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Beyond PLM – Looking forward to 2012.

Beyond PLM – Looking forward to 2012.

Time is running fast, and 2011 is behind us. It is a moment to take a look in the past, make conclusions and draw plans for 2012. I wanted to share some information about Beyond PLM and PLM Think Tanks from 2011, made my conclusions and share some ideas about…

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PLM Highway and New Dassault Waltham Campus

PLM Highway and New Dassault Waltham Campus

I’m sure, you are familiar with highway 101 crossing Silicon Valley. However, you probably never heard about PLM Highway in Boston. After last week Autodesk PLM announcement and Dassault System move to a new campus in Waltham, I think we can officially suggest to rename Massachusetts Route 128 (also known as Yankee…

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Autodesk Enters PLM: Everything Changes… for Autodesk

Autodesk Enters PLM: Everything Changes… for Autodesk

It finally happened. Autodesk enters PLM business. After talks, speculations, discussions and guesses, Autodesk presented their Autodesk Nexus PLM product earlier this week during AU2011. I had a chance to read initial press and blog reviews related to Autodesk Nexus PLM. Here are few examples. Navigate your browser to the…

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AU2011: New PLM Software Frontiers

Autodesk University 2011. Day 1. If you visited AU at least once you know how it looks like. Thousands people packed to talk about Autodesk software and beyond. When I’m still digesting Autodesk announcement about Nexus PLM, I wanted to share with you the my presentation during the AU Innovation forum:…

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Autodesk: CAD is done. Now PLM. The moment before AU…

Autodesk: CAD is done. Now PLM. The moment before AU…

As you know, I’m in Las Vegas these days attending AU 2011. Autodesk is preparing some big messages these years, and I hope to share my opinion about that with you very soon. Yesterday, I was attending media and press meeting with Autodesk execs, including Autodesk CEO Carl Bass, Manufacturing…

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Historical Perspective: From Ivan Satherland to Modern 2D/3D Sketch Apps

Historical Perspective: From Ivan Satherland to Modern 2D/3D Sketch Apps

The announcement made by Dassault System last week, made me think about a huge distance CAD industry passed for the almost 50 years, since Ivan Sutherland first time demonstrated “Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System“. In order to prevent a discussion between Autodesk Alias and CATIA Sketch folks, I just…

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Autodesk PLM story is about to begin. AU 2011.

Autodesk PLM story is about to begin. AU 2011.

I’m coming to AU 2011 this year. As you already know, Autodesk is planning to unveil their PLM story. In the pre-announcement Autodesk made it called – Everything Changes 11/29/11. The formal name of the forum: Everything Changes – The Future of Management of Innovation. I will be the guest of…

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DSCC 2011: How Dassault Blends PLM and Search Based Applications?

DSCC 2011: How Dassault Blends PLM and Search Based Applications?

Few months ago, I had a chance to write an article about PLM and comprehensive search. It was about enterprise search. Since then some other events happened in this domain – HP announced acquisition of Autonomy and Oracle announced about their interest to buy Endeca. Interesting enough, you can find…

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DSCC 2011: Thinking Inside Dassault PLM Box

DSCC 2011: Thinking Inside Dassault PLM Box

I spent my last two days attending Dassault System Customer Conference (DSCC 2011) in Las Vegas. It will take some time to digest and re-think everything I learned. Today, I wanted to provide you some of my initial thoughts about what I’ve seen and heard. PLM Vision: Lifelike + Industry…

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