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Before DSCC 2011: Learning new Dassault keywords

Before DSCC 2011: Learning new Dassault keywords

The information overflow. This is not something surprising you. In many situations, we are not reading, but scanning keywords. Sometimes these keywords and their combination is quite important. I’m heading to Las Vegas this morning to attend DSCC 2011 conference. Yesterday, I’ve got my final media briefing agenda containing the…

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CAD, New Collaboration and Online Storage Services

CAD, New Collaboration and Online Storage Services

Let me ask you a very silly question? How many times you abandoned you official company policy for data sharing and shared your files via Google, Dropbox or other services? Well, you don’t need to answer… I’m sure you did at least once. The amount of services helping us to…

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Aras, SolidWorks and Disruptive PLM Strategies

Aras, SolidWorks and Disruptive PLM Strategies

BAM! Aras just announced Enterprise PLM for SolidWorks. Here is the new article – Enterprise PLM for Enterprise PDM. Navigate to the following article to read more – Open Source Aras Releases Commercial PLM Solution for SolidWorks. Here is the short conclusion made by Randall Newton: Our assessment: Aras just…

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Will PLM Handbook for SMEs solve customer problems?

Will PLM Handbook for SMEs solve customer problems?

I want to continue the topic I started in my previous posts – PLM for SME (Small to Medium Enterprise). SME are interesting companies. In my view, “previous life” at Dassault Systems, I had a chance to work with many small companies. My former colleague and blogging buddy Jos Voskuil…

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Comments and Photos from Dassault PLM Forum in Moscow

Comments and Photos from Dassault PLM Forum in Moscow

I wanted to share some of my notes from yesterday Dassault PLM forum in Moscow. Getting back to previous forums I had a chance to visit, the size of this forum was about the same. No official numbers were published by Dassault. My estimation was about 400-600 people. The number…

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3 Key Cloud Principles: Will CAD/PLM follow?

3 Key Cloud Principles: Will CAD/PLM follow?

I’ve been watching what happens around Oracle Open World 11 earlier this week. Among multiple topics, the announcement about Oracle Cloud and controversy around cancellation of Mark Benioff’s keynote caught my attention. Oracle unveils “Oracle Public Cloud” and claims “no locking” there. You can read Oracle announcement here. Navigate your…

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Siemens’ Active Workspace – PLM Next Big Thing?

Siemens’ Active Workspace – PLM Next Big Thing?

PLM is a lot of lifecycle. It is a very important characteristic of PLM to support product access the multiple lifecyle phases. As a result of this PLM forced to be focused on integration. The nature of PLM to live between all other enterprise systems in manufacturing organization.  How many…

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Autodesk Quietly Launched Their Cloud

Autodesk Quietly Launched Their Cloud

Time ago, I was discussing on my blog about cloud file storage as one of the potential first step CAD vendors will take to adopt cloud. One of my posts about that was – Is Google Doc is a good place to store CAD files? I was very surprised to…

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Autodesk, Russia and Local PLM

Autodesk, Russia and Local PLM

One of the most interesting things I learned during Autodesk Forum in Moscow was related to local PLM vendors.  I found it very educational and decided to share this informtion with my readers. Few months ago Autodesk announced about their plans to develop PLM solutions. You can read my previous…

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