Category: Product Lifecycle Management

  • A future for all the script kiddies and geo hackers in second life

    A few days ago we issued a press release (I know, how old school ;-)) on a new feature on the Siemens Innovation Connection in Second Life.  I had been meaning to blog about the addition for a few weeks, but just got caught up in other things.  Maybe this will be the one time…

  • Inisights in to leading 170,000 people

    Last night I attended the top+ awards banquet for Siemens in the U.S.  I had the very fortunate chance to sit down with CEO of Siemens AG, Peter Loescher (we have lot’s of CEO’s, but he is the top of them all) after dinner with about 8 other people.  I can’t imagine what it must…

  • The “2.0” label has officially jumped the shark

    In a repeat of the late 90’s Internet mania, when the ‘i’ prefix could be slapped on to anything and magically it became an Internet property, the ‘2.0’ prefix has similarly lost all meaning. I know I am not the first one to say this, but it became true for me this morning when I…

  • Regulated IT

    Interesting ideas about what needs to happen in the IT industry to reel in some of the outlandish claims that are made by some: deal architect : IT and Telecom: Extremes in regulation If this sort of regulation did come in to being in any form, I think it would be one more sign that…

  • Duet for PLM?

    It’s no secret we’ve been working with Microsoft for a long time now and have delivered some things I am really proud of. Teamcenter on SQL, our .Net based middle tear and some really interesting graphics/visualization stuff. However all of it has been pretty much focused on the back office / server room – until…

  • We win!

    Looky here – Gartner thinks we’re on the right track.  And if I get out my compass, I think I can show we are 2 arc seconds ahead of the competition, so I’m declaring us the unofficial winner of the most recent round of the Gartner Group bake off. I also hear that Gartner will…

  • My GST 2008 Presentation

    I’m about to set up and give my presentation to the mid – market break out at GST (about 350 folks). Here’s a preview of my pitch. | View | Upload your own

  • What I think

    I got to sit down with the editor of Manufacturing Business Technololgy for a rountable recently.  A few interesting questions and a few interesting responses (and not just from me ;-)). Panel of thought leaders see pains, gains in manufacturing enterprise IT – 12/1/2007 – Manufacturing Business Technology What’s Eating Gilbert Grape film A Unfinished…

  • Passionate users

    One thing I love about my industry (CAD/PLM) is the number of passionate users is very high.  I would say almost to Apple levels of passion.  More than anything else, that’s why I see in posts like this from Matt. Matt Writes » Blog Archive » Is there a crisis in the SolidWorks community? Amityville…