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Aras PLM – agile, fast and… expensive? 

Aras PLM – agile, fast and… expensive? 

The article about how different is Aras TCO compared to other “big-boxes PLM” triggered many questions online and offline. If you want to catch up, you can do it via blog article and also on LinkedIn. The discussion on LinkedIn is more active, so check this link as well. I want to…

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Did Autodesk find how to sell PLM to mid-size businesses?

Did Autodesk find how to sell PLM to mid-size businesses?

Agreement is a hard when it comes to PLM. Ask 3 people about what is PLM and you most probably will end up with 4 or sometimes even 5 definitions. However, there is something that most of people in PLM community is agreed about – midsize business are afraid of…

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What is the real difference between Aras and traditional PLM TCO ?

What is the real difference between Aras and traditional PLM TCO ?

One of the popular discussions in PLM implementations is Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). The debates about PLM TCO intensified for the last several years with introduction of new business models – open source, subscriptions and SaaS. Aras is company that first introduced unique enterprise open source model in PLM….

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New “agile” PLM development

New “agile” PLM development

My attention was caught by Facebook video where Stan Przybylinski, VP at CIMdata, was interviewed by Graeme Noseworthy at #AgileEngineering Summit. Video was shared by IBM Watson IoT (btw kudos Stan for such a great video). Watch the video below:   Stan speaks about PLM historical perspective and new trend…

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Altium 365 – how MCAD and ECAD can end up competing on cloud platforms.

Altium 365 – how MCAD and ECAD can end up competing on cloud platforms.

Earlier this week, I shared news about Altium announcing future availability of Altium 365 – new cloud based platforms to support collaboration between engineering and manufacturing organizations. If you missed my earlier article, please check this link. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to attend Altium Live event this year, but online…

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PLM intelligence – future enterprise digital predator?

PLM intelligence – future enterprise digital predator?

10-20 years ago enterprise software story was about data control. Who control the organizational data assets. How to access them and how to perform changes One of the most powerful data assets were related to company financial flow and resources. And it is it easy to understand – you need…

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Onshape and Magic Leap are teaming up for new CAD user experience

Onshape and Magic Leap are teaming up for new CAD user experience

VR and new user experience are fascinating these days. Companies are looking for new ways to interact. Mobile devices made a big difference in the last decade by bringing a completely new way of interaction. Just few days ago, I was writing about experiments to develop applications for VR sets….

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What is next for Autodesk PLM?

What is next for Autodesk PLM?

It has been long time since I covered Autodesk PLM in my blog. Time is running fast and it has been 7 years since Autodesk announced their intent to step into PLM development. You might remember my blog from 2011 – everything changes for Autodesk. Unfortunately, many links I put…

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