PTC acquired Onshape last week. Check this link for the PTC press release and more information. I’ve been following media, talked to many people and got tons of questions since last week online and offline. Some people were caught by surprise and some media and publications started debates about how…
I’m coming to Autodesk Forge DevCon – a pre-conference before Autodesk University. As in the last year, it will take place at AU2019 in Las Vegas just in a few weeks from now. I’ve been attending all DevCons starting from the very first one in San-Francisco in 2016. According to…
Earlier this week, PTC announced about the acquisition of Onshape, the company started by a group of CAD industry veterans including former Solidworks founders and employees in 2012. I attended a special briefing organized by PTC where I was able to hear Jim Hepplemann, CEO of PTC, and Jon Hirschtick,…
The new came online just a few hours ago about PTC is entering the agreement to acquire Onshape. The PTC press release is here: You can read this passage with quotes from Jim Heppleman and Jon Hirschtick. “PTC has earned a reputation for successfully pursuing new innovations that drive corporate…
It has been seven years since Autodesk introduced Fusion 360. I checked my old blog – What Fusion 360 means for PLM. Check it out if you missed that back in 2013. There are 3 things that put Fusion 360 outstanding of everything else in this market – (1) business…
For the last 5-7 years, we can see an increased presence of cloud technologies in enterprise and business software. For a long time, engineering and manufacturing software took a very conservative approach in everything related to cloud tech. Autodesk shook PLM space by announcing cloud PLM. Large vendors made a…
Yesterday evening I attended the first Onshape Boston User Group meeting. The meeting was organized in the Onshape office in Cambridge. I’ve been in this office many times before. My main interest in this meeting was to learn more about communities in the era of cloud systems. And specifically engineering…
Unless you lived under the rock and didn’t look around for PLM news for the last decade, you should know Aras Corp. It was started almost 20 years ago and it made few interesting moves in the past decade developing a very unique model of enterprise open source. I wrote…
Earlier this week I attended TEC Talk. This is almost traditional gathering organized by TechSoft3D – a software outfit selling visualization software and development tools to many of CAD and other software vendors and industrial customers. If you first time heard about TechSoft3D. The core product was developed many years…
The weekend is coming and this is a time for some PLM dramas. Engineering.com and Verdi Ogewell is usually not disappointing. The article published earlier this week Siemens’ New Low-Code Platform Mendix an “Aras PLM Killer?” is a great PLM thriller with the complex scenario, but unfortunately, stalemate conclusion. Read…
