The file is a fundamental concept in any operating system. Files are one of the most popular mechanisms for data exchange. At the same time, files are insanely complex and contribute to many problems. Here is what Steve Jobs said about files. In every user interface study we’ve ever done…
3D EXPERIENCE WORLD 2021 was live earlier this week and I was watching a few sessions. Moving from products to experience – Bernard Charles, Vice Chairman and CEO of Dassault Systemes was telling it from the virtual stage of 3DX21. The grand vision of DS is to target the pain…
Unless you lived under the rock for the last several years, you’ve heard about SaaSification. This funny term was changing entire industries. Read Forbes article – How ‘SaaSification’ Is Taking The Tech World By Storm. The greatest value the cloud offers is the ability to use technology to scale business…
Each time any major PLM vendor makes a big step onto the acquisition path, the questions about how the technologies and products will be merged and how it will impact the customers. It happened many times in the past, substantial PLM businesses were acquired – Agile PLM. MatrixOne, Solidworks Enterprise…
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 discussions around cloud SaaS PLM are heating up. Like a decade ago, when the engineering software industry just started to explore cloud software concepts, we had many skeptical voices about the feasibility of cloud software usage in the cloud, the performance of browsers. We’ve heard tons of concerns about…
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….
SaaS PLM is trending and we’re going to see more SaaS PLMs marketing and sales coming from vendors very soon. PTC is focusing on the SaaS industry following the acquisition of Onshape last year. Siemens just jumped in SaaS PLM bandwagon – check my earlier blog articles about Teamcenter X…
Unless you lived under the rock, you’ve heard about SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. If you will try to figure out the details, you can find a lot of controversy and marketing materials using these names to explain strategies, technologies, and applications. I share my thoughts earlier about PaaS, SaaS, and…
