Cloud Computing
Last week, I predicted that manufacturers would dramatically increase their adoption of cloud-based software as the benefits of cloud begin to outweigh any possible concerns. And upon further research, it appears that I am not the first to make this prediction. In 2011, Gartner released a report describing how heightened economic pressures and increasingly complex [...]
I just read Oleg Shilovitsky’s Beyond PLM article discussing cloud BOM and change management solutions, and whether they will ever be accepted as a safe and reliable choice for manufacturers. As Vice President of Engineering at Arena—and someone who believes strongly in the security and convenience of cloud-based solutions—I felt I had to weigh in [...]
What can make or break a manufacturing company? According to Eric Larkin, co-founder and CTO of Arena Solutions, the answer is “how well it handles its product data.” In the early 1990s, as CTO of an underwater video equipment manufacturer, Eric and his team used spreadsheets to manage their product data. But their market demanded [...]
A new article in Design News looks at the state of design collaboration, specifically the steps being taken by design tool vendors to move design collaboration into the cloud (that place, according to the article, “where the Web is employed to deliver on-demand access to a shared pool of computing resources, be it servers, storage, [...]
There’s a lot of talk these days about the cloud…some of it from us even. However, we can’t help but share the concern Kenneth Wong expressed in a recent blog post, where he asserts that the term ‘cloud’ is being “interpreted, reinterpreted and misinterpreted (sometimes deliberately) till it becomes a fuzzy buzzword.” So we were [...]
Today at SolidWorks World, Jeff Ray, CEO of SolidWorks, announced Product Data Sharing (PDS) as the first of the company’s online services to be available on the Enovia v6 backbone. SolidWorks definitely took a cue from social networking and online communities like LinkedIn and Facebook. Now designers can open a SolidWorks add-in and select other [...]
At the main stage session on the first day of SolidWorks World 2010 we got a sneak preview of “CAD in the cloud.” What? You can’t do that!!! CAD will NEVER work on anything but desktop computers. Right? Apparently, Dassault’s vision is expanding from “professional designers” to all “professionals.” Interesting vision–and an interesting demo. We [...]
