This time of the year is a great opportunity to reflect on multiple topics. My article last week – PLM System Architecture Evolution for Dummies generated a great number of comments and discussions online and offline. Thank you very much- you helped me to shape my next blog to talk…
Technology always played a significant role in engineering and manufacturing software. Earlier CAD systems were very much dependent on specific graphic workstations and computing power. Earlier PDM was based on proprietary databases and later standardized on SQL databases. During the last decade of web and cloud development, we’ve seen a…
Over the course of this week, I’ve been contacted offline and online by many people that wanted to discuss the acquisition of Arena Solutions by PTC. If you missed the news, check my earlier article – PTC doubles down on SaaS PLM buying Arena Solutions for $715M. It has been…
PTC is full speed ahead to the future of SaaS and this is very encouraging confirmation of the industry moving towards cloud SaaS offering and online business. I capture the following slide showing the growth of AWS (Amazon Web Services), the leading IaaS platform from the CIMdata cloud PLM webinar…
PLM industry woke up today to a big M&A news. PTC announced their plan to acquire Arena Solution for $715M in cash. The homepage with news is here. It will give you some ideas about why PTC decided to do so. These are four reasons to justify the acquisition of…
Last month I attended CIMdata virtual event 2020 PDT and PLM Roadmap. I’m still slowly skimming the slides and connecting the dots with the notes I took during the event. You can check the agenda of the event here. The topic of the event was one of my favorites and…
As the year goes towards the end, it is a great time to make some conclusions and observations about what I learned about the PLM industry this year. It was a very unusual year – COVID and pandemic situations across the globe changed the life and habits of people. It…
The discussions around cloud SaaS PLM are heating up. Like a decade ago, when the engineering software industry just started to explore cloud software concepts, we had many skeptical voices about the feasibility of cloud software usage in the cloud, the performance of browsers. We’ve heard tons of concerns about…
The discussion about single-tenant vs multi-tenant cloud PLM models is getting more interesting every day. And it is not only because it can create a major differentiator for systems that the PLM industry didn’t see since inventing parametric feature modelers and bringing PCs and Windows machines into the professional business….
You can’t sit in two chairs with one butt. Well, Siemens’s SaaS strategy says you actually can. TeamcenterX SaaS strategy is all about it – how to keep Teamcenter on-premise and bring TeamcenterX SaaS solution. For the last few days, I was learning more about Teamcenter X using my trial…
