Continue the theme of disruption, I’d like to bring a new topic to discuss – Facebook. Actually, I discovered that Facebook was missed from the radar of Jim Browns alert about disruption. At the same time, I had chance to read a review about the new Facebook project called Titan…
It will be an understatement to say that economy trends certainly can influence everything in our life. One of the major trends that I’m observing is to move from “push” economy to the “pull” economy. Push economy is geared up to be mass-production. In the push economy, there is more…
I found interesting that nobody speaks much about PLM platforms these days. It seems to me PLM vendors and service providers are focused on the more important issues, such as industry orientation, out-of-the-box functionality, SaaS and OnDemand or even by Open Source business models. However, what happens in the PLM-platform-department?…
I’ve been reading white paper by Kalypso – 4 Reasons Why Industry Leaders Aren’t Losing Sleep. Max Cochet explained four best practices how industry companies need to manage in order to sleep well during turbulent regulation rules. Some of them made me think about opportunity regulation rules created for Product…
Interesting news drove my attention yesterday. Bentley System made an acquisition of the company called Enterprise Informatics. When I was reading press release, my guess was that Bentley decided to expand their capabilities in data management. Especially, this expansion can be very interesting when working in construction and power process…
Social is hot. Social networks, social applications, social enterprise, social CRM… social PLM (?). I put a question mark, since I wasn’t sure if to use a word social is an appropriated in this context. What means “social” for PLM? How it is different from what we’ve been doing in…
Recent SolidWorks World Event brought a significant splash of discussion about cloud based applications. It is interesting to see different voices mentioned by PLM providers with regards to the growing buzz of cloud. I had chance to put bulk of blog posts on my cloud week about a year ago….
Recent presentation on SolidWorks World 2010 about evolution of PLM drove me to think about what is the future of 3D and PLM in longer term. For those who haven’t had chance to see these materials, please take a look on the slide below. What we can see is the…
This short prompt today was driven by presentation on SolidWorks World 2010. What is the evolution path of PLM? For the last time, we heard lots of statements that PLM came to the maturity point. Now customers can understand and see PLM value for businesses and for industry. However, as we…
I want to propose an unusual theme for our PLM discussion. Let’s talk about trends related to manufacturing and software development. Few months ago, I prompted about “Free” as a best future price. If you haven’t chance to see this post, you can find it here. During the past years,…
