The late author, Arthur C. Clarke , formulated three adages known as Clarke's Three Laws , of which the third law is the best known: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” As it happens, some in the PLM industry think…

A while back Ralph Grabowski’s upFront.eZine published a piece titled “ Just How Open is Aras with its Open-Source PLM ” which involved my response to another reader’s statement about Aras. To Ralph’s credit, he published a substantial portion of my response…

Like anyone involved in the PLM world, I too have been following the continued announcements of Autodesk PLM 360. There was a veritable thunderstorm of posts on twitter yesterday that took up my feed for the better part of the morning on the subject.…

At any given moment in time there are beginners in PLM. Start-ups. Seasoned professionals changing roles. Growing companies making new investments in previously forgone solutions. This morning I passed Peter Schroer in the hall as I was thinking about…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…