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CIMdata's Vice President of Research, Stan Przybylinski, recently sat down with Siemens PLM Software's Executive Vice President & General Manager for Cloud & Data Services, Stephen Bashada, so that he could learn more about Siemens PLM Software's cloud strategy.

Let's find out!

How important are cloud-based solutions to the strategy of Siemens PLM Software?

Cloud-based technologies are enablers of digital innovation and can provide the agility companies require to quickly integrate and deploy new capabilities into the product lifecycle. The market trends are clear: cloud-based...

CIMdata's Vice President of Research, Stan Przybylinski, recently sat down with Oracle's Vice President PLM Products, John Kelley, so that he could learn more about Oracles's cloud strategy.

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Let’s talk about Oracle’s strategic commitment to the cloud.

Oracle’s cloud strategy is the development of net new 100 percent cloud-based applications across our entire portfolio, including Oracle Enterprise Resource Planning...

Many different industries rely on configure-to-order (CTO) or engineer-to-order (ETO) strategies to profitably deliver products to their customers. Product companies want to mass customize their way to markets of one. Product configurators have long addressed this problem, some technical and some targeted toward business users. Both configuration skills and costing accuracy are essential to make it work. But, as in other disciplines, many of these solutions are designed for experts.

Configure-Price-Quote (CPQ) solutions take this one step further, using engineering and enterprise...

While additive manufacturing has been around since the 1980s, the rapid evolution of 3D printing and associated materials has industrial companies and even individual consumers excited about the future of making things.

The original work on stereolithography (STL) was done in Japan in the 1970s, however, the term STL was coined in 1986 by Chuck Hull, who went on to found 3D Systems, a leader in additive manufacturing today. For many years the technology was used for prototyping, creating...

You may be aware that CIMdata has been hosting a series of educational webinars. We have seen record attendance and many of the past webinars are available for replay from the CIMdata on-Demand page of our website. I recently hosted a webinar on IoT which generated lots of questions that we did not have time to answer live and and I am working my way through them. Here are a few. For those of you who were unable...

You may be aware that CIMdata has been hosting a series of educational webinars. We have seen record attendance and many of the past webinars are available for replay from the CIMdata on-Demand page of our website. I recently hosted a webinar on IoT which generated lots of questions that we did not have time to answer live and and I am working my way through them. Here are a few. For those of you who were unable...

The Internet has transformed commerce, and enhanced human interaction, and CIMdata believes that the Internet of Things (IoT) will do it again. Amazon, Orbitz, and Über are three examples of companies that leveraged the Internet to permanently change the competitive landscape in a range of industries—great examples of the “creative destruction” economist Joseph A. Schumpeter noted in his 1942 book Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.

Electronic Timeline

Over the last decade several IT trends have emerged that are transforming business and society. Social platforms connect far-flung...