Archive for April, 2013

PLM and The Art Of Simplicity

PLM and The Art Of Simplicity

For many years, enterprise software was known as a place where development of new features was one of the main priorities. To have comprehensive list of features was considered as absolute necessity. The army of sales people and advisers spent enormous amount of time in validating and comparing features of…

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CIMdata PLM Forum: PLM Never Ends

CIMdata PLM Forum: PLM Never Ends

I’ve been attending North American PLM Market & Industry Forum organized by CIMdata earlier today. CIMdata is running these forums across the different geographies. Navigate to the following link to learn more about future locations and forums. Here you can see the agenda. I’ve made some calculation. The pure presentation…

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CAD, PLM and Future Cloud File Systems

CAD, PLM and Future Cloud File Systems

Cloud is everywhere these days. It becomes a mainstream in our everyday life and it is coming to businesses and enterprises. Emails, photos, social networks, mobile apps… Cloud services and applications are destroying old paradigms and create new ones. One of the most powerful paradigm we developed for the last…

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PLM Focus Debates and Strong Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary

PLM Focus Debates and Strong Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary

Working with engineers is like herding cats. Try to put few engineers in a room and get an agreement. If you have 4 engineers in a room, you probably will have about 5-6 opinions about what is the right way. No surprise. That’s what happens when engineers are trying to…

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Mobile PLM Native Apps Challenge

Mobile PLM Native Apps Challenge

Native Apps vs. HTML5 enabled web user experience? This is a dilemma for many developers these days.  People are spending more time using native apps comparing to mobile web optimized sites. However, enterprise software companies have an additional challenges to transform their product suites into set of native mobile apps….

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“PLM journey” and thoughts about technology

“PLM journey” and thoughts about technology

PLM implementations are complex. How many times have you heard about that? I think a lot. Last 15-20 years of PDM/PLM business demonstrated that PLM and ease of implementations are not coming together. If, in addition to that, you ask for low cost, people might be thinking you are joking. I’ve been…

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PLM Developers – what is the right mobile platform?

PLM Developers – what is the right mobile platform?

Mobile is coming to enterprise. Blackberry was a first device who cracked mobile enterprise. Enterprise mobile email delivered by Blackberry was king of the road many years. Then came iPhone, iPad and many other devices. The development for different mobile platforms is skyrocketing. There are many questions here. Every PLM…

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