Category: Product Lifecycle Management

Day 2 at Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference and things got off to an odd start. There was an accident in the feeder to the Ted Williams tunnel last night that has backed up traffic all over Boston. So as a result Microsoft decided to postpone the entire event by 30 minutes, so as a result…

So I’m sitting in the Day 1 congress at COFES (the mechanical version) moderated by Peter Marks from Design Insight. Just a few random thoughts captured from the crowd: Too much functionality / too little functionality (that’s easy for a vendor to address!) Configuration management needs work Interoperability – the topic that everyone wants solved,…

InformationWeek | Google Acquisition | Google Buys Maker Of 3D Modeling Software | March 14, 2006 This is wild. I know about and regularly use Google Earth. I’ve even “flown” through the Grand Canyon and San Francisco in it. However I never really equated that with Google being interested in a 3D modeling company. I…

I’m on my way to New York next week for a big event with Microsoft. Can’t say much, but they will be making some interesting announcements in the business space to make them a little more competitive with the boys up state. Stay tuned…

Dassault Buys MatrixOne (by W. Bradley Holtz) Obviously I am a bit late in getting this up on my blog, but here it is nonetheless. I am also a little biased here, but overall I think this is a good thing for the PLM industry and a good thing for UGS, the company I work…

Eclipse 500 Personal Jet Now in Production Boy the posts are just flying off today with w.bloggar This might be making it too easy to blog. Anyway, just saw that the Eclipse jet is hitting production. I’m not sure what it is, but 1.3M seems very attainable for a jet. What’s even better is these…

Well that was quick.  The show I went up to Boston for went by like a flash.  The one thing I really noticed this year was that the conversion is now complete: rather than selling, we are being sold.  Rather than being the most interesting vendors there, we are the most interesting buyers.  Of course,…

Dealing_with_Darwin: Dateline Davos: The Future of the Technology Sector This is another interesting post from Geoff Moore’s blog with some of his observations from his time in Davos. I think the three items in his model are interesting, but I find the 3rd one most compelling: the move from IT being used for transactions to…

CoDev 2006 – Co-Development for Business Growth: Open Innovation and Alternatives I just got back from CoDev earlier this week. It was one of the first focused PDMA conferences I have attended and it was quite good. The blend of topics discussed (from alliance frameworks to the need to innovate in teams across the value…