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Autodesk University 2013 Keynote: Outside PLM

Autodesk University 2013 Keynote: Outside PLM

I’m attending Autodesk University (AU 2013) these days in  busy Las Vegas, NV. If you had a chance to attend AU in the past, probably familiar with craziness of conference halls, busy session schedule, smell of Vegas hotels and… if you got lucky, nice view from your room.   The…

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What Social PLM Can Learn From Facebook Decline?

What Social PLM Can Learn From Facebook Decline?

It is hard to find a company that are not trying to do “social” these days. The number of Facebook copycats everywhere is skyrocketing. Engineering and manufacturing software is not an exclusion and run into this game too. Social PLM is part of this trend. Even I can see less…

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Full Product Lifecycle, Cloud and Granular Security

Full Product Lifecycle, Cloud and Granular Security

Security is one of the most fundamental things in enterprise systems. If you think about every enterprise system as a big data store with applied business rules, security will be the one you will need to evaluate first in order to map it to your organization. It comes in multiple…

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Cloud PLM Scaling Factors

Cloud PLM Scaling Factors

Scale is one of the most fancy word which is coming in place when different technologies are discussed or debated. So, speaking about cloud CAD, PDM and PLM, the discussion must go towards “scaling factor” too. Since PLM Cloud Switch finally happened, it became clear,  vendors and customers will have to…

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What “social features” PLM can steal from SharePoint?

What “social features” PLM can steal from SharePoint?

Collaboration is still one of the hot topics in PLM space. I was watching PLM TV report about Dassault’s 3DEXPERIENCE Platform from Engineering.com. A bit long (my taste) video provides a comprehensive overview of what Dassault’s key execs are saying about 3DEXPERIENCE platform on the last Dassault conference. Lots of…

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How PLM can transmit data to the cloud?

How PLM can transmit data to the cloud?

Transmitting of data is complicated and painful. Remember few years ago, when industry just started to switch to the cloud, the discussion around how to transfer large CAD parts and assembly was very hot. Actually not much changed since that time. A huge amount of data lives on the desktops…

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CAD, PLM and Fast Data Processing

CAD, PLM and Fast Data Processing

Our demand for the software to be fast. We don’t like to wait until computer will perform all actions and produce results. Depends on the situation and use case, speed can be something very disturbing or even more – change the overall working process. Time ago, simulation and analysis software…

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PDMish, PLMish and other CADPDLM bundles…

PDMish, PLMish and other CADPDLM bundles…

Engineering and manufacturing software is full of interesting TLAs that companies continuing to invent even these days. Only yesterday GrabCAD introduced Workbench enhancement under somewhat that can be considered as a very traditional name – Collaborative Product Development (CPD) Platform. Chad Jackson, my long time blogging buddy published an article…

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GrabCAD CPD wants to disrupt CAD file management

GrabCAD CPD wants to disrupt CAD file management

Three years ago I sat together with Hardi Meybaum of GrabCAD is one of Starbucks coffee shops near Brookline, Mass. We’ve been talking about GrabCAD social networks, communities, openness, engineers and CAD libraries. You can find some of my thoughts after this conversation here – Marketplaces and Engineering Software. Since…

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PDM: Bring Your Own Cloud Or Die?

PDM: Bring Your Own Cloud Or Die?

Cloud is not a “new black” in PLM industry these days. It is hard to find vendor that not associating itself with “sort of cloud solution”. However, here are new a trend on horizon – bring your own cloud. Dropbox, a very successful in all means these days is trying…

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