The Product Data Management Software (PDM) business, which started as a way to manage CAD (Computer Aided Design) files, is undergoing a significant transformation. A year ago, I shared my thoughts on the evolution of PDM, highlighting its shift from traditional file management to data-centric services. You can read more…
It is 2022 and SaaS is pretty much a lingua franca everywhere. GenX and GenZ are slowly, but surely replacing boomers and it brings a fresh wave of technological changes and openness to adopting SaaS applications. A typical representative in that age is asking “what URL to use to get…
As technology advances, businesses must be able to upgrade their software and platforms in order to remain competitive. Historically, PLM tools have not been able to keep up with the times, leading to frustrating and costly upgrades. One of the very typical situations for many companies was so-called “release lock”…
SaaStr blog Gartner: SaaS Spending Will Grow Another 40% in Next 2 Years Alone brings some interesting data points about SaaS spending. Read the article and draw your own opinion. The actual Gartner press release is here. Few interesting passages: Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 23.1%…
How many times, you’ve heard the story about problems with the reliability of SaaS software? It usually goes like this – it was an outage of AWS and half of the internet including my CAD (PLM) system went down. While these situations are unavoidable, how to differentiate between science and…
SaaS is a topic of many debates in the PLM industry these days. Back in the 2010s, the question was if the “cloud” technologies work for manufacturing companies and CAD/PLM vendors will adopt it beyond testing and evaluation. Few articles back to that time. For example, Siemens IT was analyzing…
Back in the old days, the phone was the primary way to get a report about customer problems. Getting a customer on a call was an indication of a big problem, but also it was the fastest way to get more details and first-hand information about the problem. Things are…
