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Boston PLM innovation – Highway vs Seaport?

Boston PLM innovation – Highway vs Seaport?

If you’re looking for PLM jobs in Boston, you’re in luck. Many CAD / PLM companies are located in Massachusetts or Greater Boston. Back in 2011, I wrote about PLM highway. Check my blog – PLM Highway and New Dassault campus. Back in 2011, companies were lining up on Rt…

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From CAD to Collaborative Design Platforms – technologies and options

From CAD to Collaborative Design Platforms – technologies and options

CAD systems are around for many years. Computer-aided design systems went through the trajectory of innovation – some of the innovation in CAD systems was related to core principles of geometric modeling and some others came from usage of modern technologies and platforms. AutoCAD, Pro-E, Solidworks are probably one of…

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CAD: Cloudy With Chances for Forrest Gump Moments

CAD: Cloudy With Chances for Forrest Gump Moments

I attended The State of PLM economy webinar organized by CIMdata – leading source of information and analytics about PLM market. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata Vice President shared latest PLM market data, trends and company news. You can register to webinar and get information here. The quick summary in 2 slides….

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Why it takes 18 years to build enterprise PLM startup?

Why it takes 18 years to build enterprise PLM startup?

Fundamentally new technologies don’t become productive until a generation after their introduction. The time it takes people to learn how to use new tools and how to introduce these tools to businesses is very long. We have seen examples of adoption in personal computing, productivity tools, mobile devices and some…

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Will PLM companies start buying ERP vendors?

Will PLM companies start buying ERP vendors?

For many years PLM and ERP were like water and oil. One is positioned for innovation and another is positioned for business execution. You cannot mix them and they belongs to two different categories of products. Until now the mix of ERP and PLM only happened from ERP side, when…

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Onshape trajectory – what if PDM is Onshape key differentiator?

Onshape trajectory – what if PDM is Onshape key differentiator?

Everyone needs data, but nobody wants to be responsible for data management. I learned it during many years of working with engineers and manufacturing companies. Engineers prefer to keep files on Dropbox and not get involved into PDM (product data management) development. PDM was always perceived as a tool that…

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PLM investment – value vs bubble?

PLM investment – value vs bubble?

PLM universe is buzzing after $70M investment that Goldman Sachs put in Aras.  Check my earlier article – Does Aras have enough money to win over Enovia, Teamcenter and Windchill?. Don’t miss comments from Aras Chief Strategy Officer, Marc Lind about who is a buyer for Aras solution and why…

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