I spent my yesterday morning at AU2017 Forge Developer conference. I featured keynotes in my previous article. So, today I wanted to publish my notes and few pictures I captured. DevCon keynotes session was open by Jim Quanci, Senior Director of Forge Partnership Autodesk is actively developing Forge platform to…
I’m at Autodesk University (AU) 2017 this week getting ready to a marathon of keynote presentations, sessions, discussions, meetings. To survive this thing is not simple – I know it from many years of experience to attend this event. Skimming through the twitter, I found pro-tips from Al Dean of…
How to overlay competitors. In my view, this is a new name in CAD / PLM competition game. It has variations of names and forms, but it is about the same. Decades ago it was about CAD formats, later on it was about how to block PDM / PLM integration…
Earlier this year, I learned from CIMdata that cloud PLM is not doing very well. CIMdata announced collaborative research sponsored by major PLM vendors to learn about cloud PLM adoption. Check this link. According to Stan Przybylinski, Vice President of Research, CIMdata, vendors should be more vocal about benefits of…
Platform is the next magic word these days. Everyone is building “platform” these days. Platform is sweet word, which sounds really nice and makes you feel much better. Read my Sweet Dreams about Product Innovation Platforms. In the old good days, platform includes a hardware architecture and a software framework…
The days when design was mostly about mechanical assemblies is over. It is hard to imagine a product today that doesn’t include any electronic components. Most of modern high-tech products can be easily called “software and PCB wrapped in plastic”. In such context, the trajectory of companies providing solutions to…
My yesterday blog How to compete with Solidworks? brought a number of comments and questions I thought would be interesting to share and discuss. Here are some of them. Comment 1: I don’t share your vision about the cloud. I think the Solidworks users don’t want a cloud because they are…
Worldclass Access blog by Ralph Grabowski caught my attention earlier today. The article says – Dassault on why Solidworks sells so much better brings few interesting data points. The first one is about Solidworks growth: Jay Vleeschhouwer from Griffin Securities: Let me start by asking about the continued momentum you’ve…
Lot of things is already written about PLM implementations. In my view, PLM implementations are still holding the top complexity rank among all other enterprise software business services. There are many reasons for that. The first and most obvious – the topic is complex drives diversity of opinion, ways to…
Continue my thoughts about 3DEXPERIENCE platform and Dassault Systemes strategy related to organization transformation, I was reading CIMdata – Dassault Systèmes 2017 Analyst Event (Commentary). Navigate here to read the article. It was published just few months ago and it gives few interesting data points about how Dassault Systemes see…
