Archive for May, 2017

PLM Cloud Transformation Readiness

PLM Cloud Transformation Readiness

If you want to get up to speed with everything going on in technology, navigate to Kleiner Perkins venture partner Mary Meeker’s annual Internet Trends report 2017 here. The report is delivered annually and you might remember my blogs following 2016 and 2015 reports – Data as a Platform and…

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Enterprise PLM journey to the cloud

Enterprise PLM journey to the cloud

Thanks for one of my twitter followers, I found an awesome new website – Turnoff.us by Daniel Stori. If you have PLM twisted mind (thanks Jos Voskuil), you might like this website full of geeky jokes about computers and programmers. Take some time and find your favorite picture. Here is my…

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Blockchain technologies and distributed manufacturing ledger

Blockchain technologies and distributed manufacturing ledger

Data is a new oil. Slowly, but surely manufacturing companies and PLM software vendors are getting to the point when they will need to rethink the way product lifecycle data is captured, processed and used. TechCrunch article – Toyota pushes into blockchain tech to enable the next generation of cars brings…

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Invisible Product Lifecycle Software

Invisible Product Lifecycle Software

PLM industry is transforming. We can hear sounds of transformation everywhere. Data management is getting better – we are capable to store and process a gigantic amount of information these days. Computing power is becoming elastic and available at the time we need it. New sensors and data collection technology…

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How different is DS 3DEXPERIENCE cloud?

How different is DS 3DEXPERIENCE cloud?

Recent CIMdata cloud PLM research brings attention to PLM cloud circa 2017 and trying to figure out reasons why manufacturing companies are not running fast to adopt cloud PLM products from established PLM vendors. Despite being discussed many times in the past few years, cloud PLM technologies keep driving controversy among…

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Will PTC redefine PLM with IoT?

Will PTC redefine PLM with IoT?

PLM definition is one of these questions that often come in the discussions between industry analysts, bloggers and PLM pundits. While users are usually very indifferent about what three letter acronym is used, industry marketing and press, business and financial analysts are sensitive to buzzwords, names and trends. I was attending PTC…

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PLM back in the future with IoT toolbox

PLM back in the future with IoT toolbox

I’m attending PTC LiveWorx event this week in Boston. The event is huge and it is just at the beginning. Yesterday, I attended PTC Global Partnership Conference (disclosure – openBoM, the company I co-founded is PTC partner). I captured few interesting slides I wanted to share with you. They came…

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PLM bottom up sales: dream or future reality?

PLM bottom up sales: dream or future reality?

Some products are bought. Think about milk, gas, pain medicine, airplane tickets. The vendor just need to let know potential users about the product and someone will come across to buy it. However, other products are sold – cars, insurance, engineering and enterprise software. That was true for many years….

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LiveWorx 2017: Theme and Keyword Search

LiveWorx 2017: Theme and Keyword Search

PLM mega event is coming this week to Boston. PTC is hosting LiveWorx 2017 in Boston Exhibition and Convention Center 22-25 May. The following link is an entrance to a huge portal covering all possible and impossible topics about CAD, PLM, IoT and whatever else you can imagine. I’m going to…

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Future PLM integration: data service standards vs open REST APIs?

Future PLM integration: data service standards vs open REST APIs?

I learned yesterday that integration is ranked more important then security with end users in ongoing CIMdata cloud PLM survey. It was mentioned by Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata VP of Research. You can download ebook from CIMdata website here. The book was sponsored by PTC, so it has some PTC cloud…

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