“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...
I spent most of a week with Siemens –the PLM team plus an assortment of colleagues from across the AG and maybe 150 media and analysts– to learn more about the PLM business, the recent Mentor Graphics and TASS acquisitions, and to try to gauge how the AG...
Aras announced last week that is has secured $40 million in funding in exchange for a minority stake in the company and a board seat. Silver Lake Kraftwerk and GE Ventures partnered for the investment. Aras said it will use the funds to drive growth, expand operations...
PLM Connection, a Siemens-associated but user group-driven event, tried something new this year: day long sessions devoted to a single topic. I was fortunate enough to be asked to moderate panels during a day focused on “Realizing the Digital Enterprise –...
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...
You ask the best questions! Here, some quick answers from the mailbag: I probably get more questions on PLM than anything else: what is it, who uses it, why does it matter — and where does it fit into an overall IT strategy. The first thing to realize is that...
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...
Quick: what do you think of when I say “Siemens”? Since you read here, probably PLM, and that makes sense. But Siemens AG is so much bigger than the PLM part of the business, encompassing energy, medical diagnostic systems, manufacturing automation...
It looks like things may finally be coming together for ESI. Q3 results, released a few weeks ago, show that the company is reaching new customers, deepening relationships with longtime customers — and partnering with a leading research institute to...
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...
