For many years, Microsoft and Office were 100% associated with PC. Not any more. If you follow earlier news from today, Microsoft announced of the biggest releases for a long time – Office 2013. Long awaited release brings lots of new stuff in the Microsoft Office eco-system. Navigate here to…
I made my weekly social media catch up during the weekend. The following topic caught my attention. Google recently started to show some muscles to other browser players. Google Apps require newest browsers to run, and Google drops support for older versions and some browsers completely. Here is the evidence….
I learned something interesting today from solidedging blog – Yes Gertrude, PLM World has a Dress Code, by Dave Ault. He is speaking about enforcing the dress code during some of PLM events and meetings. Here is the key passage: Posted today at the Siemens SE Misc category on the…
Design and engineering world are changing fast these days. 20 years ago, the objective of CAD and other engineering software vendors was to replace “drafting board”. Then analysis, simulations and digital mockup came to place. It allowed to model and optimize some of the product development and manufacturing stages such…
Let’s talk today about databases and database technologies. Everybody these days understands what is that… Database technology became an essential part of every application. Practically, everything we did in the past in enterprise software was dependent on databases. Specifically talking about PDM and PLM, databases and data modeling became a…
Experience. We love this word nowadays. I can hear many discussions about “experience” these days. The last five years of computing and web shown that “experience” is actually very important. The examples are going from iPod and mobile devices to complex web sites and social networks. CAD / PLM companies…
I want to talk about the cloud today. However, I don’t want to speak about PLM cloud. I want to talk about the real cloud, the one that available on the everyday basis to all of us – the web. This is a place where today concentrated a lot of…
When it comes to “cloud PLM”, the discussion about “security” is almost inevitable. This is one of the top concerns of people and, at the same way, top argument of IT and other people arguing against use of public (and other variations of) cloud PLM systems. I’m reading about security…
‘Alte Zachen’ means ‘old stuff’ in Yiddish. ‘Alte’ (old) and ‘Zachen’ (thing). When I was a child, I remember a person walking along the street and yelling ‘alte zachen’. It was a signal to take out old stuff and bring it down. The person was taking the stuff (sometimes paying…
Social becomes a norm these days. It is interesting to see how many things surrounding us transformed and wearing “social clothes” these days. One of the elements of social impact in the realm of manufacturing and engineering software is an increased influence of “communities”. Software vendors and customers recognized the…
