Archive for March, 2012

PLM and “The Whole Truth” Problem

PLM and “The Whole Truth” Problem

It is hard to find somebody in PDM/PLM business that is not familiar with the idea of a “single point of truth (SPOT)”. The idea is not new. In my view, it was one of the most powerful model that convinced people to implement PLM during the last decade. Similar…

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PLM, Innovation and Getting Things Done

PLM, Innovation and Getting Things Done

This week was extremely busy. I was traveling to attend Autodesk Media Summit in San-Francisco. You can read about it in my previous post. However, I wanted to talk about Innovation before this weekend. Have you heard about this buzz? It became so popular to talk about how software helps…

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Autodesk, PLM 360, Marketing and Zero Click Solutions

Autodesk, PLM 360, Marketing and Zero Click Solutions

I’m attending Autodesk press and media summit yesterday and today in Autodesk San Francisco office. Autodesk invited about 100 journalists and bloggers to share information about the new Autodesk product release. This is also an opportunity to speak to Autodesk executives – Carl Bass, Buzz Kross and others. Autodesk puts…

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Product Lifecycle Management and Obsessive Taxonomies

Product Lifecycle Management and Obsessive Taxonomies

I’ve been reading twitter stream during my short weekend at home. One of the tweets from Randal Newton caught my special attention. This is the message: This message made me think about PLM systems, taxonomies and folksonomies. If you’re new to this term, a short intro. Taxonomies is what you…

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My first take on Autodesk PLM 360 system and technology

My first take on Autodesk PLM 360 system and technology

Autodesk PLM 360 is widely announced and promoted “new cloud alternative” from Autodesk to disrupt PLM market. After initial announcement, back few weeks ago, press, media and bloggers gave significant focus to PLM 360 products. If you want to catch up a bit on articles, I’d recommend you few stories…

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How to re-invent “PLM collaboration” world?

How to re-invent “PLM collaboration” world?

What do you think about “PLM Collaboration”?… Yes, I can hear you – boring. However, what if I tell that collaboration can be cool again? Over the past year, I was tracking few vendors investing and playing with a collaboration topic. Today I decided to give you my perspective on…

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PLM Think Tank March Top 5

I wanted to start by quote one of my blogs earlier this month – PLM is a fun place to be again. After almost a decade of slow motions and acquisitions, we are coming again to the state when new companies are created, and you can see some interesting alternatives…

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PLM and Google Enterprise

PLM and Google Enterprise

Let’s talk about Google today. I’ve been writing about Google technologies and Google enterprise efforts quite frequently. One of the questions, readers were asking me – when Google develops PLM? The interest was obvious. Many people believe Google technologies can be quite powerful to work for enterprise. Read the following…

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The Future of PLM consultancy

The Future of PLM consultancy

The internet changed our life for the last decade. I don’t think somebody will argue about that. Cloud is trending. Thinking about different aspects of how cloud is going to influence our future business, the topic of consultancy and service providing shouldn’t be missed. Some time ago, I posted –…

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Cloud PLM: what do you need to know about multitenancy

Cloud PLM: what do you need to know about multitenancy

Multitenancy. You may ask me why I want to spend this Sunday morning talking about multitenancy. Well… two words – important and confusing. Now, with the announcement of Autodesk PLM 360, I expect conversations about multitenancy to happen more often and even create some turbulence during pre-sales cycles. So, let…

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