Back in 2011, I published my article saying that Aras lines up against Windchill, Enovia and Teamcenter. The question I asked those days was – is it possible to displace large PLM vendors? Aras demonstrated an interesting path by wining some very interesting deals and growing to support very large manufacturing…
Unless you lived under the rock for the last 3-4 years, you probably heard one or two times about Onshape. A brainchild of a group of ex-Solidworkers with a leadership team including Jon Hirschtick, John McEleney, Dave Corcoran decided to take a fresh look and to create a modern CAD…
Time ago, I published an article saying Aras PLM lines up against Windchill, Enovia and Teamcenter. Here is the conclusion from the blog published in 2011: Aras is definitely moving towards crossing paths with PLM like Windchill, Enovia, TeamCenter. Is it possible to displace large PLM system with Aras today?…
Recent Forrester Wave report made some turbulence in PLM world. I shared my thoughts in my earlier blog –What I learned about PLM leaders from Forrester Wave report. Aras $100 millions revenues based on the Forrester research criteria was an interesting surprise. While Dassault Systemes, Siemens PLM and PTC are…
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…
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Engineering.com just published an article confirming that small design and engineering team aren’t interested much in buying and implementing data management solutions (PDM and PLM). The following picture shows you an ugly truth – 60% of users aren’t using anything but shared drives and Excel spreadsheets to manage design and…
Propel PLM article – Can you trust your on-prem PLM vendor to evolve raises a question about how efficiently and quickly existing major PLM platforms can move from perpetual licenses and on prem- installations to the cloud. Trust me, it is a very painful process to transition a product offering from…
PLM cloud comparison was a topic of my ongoing research and discussions since last year. Cloud adoption is growing. In 2015, we have seen all major PLM providers came out to support cloud strategy and cloud technology. But the devil is in details and not every cloud is the same….
PLM products are insanely similar. Two decades of competitions between small number of vendors and multiple acquisitions made PLM landscape looks like what we have today. PLM sales presentations are often look similar. Value proposition is simple. Case studies are often using very similar words about why a particular customer decided to…
