A blog by Oleg Shilovitsky
Information & Comments about Engineering and Manufacturing Software

Engineers and Video Collaboration?

Engineers and Video Collaboration?
Oleg
Oleg
26 July, 2011 | 1 min for reading

Think about enterprise software and collaboration. I think, collaboration is boring. It is complicated, requires lots of system configuration and implementation skills. Try to talk to your colleagues engineers about a potential new system for collaboration. How many will be listening? Probably something is wrong. What can be a new reality for “collaboration”?

MenloParkPatch announces, “Facebook Launches Video Chat.” You can see Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his livestreamed product announcement. Facebook will include video chat powered by Skype’s technology. I found the following Zuckerberg passage interesting:

“I actually think the driving narrative for the next five years or so is not going to be about wiring up the world, because a lot of the interesting stuff has already been done,” he said. “It’s about what kind of cool stuff you’re going to be able to build… now that you have this wiring in place.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ_64PPvxzY

As you can see Facebook is not alone in this video chat race. Google just came with a new feature in Google+ called Hangout.

What is my conclusion? I think, an average manufacturing company already implemented way too many enterprise systems. Maybe we need to stop trying to re-invent “collaboration” by introducing new names and set of complicated user interfaces? Let just think about adding some cool features. Think, video chat is one of them. Just my thoughts…

Best, Oleg

Recent Posts

Also on BeyondPLM

4 6
7 January, 2013

What do you think about “social PLM” trend? I don’t see many cheerleaders of social PLM nowadays. The excitement and...

17 September, 2010

I’ve been attending Technia PLM Innovation Forum early this week in Stockholm. My conclusion from this forum is that all...

10 April, 2022

Digital transformation is a hot topic in many industries, and manufacturing is no exception. Many manufacturers are looking for ways...

5 March, 2015

To measure ROI is important part of PLM implementation decision. These days companies are less interested in 3-5 years implementation...

19 August, 2009

My new blog post on 3D Perspectives. Easy way to visualize your social network in Excel. Cool… Best, Oleg

7 June, 2016

Engineering.com article Success at Microsoft and Airbus: Can Aras Battle Their Way into the PLM Big Leagues? is raising multiple questions...

17 January, 2010

Last week I had chance to read Forbes’s article (Listen To Competitors — Not Customers), which made me think more...

26 November, 2011

It is a long weekend in US. Even if my day-to-day business activities are not completely US oriented, I can...

8 June, 2019

I spent the last three days at IDE 2019 – a summer school organized by Core-Lab of the University of...

Blogroll

To the top