The year is going to the end and this is the usual time to publish “what is important in the next year” blogs. I will not disappoint you this year and will share my thoughts about 2020 and beyond. Here are two articles (in case you missed). Next decade of…
To decide what PLM to chose is a hard job these days. Everyone in the PLM business is focusing on helping manufacturing companies to design better, faster, cheaper products. Everyone is IoT, cloud, connected, intelligent and focused on user experience. Everyone is capable to produce a nice video and when…
The idiom I put in the title of the blog is a cliché of the startup community. It is rooted in the idea of “iterative” software development – ship and fix and then ship it again. Opposite the idea of a long development cycle, the idea is gaining interest in…
PLM needs a paradigm shift. For the last two decades of PLM development, customers and vendors gathered tons of experience in developing, selling, implementing, maintaining and upgrading PLM systems. When I started my blog back in 2009, I was looking for a better name. This is how I came to…
Cloud technologies made huge progress in the last ten years in engineering and manufacturing companies. Back in 2010. You might remember the debates about how the cloud can potentially be used as technology, business model or applications. Check old CAD /PLM conference agendas like COFES 2010. I’m sure you will…
Earlier this week, PTC announced about the acquisition of Onshape, the company started by a group of CAD industry veterans including former Solidworks founders and employees in 2012. I attended a special briefing organized by PTC where I was able to hear Jim Hepplemann, CEO of PTC, and Jon Hirschtick,…
During the last decade, we’ve seen the establishment of new business models in software. I checked my blog about future PLM business models from 2010 and I can say that the future is here – subscriptions, services, maintenance included in subscriptions. These are elements of new business models used by CAD and PLM…
Hybrid cloud is one of these words that makes IT to feel that they can “have cake and eat it too”. It is a dream option discussed by IT organizations deployed PLM. It removed the need to take a decision for one of cloud options – private vs public; and…
PLM vendors and industry is adopting cloud-based technologies. The process isn’t simple and brings many discussions about what differences cloud can bring to PLM solutions. Few months ago, I attended CIMdata industry and market forum in Ann Arbor. One of the messages was that PLM vendors should be more vocal about benefits…
Engineering.com TV report face to face with PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann brings a crash course of subscription business. Mr. Hepplemann speaks about SaaS business fundamentals such as revenue, booking and how it will make a future PTC profit. All of this is to explain why having an outstanding Q4/2016 led to…
