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Resellers Rand and Avatech Merge Business Operations

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Randall Newton

The reverse merger returns Rand Worldwide to the stock market. This deal is about three things: Strength, Liquidity, and Cashing ...

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2008: “3D Manufacturing Innovation” Explains the Japanese Quest for an Alternative to PLM

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Randall Newton

The Japanese are ready to embrace 3D in manufacturing. But they have little interest in the Western top-down, design-driven linear ...

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2009: PTC’s New Windchill ProductPoint is Facebook for PLM

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Randall Newton

PTC introduces Windchill ProductPoint, a new product data management product based on Microsoft SharePoint. It is the first product ever ...

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Autodesk Second Quarter: Who needs PLM?

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Steve Wolfe

Autodesk’s revenues in the most recent quarter rebounded more sharply than its peers in the engineering software business.

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Fiat Selects aesthetica Software to Improve Perceived Quality in Auto Design

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Randall Newton

Fiat will use the product visualization software to help improve manufacturing variation analysis and reduce development costs through early identification ...

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April 2007: SMB Talking Points The Big PLM Sales Teams Hope You Never Hear

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Randall Newton

From 2007: A light-hearted look at PLM and Small Business By Randall S. Newton Editor-in-Chief, CADCAMNET [Editor’s Note, 2007: The ...

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2007: Autodesk CEO Takes A Verbal Baseball Bat to PLM

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Randall Newton

“There are only three companies in the world with a PLM problem,” says Autodesk CEO Carl Bass. “Their names are ...

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Dassault Systèmes Revenue Growth Less Than Meets the Eye

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Randall Newton

There were signs of growth and recovery in the quarterly statement from Dassault Systèmes, but digging into the numbers shows ...

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How Aras Makes Money by Giving Away PLM Software

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Randall Newton

Aras Corporation is the small but successful publisher of Aras Innovator, an open source enterprise PLM suite. “Open source” means ...

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Continental to Standardize Automotive Group on PTC Windchill

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Randall Newton

Long-term partnership agreement will ultimately affect 12,000 users in 130 locations. Continental says Windchill capabilities in multi-CAD integration, eCAD data ...