Talk to somebody about how to implement enterprise software… What is the first thing that comes to your mind? It is a complex and long process very often requires transforming your business processes and everyday habits. Believe it or not, but even these days, engineering and manufacturing company processes are…
Mobile is fascinating these days. The growth rates are amazing. Learning from publicly available sources, the growth of mobile internet usage will outperform regular desktop and laptop traffic. So, we are clearly moving towards a mobile future. What does it mean for CAD and PLM vendors? They clearly don’t want…
Have you heard about BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) trend? Together with some other “consumerization” trends it shows the power of web, social and other technologies developed for consumer space. It is really different from the situation 15-20 years. Back that days new technologies were first developed in the “closed”…
PLM is not for small companies. It was a typical statement popular 10 years ago. Smaller manufacturing company is a fascinating place to innovate. CAD / PLM companies always wanted to crack this market segment. It was done first with CAD systems that were moving from UNIX to Wintell machines….
PLM and Single Point of Truth. You probably heard about that before. I tried to address this topic in the past. Navigate to few of my old posts about that – PLM and Single Point of Truth and PLM and Single Point of Disagreement. Earlier this year, I came back…
Earlier this week, Kenesto – new outfit of Mike Payne announced about general availability of their cloud based business process automation services. If you missed the announcement, navigate your browser to the following link. I blogged about Kenesto before – PLM, Kenesto and Process experience. Released version brings some additional…
I’m in a deep technological mood these days. As you probably noticed, I’m attending Semantic Technology & Business conference in beautiful, but cold San Francisco. SemTech 2012 covers an interesting technological space that covers a variety of topics related to data, data management, big data, semantics, linked data and semantic…
Data management and collaboration are not new topics. I think, the majority of industry experts agree that proper data management can improve collaboration and people performance. However, not much happened beyond this statement for the last decade. The deployment of data-management systems remains complicated, and the majority of end users…
These days everything is going global. Manufacturing is not an exception from this rule. Design anywhere, build anywhere, support anywhere – you can hear it very often from manufacturing companies these days. Speaking about design, engineering and manufacturing software, you can be easy design things in U.S., use some engineering…
Files. It is so obvious, right? We are using files everywhere in our life. Documents, Pictures Photos, Excel spreadsheets, CAD files, Reports, etc. It is around all the time. New, Open, Save, Save As… It is easy. In design, engineering and manufacturing world, file is an important paradigm that holds…
