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...
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...
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...
This is a good question and one that deserves more than a short blog post answer. So, am glad that Jeff Cope at Extensible CAD Technologies used it as the title to his third article in the 3 part product evaluation series of the Aras PLM software solution suite. In this segment of his evaluation Jeff...
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...
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...
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...
Just read today’s CIMdata newsletter which includes a poll on the impact of the global recession on PLM initiatives. The results and analysis highlight some pertinent information. CIMdata explains the data and goes on to conclude that: …just over half of the participants indicated that they...
Last week Aras was launched in Greater China. The interest level in the Microsoft open approach for PLM and Quality management solutions is particularly high throughout the region. Businesses in Asia are increasingly recognizing the need for PLM solutions as they move up the value chain and concentrate...
Graham Bell at MCADCafé recently conducted a podcast interview with Aras president Peter Schroer to cover the market impact that the Aras Microsoft enterprise open source approach is having and how it works. Listen as Peter explains how companies are taking advantage of the Aras solutions’ open source...