Archive for February, 2011

Building Engineering Office Around Mac?

Building Engineering Office Around Mac?

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. I read the following information week article “Building The Mac Office“. I found the beginning of the phrase very PLM-wish-list-like:…

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PLM, SharePoint and Future Virtualization

PLM, SharePoint and Future Virtualization

Today everything can be virtualized. If you think about your dedicated IT environment, proprietary or public cloud, the ability to virtualize environment can be tremendously important. In one of my previous posts about virutalization I shared my thoughts about why virutal technologies are important. I talked about data, application and…

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PLM and Seamless Multi-lingual Collaboration

PLM and Seamless Multi-lingual Collaboration

Global environment is the reality of today’s business. Engineering and manufacturing organizations are located in multiple places worldwide. To help people to collaborate despite lanugage barriers is a very important goal. In the past, multi-language support in software was limited to providing versions of software working in different languages. However,…

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Integrate PDM and PLM: Wrong Question?

Integrate PDM and PLM: Wrong Question?

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 Enterprise PDM and Enovia V6. Navigate to the following link to see Jonathan’s presentation online. These slides as well our conversation made me think about trajectories…

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CAD, PLM and Product Cost

CAD, PLM and Product Cost

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 down can be a very important feature and benefit of spending the time to implement your PLM software and set up…

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PLM Think Tank – January Top 5

PLM Think Tank – January Top 5

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 event in London and SolidWorks World 2011 in San Antonio, TX. One of the most interesting trends that I’m observing last time…

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Microsoft and Future Online PLM Platforms

Microsoft and Future Online PLM Platforms

Few days ago I published PLM Cloud: Dedicated, Private, Public. Following this post, I had few interesting conversations about what are possible platforms can be used to develop online cloud applications for enterprises. Few options were mentioned – Microsoft, Force.com, Google and some others. It made me think again about…

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Honeycomb PLM Attraction

Honeycomb PLM Attraction

Yesterday morning Google held an event presenting Android Honecomb – a new operational system completely focused on Tablet devices. Navigate your browser to this link to read more about Honeybomb features. Tablets and Simplicity Tablets are trending. After Apple sold 7M iPad devices during the last quarter, it became clear, people…

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PLM, Projects, Tasks and Social Productivity

PLM, Projects, Tasks and Social Productivity

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 productivity software”. I tracked Manymoon as a company doing some nice work in developing applications complimentary to Google Apps. The question I’ve been asked  by…

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PLM Cloud: Dedicated, Private, Public

PLM Cloud: Dedicated, Private, Public

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 development with many people there. SolidWorks was “talking about cloud” a lot during the past year. Last year, I read a nice review of…

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