Archive for November, 2018

Empty promises for PLM openness. Because customers cannot quit…

Empty promises for PLM openness. Because customers cannot quit…

Earlier this month in Chicago, I attended PI PLMx conference. One of my favorite sessions vendors’ panel about standards. Check my article here –  [VIDEO] what PLM vendors are thinking about standards. Standards are important – no doubt. But to understand business aspects of standard development is even more important….

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The cost of PLM divorce

The cost of PLM divorce

My attention was caused by Aras blog – Are You in a Bad PLM Relationship? written by Mark Reisig. Nice write-up with interesting examples made me feel like I’m in a family counseling meeting. There are lot of people in the world that would be happy to give you a…

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How many people in the world can speak PLMish?

How many people in the world can speak PLMish?

There are roughly 6,500 spoken languages in the world today. However, about 2,000 of those languages have fewer than 1,000 speakers. Guardian article Endangered languages: the full list is opening by shocking phrase that “the last two fluent speakers of the language Ayapaneco aren’t speaking to each other”. The article also…

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Video blog progress – Musings about Bill of Materials

Video blog progress – Musings about Bill of Materials

It hard to make a change when operating in your comfort zone. I decided to push myself out of blogging comfort zone and start my video blog. Long time ago, the running joke was that to make enterprise software is easy – just pick a name of enterprise company department,…

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Where cloud PLM is propelling?

Where cloud PLM is propelling?

Money is coming to cloud PLM vendors. Earlier this week, my attention was caught by Propel PLM announcement about raising $18M in series B funding. TechCrunch article gives it a simple description. We hear so much about managing the customer relationship, but companies have to manage the products they sell,…

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From AutoCAD, AutoLISP to Autodesk Unified Data Platform and Forge API

From AutoCAD, AutoLISP to Autodesk Unified Data Platform and Forge API

Back in 1990s, I was developing my data management applications using AutoLISP and AutoCAD ADS and ARX. For those who remember, it was a development environment for AutoCAD even before it was available on Windows. It realized the beauty and power of AutoCAD – 2D drafting platform, which was ubiquitous,…

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AU2018 DevCon – Data Comes First

AU2018 DevCon – Data Comes First

I attended Autodesk University AU2018 earlier this week in Las Vegas. An annual Autodesk extravaganza gathered 11,000 people under a single roof of Sands Expo convention center in Venetian Hotel Las Vegas. If you’ve been there before, you know the size and scale of AU. You pic your slice of…

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