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…
Cloud and SaaS are getting high attention these days of PLM vendors and customers. The interest is driven by many benefits cloud technologies and SaaS applications can bring to both manufacturing companies and vendors. Multi-tenancy is a key element of SaaS applications, but unfortunately, the terminology is often misleading 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…
How to provide the mechanical design community access to a growing library of products available and connect engineers working on different products together? Various developers for the last few decades asked this question and developed multiple solutions. Yet, the industry brought anything that connects an entire population of mechanical designers…
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…
PLM is too complex and too expensive. I’ve heard it many times, especially from medium-size and small manufacturing companies. Licenses, servers, IT resources. The last decade of cloud development in PLM demonstrated that vendors are looking at how to improve the ROI of PLM systems, yet PLM business is far…
Cloud and SaaS are changing PLM software. The new technology makes SaaS PLM easily accessible and available instantly to customers. New data management technologies allow customers to share data and go beyond traditional PLM databases. SaaS is also transforming business models by introducing subscription business models. Today I want to…
For those of your long time with PLM and Enterprise Software, I bet you’ve heard about TLA, which stands for a three-letter acronym. Check out any publications about PLM, and you will find tons of them – CAD, PDM, PLM, MES, SCM, ERP, CAE… You can continue the list and…
I’m learning more about Siemens’s plans to expand their portfolio and capabilities in the cloud and SaaS directions. My previous learning was mostly related to Teamcenter X and low code development platform Mendix. If you missed my earlier blogs, please check it here. What did I learn about Teamcenter X…
