

      July 29, 2011, 06:48

      Let me talk again about Part Numbers. The last time I wrote about Part Numbers, it created a healthy discussion. I'd encourage you to refresh your memory and…

    • PLM and "Almost Enterprise" Apps?  by: Oleg

      April 29, 2011, 05:01

      The cost of development enterprise apps was one of the topics discussed among the people on Aras ACE 2011 conference earlier this week in Detroit, MI. Where…

    • PLM and Amazon Enterprise Cloud  by: Oleg

      February 1, 2012, 01:15

      An interesting addition to my yesterday post about technological options for cloud PLM. I was reading Amazon's announcement that came earlier this month -…

    • PLM and Business Process Management Redefintion by: Oleg

      May 24, 2010, 22:39

      An interesting post was published by Luna-Tech research about the Business Process Management redefinition. Only few years ago, PLM was very focused about…

    • PLM and Complex Products  by: Oleg

      October 26, 2010, 18:47

      Early this week I had a chance to read the following blog post by Accidental Product Manager - Really, Really Complex Products: Is PLM Software the Solution? I…

    • PLM and Control Your Home  by: Oleg

      May 26, 2011, 01:19

      In the old days, the focus of manufacturing companies was mostly about how to produce stuff. Most of the products were disappearing from the horizons of…

    • PLM and Data Model Pyramid  by: Oleg

      January 10, 2012, 17:15

      There is a lot going on in database space these days. Few days ago I posted - PLM, RDBMS and Future Data Management Challenges and I've got quite a few…

    • PLM and Design Buildings by: Oleg

      July 20, 2010, 22:35

      Almost a year ago, I posted PLM and BIM - Common Roots Or Common Future. I think these two domains will have very interesting trajectories in the future.…

    • PLM and Engineering Documents Identification  by: Oleg

      July 15, 2010, 11:08

      The question of identification is probably of the most complicated and always raises lots of interest. I had a chance to discuss early on my blog a topic…

    • PLM and Enterprise 2.0: No Fight… Yet. by: Oleg

      June 16, 2010, 13:43

      Yesterday, I spent my day on Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. It wasn’t overcrowded, although Expo pass registration that included Keynote presentatio…

    • PLM and Enterprise Integration Game  by: Oleg

      August 23, 2010, 07:35

      Manufacturing company enterprise landscape becomes more and more complex every year. Companies are implementing new products and versions of existing products.…

    • PLM and Legacy Data  by: Oleg

      July 26, 2010, 03:56

      When I'm thinking about any PLM project, I can clearly see the step when data available in the organization need to be loaded into the system. This step is…

    • PLM and Pointless Visualization by: Oleg

      July 25, 2010, 23:57

      Data management is boring. Data, Numbers, Tables... Even, if I completely disagree, I guess lots of people think so. Nevertheless, even if you work on…

    • PLM and Process Tools: Opportunity or Complication?  by: Oleg

      January 18, 2012, 17:48

      I'd like to talk about BPM again. I was writing about BPM in the past. Navigate to this link to take a look on few pasts topics related to Business Process…

    • PLM and Seamless Multi-lingual Collaboration  by: Oleg

      February 10, 2011, 08:00

      Global environment is the reality of today's business. Engineering and manufacturing organizations are located in multiple places worldwide. To help people to…

    • PLM and SOA: Happy Contract? by: Oleg

      May 28, 2010, 23:04

      I had chance to read a very interesting blog by Fracois Guillaumin related to SOA and PLM. He writes about roots of SOA and differentiation between…

    • PLM and Social Technologies Dating?  by: Oleg

      February 18, 2011, 00:05

      In my view, Salesforce.com has been discovered a significant bias towards collaboration and collaborative software. Since last year Salesforce made strong…

    • PLM and the Evolution of Integration  by: Oleg

      January 10, 2012, 03:48

      Integration is an important topic in PLM. Few days ago, I was reading Aras' blog - Understanding of integration and federation with Aras. This blog caught my…

    • PLM and The Future Of Online Retail by: Oleg

      May 31, 2010, 20:50

      I had chance to analyze what will be the role of Augment reality before on my PLM think tank. I'd like to share with you a very cool commercial video…

    • PLM and User Driven Data Models by: Oleg

      May 26, 2010, 20:09

      I found very interesting blog post by Active Knowledge blog about Data Management practices by Frank Lillehagen. It is worth reading. Data modeling is a…

    • PLM architecture discussion with Peter Schroer of Aras by: Oleg

      February 3, 2012, 12:58

      If you followed my comments on one of previous posts - Cloud PLM and IT Basic Instincts, I promised to have a conversation with Aras about PLM architecture.…

    • PLM Backbones and Engineering Process Complexity  by: Oleg

      November 24, 2010, 17:34

      My blogging friend Deelip Menezes (www.deelip.com) wrote few days ago in his twitter - "Mapping engineering processes to PLM backbones is this most difficult…

    • PLM Basics: Reference Designator and Find Numbers  by: Oleg

      September 24, 2010, 06:51

      Some time ago, one of my readers wrote me a comment with the question about Reference Designators and Find Numbers. With all our interest to talk about modern…

    • PLM Cloud an Gartner Flip Flop  by: Oleg

      November 5, 2011, 18:31

      Cloud conversation is taking a sharp turn. Private cloud vs. public cloud. This is actually can be a very interesting and quite a big game changer for PLM…

    • PLM Cloud Future: Back to Database?  by: Oleg

      December 30, 2010, 15:32

      I was reading Salesforce.com announcement made earlier this month during Dreamforce 2010 conference about introduction of a new database.com platform. I found…

    • PLM Cloud, Data Replication and Pig Latin.  by: Oleg

      November 11, 2011, 20:37

      Have you had a chance to read about cloud in Pig Latin? No? Actually, I did. Recently, I came across an interesting blog post and video on Aras PLM website.…

    • PLM Cloud: Dedicated, Private, Public  by: Oleg

      February 1, 2011, 01:01

      The conversation about cloud is trending these days. Earlier last week, during SolidWorks World 2011, I had a chance to share my opinion about cloud application…

    • PLM Collaboration. Not virtual. Whiteboard...  by: Oleg

      August 31, 2011, 17:12

      Collaboration is an important thing. I think you agree with me. However, speaking about collaboration how many of you are looking how to collaborate and…

    • PLM Collaboration: 5 Questions to Ask Before You Make a Choice  by: Oleg

      August 3, 2010, 03:39

      Collaboration is a widely used term, and I found it sometime even overused. Collaborative development, Collaborative PDM, Collaborative PLM, Collaborative…

    • PLM Competition and "True Cloud" Solutions  by: Oleg

      July 2, 2011, 10:24

      CAD, PLM and engineering software world is very competitive. Time ago, CAD vendors competed on the number of features. It is not unusual to see lists that…

    • PLM Compound Data and Google Collaboration  by: Oleg

      January 13, 2011, 21:59

      I made a short note today. Google enhanced the capability of Google Docs with embedding video playback. Navigate your browser to the following Google blog…

    • PLM Cost and Enterprisey Clouds  by: Oleg

      December 29, 2011, 20:47

      PLM is a costly piece of software. Software licenses, installation, implementation, support, services. All these components of PLM software make the decision…

    • PLM Data Warehouse: Dream Or Nightmare?  by: Oleg

      July 12, 2010, 10:28

      PLM is certainly dealing with lots of data about products: design, engineering, lifecycle data, manufacturing, processes. When/If you speak to PLM software…

    • PLM Definitions- Multiple Dimensions by Prof. Eigner by: Oleg

      April 24, 2011, 10:30

      I'm continue to publish references on various definitions of PLM. A month ago I posted PLM Definition - Corporate vs. Consumer Style presenting a consumer…

    • PLM Enterprise App Store: Bad Idea or Future Promise?  by: Oleg

      September 9, 2011, 23:22

      During the past months, I've seen an increased amount of conversations about the future of App Store software model in the enterprise. You, of course, familiar…

    • PLM In The Azure Box? by: Oleg

      July 19, 2010, 12:51

      If you listened to the news stream from Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference last week, you probably had a chance to get some information about…

    • PLM Integration Failures  by: Oleg

      January 12, 2011, 20:01

      There is one topic that always raises lots of controversy, in my view. I'm talking about integrations or even more specifically about PLM-oriented integration.…

    • PLM Migration to... Text?  by: Oleg

      February 21, 2011, 03:08

      Sometime data management Q&A looks funny. World Online Review published the following solution on the request about how to migrate data into the text. Hit…

    • PLM Mirror and Google Cars  by: Oleg

      October 12, 2010, 15:51

      I loved this - "Look ma, no hands". Did you try it in your childhood? Even so, I'm sure it wasn't about cars. So, now some people in California can say - "No…

    • PLM Mobile Networks - Big Time?  by: Oleg

      September 20, 2010, 10:30

      One of my blog readers asked about who is developing Mobile PLM? The question of mobile is not new. Everybody is going mobile these days. Lots of functions…

    • PLM Network Effect and Single Point of Truths  by: Oleg

      October 22, 2010, 22:17

      Few weeks ago, I had a chance to attend a webinar - Learn How PLM Propels Innovation at Mercury Marine. The webinar is available now on demand. Navigate you…

    • PLM Platforms and PLM Automotive Future  by: Oleg

      March 7, 2011, 17:27

      A couple of weeks ago, I posted PLM Platform Wars: Who is Right or Who is Left? The following short article in Dasssault 3D Perspective struck me to think more…

    • PLM Processes, Lists and Implementation Confusion  by: Oleg

      December 6, 2010, 23:38

      I read the following blog post by Christine Longwell - Do we really need structured workflows if we have visibility and status? In my view, the question asked…

    • PLM Reset 2011  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2011, 06:12

      Winter break is a time to make a traditional "lesson learned" or "next year" blog posts. I wanted to come with some thoughts about what I see happens in the…

    • PLM SharePoint: Silver Bullet or Fierce Criticism?  by: Oleg

      September 30, 2010, 06:39

      It was a long time I didn't talk about Microsoft SharePoint. I tried to recall and found that my previous significant thoughts about Microsoft SharePoint are…

    • PLM Standard: From Formats to Frameworks  by: Oleg

      February 16, 2011, 23:39

      I want to talk about PLM and Standards today. In my view view, the story of standards is over complicated and confusing. The number of articles about CAD…

    • PLM Storm and Infinite Processes  by: Oleg

      August 8, 2011, 09:52

      I'm still off on vacation until Wednesday. However, as my PLM blogging buddy Jim Brown mentioned on the Facebook - "Blogging is my crack habit" :). I started…

    • PLM User Experience and The Evil of Folders?  by: Oleg

      May 24, 2011, 05:25

      Ask people about usability of PLM and other enterprise data management systems. From my experience, the answer is simple - it is way too complex. Very few PDM…

    • PLM+ERP: Outside of Equations?  by: Oleg

      November 23, 2010, 03:09

      I've been watching a recorded webinar with a fascinating name: PLM+ERP = Manufacturing Success. The tweet about this webinar caught my attention. Navigate…

    • PLM, Cloud Mashup and Terminological Games  by: Oleg

      January 8, 2011, 01:31

      One of my twitting buddies, Jonathan Scott, re-twitted the link to the following article - CIO Strategies: The Private and Public Clouds Mashup. I found it…

    • PLM, Enterprise Search and Aras Strategy by: Oleg

      April 27, 2011, 05:30

      I'm attending Aras Community Event 2011 these days in The Henrly Hotel in Dearborn, MI. You can have more information about new coming from the conference…

    • PLM, Google and Cloud Babysitting...  by: Oleg

      May 9, 2011, 12:04

      I'm continuing to think about Amazon cloud failure. As you may have noticed, the "cloud" is a frequent topic on my blog. I've been talking about the cloud with…

    • PLM, Granularity and Engineering Numbers  by: Oleg

      July 14, 2010, 21:08

      I think, the future of engineering software belongs to solutions that will provide a higher level of granularity. More flexible and granular solutions will be…

    • PLM, Interoperability and Cloud  by: Oleg

      July 28, 2010, 07:02

      I read Microsoft Talked Open Data, Open Cloud and watched Microsoft's Jean Paoli video. It seems to me, Microsoft is taking seriously the topic of heterogeneous…

    • PLM, Manufacturers and Mobile Apps Hysteria  by: Oleg

      June 1, 2011, 14:24

      I can see around more and more people are playing with mobile devices. Last 3-4 months contained many announcements coming from hardware and software manufactur…

    • PLM, Microblogging and Communication  by: Oleg

      April 23, 2011, 12:31

      Communication is a vital part of everything we do. How do we communicate these days? Email is one of the most popular ways to communicate. Recently talking to…

    • PLM, RDBMS and Future Data Management Challenges  by: Oleg

      January 4, 2012, 23:32

      It is not unusual to hear about problems with PLM systems. It is costly, complicated, hard to implement and non-intuitive. However, I want to raise a voice…

    • PLM, SharePoint and Future Virtualization  by: Oleg

      February 11, 2011, 09:35

      Today everything can be virtualized. If you think about your dedicated IT environment, proprietary or public cloud, the ability to virtualize environment can…

    • PLM, SharePoint and ProductPoint Lessons  by: Oleg

      May 5, 2011, 08:57

      I'm following SharePoint and PLM. One of point of my interest was to analyze how Microsoft SharePoint can be used in PDM/PLM as a technological platform and…

    • PLM, Smart Products and Internet of Things  by: Oleg

      January 11, 2012, 23:11

      In my view, the power of the internet is going much beyond current horizons. Back in 2009 I published my first post - PLM and Internet of things. The idea I…

    • PLM, Supply Chain and Cloud Adoption  by: Oleg

      April 21, 2011, 23:39

      Cloud is one of the most discussable topics in the industry. In the consumer web, cloud seems to be a proven option. I think, people are feeling very…

    • PLM, Technological Choice and Open Source Revolution  by: Oleg

      July 22, 2010, 22:07

      The acceptance of Open Source technologies is growing. One of the latest examples of products in open source movement that caught my attention was Lucid…

    • PLM: From Work To Home via Microsoft and Open Cloud  by: Oleg

      May 30, 2011, 04:15

      Let's talk about PLM software development today. Rewind pre-Web 2.0 and pre- iPhone era. Life was simlpe. After SolidWorks finally proved Windows is good…

    • PLM: Mobile-Optimized Sites vs. Mobile Apps by: Oleg

      January 23, 2012, 21:25

      For most non-technology-savvy people, the title of this post can sound like a joke. Mobile apps are trending today. App store, Android stores, Microsoft is…

    • PLM: Work-in-progress vs. System of Records?  by: Oleg

      June 6, 2011, 10:18

      Recently, I've been in a very interesting conversation with one of my industry buddies. It was about a role PDM and PLM systems are playing today manufacturing…

    • Post COFES, Dropbox and PLM Made Simple?  by: Oleg

      April 19, 2011, 10:42

      As you know, I spent end of my last week, including the weekend at COFES (The Congress of the Future of Engineering Software). It was my 6th COFES. It was…

    • Product Data Formats for the 21st Century  by: Oleg

      July 21, 2010, 19:26

      Data formats is an interesting topic in the context of engineering and manufacturing. Manufacturing company is relaying on a significant amount of information…

    • Product Design and Collaboration in Multiple Languages  by: Oleg

      September 3, 2010, 14:46

      Manufacturers are going global these days. Nobody is surprised to have design, manufacturing and support are going across the globe. However, when it comes to…

    • RSS, PLM Collaboration and Activity Streams  by: Oleg

      June 9, 2011, 15:23

      Do you know what is RSS? I'm pretty sure a large amount of casual internet users are not aware about what is RSS and what is RSS readers (Aggregators). I even…

    • SaaS PLM - New, Complex, Expensive?  by: Oleg

      September 21, 2010, 02:29

      Last week I had healthy debates with one of my blog readers about different options to deploy PLM for the small manufacturing companies. Here is the part of…

    • Search Based Apps and PLM Innovation by: Oleg

      February 21, 2011, 05:12

      The following article in E-Commerce Times written by Paul Doscher of Exalead USA caught my attention this morning. Navigate your browser to the following link…

    • SharePoint: PLM and Widget Libraries  by: Oleg

      March 18, 2011, 11:08

      What do you think about SharePoint? During the last few months, I'm getting this question very often. After my post - CAD, PLM and End of Microsoft Dominance,…

    • Social Enterprise Discussion and Next Collaboration Buzz?  by: Oleg

      December 3, 2010, 17:03

      Collaboration is a tough word. PLM Is using this word all the time. For the last 10-15 years in this industry, I had a chance to see lots of variations on what…

    • Social Enterprise, Twitting Cars, Siri and Furbi  by: Oleg

      November 14, 2011, 15:07

      Few months ago, I had a chance already to write about so-called "social enterprise". The term was unveiled and supported by Marc Benioff during the last…

    • Social Inbox Aggregator For Enterprise PLM? by: Oleg

      May 26, 2010, 20:40

      The market of social is growing up. Social software is trying to get into enterprise space too. Engineering and Manufacturing companies are definitely i…

    • Social PLM and Facebook Data Centers?  by: Oleg

      April 10, 2011, 15:23

      Slow down... Facebook is not creating PLM yet. Facebook is growing their infrastructure. I read about Facebook Open Compute project. Navigate your browser to…

    • Social PLM Inbox and Changing Paradigms by: Oleg

      November 18, 2010, 21:04

      The Facebook announcement about introducing of FB messaging system triggered a flood of posts. I've been looking over them for the last couple of days. I liked…

    • Social Software and PLM 2.0 Process Planning by: Oleg

      May 25, 2010, 18:04

      The following article Will Social Revive Interest In BPM... drove my attention yesterday. A very interesting quote made me think about how social can transform…

    • Technological Options for PLM on the cloud  by: Oleg

      January 30, 2012, 04:38

      Cloud is hyping in 2012. Coming Facebook IPO can only supercharge the future of cloud computing. Last year Autodesk announcement about Nexus 360 cloud PLM…

    • The 3D Mashups – Reality Check  by: Oleg

      July 13, 2011, 16:48

      I like searching for new technologies. One of the technologies I'm following a long time already is so called "mashup technologies" or just "mashups". In the…

    • Top 3 "PLM Cloud" Killers by: Oleg

      May 10, 2011, 20:22

      After talking very positively about PLM and Cloud, it is a time to think about negative sides of the cloud story. Matt Lobard of Dezignstuff came with a…

    • Top 3 Reasons Why Data Sharing is Important for PLM  by: Oleg

      July 14, 2011, 22:00

      I want to talk today about data sharing. The interest of engineers and other people in manufacturing organization in data sharing is obvious. However, I think…

    • Total Integration and the Future of PLM  by: Oleg

      August 12, 2011, 01:09

      I'm still cleaning my post-vacation backlog of feeds and messages. One of the articles by UK Eureca Magazine caught my attention, since it was named exactly as…

    • What if... "PLM on the cloud" succeeds?  by: Oleg

      May 24, 2011, 08:54

      Push aside our fear about security and PLM on the cloud. I was reading Washington Post's "Video Viewing on Netflix Accounts for Up to 30 Percent of Online…

    • Why Do We Struggle With File Names in PDM / PLM?  by: Oleg

      November 4, 2010, 22:15

      I read David Dillon blog post on SolidWorks Geeks - File Name and PDM. This short write-up made me think about relations between File Naming and Data…

    • Why PLM Should Care of SharePoint?  by: Oleg

      August 15, 2011, 19:22

      Business professionals around the world are using SharePoint to organize information and streamline the business processes. I talked with many people about…

    • Why you should (or not) be using Arena PDXViewer by: Oleg

      November 27, 2011, 19:02

      The story of standards is always fascinating. I love these stories on my blog and spent quite a lot of time talking to people about standards. Do you know…

    • Will Database in the Cloud supercharge PLM for Small Companies?  by: Oleg

      October 23, 2011, 10:01

      I want to talk about an interesting segment of cloud technologies - cloud SQL Database. For the last months, I've seen multiple announcements of vendors in…

    • Will New Enterprise Software Move to cloud platforms?  by: Oleg

      January 13, 2012, 23:06

      Do you have any plans to develop enterprise software in 2012? Interesting set of predictions is coming from Christian Verstraete and his HP blog about cloud…

    • Win8, metro and the future of PLM client apps  by: Oleg

      September 23, 2011, 07:27

      I wanted to talk about Windows 8 today. Despite lots of talks we had about Macs, iPads and web during last months, most of the manufacturing companies are…

  • Category: Top 5  (15)
    • PLM Think Tank - April Top 5  by: Oleg

      April 28, 2011, 21:14

      What do you think is the most hard thing in everything we do? This month for me was overloaded by conferences. It started from COFES 2011 in sunny Scottsdale,…

    • PLM Think Tank - August Top 5  by: Oleg

      September 25, 2010, 08:22

      I'm coming late this month with my top 5 post. It was mostly caused by me attending two conferences as an invited speaker. Technia PLM Innovation Forum in…

    • PLM Think Tank - February Top 5  by: Oleg

      March 9, 2011, 00:30

      What is the most genius invention I've heard during the last week? What is your guess? Right! The cover of iPad 2. It was magically simple as everything in…

    • PLM Think Tank - January Top 5  by: Oleg

      February 6, 2011, 12:56

      My January was busy with travels. If you followed my blog and twitter over the past month, you've seen my posts and twitter messages from PLM Innovation 2011…

    • PLM Think Tank - May Top 5  by: Oleg

      May 27, 2011, 11:59

      What do you think about standards and PLM? For the long time, I thought about standards as toothbrushes. Everybody needs one, but nobody wants to use somebody…

    • PLM Think Tank - Top 5 August, 2011 by: Oleg

      September 5, 2011, 22:14

      Summer is over. Last week I was attending SolidWorks media event in Concord Mass. September is going to be a traveling month for me. I'm going to attend…

    • PLM Think Tank - Top 5 Posts, June 2010  by: Oleg

      July 13, 2010, 06:28

      This week I am launching my new web site Beyond PLM. I started my first blog Daily PLM Think Tank on plmtwine.com back in 2008. PLM Think Tank is my attempt…

    • PLM Think Tank July - Top 5  by: Oleg

      July 6, 2011, 06:02

      The big weekend finally over and this is a time to get back on track with a long list of blogging topics. The weekend was well spent reading my feeds andmaking…

    • PLM Think Tank July Top 5 by: Oleg

      August 5, 2011, 01:28

      Summer time is usually good for vacation. I'm taking this week off with family traveling from Boston to Quebec and Montreal. I'm sharing with readers on…

    • PLM Think Tank July's Top 5  by: Oleg

      August 19, 2010, 16:27

      Summer is vacation time. I spent first week of August in Orlando Disney Word with family and my photo camera. I'd like to share few of my pictures taken…

    • PLM Think Tank November top 5  by: Oleg

      December 11, 2011, 17:19

      I'm a bit late with my top 5 review for November. It was a tough month for me because of travels. I made double-Vegas. What does it mean you can ask? It…

    • PLM Think Tank October Top 5  by: Oleg

      November 1, 2011, 23:00

      The last week snow in Boston was kind of an event. I think, many of New England residents are still sitting without power and the internet. Which made me…

    • PLM Think Tank Top 5 - December and 2011  by: Oleg

      January 16, 2012, 16:27

      Silicon Valley is well known by the high concentration of web start-up companies. My recent conclusion about PLM Highway (Rt. 128) in Greater Boston was…

    • PLM Think Tank Top 5 - November, 2010 by: Oleg

      December 2, 2010, 09:48

      I was reading GigaOM article Should We Be Afraid of Apple, Google and Facebook? I found it interesting. Take your time, read and make an opinion. I found some…

    • PLM Think Tank Top 5, September 2010 by: Oleg

      October 31, 2010, 14:46

      I postponed my monthly writing this month to give few words PTC Creo launch this week. CAD community already started to discuss this event. You cannot dismiss…

  • Category: Trends  (188)
    • 2011 ERP Slowdown. Will PLM Gain Benefits?  by: Oleg

      January 14, 2011, 20:29

      I read the article in Yahoo News - ERP investments to slow in 2011. According to the Forrester research, many companies are holding back their plans to run ERP…

    • 3 Steps To Improve PLM Collaboration by: Oleg

      June 28, 2010, 09:08

      In the landscape of PLM, collaboration is overused word. You can hear “collaborative” a lot, and you’d be thinking all problems of collaborati…

    • 3D CAD Access in Manufacturing and PLM Improvement  by: Oleg

      August 22, 2010, 23:10

      An interesting report was published by SearchManufacturingERP.com few days ago - Report: Wider access to 3D CAD images can improve PLM by David Essex.…

    • 3D, Games and Product Development  by: Oleg

      January 27, 2011, 10:11

      Almost two years ago, I published the following post - Virtual World: Where is the boarder between game and PLM software? Gaming technology is developing very…

    • 3D/PLM and iPad: Future or Baloney?  by: Oleg

      January 29, 2011, 11:54

      I just discovered one interesting fact. Exactly, a year ago, on Jan 28th, I published my first blog post about iPad - Who can generate 3D/PLM content for iPad?…

    • 3DSwYm: Future PLM Mainstream or Copycat?  by: Oleg

      November 11, 2010, 16:02

      This week on DSCC 2010 I had a chance to learn more about what Dassault is planing as their next step in the development of their Social Innovation strategies.…

    • Autodesk Users Are Ready For Cloud? by: Oleg

      June 17, 2010, 14:10

      A very interesting survey result published by Autodesk's Scott Sheppard in his blog. In my view, numbers are clearly showing that users are interested…

    • Autodesk, Aras and Integrated PDM / PLM story by: Oleg

      December 7, 2011, 18:13

      Back to the beginning of this year, I came with the post - Integrating PLM and PDM. Wrong question? My initial thoughts about integrating PDM and PLM was…

    • Autodesk, Dassault and Free CAD Options?  by: Oleg

      May 14, 2011, 00:03

      It is almost two years passed since I put on my blog a question about FREE as a best future CAD/PLM. Navigate to the following link to read my PLM Prompt: Is…

    • Autodesk, Data Management and "Why PLM?" Question  by: Oleg

      August 26, 2010, 01:40

      I read one of the latest VEKTORRUM re-posts about Autodesk and PLM. Navigate your browser to the following link and read the original article from 2007.…

    • Beyond PLM Panel Discussion on ACE 2011  by: Oleg

      April 27, 2011, 16:54

      Earlier today, I was running Beyond PLM panel discussion on ACE 2011. I'd like to say my special thank you to Peter Schroer, Aras CEO; David Sherburne…

    • Building Engineering Office Around Mac?  by: Oleg

      February 14, 2011, 20:35

      Apple is trending these days. Not surprising me. At the same time, I don't want to make this post a place where Apple fan boys will argue with Wintel aborigines…

    • Business As Usual Is Not An Option For Manufacturers by: Oleg

      May 26, 2010, 20:25

      An interesting research done by Economist Intelligence Unit, sponsored by Siemens PLM Software and Microsoft. You can get this report via this link. The…

    • Business Process Management, PLM and Open Source Track  by: Oleg

      September 16, 2011, 14:59

      BPM (Business Process Management) is another interesting topic I'm following already many years. I found it connected to PLM and other product development…

    • CAD Strategies: Unified Or Diversified?  by: Oleg

      August 10, 2010, 07:37

      In my view, summer time is good for vacations, research papers and strategic projects. During the summer, you are always have an excuse to stop, think and do…

    • CAD, PDM and PLM Diversity  by: Oleg

      October 20, 2010, 17:06

      The following message on twitter from Jonathan Scott of Razorleaf made me think about the future of vertical integration in Engineering Software. In my…

    • CAD, PLM and End of Microsoft Dominance  by: Oleg

      January 25, 2011, 09:45

      Last week, during PLM Innovation Congress in London, I talked about future trends in PLM and engineering software. If you missed my presentation there,…

    • CAD, PLM and Pragmatic Cloud: Do Less  by: Oleg

      December 15, 2010, 17:18

      The conversations about future CAD and PLM solutions is not a new thing these days. I decided to re-read some of my previous writing about cloud and find it…

    • CAD, PLM and Technological Trajectories  by: Oleg

      December 8, 2010, 16:44

      I read CIMData article Windchill Evolving Lineage. Navigate your browser on the following link. I found this read interesting. CIMData is an analytical company…

    • CAD, PLM and Visual Reporting by: Oleg

      October 17, 2011, 17:07

      Reporting is a very important part of product lifecycle management. Actually, without reporting it is hard to imaging how you can make all information about…

    • CAD-less PLM Puzzle  by: Oleg

      December 14, 2010, 00:55

      Ask people about the connection between CAD and PLM and you will discover a very interesting thing. In the past people draw a bold line connection CAD and PLM…

    • CAD/PLM Strategy and Burning Chrome  by: Oleg

      March 2, 2011, 19:48

      Choose the platform for your software becomes a new issue in 2010s. Platform was kind of easy story for the last 10-15 years. You had a choice of market share…

    • CAD: From Files to Database and Cloud...  by: Oleg

      November 17, 2010, 19:44

      I had a chance to read Matt Lombard's - What if you CAD data were in a database? The discussion around this post made me think more about CAD data organizations…

    • Can "Try For Free" Model Work in PLM?  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2010, 05:57

      In my view, "Free" is continuing to pull people. Recently, I've seen few articles in PLM Blogosphere that was talking about "free" PLM offerings. You can point…

    • Cloud Becomes A Testing Platform for CAD? by: Oleg

      May 30, 2010, 15:30

      I read an interesting note from Autodesk Labs. Inventor 2011 now available for trials via the cloud. It made me think, the cloud becomes a testing platform for…

    • Cloud PLM and IT Basic Instinct  by: Oleg

      January 26, 2012, 22:13

      The amount of publications about PLM and cloud is growing. This is not surprising me. There are two reasons to that. Cloud is clearly hyping. Second - major…

    • Cloud PLM and Service Channels  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2012, 00:38

      About a year ago, I published my post - Will PLM Channels Survive The Cloud Era? Back that time, it was my answer to the growing amount of voices about…

    • Cloud PLM and Small Manufacturers Survival Plan  by: Oleg

      October 1, 2010, 16:11

      While big OEMs are very visible, the majority of manufacturers are represented by small companies. The numbers are different in US and Europe, but my guess is…

    • Cloud, Head's-down CAD Drafters and Technological Analogies  by: Oleg

      October 27, 2011, 23:22

      Earlier this week, my attention was caught the article Cloud is Dead by Ralph Grabowski. Following some of Ralph's thoughts, I found myself in a strong…

    • COFES, Microsoft and Engineering Software Business Models  by: Oleg

      April 16, 2011, 09:58

      COFES is a think tank for engineering software. This is a place where you can drop any idea and see if it resonates. One of the COFES sessions is so called…

    • Communism and 10-Year PLM Vision by: Oleg

      July 21, 2010, 20:52

      I read MCADCafe article - PLMIG announces a 10-Year PLM Industry Vision. It navigates you to PLM IG (Interest Group) where you can read a short article…

    • CRM and PLM: Same Challenges?  by: Oleg

      February 23, 2011, 06:24

      A lot of things happen these days in the enterprise software market. It is interesting sometime to watch the life in PLM neighborhood. CRM is one of them. I…

    • Crowd-sourcing in CAD / PLM software development by: Oleg

      December 11, 2011, 16:15

      The topic of crowd-sourcing is fascinating these days. Community based development is interesting topic, and I'm continuing to follow different aspects of…

    • Daimler PLM Dilemma - PDM First  by: Oleg

      November 26, 2010, 21:55

      This week Siemens PLM announced - "Daimler AG has selected CAD Software from Siemens as their standard for their worldwide vehicle development". The event of…

    • Department of Free and PLM by: Oleg

      July 27, 2010, 07:01

      What do you think about the power of FREE? The following article in UK Guardian made me think again about the power of free influence. Times loses almost…

    • DIY PLM and Zero Email Policy  by: Oleg

      December 15, 2011, 21:27

      Let's talk about emails today. How many of them are you reading or writing daily? A lot? Emails are with us for the last 50 years. Will it stay with us for…

    • Engineering Software: Move to the Cloud vs. Born in the Cloud?  by: Oleg

      December 2, 2010, 04:13

      I'm not attending AU this year. My end of the year schedule included too many trips, so I wasn't able to attend Autodesk show in Las-Vegas. However, thanks to…

    • Engineers and FaaP (Facebook As A Platform)?  by: Oleg

      October 20, 2011, 03:40

      There are many discussions these days going around cloud and confrontation between large technological companies. If you miss the following article - The…

    • Enterprise Collaboration Disrupters by: Oleg

      May 28, 2010, 22:33

      What will be the future of collaboration? I'd expect it to be very different. I can recommend you a very good set of reviews of companies that definitely …

    • ERP vs. PLM: More Competition in The Future?  by: Oleg

      August 11, 2011, 02:16

      Finally, my vacation over and Beyond PLM is back to normal. While screening materials, the following title caught my attention: ERP vs. PLM: What's the…

    • Facebook for SIM and PLM Mainstream Revolution  by: Oleg

      February 15, 2011, 19:31

      I read today's news coming from Gemalto and read "Facebook takes over the world, one SIM card at the time". Gemalto announced their new product - Facebook for…

    • From iMat to iDesk: The Future of Engineering Appliance  by: Oleg

      January 28, 2012, 12:04

      What do you think about the future designer workspace? I assume some of my readers remember drawing board in multiple variation when it was a primary working…

    • From PDM to PLM: Unify or Integrate?  by: Oleg

      October 31, 2011, 19:29

      Earlier, this year, I post a blog called - Integrated PDM and PLM: Wrong Question? In the beginning, this blog post was inspired by Jonathan Scott's presentatio…

    • GrabCAD, New Openness and Future Business Models  by: Oleg

      February 1, 2012, 12:32

      The world is changing fast. What was near to impossible 10 years ago tomorrow, becomes a reality today. It related to the field of engineers as well as to…

    • Honeycomb PLM Attraction  by: Oleg

      February 3, 2011, 08:49

      Yesterday morning Google held an event presenting Android Honecomb - a new operational system completely focused on Tablet devices. Navigate your browser to…

    • How Cloud Will Help To Sell CAD? by: Oleg

      May 28, 2010, 22:50

      I had chance to read a WordCAD Access post by Ralf Grabowski - So, how much will CAD on cloud cost? Ralf is discussing how CAD vendors will charge…

    • How PLM can Remove Business Waste?  by: Oleg

      September 17, 2010, 08:14

      I've been attending Technia PLM Innovation Forum early this week in Stockholm. My conclusion from this forum is that all organizations are looking how to…

    • How to Manage ECO without paying ’500 per seat? by: Oleg

      June 17, 2010, 10:40

      I had chance to read Buzz message thread about ECO management, initiated by Josh Mings. I found it worth reading. One of the questions stick in my memory, and…

    • How To Reset PLM Collaboration?  by: Oleg

      October 27, 2010, 21:58

      Almost 2 weeks ago, I wrote about De-confusing of PLM Collaboration. Today, I want to suggest a different angle and talk about how we can re-think PLM…

    • How To Stop Searching for PLM Killer App?  by: Oleg

      March 11, 2011, 21:29

      Are you familiar with the "Killer App" syndrome? In my view, conversations about a "Killer App" are very popular when some technological device or broad…

    • How to streamline PLM? by: Oleg

      December 10, 2011, 01:10

      One of the biggest problem I can see in all PDM / PLM tools is a high level of the complexity. I've been thinking about it many times. After observing this…

    • How to Virtualize PLM?  by: Oleg

      March 10, 2011, 16:57

      Virtualization becomes an important piece of modern technological solutions. The time of physical servers is over. Businesses are actively seeking how to…

    • HP, PLM Cloud and Services Aggregation  by: Oleg

      April 12, 2011, 16:38

      Following my yesterday post about Facebook and data centers infrastructure, I thought it will be an interesting to discover more trends around enterprise and…

    • Hyper-Social Organization for PLM Dummies  by: Oleg

      November 8, 2010, 21:54

      Today, I had an interesting experience in my life. I had a chance to attend Dassault System Enovia Collaborative Innovation Forum. Be-careful, before you…

    • iPad and Enterprise PLM  by: Oleg

      July 28, 2010, 06:06

      iPad sales are skyrocketing. I read “Global CIO: Top 10 Reasons Steve Jobs & Apple Are The Future Of IT”. Take a look and make your opinion. My first…

    • iPad: PLM and non-PLM User Experience  by: Oleg

      July 16, 2010, 11:51

      I think, we are going to see more iPad applications in coming year. Will PLM and other enterprise software vendors adopt new Apple tablet? This is a very good…

    • Live Blog: No PLM, PLM, Beyond PLM...  by: Oleg

      November 5, 2010, 23:47

      Yesterday, I had the unique opportunity to participate in the webinar with a very intriguing name - Why Hasn't PLM Taken Over the World? You can listen to the…

    • Lucene Revolution and PLM Open Source Thoughts  by: Oleg

      October 11, 2010, 14:52

      Last week, I attended a conference Lucene Revolution. The show was organized by a company Lucid Imagination, an outfit focusing how to repeat a success Red Hat…

    • Manufacturing Companies and SaaS Business Opportunity  by: Oleg

      January 11, 2011, 17:23

      I had a chance to watch Jason Green's video interview by TechCrunchTV Sarah Lacy. Take a time, watch and make an opinion. I found interesting to listen to…

    • Manufacturing Crowd-Sourcing and Cloud PLM Opportunity  by: Oleg

      December 5, 2011, 15:25

      Crowd-sourcing is a popular trend these days. For those of you out of sync, in a nutshell, crowd-sourcing is a way for a community of people to build,…

    • Marketplaces and Engineering Software  by: Oleg

      October 14, 2010, 16:47

      Few days ago I had a chance to speak with Hardi Meybaum of GrabCAD. We spent almost two hours speaking about what GrabCAD is up to. It made me think about…

    • Microsoft and Future Online PLM Platforms  by: Oleg

      February 4, 2011, 09:10

      Few days ago I published PLM Cloud: Dedicated, Private, Public. Following this post, I had few interesting conversations about what are possible platforms can…

    • Microsoft Azure and Toyota Cloud: Should PLM Care?  by: Oleg

      April 10, 2011, 15:01

      I read the following Reuter article: Microsoft Toyota team team up on digital auto network. It made me think about cloud again. Time ago, I wrote about the…

    • Microsoft Socl and Social PLM Thoughts by: Oleg

      November 21, 2011, 16:52

      Do you know what is Microsoft Socl? I didn't know until yesterday. However, now I know. It is a new research project by Microsoft, which supposed to become a…

    • Mobile, Photo, Video and Manufacturing Collaboration  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2011, 08:12

      Mobile communication is evolving. Lots of new things happen. iPhone was a revolutionary device that introduced back-end camera and allowed to share photos and…

    • Moving from PLM to PLMSocial?  by: Oleg

      March 31, 2011, 03:23

      Social Media and Networking are important. There are vendors in the business world that are paying attention to the importance of "social". Just think about…

    • Multi-tenant SaaS PLM, SAP's Business ByDesign and Google App Engine  by: Oleg

      August 25, 2010, 05:52

      Cloud or SaaS application continue intriguing developers and vendors. In my view, during the last 2 years, talks around cloud and SaaS moved from the position…

    • New PLM and Digital Content  by: Oleg

      September 29, 2010, 22:19

      We are in the middle of a very interesting process of digitalizing our life. We are moving more and more pieces from old-fashioned-content to new , completely…

    • New PLM: From Definition to Realization?  by: Oleg

      May 12, 2011, 09:25

      The definition of PLM is one of the topics I'm discussing on blog. I think, in the modern enterprise software, PLM buzzword created a biggest amount of…

    • NoPLM and Quirky Social Product Development by: Oleg

      April 12, 2011, 17:23

      Social Product Development. I've been talking about that before. PTC Social Link, Vuuch, 3DSwYm. These are names led my previous conversations. You can take a…

    • noSQL Use Case for PLM  by: Oleg

      September 15, 2010, 01:08

      I had a chance to read SQL vs. noSQL article in Linux Journal yesterday on the plane. I found it interesting and despite a bit up-level of a technical terms,…

    • Not-Linear BOM Perspectives by: Oleg

      September 2, 2010, 03:09

      Summer is finally over. This is a good reason to stop talking about fancy social software and cool Apple's features. Let's move back to the core of design,…

    • Open Standards and Data Sharing  by: Oleg

      March 23, 2011, 23:54

      What do you think about the role of standards in CAD and PLM? Some of recent development in Open Standards made me think about CAD and PLM related standards…

    • Oracle, Google and Aras' 226% Growth  by: Oleg

      August 30, 2010, 00:20

      I read the following article "Oracle v Google: Why?". I found it as a very deep analysis of the latest Oracle's bold move against Google. It is hard to predict…

    • PDM vs. PLM: A Data Perspective  by: Oleg

      July 23, 2010, 22:09

      I want to talk about what I consider as one of the most controversial topics in the industry - PDM vs. PLM. How many times, you had a chance to hear the…

    • PDM. Pre-configured? Painless?  by: Oleg

      April 8, 2011, 21:01

      I want to get back to the topic of Out-of-the-Box PDM systems. The topic isn't new. The following post by Jim Brown was a trigger for me to get back and…

    • PDM/PLM and Future Competition  by: Oleg

      August 19, 2011, 07:54

      Google-Moto deal created a lot of fuss and speculation. At the same time, it created an example of cross-domain innovation, which in my view, worth being…

    • PLM & Market and Technology Trends by: Oleg

      October 14, 2011, 00:32

      Yesterday I spent my day on Dassault PLM Forum in Moscow. The event website is here. You can see the agenda of the forum in English here. I was talking about…

    • PLM 2.0: Born to Die?  by: Oleg

      August 26, 2011, 00:28

      PLM 2.0 is a new term that was born about 5 years ago. The term was introduced by Dassault Sysetemes as part of their V6 platform. At the same time, Dassault…

    • PLM and "Almost Enterprise" Apps?  by: Oleg

      April 29, 2011, 05:01

      The cost of development enterprise apps was one of the topics discussed among the people on Aras ACE 2011 conference earlier this week in Detroit, MI. Where…

    • PLM and Bottom Up Option  by: Oleg

      August 20, 2010, 12:07

      The following publication in VEKTORRUM got me to review again a book “3D Manufacturing Innovation” by Dr. Hiroshi Toriya. I had a chance to read this book…

    • PLM and Cloud - Hold the Promise?  by: Oleg

      December 18, 2010, 06:46

      Cloud is trending. This is not a first time I'm touching the topic of cloud. During the past days, I had lots of healthy debates about different topics around…

    • PLM and Complex Products  by: Oleg

      October 26, 2010, 18:47

      Early this week I had a chance to read the following blog post by Accidental Product Manager - Really, Really Complex Products: Is PLM Software the Solution? I…

    • PLM and Data Model Pyramid  by: Oleg

      January 10, 2012, 17:15

      There is a lot going on in database space these days. Few days ago I posted - PLM, RDBMS and Future Data Management Challenges and I've got quite a few…

    • PLM and Design Buildings by: Oleg

      July 20, 2010, 22:35

      Almost a year ago, I posted PLM and BIM - Common Roots Or Common Future. I think these two domains will have very interesting trajectories in the future.…

    • PLM and Enterprise Integration Game  by: Oleg

      August 23, 2010, 07:35

      Manufacturing company enterprise landscape becomes more and more complex every year. Companies are implementing new products and versions of existing products.…

    • PLM and Future of Gamification  by: Oleg

      September 19, 2011, 09:06

      It is already more than 2 years I first asked on my blog if there is a border between games and PLM software. For some of the people back that days it was…

    • PLM and Google TV: Not for Average People?  by: Oleg

      November 21, 2010, 23:28

      I was reading NYT on my flight today. The following article made me feel bad. Google TV, Usability is Not Included. I didn't buy Google TV yet. I'm still…

    • PLM and IT Consumerization: Top 3 Show Stoppers  by: Oleg

      November 23, 2011, 11:47

      Have you heard about "Consumerization" in IT? I'm sure you had a chance to read about  this trend. If not, navigate to the following Wikipedia link. The…

    • PLM and Legacy Product Data Management Systems  by: Oleg

      August 16, 2010, 09:19

      Bloomberg Business Week published an interesting story - Big Tech Problem as Mainframes Outlast Workforce. Some facts about IBM mainframe business: aged…

    • PLM and New Openness  by: Oleg

      July 21, 2011, 04:09

      The topic of openness in PLM software isn't new. In the past decade, I've been hearing lots of good and bad things about PLM and openness. Last year, I…

    • PLM and Open Source Licenses  by: Oleg

      September 23, 2010, 11:46

      I want to talk about licenses. The topic I'd normally prefer to avoid. Deelip Menezes made a good post about Sales and Licensing of software. However, I want…

    • PLM and Open Standards: Money Talks?  by: Oleg

      March 5, 2011, 10:30

      I'm keeping my eyes open for everything that happens in the space associated with open source and open standards. Open standards are not well developed in…

    • PLM and Post-PC Era by: Oleg

      April 5, 2011, 20:25

      I found an increased trend of conversation around the "post-PC" topic. I found the conversation fascinating. Are we going to replace our PCs, workstations,…

    • PLM and Project Management Options  by: Oleg

      October 19, 2010, 22:46

      Few days ago, I run into Gartner Magic Quadrant about IT Project and Portfolio Management. You can get it by navigating to the following link (the link was…

    • PLM and Re-thinking UI paradigms  by: Oleg

      October 11, 2011, 09:30

      I'm spending more and more time with alternative UIs. It first started from mobile and web. Now it is coming from everywhere. Retrieving my old memories…

    • PLM and Seamless Multi-lingual Collaboration  by: Oleg

      February 10, 2011, 08:00

      Global environment is the reality of today's business. Engineering and manufacturing organizations are located in multiple places worldwide. To help people to…

    • PLM and SharePoint: Business Together?  by: Oleg

      November 19, 2010, 23:04

      I want to learn more about Microsoft's strategies these days. The "big PC" is preparing to become the biggest supplier of enterprise software Office boxes and…

    • PLM and Social Connections by: Oleg

      August 24, 2010, 08:42

      I'm continuing to explore various aspects of relations between PLM and social systems and tools in my blog. The social topic becomes interesting. However, I…

    • PLM and Social Enterprise: Files vs. People?  by: Oleg

      September 8, 2011, 02:22

      For the last couple of days, I'm digesting materials from the Dreamforce conference organized by Saleforce.com. I wasn't able to make it this year, but the…

    • PLM and Strategic Technologies for 2012  by: Oleg

      October 26, 2011, 03:40

      We are in the Q4 of 2011. It is a traditional time start thinking about what is going to happen in 2012. I was reading Gartner's Top 10 strategic technologies…

    • PLM and The Future of Appification by: Oleg

      December 6, 2011, 11:55

      Mobile is very important nowadays. More and more people these days discovering opportunities to use "mobile version of something". It is interesting to see…

    • PLM App Store and The Future of Sales  by: Oleg

      January 10, 2011, 15:36

      Talking about App Store is not a big news nowadays. Companies in CAD, PLM and other companies in enterprise market segment are talking a lot about app stores.…

    • PLM Architecture, Cloud and Design Versions  by: Oleg

      August 11, 2010, 13:25

      I've been reading Ray Kurland interviewing Rich Allen of Dassault Systems SolidWorks Corp. about the future of SolidWorks' cloud solutions. To read this…

    • PLM Cloud an Gartner Flip Flop  by: Oleg

      November 5, 2011, 18:31

      Cloud conversation is taking a sharp turn. Private cloud vs. public cloud. This is actually can be a very interesting and quite a big game changer for PLM…

    • PLM Cloud Future: Back to Database?  by: Oleg

      December 30, 2010, 15:32

      I was reading Salesforce.com announcement made earlier this month during Dreamforce 2010 conference about introduction of a new database.com platform. I found…

    • PLM Cloud, Data Replication and Pig Latin.  by: Oleg

      November 11, 2011, 20:37

      Have you had a chance to read about cloud in Pig Latin? No? Actually, I did. Recently, I came across an interesting blog post and video on Aras PLM website.…

    • PLM Collaboration and "New Socials" by: Oleg

      September 7, 2010, 21:21

      How to make people to work more efficiently? I think this is an important question. This is a challenge for every product development organization. You have a…

    • PLM Collaboration, Social Trend and Lotus Notes Memories  by: Oleg

      September 1, 2010, 06:31

      There are few terms in enterprise software and specifically in engineering software that was completely overused. In my view, collaboration is one of them.…

    • PLM Collaboration: From Old Concepts to a New Reality  by: Oleg

      July 18, 2011, 21:42

      I wanted to touch the topic of "collaboration" today. The term collaboration is very broad. Hit Google to search for "collaboration" and you will see Google…

    • PLM Competition and "True Cloud" Solutions  by: Oleg

      July 2, 2011, 10:24

      CAD, PLM and engineering software world is very competitive. Time ago, CAD vendors competed on the number of features. It is not unusual to see lists that…

    • PLM Complexity: What Does The Future Hold?  by: Oleg

      March 21, 2011, 12:01

      One of my blog readers shared with me slides of Paul Saunders presentation about MRO software from the Miami Aircraft Commerce Aviation IT Conference March…

    • PLM Cost and Enterprisey Clouds  by: Oleg

      December 29, 2011, 20:47

      PLM is a costly piece of software. Software licenses, installation, implementation, support, services. All these components of PLM software make the decision…

    • PLM Customers and Social Open Source Bomb  by: Oleg

      August 2, 2010, 11:27

      Some very interesting news is coming from Lockheed Martin. Navigate to the following link - Lockheed Martin Launches Open-Source Social Networking…

    • PLM Downstream - Sent from my iPad? by: Oleg

      August 6, 2010, 06:40

      I had a chance to read "Sent from my iPad"  on VEKTORRM last week. Dave Angelotti discussed an option to use iPad as a field device. It seems interesting. It…

    • PLM Innovation 2011: PLM and Engineering Software Trends by: Oleg

      January 20, 2011, 04:40

      I'm attending PLM Innovation Congress 2011 in London these days. Lots of interesting presentations and discussions are going here. I recommend you to…

    • PLM Innovation and Packaging Trajectories  by: Oleg

      December 18, 2010, 04:57

      Innovation is a popular word these days. It sounds modern and trending. Everybody wants to jump to this bandwagon. I found myself reading and listening a lot…

    • PLM Jungle or PLM State?  by: Oleg

      October 7, 2010, 11:02

      I read a blog post by Stephen Porter of Zero Wait State called - The PLM State: Why can’t we all just get along?. I think Stephen raised an important…

    • PLM Migration and Product Data Rock-n-Roll  by: Oleg

      December 29, 2010, 11:26

      I read The PLM State: PLM Migration, No Data Left Behind on Zero-Wait State blog. Read it and make your opinion. Stephen Porter is discussing a very important…

    • PLM Mirror and Google Cars  by: Oleg

      October 12, 2010, 15:51

      I loved this - "Look ma, no hands". Did you try it in your childhood? Even so, I'm sure it wasn't about cars. So, now some people in California can say - "No…

    • PLM Network Effect and Single Point of Truths  by: Oleg

      October 22, 2010, 22:17

      Few weeks ago, I had a chance to attend a webinar - Learn How PLM Propels Innovation at Mercury Marine. The webinar is available now on demand. Navigate you…

    • PLM Online Data Sharing: From Spreadsheets to Databases?  by: Oleg

      July 17, 2011, 14:47

      What is the most popular PDM/PLM system in the world? My bet it is probably MS Excel. The flexibility and ease of availability, made Excel so popular between…

    • PLM Open Source: Strategic or Off Road?  by: Oleg

      March 17, 2011, 09:42

      I'm watching closely everything that happens around with Open Source. The world of Open Source is changing all the time. Remember, in the beginning it was…

    • PLM Out-of-the-Box: Misleading or Focusing? by: Oleg

      December 13, 2010, 05:55

      I've seen a new splash in the discussion around PLM out-of-the-box during the last couple of weeks. The initial hit was done by Marc Lind of Aras publishing…

    • PLM Philosophies Collide?  by: Oleg

      September 28, 2010, 21:23

      Somebody asked me last week about how I see th future of PLM... Does it look like-BOM or like-Workflow? I found this question very interesting. Bill of…

    • PLM Platform Wars: Who is Right or Who is Left?  by: Oleg

      February 25, 2011, 13:16

      CAD and PLM world is extremely competitive. The decision process in the manufacturing industry is not fast. Companies are spending significant budgets…

    • PLM Practice in Building Industry?  by: Oleg

      February 23, 2011, 07:00

      I read TechCrunch publication New York City To Put QR Codes On All Building Permits By 2013 this morning. This publication made me think about some common…

    • PLM Reset 2011  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2011, 06:12

      Winter break is a time to make a traditional "lesson learned" or "next year" blog posts. I wanted to come with some thoughts about what I see happens in the…

    • PLM Simplification, Alfresco and AutoCAD Integration  by: Oleg

      May 31, 2011, 12:21

      One of the trends I am following constantly on my blog is the simplification. PLM is very complex and still way too expensive. However, I can see multiple…

    • PLM Simplification. First drop PLM word...  by: Oleg

      January 17, 2012, 20:34

      Simplification is a significant trend. I've been watching it a lot in consumer space. People got really obsessed by simplification after Apple. And these are…

    • PLM Social Detours  by: Oleg

      August 18, 2010, 12:13

      I had a chance to read Enterprise Road Kill by The Vuuch Voice. The discussion Chris suggested in his post is going around usage of social tools in the…

    • PLM Software and Business Process Scalability  by: Oleg

      August 12, 2010, 06:48

      Scaling up is a tough problem. I want to talk today and PLM Software scalability in unusual aspects - business processes. In the past, CAD and PLM vendors…

    • PLM Standard: From Formats to Frameworks  by: Oleg

      February 16, 2011, 23:39

      I want to talk about PLM and Standards today. In my view view, the story of standards is over complicated and confusing. The number of articles about CAD…

    • PLM Standards… Yet Another One? by: Oleg

      May 25, 2010, 18:23

      What do you think about PLM standards? My take is that standards like toothbrushes - everybody wants it, but nobody wants somebody else standard. After STEP…

    • PLM Usability and Social News Aggregators  by: Oleg

      September 10, 2010, 22:14

      Yesterday discussion about PLM usability made me think more about how to come with ideas to improve usability of PLM systems. I wanted to come to something…

    • PLM User Experience, Windows 8 and the End of Desktop  by: Oleg

      June 5, 2011, 02:20

      Some time ago, I wrote about future user experience - PUI: Not PLM UI. Future User experience. One of the fundamental elements of user experience for the last…

    • PLM Vendors and "Cloud Marketing" Hype  by: Oleg

      October 19, 2011, 04:58

      From time to time, I'm experimenting with Google Trends. These results, obviously, cannot be counted as a serious research. At the same time, they can provide…

    • PLM Vendors, IT and Cloud Strategy  by: Oleg

      November 2, 2010, 21:14

      I was reading CloudAve yesterday. The post named - IT: Become Relevant or Die. Read this blog and make your opinion. The discussion about cloud is not new.…

    • PLM, Autodesk and Cloud Wars Club?  by: Oleg

      December 19, 2011, 05:23

      Companies are looking for differentiation in the way they are making business. PLM companies are not different. Dassault, PTC, Siemens PLM, Aras, etc. Nobody…

    • PLM, BOM, Excel - How To Make It Right?  by: Oleg

      July 30, 2010, 12:10

      The following blog article caught my attention last week - "Four recommendations for better Excel BOMs" in Arena Solutions blog by Jennifer Bomze. I found it…

    • PLM, Cloud and Open Source Separation?  by: Oleg

      June 2, 2011, 17:59

      Cloud and Open source are two topics I'm often touching on my blog. In my view, these two trends are notable if you think about where PLM innovation is going…

    • PLM, Collaborative Sandbox and Facebook Pills  by: Oleg

      July 29, 2010, 13:35

      What do you think is the most adopted mainstream collaboration tool? My conclusion is that most of the companies are running by email these days. Email is the…

    • PLM, Emails, and Social Links  by: Oleg

      September 16, 2010, 09:06

      Email is playing a significant role in the way every organization is management today. Organizations are run by emails these days. I've heard from many…

    • PLM, Engineering Software and Business Trends in 2011  by: Oleg

      June 24, 2011, 12:19

      It is a middle of the year, and it is a perfect time to evaluate and talking about business trends. Lot's of people are ready to relax before long awaited…

    • PLM, Enterprise Social Software and Excel Litmus Test?  by: Oleg

      August 9, 2010, 07:51

      I want to take another round of thinking about Enterprise and Social Software. My last post related to that was following Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston…

    • PLM, Google and Cloud Babysitting...  by: Oleg

      May 9, 2011, 12:04

      I'm continuing to think about Amazon cloud failure. As you may have noticed, the "cloud" is a frequent topic on my blog. I've been talking about the cloud with…

    • PLM, High Definition and Complexity  by: Oleg

      July 13, 2010, 22:00

      The complexity is probably the biggest problem that exists in PLM today. How can we resolve it? Siemens HD PLM is supposed to solve PLM complexity by…

    • PLM, Interoperability and Cloud  by: Oleg

      July 28, 2010, 07:02

      I read Microsoft Talked Open Data, Open Cloud and watched Microsoft's Jean Paoli video. It seems to me, Microsoft is taking seriously the topic of heterogeneous…

    • PLM, Manufacturers and Mobile Apps Hysteria  by: Oleg

      June 1, 2011, 14:24

      I can see around more and more people are playing with mobile devices. Last 3-4 months contained many announcements coming from hardware and software manufactur…

    • PLM, Projects, Tasks and Social Productivity  by: Oleg

      February 2, 2011, 17:00

      I've got an email from one of the blogging colleagues about the acquisition of Manymoon by Salesforce.com. Manymoon was a company developed so called "social…

    • PLM, Sharing Information and Googe+ Circles  by: Oleg

      October 1, 2011, 13:04

      If you developed or implemented PDM or PLM system, you probably know that definition of users, groups and roles are an essential piece of your implementation.…

    • PLM, Technological Choice and Open Source Revolution  by: Oleg

      July 22, 2010, 22:07

      The acceptance of Open Source technologies is growing. One of the latest examples of products in open source movement that caught my attention was Lucid…

    • PLM: A Painful Question? by: Oleg

      August 22, 2010, 23:57

      In the end of 1990s, CAD/PLM community was excited about development of Boeing 777 jet. The Boeing 777 is the first aircraft to be fully digitally designed…

    • PLM: Controversy About Process vs. Data Management  by: Oleg

      November 15, 2011, 23:02

      Process vs. Data. I think, this topic not requires a special introduction. In my view, every PLM implementation is facing this discussion and requires to…

    • PLM: From Work To Home via Microsoft and Open Cloud  by: Oleg

      May 30, 2011, 04:15

      Let's talk about PLM software development today. Rewind pre-Web 2.0 and pre- iPhone era. Life was simlpe. After SolidWorks finally proved Windows is good…

    • PLM: Lipstick on a Pig or Missed Opportunity? by: Oleg

      September 9, 2010, 21:24

      I had a chance to read AESSIS blog post - Why Some People Don't Like PLM? Graham started absolutely important discussion about mainstream adoption of PLM in…

    • PLM: Open Source vs. Free?  by: Oleg

      September 27, 2010, 01:02

      I posted PLM and Open Source Licenses few days ago. The main trigger of this post was Google's announcement about acceptance of all OSI licenses. However, as…

    • PLM: Share Data or Die  by: Oleg

      January 22, 2011, 07:25

      I'm still digesting a huge amount of information I learned from PLM Innovation Congress earlier this week in London. However, there is one trend that I can…

    • Reconnect Design To Manufacturing with Single Source? by: Oleg

      May 28, 2010, 21:58

      An interesting story about Design to Manufacturing strategies from Desktop Engineering by Tom Kevan. This topic is very important, in my view. Design and…

    • Run For A Collaborative Inbox?  by: Oleg

      July 12, 2010, 21:07

      Email is continuing to be one of the most widely accepted collaborative tools. However, nowadays, we can see the next attempt to change our Inbox behavior.…

    • SaaS PLM - New, Complex, Expensive?  by: Oleg

      September 21, 2010, 02:29

      Last week I had healthy debates with one of my blog readers about different options to deploy PLM for the small manufacturing companies. Here is the part of…

    • Search Based Apps and PLM Innovation by: Oleg

      February 21, 2011, 05:12

      The following article in E-Commerce Times written by Paul Doscher of Exalead USA caught my attention this morning. Navigate your browser to the following link…

    • Should PLM Disconnect Data from Process?  by: Oleg

      August 27, 2010, 04:13

      I had a chance to read an article by ebizQ related to Cordys BPM. For those who is not aware - Cordys is a relatively new outfit in the enterprise software…

    • Social Enterprise, Twitting Cars, Siri and Furbi  by: Oleg

      November 14, 2011, 15:07

      Few months ago, I had a chance already to write about so-called "social enterprise". The term was unveiled and supported by Marc Benioff during the last…

    • Social Intranet and PLM Apps  by: Oleg

      November 1, 2010, 11:39

      One of the very interesting trends in the modern IT, I'm observing these days is adopting consumer technologies in the enterprise. In general, I can see…

    • Social PLM and Email Lock-in?  by: Oleg

      December 9, 2010, 17:44

      I found the following WSJ Pool interesting. Will you use your Facebook's email service as you primary email? You can read about this poll in the following…

    • Social PLM Inbox and Changing Paradigms by: Oleg

      November 18, 2010, 21:04

      The Facebook announcement about introducing of FB messaging system triggered a flood of posts. I've been looking over them for the last couple of days. I liked…

    • Social Software and PLM 2.0 Process Planning by: Oleg

      May 25, 2010, 18:04

      The following article Will Social Revive Interest In BPM... drove my attention yesterday. A very interesting quote made me think about how social can transform…

    • Swearch and the Future Applification of PLM by: Oleg

      November 10, 2010, 07:13

      I spent my yesterday on Dassault Systems Customer conference (DSCC 2010). I had a chance to talk with DS executives and learned a lot of things about DS…

    • The Enterprise and PLM will rock 2012?  by: Oleg

      December 18, 2011, 12:03

      As usual, at the end of the year, there is a time for blog posts with predictions, opinions and future trends. Last 2-3 years of technological boom were…

    • The future of CAD without files?  by: Oleg

      July 27, 2011, 14:20

      No files any more. Period. I hope I've got your attention. File system is one of the most stable paradigms for storing data for the last 20-25 years. However,…

    • The Future Of PLM Walmarting by: Oleg

      June 18, 2010, 12:25

      Say “PLM” to anyone, and you hear the words “complex” and “expensive”. However, thinking about trajectories of different…

    • The Future of TLA in Engineering Software by: Oleg

      September 22, 2010, 09:45

      Yesterday, I attended COFES Russia / isicad 2010 forum in Moscow. My presentation on the forum was about my view on the future of TLA (Three Letter…

    • The PLM Gutenberg Revolution by: Oleg

      August 13, 2010, 18:28

      I was thinking about how PLM balance product lifecycle from the standpoint of producing and consuming product data. The product development process, obviously…

    • Vertical PLM Medley  by: Oleg

      July 16, 2010, 17:19

      I read an article "PLM's Vertical Challenge" in High Tech Views. The High Tech article is presenting advantages of industry-oriented PLM implementations. Read…

    • Virtual and Physical Convergence  by: Oleg

      July 19, 2010, 10:22

      The things are moving fast these days. One of the most fascinating trends is the emerging connection between physical and virtual words. PLM vendors are…

    • Virtual Desktops and CAD-PLM on the Cloud? by: Oleg

      July 30, 2010, 21:03

      I read Virtual Desktop Are Hot Again by Gigaom. The discussion is interesting and I see a real connection between cost reduction and expanding of Virtual…

    • What 2012 holds for Product Lifecycle Management?  by: Oleg

      January 2, 2012, 20:40

      Beginning of the year is a time for New Year resolutions and "annual predictions". Few days ago, I shared my plans for Beyond PLM activities in 2012. To…

    • What if... "PLM on the cloud" succeeds?  by: Oleg

      May 24, 2011, 08:54

      Push aside our fear about security and PLM on the cloud. I was reading Washington Post's "Video Viewing on Netflix Accounts for Up to 30 Percent of Online…

    • What is the biggest PLM challenge?  by: Oleg

      September 6, 2011, 21:58

      I'm continue the conversation with my PLM blogging buddy - Jos Voskuil at virtualdutchman. For the last two weeks, Jos is running a multi-part blogging series…

    • Why Apple isn't cool for engineers? Or you are here to work...  by: Oleg

      July 8, 2011, 23:54

      Apple isn't cool.. Got your attention? Okay... Today is two years, since I switched my everyday life to MacBook. It is enough time to make some conclusion. I…

    • Why Do We Struggle With File Names in PDM / PLM?  by: Oleg

      November 4, 2010, 22:15

      I read David Dillon blog post on SolidWorks Geeks - File Name and PDM. This short write-up made me think about relations between File Naming and Data…

    • Why to plot a drawing from mobile device? by: Oleg

      December 14, 2011, 23:09

      Mobile becomes more and more important in our everyday life. "You don't have to be at your desk to make your work". This is a new slogan, that in my view,…

    • Will ChromeOS be the Next Big Thing for PLM?  by: Oleg

      December 29, 2010, 12:58

      I read GigaOM - The network computer arrives... finally! About three weeks ago, Google launched the Chrome application store and demonstrated Chrome OS, its…

    • Will Database in the Cloud supercharge PLM for Small Companies?  by: Oleg

      October 23, 2011, 10:01

      I want to talk about an interesting segment of cloud technologies - cloud SQL Database. For the last months, I've seen multiple announcements of vendors in…

    • Will ERP Take a Lead in PLM Redefinition?  by: Oleg

      September 14, 2010, 06:27

      I had a chance to read an article by Michael Fauscette "Workday takes the Gloves Off?". I'm tracking Workday for last 3-4 years. The trajectory is very…

    • Will New Enterprise Software Move to cloud platforms?  by: Oleg

      January 13, 2012, 23:06

      Do you have any plans to develop enterprise software in 2012? Interesting set of predictions is coming from Christian Verstraete and his HP blog about cloud…

    • Will PLM Channels Survive The Cloud Era?  by: Oleg

      March 1, 2011, 00:30

      Cloud is one of the trending topics these days. Slowly, it comes also to PLM space. With the growing number of companies in this space, it becomes clear that…

  • Category: Uncategorized  (9)
    • 12 Steps PDM Upgrade by: Oleg

      May 31, 2010, 19:57

      I bumped into Razorleaf's blog - 12 Steps EPDM Upgrade Checklist. I find it as a very organizing and quality materials that can help people to handle PDM…

    • COFES 2011 Rountable Discussions  by: Oleg

      April 13, 2011, 07:13

      I'm out for COFES this week. It will start tomorrow. My blog and COFES have some common roots. COFES is an annual think tank event that brings executives…

    • Electric Design and PLM Roadmap  by: Oleg

      June 29, 2011, 11:02

      In the early beginning, solutions for manufacturing were focusing primarily on machinery and mechanical design. The historical reason here is simple -…

    • Hello world! by: Oleg

      May 23, 2010, 18:43

      Welcome to Beyond PLM! I will be starting blogging here very soon. For the moment, please check my Daily PLM Think Tank Blog. Best, Oleg

    • How To Define PLM?  by: Oleg

      July 14, 2010, 21:44

      What is the proper definition of PLM? This is a simple and complex question at the same time... Recently, I had a chance to see few interesting definitions of…

    • PLM and My Reading List  by: Oleg

      November 26, 2011, 00:01

      It is a long weekend in US. Even if my day-to-day business activities are not completely US oriented, I can feel some relaxing moments since yesterday. I was…

    • PLM Definition - Corporate vs. Consumer Style?  by: Oleg

      March 22, 2011, 00:07

      It is seems to me PLM definition is a trending topic these days :). Few hours ago, I posted my "PLM Definition - Next Round?" which is referencing the…

    • PLM Wave In a Box?  by: Oleg

      November 28, 2010, 20:10

      Google Wave Dead. Long live Wave In a Box (WIAB). Navigate your browser to the following link and you will learn that despite terrible things that happened to…

    • PTC, SolidWorks and Windchill PLM Success.  by: Oleg

      February 28, 2011, 20:01

      I read Martyn Day article The Jim Heppelmann Interview. Mr. Heppelmann shared his thoughts about different aspects related to PTC, CAD, PLM and competitors.…

  • Category: Vendors  (118)
    • 3 Key Cloud Principles: Will CAD/PLM follow?  by: Oleg

      October 7, 2011, 18:45

      I've been watching what happens around Oracle Open World 11 earlier this week. Among multiple topics, the announcement about Oracle Cloud and controversy…

    • 3D and Communication Strategy  by: Oleg

      August 24, 2011, 00:16

      Communication methods are interesting. These days lots of things are changing in this space. Internet, Web 2.0, Video communication converted some of our…

    • 3DLive, HD3D, 3D UI and Efficiency  by: Oleg

      July 27, 2010, 06:23

      I read Jim Brown's Can Siemens Make More Fun with HD-PLM? Jim is writing about the future of PLM experience. I made me think about User Experience (or User…

    • 50 Free Alternatives for Expensive Software, PLM is not listed by: Oleg

      September 20, 2010, 02:39

      I want to share an interesting list of 50 top Open Source alternatives for expensive software. From the standpoint of customers, expensive software starts at…

    • Alfresco and BPM Shakeout for PLM? by: Oleg

      July 25, 2010, 23:41

      Just few days ago, I mentioned Alfresco in this list of the companies that potentially can challenge enterprise software vendors in their nirvana. The…

    • Aras Corp: Different PLM and New Open Office by: Oleg

      January 19, 2012, 12:59

      I've been visited Aras Corp. office yesterday night. Marc Lind, Aras VP Marketing invited me to join Aras Open House celebration of new office. Aras Corp.…

    • Aras, SolidWorks and Disruptive PLM Strategies  by: Oleg

      October 26, 2011, 21:40

      BAM! Aras just announced Enterprise PLM for SolidWorks. Here is the new article - Enterprise PLM for Enterprise PDM. Navigate to the following article to read…

    • AU2011: New PLM Software Frontiers by: Oleg

      November 30, 2011, 11:09

      Autodesk University 2011. Day 1. If you visited AU at least once you know how it looks like. Thousands people packed to talk about Autodesk software and…

    • Autodesk and SharePoint: collaboration with no compromises?  by: Oleg

      July 5, 2011, 20:11

      Collaboration and SharePoint are two of my favorite topics. I'm following them for the last couple of years. In one of my very early posts on PLM Think Tank I…

    • Autodesk Cloud and "Business as Usual" Question  by: Oleg

      October 6, 2011, 17:12

      Cloud is a hot topic these days. No, I'm not going to talk about True vs. False cloud and Mark Benioff appearance on Oracle Open World. I want talk about…

    • Autodesk Enters PLM: Everything Changes... for Autodesk  by: Oleg

      December 2, 2011, 04:20

      It finally happened. Autodesk enters PLM business. After talks, speculations, discussions and guesses, Autodesk presented their Autodesk Nexus PLM product…

    • Autodesk PLM - Fast Second? by: Oleg

      July 11, 2011, 17:57

      Autodesk and PLM. Do you think these two words have something in common? I had a chance to discuss this topic and make my guesses before. Read my Autodesk and…

    • Autodesk PLM Nexus - First Hands On Demo  by: Oleg

      December 4, 2011, 10:48

      I’d like to continue Autodesk PLM story I started in my previous post and share some of my thoughts based on hands-on experience with Nexus PLM. The demo…

    • Autodesk Quietly Launched Their Cloud by: Oleg

      September 26, 2011, 18:55

      Time ago, I was discussing on my blog about cloud file storage as one of the potential first step CAD vendors will take to adopt cloud. One of my posts about…

    • Autodesk Vault: Enterprise PDM or PLM?  by: Oleg

      April 4, 2011, 04:05

      I've been reading information stream from Autodesk Manufacturing Press Day 2011, which happened last week in Lake Oswgo, Oregon. My blogging buddy, Deelip…

    • Autodesk, Aras and Integrated PDM / PLM story by: Oleg

      December 7, 2011, 18:13

      Back to the beginning of this year, I came with the post - Integrating PLM and PDM. Wrong question? My initial thoughts about integrating PDM and PLM was…

    • Autodesk, Data Management and "Why PLM?" Question  by: Oleg

      August 26, 2010, 01:40

      I read one of the latest VEKTORRUM re-posts about Autodesk and PLM. Navigate your browser to the following link and read the original article from 2007.…

    • Autodesk, Russia and Local PLM  by: Oleg

      September 26, 2011, 17:41

      One of the most interesting things I learned during Autodesk Forum in Moscow was related to local PLM vendors.  I found it very educational and decided to…

    • Autodesk: CAD is done. Now PLM. The moment before AU... by: Oleg

      November 29, 2011, 11:10

      As you know, I'm in Las Vegas these days attending AU 2011. Autodesk is preparing some big messages these years, and I hope to share my opinion about that…

    • Autodesk: From PDM to MLP?  by: Oleg

      March 28, 2011, 04:04

      Last week Autodesk made a series of significant announcements related to their 2012 product lines. Autodesk is shifting to suites. Monica Schnitger wrote about…

    • Before DSCC 2011: Learning new Dassault keywords by: Oleg

      November 7, 2011, 17:31

      The information overflow. This is not something surprising you. In many situations, we are not reading, but scanning keywords. Sometimes these keywords and…

    • BIM Open Source - Stimulus for PLM?  by: Oleg

      September 15, 2011, 04:52

      Open source is trending. I think, Android success and some other OSS projects created some winds towards future open source adoption. In my view, companies are…

    • CAD & PLM CEOs and Social Channels  by: Oleg

      January 22, 2012, 16:12

      Earlier this week, I learn from Alan Belniak (@abelniak) twitter, that he helped Brian Shepherd at PTC to get going on twitter. First of all - welcome on…

    • CAD / PLM and Patent Wars  by: Oleg

      August 23, 2011, 22:43

      I know, patent stories are hot now. After Google decided to pay Motorola the premium of USD 12.5B to defend Android from potential lawsuits, the question about…

    • CAD and PLM Vendor Website Traffic  by: Oleg

      April 6, 2011, 08:46

      I was playing around the data I can take from the website Compete.com. You plug the URL of major CAD or PLM vendor and get the information back for free. I…

    • CAD Strategies: Unified Or Diversified?  by: Oleg

      August 10, 2010, 07:37

      In my view, summer time is good for vacations, research papers and strategic projects. During the summer, you are always have an excuse to stop, think and do…

    • CAD, New Collaboration and Online Storage Services  by: Oleg

      October 30, 2011, 20:04

      Let me ask you a very silly question? How many times you abandoned you official company policy for data sharing and shared your files via Google, Dropbox or…

    • CAD, PLM and End of Microsoft Dominance  by: Oleg

      January 25, 2011, 09:45

      Last week, during PLM Innovation Congress in London, I talked about future trends in PLM and engineering software. If you missed my presentation there,…

    • CAD, PLM and Visual Reporting by: Oleg

      October 17, 2011, 17:07

      Reporting is a very important part of product lifecycle management. Actually, without reporting it is hard to imaging how you can make all information about…

    • CAD-BOM Missing Links by: Oleg

      August 19, 2010, 10:33

      One of the interesting trends in PLM is growing amount of vertical integrations between components of PLM portfolio. The following Razorleaf blog cough my…

    • Can "Try For Free" Model Work in PLM?  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2010, 05:57

      In my view, "Free" is continuing to pull people. Recently, I've seen few articles in PLM Blogosphere that was talking about "free" PLM offerings. You can point…

    • Cloud and Next Generation of BOM  by: Oleg

      October 19, 2011, 09:28

      Few days ago, I was talking about some interesting patterns of PLM and ERP implementation. In a nutshell, the integration between PLM and ERP systems presents…

    • Cloud PLM and Data Residency Option  by: Oleg

      September 11, 2011, 21:43

      Whenever I had a chance to speak about cloud solutions in the context of PLM, the normal reaction of people was like that - company never agrees to put their…

    • Cloud PLM and IT Basic Instinct  by: Oleg

      January 26, 2012, 22:13

      The amount of publications about PLM and cloud is growing. This is not surprising me. There are two reasons to that. Cloud is clearly hyping. Second - major…

    • Cloud PLM and Security Certification  by: Oleg

      August 22, 2011, 11:17

      Cloud and Security. I hope I've got your attention a bit :). In 99% of my talks about PLM and the cloud, the topic of security was coming very fast. The…

    • Cloud PLM and Service Channels  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2012, 00:38

      About a year ago, I published my post - Will PLM Channels Survive The Cloud Era? Back that time, it was my answer to the growing amount of voices about…

    • COFES, PLM, BIM and Augmented Reality by: Oleg

      April 15, 2011, 04:55

      The first day at COFES 2011 over. I hope, you had a chance to follow COFES 2011 via twitter (COFES2011). If not, navigate your browser to the following link.…

    • Collaborative PLM and Oracle 2011 Targets  by: Oleg

      January 3, 2011, 07:49

      I've read the following article Oracle butts into online collaboration space with Cloud Office. It struck me as something important. Forget about Google vs.…

    • Comments and Photos from Dassault PLM Forum in Moscow by: Oleg

      October 14, 2011, 16:38

      I wanted to share some of my notes from yesterday Dassault PLM forum in Moscow. Getting back to previous forums I had a chance to visit, the size of this forum…

    • Corporate iCloud, iPLM Future and Google's Apps?  by: Oleg

      June 8, 2011, 13:43

      Well...It happened. The marketing machine of Apple meets the cloud and cloud marketing. The result is predicted - iCloud. If you haven't had a chance to watch…

    • Does Autodesk Smells PLM? First impression from Moscow Forum.  by: Oleg

      September 22, 2011, 01:02

      Things are busy for me this week. It is mostly because of Autodesk Forum in Moscow. I've been invited to talk here about PLM trends and to run a roundtable…

    • DSCC 2011: How Dassault Blends PLM and Search Based Applications?  by: Oleg

      November 11, 2011, 15:17

      Few months ago, I had a chance to write an article about PLM and comprehensive search. It was about enterprise search. Since then some other events happened in…

    • DSCC 2011: Thinking Inside Dassault PLM Box  by: Oleg

      November 10, 2011, 02:45

      I spent my last two days attending Dassault System Customer Conference (DSCC 2011) in Las Vegas. It will take some time to digest and re-think everything I…

    • Dynamics AX Hybrid Cloud. Should PLM Vendors Care?  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2011, 22:47

      I have a feeling "cloud" topic got some dominance for the last days and week. However, the following article about Dynamics AX 2012 and cloud was something I…

    • ECO Management: What Matters?  by: Oleg

      March 30, 2011, 11:07

      Engineering Change is probably one of the most important and complicated disciplines. I had a chance to meet people that told me - all what you are doing is…

    • Engineers and FaaP (Facebook As A Platform)?  by: Oleg

      October 20, 2011, 03:40

      There are many discussions these days going around cloud and confrontation between large technological companies. If you miss the following article - The…

    • Eurostep and Standard-based PLM  by: Oleg

      May 16, 2011, 12:04

      I'm going to attend Eurostep Share-A-Space 2011 forum later this week in Stockholm, Sweden. The history of the invitation to this conference is going back to…

    • From MultiCAD, to Multi-Cloud. Thoughts about Cloud Realities...  by: Oleg

      September 27, 2011, 18:06

      I think we are actually in the beginning of a very interesting time. Obviously, you know a lot of things about Multi-CAD. No need to explain. However, I…

    • Future PLM platforms and SAP / Oracle technological wars  by: Oleg

      January 25, 2012, 22:19

      All existing PDM / PLM technologies were created 15-20 years ago. I hope I've got your attention :). So, let me speak a bit more about technologies today.…

    • Future Promises and Concerns about PTC after Planet PTC Live by: Oleg

      June 16, 2011, 10:03

      As you probably know, I spent the beginning of the week in Las-Vegas attending Planet PTC Live 2011. Those of my readers who follow me on Twitter already paid…

    • Gartner, PLM Social Networking and Technological Enablers  by: Oleg

      January 24, 2012, 22:19

      I want to talk about a social-networking topic again. I was reading Gartner Top Vertical Industry Prediction for 2012 and Beyond. Spend some time reading the…

    • Google Cloud: Ready for CAD / PLM?  by: Oleg

      March 15, 2011, 05:37

      Cloud is continuously discussed among the people in CAD/PLM industry. The opinions are varying and discussion is going up and down. Vendors are arguing about…

    • Google vs. Microsoft at General Motors: What does it mean for PLM Cloud?  by: Oleg

      November 17, 2011, 20:34

      Cloud big time... It is probably coming to General Motors. Google is fighting against Microsoft to supply 100'00 license deal for GM. Navigate your browser…

    • Google+ potential for PLM and Business Use  by: Oleg

      July 20, 2011, 06:20

      Well, time is running fast, and I counted my first week of G+ experience. It is still too early to share any specific experience, but probably a good time to…

    • GrabCAD, New Openness and Future Business Models  by: Oleg

      February 1, 2012, 12:32

      The world is changing fast. What was near to impossible 10 years ago tomorrow, becomes a reality today. It related to the field of engineers as well as to…

    • How To Make PLM in... Apple Way? by: Oleg

      July 13, 2010, 20:37

      I found the following presentation by Ouriel Ohayon very interesting. Please, take a look and make your impression. Apple Study: 8 easy steps to beat…

    • Introducing Inforbix Product Data Apps  by: Oleg

      November 1, 2010, 22:59

      I'd like to take an opportunity and introduce a new company, I founded together with my colleagues - Inforbix. Our vision is to revolutionize the way…

    • JT Open and the Future of PLM 2.0 by: Oleg

      August 29, 2011, 11:10

      Despite the fact "PLM 2.0" was first articulated by Dassault back in 2006, I think, the term itself has some rights for expanded live beyond DS V6 platform. In…

    • Manufacturing Crowd-Sourcing and Cloud PLM Opportunity  by: Oleg

      December 5, 2011, 15:25

      Crowd-sourcing is a popular trend these days. For those of you out of sync, in a nutshell, crowd-sourcing is a way for a community of people to build,…

    • Microsoft Socl and Social PLM Thoughts by: Oleg

      November 21, 2011, 16:52

      Do you know what is Microsoft Socl? I didn't know until yesterday. However, now I know. It is a new research project by Microsoft, which supposed to become a…

    • Migrations Between PLM Systems  by: Oleg

      August 31, 2010, 07:04

      Microsoft announce SQL Server migration assistant for MySQL. It seems to me, Microsoft is thinking about how to expand their SQL tool's market share. As a step…

    • Mini PLM and Google Shared Spaces  by: Oleg

      December 22, 2010, 12:39

      Google Wave gone. Developers moved to Facebook. Nevertheless, Google comes with an interesting Labs project Google Shared Space. You can get more info on the…

    • Multi-tenant SaaS PLM, SAP's Business ByDesign and Google App Engine  by: Oleg

      August 25, 2010, 05:52

      Cloud or SaaS application continue intriguing developers and vendors. In my view, during the last 2 years, talks around cloud and SaaS moved from the position…

    • My Experience with Dassault V6 PLM Cloud on Amazon by: Oleg

      July 1, 2011, 16:36

      This week was packed with multiple announcements and events. One of them happened in Paris - first Dassault Application Innovation Summit. I wasn't able to…

    • NoPLM and Quirky Social Product Development by: Oleg

      April 12, 2011, 17:23

      Social Product Development. I've been talking about that before. PTC Social Link, Vuuch, 3DSwYm. These are names led my previous conversations. You can take a…

    • On Demand & SaaS PLM vendors by: Oleg

      May 26, 2010, 20:57

      The following request in LinkedIn On Demand Discussion Group - Can Someone Provide The List of PLM OnDemand/SaaS vendors? So I decided to answer publicly: …

    • Open Cloud, PLM Backbone and Vendor Lock-In by: Oleg

      November 30, 2010, 05:00

      Vendor Lock-In is painful. I think, customers in the space of CAD/PLM even more sensitive to this issue. Proprietary CAD formats used by vendors many years,…

    • Oracle, Google and Aras' 226% Growth  by: Oleg

      August 30, 2010, 00:20

      I read the following article "Oracle v Google: Why?". I found it as a very deep analysis of the latest Oracle's bold move against Google. It is hard to predict…

    • PDM in 2010s: Commodity or Competitive Advantage?  by: Oleg

      September 5, 2011, 08:16

      Product Data Management is not a new term. The first appearance of PDM software goes back in early 1990s (I believe veterans of the industry will come with…

    • PLM and Bottom Up Option  by: Oleg

      August 20, 2010, 12:07

      The following publication in VEKTORRUM got me to review again a book “3D Manufacturing Innovation” by Dr. Hiroshi Toriya. I had a chance to read this book…

    • PLM and Comprehensive Search  by: Oleg

      March 30, 2011, 19:33

      For the last few months, I've been asked multiple times about the role of Enterprise search and PLM. Since last year, after Exalead a French search company was…

    • PLM and Global Product Development Strategy  by: Oleg

      December 13, 2011, 14:42

      Manufacturing business become global even for very small companies these days. It is not unusual to see a company of 100-150 employees having multiple…

    • PLM and Location Based Intelligence  by: Oleg

      September 13, 2011, 04:53

      I learn about SAP and Google Maps collaboration from LBZone few days ago. Navigate your browser to the the following link - Intuitive Overlay of Enterprise…

    • PLM and SharePoint Scalability  by: Oleg

      March 14, 2011, 11:08

      Since Microsoft first released MOSS 2007, I can see an increased amount of manufacturing companies are investigating a potential move to SharePoint. Microsoft…

    • PLM and Social Connections by: Oleg

      August 24, 2010, 08:42

      I'm continuing to explore various aspects of relations between PLM and social systems and tools in my blog. The social topic becomes interesting. However, I…

    • PLM and Unexpected Office Collaboration Option?  by: Oleg

      August 30, 2011, 14:13

      I think the world around us is about to change. A couple of weeks ago I posted PLM and Future Competition. The existing traditional structures of vendors,…

    • PLM architecture discussion with Peter Schroer of Aras by: Oleg

      February 3, 2012, 12:58

      If you followed my comments on one of previous posts - Cloud PLM and IT Basic Instincts, I promised to have a conversation with Aras about PLM architecture.…

    • PLM Collaboration and Email Innovation  by: Oleg

      December 23, 2010, 11:35

      Short note this morning. I just learned about Etacts, company that launched their solution earlier this year. Etacts wizards understood the value of email…

    • PLM Collaboration. Not virtual. Whiteboard...  by: Oleg

      August 31, 2011, 17:12

      Collaboration is an important thing. I think you agree with me. However, speaking about collaboration how many of you are looking how to collaborate and…

    • PLM Competition and "True Cloud" Solutions  by: Oleg

      July 2, 2011, 10:24

      CAD, PLM and engineering software world is very competitive. Time ago, CAD vendors competed on the number of features. It is not unusual to see lists that…

    • PLM Definition - Next Round?  by: Oleg

      March 21, 2011, 21:51

      The definition of what is Product Lifecycle Management is one of the most controversial topics in PLM blogosphere and other publications about PLM. Last year,…

    • PLM Enterprise App Store: Bad Idea or Future Promise?  by: Oleg

      September 9, 2011, 23:22

      During the past months, I've seen an increased amount of conversations about the future of App Store software model in the enterprise. You, of course, familiar…

    • PLM Excel and SharePoint Search Option by: Oleg

      August 6, 2010, 07:09

      I read a very good summary of SharePoint 2010 Search Features by Agnes Molnar on End User SharePoint blog. Take a look and make an opinion if this is…

    • PLM Excels and Microsoft Cloud Office 365 by: Oleg

      June 28, 2011, 17:35

      Do you know what is the most widely adopted PLM system in the world? You probably can guess based on the title of this blog post - Microsoft Excel. I've been…

    • PLM In The Azure Box? by: Oleg

      July 19, 2010, 12:51

      If you listened to the news stream from Microsoft Worldwide Partner conference last week, you probably had a chance to get some information about…

    • PLM Interest To Enterprise Search by: Oleg

      September 8, 2010, 22:57

      I can see a growing interest of PLM providers to explore the story of enterprise search. This morning I've seen a mutual press release of Aras Corp. and…

    • PLM Platforms and PLM Automotive Future  by: Oleg

      March 7, 2011, 17:27

      A couple of weeks ago, I posted PLM Platform Wars: Who is Right or Who is Left? The following short article in Dasssault 3D Perspective struck me to think more…

    • PLM Trends and Solution Alternatives: Presentation and Roundtable  by: Oleg

      September 22, 2011, 18:11

      The second day of Autodesk Forum in Moscow. Today, I gave my presentation about PLM Trends and Solution Alternatives. You can find my presentation below. I…

    • PLM Vendors and "Cloud Marketing" Hype  by: Oleg

      October 19, 2011, 04:58

      From time to time, I'm experimenting with Google Trends. These results, obviously, cannot be counted as a serious research. At the same time, they can provide…

    • PLM Vendors, IT and Cloud Strategy  by: Oleg

      November 2, 2010, 21:14

      I was reading CloudAve yesterday. The post named - IT: Become Relevant or Die. Read this blog and make your opinion. The discussion about cloud is not new.…

    • PLM Wave Or "Good Enough" Collaboration  by: Oleg

      August 5, 2010, 06:57

      Six months ago, I posted "Collaboration Trends or Why I Stopped Using Google Wave?". After Google's announcement about Google Wave termination yesterday, I…

    • PLM, Autodesk and Cloud Wars Club?  by: Oleg

      December 19, 2011, 05:23

      Companies are looking for differentiation in the way they are making business. PLM companies are not different. Dassault, PTC, Siemens PLM, Aras, etc. Nobody…

    • PLM, BOM, Excel - How To Make It Right?  by: Oleg

      July 30, 2010, 12:10

      The following blog article caught my attention last week - "Four recommendations for better Excel BOMs" in Arena Solutions blog by Jennifer Bomze. I found it…

    • PLM, Granularity and Engineering Numbers  by: Oleg

      July 14, 2010, 21:08

      I think, the future of engineering software belongs to solutions that will provide a higher level of granularity. More flexible and granular solutions will be…

    • PLM, Microblogging and Communication  by: Oleg

      April 23, 2011, 12:31

      Communication is a vital part of everything we do. How do we communicate these days? Email is one of the most popular ways to communicate. Recently talking to…

    • PLM, SharePoint and Migration Madness  by: Oleg

      November 29, 2010, 06:26

      I just learned that SharePoint migration projects require user's involvement to be really successful. Navigate your browser to the following link and read -…

    • PLM, Smart Products and Internet of Things  by: Oleg

      January 11, 2012, 23:11

      In my view, the power of the internet is going much beyond current horizons. Back in 2009 I published my first post - PLM and Internet of things. The idea I…

    • PLM: Standards, Openness, Open Source and more...  by: Oleg

      May 21, 2011, 01:01

      Yesterday, I had a chance to join a discussion panel on Eurostep Share-A-Space Forum. The formal name of the panel was "The plan ahead -Share-A-Space".…

    • Post COFES, Dropbox and PLM Made Simple?  by: Oleg

      April 19, 2011, 10:42

      As you know, I spent end of my last week, including the weekend at COFES (The Congress of the Future of Engineering Software). It was my 6th COFES. It was…

    • Process Simplification - the next goal for PLM companies?  by: Oleg

      January 6, 2012, 19:37

      It was a long time I didn't talk about process management. The importance of process management is obvious. One of the main questions, companies are asking…

    • PTC and Boston Weather Frustration by: Oleg

      October 26, 2010, 20:43

      Later this week I'm going to attend PTC Lightening Event in Boston. For the last few months, I followed how PTC was preparing for this event. I have to…

    • PTC Creo - AnyThing Possible? by: Oleg

      October 29, 2010, 00:05

      So, it finally happened. After almost 6 months of official preparation, PTC launched a new product line - CREO. CREO will replace existing Pro-E, CoCreate and…

    • PTC Social Link and SharePoint: What the Future Holds?  by: Oleg

      June 17, 2011, 02:49

      One of the products I had a chance to review more closely earlier this week was PTC Social Link. I had a chance to post about social technologies before.…

    • RSS, PLM Collaboration and Activity Streams  by: Oleg

      June 9, 2011, 15:23

      Do you know what is RSS? I'm pretty sure a large amount of casual internet users are not aware about what is RSS and what is RSS readers (Aggregators). I even…

    • SAP-Hemisphere PLM Trend?  by: Oleg

      July 16, 2010, 13:10

      I read the following article by Manufacturing Automation - SAP Taps Partnership for Manufacturing Software Enhancement. (you need to be a member to read…

    • Should PLM Disconnect Data from Process?  by: Oleg

      August 27, 2010, 04:13

      I had a chance to read an article by ebizQ related to Cordys BPM. For those who is not aware - Cordys is a relatively new outfit in the enterprise software…

    • Should we "pack" PLM data into 3D PDF? by: Oleg

      May 3, 2011, 23:55

      The ability to use PLM in downstream applications was always a challenge. There are multiple reasons for that - complexity of products, expensive licenses,…

    • Siemens' Active Workspace - PLM Next Big Thing?  by: Oleg

      September 29, 2011, 23:12

      PLM is a lot of lifecycle. It is a very important characteristic of PLM to support product access the multiple lifecyle phases. As a result of this PLM…

    • Social PLM, Collaboration and Google Structured Discussion  by: Oleg

      March 18, 2011, 06:26

      Collaboration is one of the most overused words in Product Lifecycle Management. Even outside of PLM world, this term creates confusing. You never know what…

    • SolidWorks PDM Customers Focus on Office. Cloud? Meh...  by: Oleg

      August 2, 2011, 01:04

      August is a typical vacation time. At least, I was thinking so... Not any more. Today's news brought me at least two acquisition notices. One from Autodesk…

    • SolidWorks: From Files To PLM?  by: Oleg

      January 24, 2011, 09:35

      SolidWorks World 2011 is about to start, and I'm preparing to learn about what SolidWorks and partners are up to this year. I will take a special look this…

    • The Future of Engineering Communities  by: Oleg

      March 25, 2011, 18:00

      Almost a half year ago, I had a chance to grab a coffee with GrabCAD's Hardi Meybaum in one of Starbucks' coffee shops around Chestnut Hill, MA. We discussed…

    • Thinking About PLM on the Planet PTC Live -Day 1  by: Oleg

      June 14, 2011, 10:04

      I'm attending PTC Live 2011 event these days in HOT Las Vegas. Actually, you have no chance to feel Las Vegas weather when you are on the conference. Hotels…

    • To Harmonize PLM?  by: Oleg

      July 17, 2010, 22:18

      I read an interesting write up yesterday in UK Eureca magazine - EADS is flying harmonised PLM. The background for this message is EADS 2007 decision to…

    • Visiting PTC HQ: Social Link, AnyBOM, Mobile and more... by: Oleg

      January 13, 2012, 01:56

      Remember my post few weeks ago about PLM highway? Boston is certainly a place where you can see a concentration of major CAD / PLM companies. As part of my…

    • Why you should (or not) be using Arena PDXViewer by: Oleg

      November 27, 2011, 19:02

      The story of standards is always fascinating. I love these stories on my blog and spent quite a lot of time talking to people about standards. Do you know…

    • Will ERP Take a Lead in PLM Redefinition?  by: Oleg

      September 14, 2010, 06:27

      I had a chance to read an article by Michael Fauscette "Workday takes the Gloves Off?". I'm tracking Workday for last 3-4 years. The trajectory is very…

    • Will Google Docs Goes 3D?  by: Oleg

      February 28, 2011, 18:32

      Few days ago, I attended webinar One the Edge with Cadalyst - MCAD Smackdown: Direct vs .Parametric CAD. Navigate to the following link to listed the recorded…


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