Efficiency is one of those things helped manufacturing for centuries to find a better solutions and manufacture better products. It can be a complex process, but by learning how to improve existing processes manufacturing company can discover step by step how to achieve their goals. Some of historical examples of…
Who will win cloud war? BOLD business article brings an interesting comparison between vendors and the funny picture I reference above. A war is on. The competitive world of cloud computing is not for faint-hearted companies. These top providers have made the impossible things become possible and easier for a lot of people,…
I’ve been reading almost traditional Kleiner Perkins’ annual internet trends report delivered by Mary Meeker at Code 2018. Almost 300 slides presentation covers everything you can imaging related to internet, mobile platforms, consumer applications, enterprise, etc. I highly recommend you to spend time and at least skim through the information…
Consumer technologies made a huge impact on enterprise software for the last decade. Think about many aspects of what data management, collaboration, web applications, mobile and many others. You will see traces of consumer technologies everywhere. Unless you live under the rock, you’ve heard about CES. Giant consumer electronic annual…
Dear Friends, It is time to take a break and think about what happened in 2017. Many of my friends and colleagues are taking some time off now with families, traveling, relaxing and making plans for the next year. I want to take a moment and share my thoughts about…
It was almost 20 years ago. I was developing AutoCAD software for customers in Israel. I remember a conversation with a prospect customer who told me with a directness you can only hear in Israel during customer meetings – I want to have “one button application”. I looked sadly at the…
I attended Autodesk University 2016 opening keynote yesterday. 10’000 people crowd, crazy loud music and future vision of engineering software. Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski and CEO Carl Bass kicked it off sharing perspective on future trends and opportunities of technologies and engineering software future. The following 2 topics caught my…
Things are changing in the manufacturing world. A decade ago, the biggest concern for manufacturing companies was how to manufacture and ship products. These days manufacturing companies are going beyond production. Business models are changing and it is one of the leading factors in manufacturing transformation. Companies are not only…
These days is really hard to read news and not to see a word “cloud” at least few times during the day. My attention was caught by the news about Solidworks 2017 and 3DDrive – new cloud service from Solidworks. PDM is one of the engineering software domains that actively catching…
In the early days of electronic and computer development, “digital” was a technology that generates, stores and process data in terms of two states: positive and non-positive. Positive was expressed by number 1. Non-positive by number 0. Each of these states was referred as a bit. It was developed as…
