"Salesforce.com"
Will Salesforce platform boost cloud PLM?
Look at portfolios of all PLM vendors and you will see “cloud” tag everywhere. I’d say, for the moment, all PLM vendors are “cloud” buzzword compliant. The definition can vary from cloud-ready to true cloud and everything in between. At the same time, analyst companies such as CIMdata mentioned in their…
Manufacturing cloud and engineering applications
Cloud is making its way into manufacturing industry. I’ve been watching this process for the last 5-7 years and I can clearly say that position of manufacturing companies is changing. From “there is no way we trust cloud applications”, manufacturing companies are moving into a reality of using cloud services for…
Real-time collaboration and enterprise applications
CAD, PLM and future race towards cloud revenues
Enterprise software industry transition is in full swing towards cloud revenues. Recent acquisition of Netsuite by Oracle just added an addition pressure to already overheated discussion between rivals Salesforce.com and Oracle, which is trying to become a first enterprise software vendor reaching $10B cloud revenues mark. Salesforce’s Marc Benioff is not…
Why salesforce.com is a good platform for PLM… or maybe not?
Medium article from Propel PLM – What the Salesforce Cloud Does for PLM brings few interesting data points about latest cloud PLM vendor (Propel PLM) building new product on top of Salesforce.com. Propel PLM recently closed $4.2M financial round led by Cloud Apps Capital Partners. I’ve been discussing the opportunity to…
Salesforce platform and cloud PLM differentiators
Almost two years ago, I asked if Salesforce.com platform is ready for PLM. You can navigate to my old article to get up to speed my thoughts here. Some Youtube videos disappeared since then. The basic set of Saleforce.com platform functionality is mature and Salesforce is investing in additional development….
Does Salesforce.com platform ready for PLM?
Salesforce.com is well know CRM provider. More than that, Salesforce.com is well know by pioneering SaaS and later Cloud applications. If you follow Salesforce closely you can see that company is strongly moving into direction to become a platform. There are many confirmation to that. AppExchange is one of them…
PLM, Social Apps and How to Design Next Airplane on the Facebook?
Co-browsing and future of CAD design collaboration?
Experience. We love this word nowadays. I can hear many discussions about “experience” these days. The last five years of computing and web shown that “experience” is actually very important. The examples are going from iPod and mobile devices to complex web sites and social networks. CAD / PLM companies…