Feb 12, 2018 | Hot Topics
SOLIDWORKS World is always a spectacle of maker-ness, designers competing to out-SOLIDWORKS one another in design competitions and learn from one another. It’s, as one speaker put it, nerd-heaven. This year was the twentieth anniversary event and many attendees...
Nov 13, 2017 | Hot Topics
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...
Sep 24, 2017 | Hot Topics
“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...
Jul 21, 2017 | Hot Topics
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...
Apr 25, 2017 | Hot Topics
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...
Nov 28, 2016 | Hot Topics
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...
Sep 22, 2016 | Hot Topics
It’s always fascinating to watch a product come to life. What problems does its creator think it solves? How do early adopter customers actually use it? What kind of partner ecosystem grows up around it? Autodesk’s PLM 360 (yes, I know that’s not...
