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Secured “PLM dropbox” with EMC?

Secured “PLM dropbox” with EMC?

Speak about the “cloud” in a business community and you have a chance to be slammed by “security folks”. Their primary concern is security and, sometimes, I have a feeling whatever you talk to them about, will leave them skeptical anyway. This is probably the type of people that are…

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GrabCAD, Collaboration and Dropbox

GrabCAD, Collaboration and Dropbox

One of the companies I’m watching is GrabCAD. Earlier, I was talking about GrabCAD’s idea of open CAD library and community for engineering. Another topic I discovered with GrabCAD in addition to be an open library was “crowdsourcing”. Navigate to the following link to read Manufacturing Crowdsourcing and Cloud PLM….

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CAD, New Collaboration and Online Storage Services

CAD, New Collaboration and Online Storage Services

Let me ask you a very silly question? How many times you abandoned you official company policy for data sharing and shared your files via Google, Dropbox or other services? Well, you don’t need to answer… I’m sure you did at least once. The amount of services helping us to…

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PLM Online Data Sharing: From Spreadsheets to Databases?

PLM Online Data Sharing: From Spreadsheets to Databases?

What is the most popular PDM/PLM system in the world? My bet it is probably MS Excel. The flexibility and ease of availability, made Excel so popular between engineers. Managers probably don’t care… in the beginning. Later, companies started to hire CExO (Chief Excel Officers) to manage the complexity of…

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Post COFES, Dropbox and PLM Made Simple?

Post COFES, Dropbox and PLM Made Simple?

As you know, I spent end of my last week, including the weekend at COFES (The Congress of the Future of Engineering Software). It was my 6th COFES. It was probably the biggest COFES ever. The social media activity was significantly stronger this year than before. I had a chance to…

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