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COFES 2012: CAD Society 2012 Leadership Award

COFES 2012: CAD Society 2012 Leadership Award

COFES 2012 became special to me. It is almost four years since I started my daily blogging on Daily PLM Think Tank and lately, on Beyond PLM blog. I want to thank CAD Society and Rick Stavanja for the honor. However, blogging is not “one-way-road”. My blogging would not be possible…

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Marketing and the future of PLM Art

Marketing and the future of PLM Art

One of the unpublished rules of PLM Think Tank is not to talk about marketing. Marketing is a tough job. Especially, when it comes to PLM space. The high level of diversification is a nature of every product development organization. The nature of marketing is to invent a story that…

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Cloud PLM and “Made in Germany” Sticker…

Cloud PLM and “Made in Germany” Sticker…

Few weeks ago, back to my trip to Munich PLM Innovation Congress, I published post – Will Europe Adopt Cloud PLM? Navigate back to my article to listen to the speech by Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, announcing a European Cloud Partnership help cloud computing through…

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The Future of PLM consultancy

The Future of PLM consultancy

The internet changed our life for the last decade. I don’t think somebody will argue about that. Cloud is trending. Thinking about different aspects of how cloud is going to influence our future business, the topic of consultancy and service providing shouldn’t be missed. Some time ago, I posted –…

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Salesforce Site.com and why PLM vendors need to be concerned?

Salesforce Site.com and why PLM vendors need to be concerned?

If you following cloud news and especially what Salesforce.com is up to, you probably noticed this announcement – Saleforce.com is launching a new service called site.com. You can read more about this announcement here. What was my immediate reaction? There are few software packages Salesforce.com dreams to make obsolete. SharePoint…

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Arena Partlist and your BOM in the cloud

Arena Partlist and your BOM in the cloud

I think, 2012 will become a year of cloud. Arena Solutions is not a new kid in the block. The company was pioneering On-Demand, SaaS and recently cloud technologies for the last decade. My attention was caught my Arena’s press release yesterday – Arena Launches New Products to Help Engineers…

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Autodesk, Cloud and PLM for $19.95…

Autodesk, Cloud and PLM for $19.95…

BAM…BAM…BAM… Finally, it happened. Autodesk PLM 360 is here. It was a long run for Autodesk to converge from the story of “Anti-PLM rap” to “PLM for everyone“. Yesterday, I was watching a webcast session from Autodesk Manufacturing HQ in Lake Oswego, OR. Autodesk’s approach to PLM is to make…

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PLM Innovation Panel: The Future of PLM Business Models

PLM Innovation Panel: The Future of PLM Business Models

PLM Innovation 2012 in Munich is over. It was a great event, gathered about 250 people and 20+ companies on the exhibition floor. On the 2nd day, I was delighted to moderate a panel discussing future PLM business models. The idea of the panel was to have an opportunity to…

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Few minutes before PLM Innovation 2012

Few minutes before PLM Innovation 2012

I’m just few hours before two-day marathon of PLM Innovation 2012 in Munich. The list of speakers and the agenda is very impressive. Actually, browsing through the agenda, I have really hard time to decide about what track and session to attend. What is most impressive in this agenda is…

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PLM: Mobile-Optimized Sites vs. Mobile Apps

PLM: Mobile-Optimized Sites vs. Mobile Apps

For most non-technology-savvy people, the title of this post can sound like a joke. Mobile apps are trending today. App store, Android stores, Microsoft is planning to re-born Windows phone with future versions of Windows and mobile app. How it can die? Looking on this following graph from article (Apps user…

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