Some time ago, one of my readers wrote me a comment with the question about Reference Designators and Find Numbers. With all our interest to talk about modern technological trends, mobile, social software, understanding and clarification of basics is very important too. In the past, I wrote few posts tagged…
I want to talk about licenses. The topic I’d normally prefer to avoid. Deelip Menezes made a good post about Sales and Licensing of software. However, I want to talk about specific part of licenses – Open Source and Free Licenses. I don’t understand the subtle differences about various types…
Yesterday, I attended COFES Russia / isicad 2010 forum in Moscow. My presentation on the forum was about my view on the future of TLA (Three Letter Acronyms) in Engineering Software. You can see slides of my presentation below. Cofes russia-2010-oleg shilovitsky-plenahttp://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=cofes-russia-2010-olegshilovitsky-plenary-100922083435-phpapp01&stripped_title=cofes-russia2010oleg-shilovitskyplena&userName=olegshilovitsky View more presentations from olegshilovitsky. Later I run…
Last week I had healthy debates with one of my blog readers about different options to deploy PLM for the small manufacturing companies. Here is the part of this conversation […yet SaaS PLM presents a difficult decision for most engineering managers. “Do I want to have my company data hosted…
I’ve been attending Technia PLM Innovation Forum early this week in Stockholm. My conclusion from this forum is that all organizations are looking how to optimize their performance. The organizational objective is to keep their margin model. The margin model is something that very fundamental to every organization. To change…
Email is playing a significant role in the way every organization is management today. Organizations are run by emails these days. I’ve heard from many people. So, emails are a life blood organizes most of the company activities. Now, let’s think about product development organization. Email is the main application…
I had a chance to read SQL vs. noSQL article in Linux Journal yesterday on the plane. I found it interesting and despite a bit up-level of a technical terms, beneficial for our PLM discussion. Navigate your browser on the following link and read this paper. The noSQL story is…
I had a chance to read an article by Michael Fauscette “Workday takes the Gloves Off?“. I’m tracking Workday for last 3-4 years. The trajectory is very interesting. For those of you who don’t know, Workday is the outfit created with a significant influence of ex-PeopleSoft people lead by Dave…
In my view, “Free” is continuing to pull people. Recently, I’ve seen few articles in PLM Blogosphere that was talking about “free” PLM offerings. You can point on a very good article by Zero-wait State – PLM Perspective: Free PLM Software Tomorrow. Jos Voskuil wrote – Free PLM Software Doesn’t…
Last week I published my visual guide how to choose PLM. This post was the most popular during the whole week. So, I decide to try another one this week about Product Data Management. What do you think is the future of PDM? The demand for tight integration with CAD…
