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In a typical 10,000 person company there are probably 50-100 full-time 3D CAD engineers. So how come these few CAD users and their CAD software vendors so often drive the selection of an enterprise PLM system that will likely touch thousands of users around the world? Why do the needs of these few weigh...
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Recently, there was a good article on the CAD community web sites titled “ Textron and Other Fortune 500 Companies Move to Aras Enterprise Open Source PLM Software ” that outlined how major global companies are switching to Aras. It includes some of their reasons for picking Aras over other...
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Saw a Discussion on LinkedIn "PLM" group titled " Disconnect between OOTB PLM Functionalities and Customer requirements ". The post said: Many of the PLM solutions have came up from big customers who had developed the sysytem for their own usage - These systems were no doubts serve...
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A few days back, Oleg over at Daily PLM Think Tank did another good post titled PLM, Cloud, SaaS and Software Upgrades . It looks at several different software delivery trends (i.e. on-premise vs in-cloud) to really get at what I consider a major issue… enterprise PLM upgrades of highly customized...
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You might have seen the PLM press today about a pretty significant win for Aras. Carestream Health , which is an international provider of medical and dental imaging systems and other complex healthcare equipment (a multi-billion dollar private equity spinout and formerly Kodak Healthcare Imaging), is...
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Wanted to share this article from Fortune Magazine / CNN Money website called 'Big Software has duped us for decades'. Roger Burkhardt does a pretty good job of describing how enterprise software licensing actually works... I've included some excerpts and added a few reader comments as well...
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Was reading Managing Automation’s blog The Edge by Jeff Moad and he poses the question, “ Where Did All the Big Software Deals Go? ” Jeff says: …lingering reluctance on the part of manufacturers to commit to significant technology purchases contradicts a core argument made over...
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This month’s Desktop Engineering has an editorial by Peter Schroer, Aras President and Founder, about the impact of the recession on product development and engineering at global corporations. The implications range from the need for new products that will fuel the recovery and strengthen competitiveness...
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Our new open download of the Aras enterprise PLM software suite is the latest in the series of feature-packed releases (some openly available while others are subscriber-only like Service Packs, Security Updates, Hot Fixes, etc) has been up on the site for a bit. This one is a major release that incorporates...
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Where is enterprise PLM software headed from a technology architecture stand-point? And even more broadly, where is enterprise software headed in general? If you are an enterprise architect or have broad responsibility for corporate IT enterprise applications, these are questions that keep you up at...
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Change management processes are difficult enough to master, however, when you introduce change notification across the supply chain there is another order of magnitude in the challenge. Most company’s focus on getting review and approval automated. This is a logical place to start. However, it...
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The way enterprise PLM software is licensed to businesses is wrong, end of story. Pay now. Pay later. Pay extra. Pay more. Traditional PLM licensing schemes are complicated, confusing, expensive, and broken… and their days are numbered. To understand this requires experiencing it first-hand. Get...
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Everyone wants it their way… and that’s a good thing. Choice. That’s what ensures we have cloths that fit, styles we like, food we enjoy, and (in the business software world) systems that work for our specific industry practices and processes. Today, every large PLM software provider...
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A few days ago Jim Brown at Tech-Clarity had posted on “the impact of the economy on the engineering software industry?”… This topic is a bit different than the implications for end user customer companies. The emphasis is on the engineering software products and associated PLM vendors...
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Have been having discussions about Lean Product Development in various groups on LinkedIn (PDMA, PLM Group, etc). One of the important implications that has surprisingly not come up in the discussions is how different product development technologies support Lean. To explore this point for this post...