Autodesk University 2011. Day 1. If you visited AU at least once you know how it looks like. Thousands people packed to talk about Autodesk software and beyond. When I’m still digesting Autodesk announcement about Nexus PLM, I wanted to share with you the my presentation during the AU Innovation forum:…
As you know, I’m in Las Vegas these days attending AU 2011. Autodesk is preparing some big messages these years, and I hope to share my opinion about that with you very soon. Yesterday, I was attending media and press meeting with Autodesk execs, including Autodesk CEO Carl Bass, Manufacturing…
The story of standards is always fascinating. I love these stories on my blog and spent quite a lot of time talking to people about standards. Do you know what is common between standards and toothbrushes? Here, you go –“standards and toothbrushes -everyone needs to use them, but nobody wants to use someone else’s”. So, I…
The announcement made by Dassault System last week, made me think about a huge distance CAD industry passed for the almost 50 years, since Ivan Sutherland first time demonstrated “Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System“. In order to prevent a discussion between Autodesk Alias and CATIA Sketch folks, I just…
I’m coming to AU 2011 this year. As you already know, Autodesk is planning to unveil their PLM story. In the pre-announcement Autodesk made it called – Everything Changes 11/29/11. The formal name of the forum: Everything Changes – The Future of Management of Innovation. I will be the guest of…
Many of the engineers (and not only) are using Microsoft Excel. People are literally lives inside of Excel spreadsheets. When it comes to PDM and PLM, I prefer to call it DIY (Do It Yourself) PLM. If you really on the DIY path, I think you need to be aware…
It is a long weekend in US. Even if my day-to-day business activities are not completely US oriented, I can feel some relaxing moments since yesterday. I was sorting out my bookshelf today. Since 3 months ago, I made myself switching completely to digital reading. Nevertheless, I found quite many…
Have you heard about “Consumerization” in IT? I’m sure you had a chance to read about this trend. If not, navigate to the following Wikipedia link. The idea, in a nutshell, is related to a growing usage of the application and devices originally available in the consumer space in enterprise and/or…
Do you know what is Microsoft Socl? I didn’t know until yesterday. However, now I know. It is a new research project by Microsoft, which supposed to become a next social network. Mashable just wrote about it four days ago here. Who is behind this project? This is what Mashable…
Cloud big time… It is probably coming to General Motors. Google is fighting against Microsoft to supply 100’00 license deal for GM. Navigate your browser to the following article – GM is the latest battleground between Microsoft Office and Google Apps. Read the story. Automaker is running 100’000 seats of…
