Happy 2018 — and, optimize THIS
I hope you had a wonderful year-end, filled with people you love. Or tolerate, if that’s how you roll. In any event, as peaceful and relaxing as it could be. I’ve been trying to write a 2017 retrospective and, honestly, the mind boggles. So much happened,...
DS’ 3DExperience Forum highlights move to business processes
Dassault Systèmes (DS) started thinking about the 3DExperience platform almost a decade ago. It started as a 3D web-based environment that would enable designers, manufacturers, end-consumers and service people to virtually experience products. In tandem, it would...
AVEVA World Summit focuses on digitalization, in all its forms
Q: What does it take to become a digital business? A1: It’s easy-peasy if you’re a newish company, with a digitally savvy workforce. Make some apps, roll them out to people who are used to doing everything on a tiny screen. Collect lots of data, quickly...
Autodesk Accelerate – so much more than PLM
“Sometimes you have to wear a shirt” isn’t a typical theme at a PLMish conference, but it perfectly describes the ethos of this year’s Autodesk Accelerate. Morphing from a PDM-centric conference four years ago to something straddling Fusion 360...
Quickie: PTC’s FQ3 suffers from weakness in Japan
It’s tough to be PTC. Revenue ahead of expectations, license and subscription bookings not so much, “sales execution issues” in Japan … weak guidance for the company’s fiscal Q4 … stock gets hammered. A few of the details — much more...
PTC returns to modest growth in FQ2 – but we’ll take it!
PTC announced its fiscal Q2 financials a couple of days ago, and I’ve been trying to figure out what to write about ever since. There was good news, in that revenue was up year/year for the first time in nine quarters. And the net loss narrowed. But I worry...
Updates: Siemens+Mentor, ESI earnings, what ever happened to Geometric?
You’ve been asking some great questions, here on the blog, via email and over on LinkedIn — and since you tell me you rarely have time to go back and look at old posts for updates, I’ve collected a few right here, right now. First, more on Siemens...
#AU2016 bridges point/platform, individual/teams, old/young
Have you ever been to AU? I’ve been to perhaps 10 or 15 –tend to lose count after the first 5 or so– and they continue to captivate. This year’s was the usual combo of showbiz and nerdly, huge and more contained, general and targeted. We went...
