Category: Product Lifecycle Management

Congrats to the guys at Seemage who managed to get themselves bought up by their fellow countrymen, Dassault.  I hope you all can keep up the blog, but I wonder how the message will change.  Alex has been pretty vocal in his opposition to IT centric or heavy PLM systems, so here’s to hoping that…

From the “the third time is a charm” file, SAP has announced yet another attempt to tackle the PLM market.  It’s great that the market segment gets the attention, but I questions SAP’s ability to execute here.  PLM is just too different from what they are good at.  Its too ‘miscellaneous’.  Its too dynamic.  Its…

While any American who is vacationing overseas this year would not agree that the Dollar to Euro exchange rate is at a good level, it appears that the U.S. manufacturing sector would disagree.  While I don;t like the idea of a weak dollar in the global currency market, I do like the idea of cheaper…

I found this series of posts that Boing Boing linked to on Chinese manufacturing really interesting.  It is no wonder that so many goods come out so cheaply when things are this efficient and at this scale.  If the manufacturing industry in China can get their arms around compliance and quality issues there will be…

Interesting report from Analyst Equity that shows a massive jump in coverage of UGS in June 2007.  Was likely a direct result of the close of the acquisition by Siemens, but good to see the interest nonetheless. Analyst Equity: Salesforce, Unica and UGS rise in Lighthouse Software Index

A few pics from our Analyst event today in NYC at the Waldorf. A really good day overall. We were packed with customer speakers, which always remind me why I like this business so much.

My June travels continue this week.  I arrived in NYC yesterday afternoon and will be here through Thursday for our annual media and analyst event.  This year we moved from The Palace to the Waldorf=Astoria (yes the equal’s sign is in their official name).  The meeting space is much nicer, but the Palace was a…

I flew down to Orlando, FL yesterday morning.  It was not a fun flight, especially on the descent with the plane hitting several areas of turbulence.  I am here for the Siemens Energy and Automation Summit.  SE&A is the operating company for Siemens in the US and this is basically their user group.  A few…

Saw the news late last night that Oracle has announced its intent to acquire Agile.  Maybe this is the recognition the PLM market has been waiting for.  Maybe the sign that PLM has made it as an enterprise app is when its owned by an enterprise app company…maybe.  Maybe not. I’ll have to think about…