Archive for March, 2012

PLM, Social Enterprise Failure and Future Steps

PLM, Social Enterprise Failure and Future Steps

Well… I hope got some attention with this provoking title :). Social is trending topic these days. However, let me put a very bold statement – after few years of excitement, I haven’t seen any example of “social software” success in the enterprise manufacturing company. Now, “social software” in my…

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Salesforce Site.com and why PLM vendors need to be concerned?

Salesforce Site.com and why PLM vendors need to be concerned?

If you following cloud news and especially what Salesforce.com is up to, you probably noticed this announcement – Saleforce.com is launching a new service called site.com. You can read more about this announcement here. What was my immediate reaction? There are few software packages Salesforce.com dreams to make obsolete. SharePoint…

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PLM and 3D printing revolution

PLM and 3D printing revolution

3D printing is an important and cool trend these days. For those who are not in the business of 3D Printing, navigate to the following wikipedia article to close the educational gap. 3D printing is a phrase used to describe the process of creating three-dimensional objects from a digital file using a…

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ERP and “Visual PLM” Weapon

ERP and “Visual PLM” Weapon

PLM space is hyping these days. There are many news floating around about what happens in PLM industries these days. I captured some of the trends in my article PLM Perfect Storm 2012 couple of weeks ago. The picture presented by Gartner, shows two major ERP players laying beyond PLM…

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Personal PLM: Pros and Cons

Personal PLM: Pros and Cons

Three years ago, I published the article – Do We Need Personal PLM? In a nutshell, the idea I was discussing was about aggregation and re-purposing data coming from multiple sources using SOA (yes, it was a quite popular buzzword back in 2009) and other technologies. Earlier today, I stumbled…

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Dassault: 3D Experience, V6 and Cloud

Dassault: 3D Experience, V6 and Cloud

Few weeks ago, during SolidWorks World 2012, Bernard Charles, President and CEO of Dassault System announced 3D Experience. I posted about it on my blog before. You can navigate to the following link to read more about it – V6, 3D Experience and “after PLM” party. If you are following me…

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Cloud PLM and Bill of Material Question

Cloud PLM and Bill of Material Question

Cloud is hyping these days. However, it also becomes real and moving from the state of “think” to “make” something. Navigate to the Jim Brown’s post. One of my favorite passages out of that post is following: Now there is more to do than talk, something can be done about…

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GrabCAD, Collaboration and Dropbox

GrabCAD, Collaboration and Dropbox

One of the companies I’m watching is GrabCAD. Earlier, I was talking about GrabCAD’s idea of open CAD library and community for engineering. Another topic I discovered with GrabCAD in addition to be an open library was “crowdsourcing”. Navigate to the following link to read Manufacturing Crowdsourcing and Cloud PLM….

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Multi-CAD & PDM integration: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Multi-CAD & PDM integration: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

I’d like to continue my discussion about multi-CAD and PDM started few weeks ago. If you want to catch up on my earlier posts about the same topic, please navigate to the following link to read my previous post – The Anatomy of MultiCAD-PDM integrations. Some other articles you might…

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PLM Competition 2010s and Anti-cloud PLM rap?

PLM Competition 2010s and Anti-cloud PLM rap?

For a very long time, the PDM /PLM market was boring. Not so many events were happened during the decade of 2000s. It was mostly about “acquisitions” of smaller companies by bigger companies. Obvious, large acquisition made historical records – Agile Software, MatrixOne and some others. For me, the interesting PLM…

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