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Pinterest will teach CAD companies to search

Pinterest will teach CAD companies to search

Search is a difficult problem. Especially when it comes to enterprise and organization. According to researches, more than 2/3 of people searches are not returning satisfactory results. Enterprise is messy, complicated and contains lot of unstructured data these days. CAD and other 3D files are part of this messiness. For…

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COFES 2014: Will PLM survive until 2020?

COFES 2014: Will PLM survive until 2020?

I’m attending COFES (The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software) which starts today in Scottsdale, AZ. COFES is not a traditional “Power Point Decks” event. It is a unique type of interaction between people interested in what will drive engineering software beyond five years horizon. The topic of COFES…

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Engineers and Contextual Search Experience

Engineers and Contextual Search Experience

Web search became part of our life. We don’t search anymore, we “google” everything . The visible simplicity of Google created a feeling that magic of search can transform and simplify any software product behavior. CAD, PLM and other enterprise software companies liked the idea as well. Search is certainly…

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Why engineers need exploratory search?

Why engineers need exploratory search?

Search. One of the most powerful changes in experience we’ve seen for the last 10-15 years. It is interesting, but search was with us many years. Search or find was a functionality in every enterprise application already 20-25 years ago. However, before Google made us to believe and experience the…

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The Complexity of Product Lifecycle and Google’s Blindspot

The Complexity of Product Lifecycle and Google’s Blindspot

The power of search giants like Google is enormous these days. Think about the amount of information Google, Twitter and Facebook are processing and you will be knocked down by the numbers. Consumerization is a significant trend these days and everybody are thinking how we can apply well proven web…

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Will PLM unlock cloud search?

Will PLM unlock cloud search?

You probably remember my earlier post – PLM cloud concerns and dropbox reality for engineers. My hunch of the corporate reality – data is moving to the cloud. Against rules, procedures, security concerns and corporate policies. USB sticks provided similar data transfer transparency during the last decade. Now it happens with…

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Multiple Facets of PLM Search

Multiple Facets of PLM Search

Disclosure: As a co-founder of Inforbix and responsible of PLM 360 and Autodesk Vault product development at at Autodesk, I understand that my opinion about PLM Search can be unintentionally biased. Nevertheless, I believe the topic itself is very important, so I decided to share the information and my opinion…

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How to rethink 3D and visual search?

How to rethink 3D and visual search?

Visual search. 3D search. For all of us in design and engineering, this topic always was fascinating. I had a chance to speak about this topic with my industry colleagues and blogged about PLM and 3D search couple of times. After all discussions, this is a simple definition of 3D search…

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Why PLM should pay attention to Facebook Graph Search?

Why PLM should pay attention to Facebook Graph Search?

One of the biggest tech events for me last week was Facebook Graph Search. If you haven’t heard about this, you better to catch up. There are tons of articles about new Facebook Graph search, but service is still in the Beta phase. You can submit for Beta here and…

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