Industry is transforming these days. As part of business transformation, engineering and manufacturing software vendors are changing the way software is developed, delivered and used by customers. Massive transition into services and subscriptions, combined with cloud software delivery create many new opportunities to change the way consulting, service and training…
PLM implementations are usually taking long time, cost money and resources. Manufacturing companies are blaming vendors for overselling and excessive marketing. Software vendors are blaming customers for inertia and organizational change management problems. All together agreed that PLM implementations is something that slowing down PLM technology adoption within companies. Typical…
Engieering.com article earlier this week brought the news of significant deal related to the PLM implementation services domain – Indian HCL Buys Volvo IT, Wins Battle with IBM. The remarkable thing – Volvo is divesting its IT services and shift towards usage of external providers. I found the following passage interesting:…
Cloud adoption is growing. There is almost a synergy about cloud and PLM. All PLM vendors are signaling about leveraging various pieces of cloud technologies in their business. Now, the time is coming for CAD. Last few months were sparked by multiple debates around future of cloud CAD technologies. Onshape…
I want to step back and look on PLM development trends for the last 4-5 years. Cloud PLM was one of the most visible one. It came as a result of enterprise software consumerization – the trend that made lot of mature web and cloud technologies available for enterprise organization. The…
Services is an important part of every PLM implementation. My attention caught news article – Kalypso and GoEngineer form strategic partnership. I found it interesting, especially the following passage: “The Kalypso-GoEngineer partnership enables both firms to scale our businesses to better serve the growing demand for PLM services and software,”…
Don’t be surprised if your most trusted CAD/PLM service provider will be acquired tomorrow. According to Joe Barkai’s post- PLM Service Providers Ready To Deliver Greater Value, we have been witnessing a wave of mergers and acquisitions of PLM services companies (the examples – Accenture / PRION Group, Accenture /…
The life of IT departments is complicated these days. What was IT kingdom 10 years ago gone forever. IT is loosing the battle of the the ability to control what users are doing as well as where they store information. If you are not familiar with the term, you better…
I was long time I didn’t write anything about SharePoint. I’ve been tracking SharePoint for the last 5-7 years very closely. These days I can hear lots of talks about coming SharePoint 2013. Many of the customers I know are using SharePoint. Back in 2006-2007, the success of SharePoint comes…
The internet changed our life for the last decade. I don’t think somebody will argue about that. Cloud is trending. Thinking about different aspects of how cloud is going to influence our future business, the topic of consultancy and service providing shouldn’t be missed. Some time ago, I posted –…
