SaaS is a topic of many debates in the PLM industry these days. Back in the 2010s, the question was if the “cloud” technologies work for manufacturing companies and CAD/PLM vendors will adopt it beyond testing and evaluation. Few articles back to that time. For example, Siemens IT was analyzing…
Earlier this week, I spent time online watching AU2020 tracks and presentations. The event this year was completely virtual, which unfortunately won’t allow us to meet live people and have great conversations. On the other hand, you can get a front-row on every session, rewind, and watch it again. And…
Autodesk University is one of my favorite events for many years. This year it is different. Usually, the event attended by around 10,000 people, it was converted into a fully digital event attended by 100,000 people virtually according to Autodesk. Over the course of last months, I attended many virtual…
It is hard to swim these days in the ocean of online events. PLM is not an exclusion. And it is hard to differentiate between an event, which goes virtual, or just zillions of online webinars, video presentations, and other digital media distributed online. Among many PLM events from the…
Are you connected? In the modern world, we use such a word very often. Our phones and computers are connected to WiFi or mobile networks. We are connected to the internet and to dozens and sometimes hundreds of different services. Our TVs are connected. Our cars are also very often…
Small and medium-sized organizations are very interesting. Their problems are very much similar to the problems of large companies, but their resources and organizational capabilities make the process of transformation much harder for them. Modern days digital transformation brings so many tools and technologies, but companies are failing to adopt…
Unless you lived under the rock for the last decade, you’ve heard about Knowledge Graphs. In a nutshell, a knowledge graph acquires and integrates information into an ontology and applies reasoning algorithms to derive knowledge. It uses information extracted from systems, subject matter experts, data links, and machine learning algorithms….
The era of four digits acronyms is coming. Check out my FLaaS article. If you never heard about LCAP, it is time to meet the new name – Low Code Application Platforms. You might remember my articles about low code development earlier this year. Check them out: Will low-code save…
Earlier this week, I heard that the best PLM innovation is just listening to the customers. The situation with the user experience of enterprise software was completely different 15-20 years ago. Most business software development brands didn’t care much about user experience and customer behavior. These days, the situation is…
Cloud is not a new thing in the technology and software world. Cloud and Saas technology allowed to build remarkable world brands, yet cloud tech still keeps raising questions about adoption and acceptance in engineering and manufacturing software. The past decade demonstrated how dominant CAD and PLM vendors moved from…
