Over the course of this week, I’ve been contacted offline and online by many people that wanted to discuss the acquisition of Arena Solutions by PTC. If you missed the news, check my earlier article – PTC doubles down on SaaS PLM buying Arena Solutions for $715M. It has been…
PLM industry woke up today to a big M&A news. PTC announced their plan to acquire Arena Solution for $715M in cash. The homepage with news is here. It will give you some ideas about why PTC decided to do so. These are four reasons to justify the acquisition of…
The discussion about single-tenant vs multi-tenant cloud PLM models is getting more interesting every day. And it is not only because it can create a major differentiator for systems that the PLM industry didn’t see since inventing parametric feature modelers and bringing PCs and Windows machines into the professional business….
You can’t sit in two chairs with one butt. Well, Siemens’s SaaS strategy says you actually can. TeamcenterX SaaS strategy is all about it – how to keep Teamcenter on-premise and bring TeamcenterX SaaS solution. For the last few days, I was learning more about Teamcenter X using my trial…
Teamcenter X: Future Ready Cloud PLM says Siemens’ website invites you to try Teamcenter X for 30 days. If you follow my blogs, you probably had a chance to read my earlier commentary about Siemens Teamcenter X, SaaS, and cloud PLM. Check this out here – Learning about Teamcenter X…
The news from last week – Dassault Systemes, one of the leading PLM vendors is acquiring NuoDB. The formal press release can give some idea about the acquisition. The focus of NuoDB acquisition is to focus on 3DX cloud strategy, leverage NuoDB distributed elastic database for cloud and strengthens NuoDB’s…
Reviewing asset details for more informed operational decision making I want to come back to my conversations about the construction industry. If you’re long time readers of my blog you might remember my articles PLM and BIM – common roots or common future; PLM vs BIM – common or different?…
Earlier this week, I spent time online watching AU2020 tracks and presentations. The event this year was completely virtual, which unfortunately won’t allow us to meet live people and have great conversations. On the other hand, you can get a front-row on every session, rewind, and watch it again. And…
I had a chance to dig into The State of Product Development 2020 report done by Onshape. You can get it here for free in exchange for a simple questionnaire, which I did. The report contains many interesting data points about what is important for manufacturing companies these days and…
Unless you’ve been under the rock for the last decade, you most probably heard about SaaS (Software as a Service). The term was around for a quick long time, but recently it became especially hot. It can be used as a fundamental difference in variety in cloud PLM technologies available…
