SaaS industry is booming. SaaS solutions are increasing in popularity among companies. If you didn’t check SaaS business growth recently, here are few numbers that you should keep in mind: The global SaaS industry is expected to be worth $60.36 billion by 2023, an increase of 9% in the next…
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…
The roots of PLM are in CAD file data management. It was so obvious for CAD vendors to store data in files, that nobody even considered that the root cause of PDM problems – CAD files, should have been eliminated much earlier. It didn’t happen and this is how the…
PDM is one of the topics I’m following for many years. CAD files created tons of challenges and to develop technology and solutions to manage them, share them with the team, provide correct access, and manage revisions was a high priority. The need to provide a standard PDM solution became…
Yesterday, I attended the first-ever LiverWorx event delivered fully digitally online. The recent pandemic situation made many companies to switch their conference and events plans to live online events. Check my earlier blog – PLM Conferences go digital. What to expect from your next virtual event. LiveWorx delivered yesterday an…
Cloud is everywhere. It is hard to find a single company that is not developing products for cloud environment. Cloud systems are often presented as an alternatives to existing on-premise systems solving problems such as IT simplification, data management robustness, global access and many others. At the same time, manufacturing…
CAD data management is an interesting topic. It was discussed so many times between software vendors, analysts, and customers. As long as I remember myself in the business of CAD, PDM, and PLM, the tools helping engineers to manage and fine CAD data were around. Software vendors actively promoted the…
Microsoft Azure blog brings the story about how PTC and Azure partnership empowers industrial organizations. Check out the article – it gives some interesting data points. The main message is a combination of Cloud infrastructure from Azure and Industrial experience from PTC. Combining PTC’s platform with the speed, scalability, and…
Cloud is making big waves these days. A typical cloud value proposition suggests the absence of IT involvement (no installations, no hardware), subscription models (no upfront cost) and improved collaboration. The last one is very interesting and often confusing. Unless the cloud system is multi-tenant, the value of collaboration is…
Earlier today, I attended Onshape’s PTC-Onshape Product Development In The Cloud Forum in Seaport Boston district. It has been several months since PTC acquired Onshape and I thought it would be a good time to check out what is on the Onshape agenda these days and what is the next…
