I used an extended pause during the U.S. Memorial Day weekend to catch up on some PLM reading. The article PTC’s Cloud CAD Dilemma written by Verdy Ogewell caught my special attention. In his typical devil controversy style, Verdi brought up the opportunity for PTC to lead the future CAD…
My last article PLM vs ERP Tug of War generated a great number of comments. Thanks, everyone for sharing your insights and opinions. There are many reasons why the discussion is always hot about PLM-ERP. The main one is because these systems are traditionally responsible for both sides of the…
There are two types of CAD revolutions (features and platforms). The first create something completely new that was not possible before (think Pro-E and parametric features). Another one is platform shift. For many decades, CAD companies were playing the platform shift game. Remember Autodesk revolutionized the CAD by bringing AutoCAD…
How to approach a large mass market? Many companies in the software business asked this question when building their products, sales, and marketing strategy. Every time it happened in the past, it was a combination of technology and business creating these unique conditions to grow. Autodesk and Solidworks are undoubtedly…
The data is a new oil. This is a mantra of modern business, products, and technologies. Big tech companies built enormous businesses by developing technologies by acquiring information about what we do, what we like, where we go, and, by doing so, discovering what is our future behavioral intent –…
The file is a fundamental concept in any operating system. Files are one of the most popular mechanisms for data exchange. At the same time, files are insanely complex and contribute to many problems. Here is what Steve Jobs said about files. In every user interface study we’ve ever done…
Standards are super important. They provide us a basis for mutual understanding and used in products and technologies to support communication, transparency, commerce, production, and manufacturing. We have standards in so many places because they make sense. They fundamentally improve business. This is a place where we have so many…
The roots of PLM are in CAD file data management. It was so obvious for CAD vendors to store data in files, that nobody even considered that the root cause of PDM problems – CAD files, should have been eliminated much earlier. It didn’t happen and this is how the…
PDM is one of the topics I’m following for many years. CAD files created tons of challenges and to develop technology and solutions to manage them, share them with the team, provide correct access, and manage revisions was a high priority. The need to provide a standard PDM solution became…
Unless you lived under the rock, you’ve heard about SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. If you will try to figure out the details, you can find a lot of controversy and marketing materials using these names to explain strategies, technologies, and applications. I share my thoughts earlier about PaaS, SaaS, and…
