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PLM

Will “cloud drive” disrupt engineering collaboration?

April 25, 2012

What is the next file system that will be available for our disposal? Cloud file system. Really? In the past few years, I’ve been writing about the future of moving CAD and engineering content to the cloud and various options that will be available to make it happen. Navigate to read some of my previous [...]

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PLM and the death of complexity

April 23, 2012

The complexity of engineering and manufacturing software is a well-known fact. The topic isn’t really new. For the last couple of years the complexity topic came to me in different context and various forms. Two weeks ago, I was writing about that in my blog – PLM: Data, Search and Future User Experience. If you [...]

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Product Lifecycle Data and Cloud Trap Debates

April 21, 2012

The discussion around the cloud is heating up. At the time, the competition gets stronger, the debate around the cloud trap is taking to the next level. It is not unusual these days to see cloud propaganda coming from the companies beating their future on the success of the cloud as well as opposite voices [...]

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PLM Cloud Switch: From CDs to AWS Marketplace

April 19, 2012

I captured an interesting news earlier today. Amazon launching AWS Marketplace. Navigate to the following article to read more. What does it mean, in a nutshell? Similar to how Amazon.com is your ultimate online hyper mall to buy everything you need from books to furniture, AWS Marketplace is a place to buy cloud software for [...]

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Will CFO like “cloud PLM”?

April 12, 2012

Cost is one of the aspects all cloud PLM providers bring to the table these days. The demand and the expection is that that PLM (or any other software) on the cloud will become cheaper than on-premises’ alternative. Earlier this week, I’ve been reading an article from CIO magazine – Why CFO and Cloud Computing [...]

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Will COFES 2012 make Arizona cloudy this week?

April 11, 2012

I’m coming to COFES 2012 this week. COFES (The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software) is a think-tank event and one of my favorites. For the next 3 days, I’m going to put myself under the sun in Scottsdale, AZ. COFES publish the list of key participants – you can see it by navigating [...]

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PLM and freedom in business

April 10, 2012

If you think about PDM and PLM, you will discover a lot of “controlling” functions. Examples are easy. You need to control documents, revisions, bill of materials, changes. Later, you need to manage and control processes. We’ve been living this type of environments for many years. Today I want to talk about something that I [...]

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Why PLM technology can be addictive?

April 9, 2012

You may think everything is going faster these days. Instagram acquisition earlier today proved how disruptive and fast can be an influence of the internet on service providing. On the picture below, you can see a comparison of the technology adoption pace. At the same time, the speed of change in manufacturing companies is different [...]

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PLM: Ugly vs. Cool

April 8, 2012

Do you think PLM software must be cool? More than two years ago, I posted FREE and COOL trends in CAD/PLM. I’m observing an increased amount of discussions about “PLM coolness” in the past few weeks. The release of PLM 360 by Autodesk just amplified the interest to the “cool” side of PLM. In my [...]

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Mobile PLM gold-rush. Did vendors miss the point?

April 6, 2012

One year ago, I posted – PLM and Post-PC era. It is interesting to read back and think about the same topics again. Mobile revolution. We are living in this now. Our personal life became much more mobile in the last 2-3 years. Post-PC era and revolution made by table computers changed the way we [...]

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