Hello from Russia! I have been attending yesterday's PLM Forum in Moscow with about 700 visitors and want to give you a brief and personal report with highlights from my point of view.

We have been exhibiting the PLM MarketPlace and offerings from our Alliance Partners in the exhibition and via a conference presentation. First of all I experienced lots of interest in technical solutions provided by our partners, such as in the field of CFD, composite, data exchange. In this respect, PLM MarketPlace was recognized as good entry point to find those specialized solutions which are required in Russian industry and government-funded projects.

 
Image courtesy of Dimitri Movchan, www.isicad.ru

From the discussions I conclude that PLM is generally seen as the structure which helps enable and organize those projects. People were curious and keen to learn what they can get to leverage their engineering competences to market success.

I was told that social communities are emerging in Russia but already well adopted by professionals. So our offerings to foster community collaboration with our ecosystem and around the PLM MarketPlace were seen as very suitable and powerful to answer customers present and tomorrow’s needs.

Co-exhibitors with me were the VARs Bee Pitron and Hetnet (both connected to the PLM MarketPlace) and also Techprom. Software partner CD-adapco was represented by the Sarov Engineering Center and Technology partner 3Dconnexion had an exhibition booth as well.

Well, time for me to board and fly back to Paris. Obviously, if you are willing to discuss business opportunities with our Russian partners or want to be connected with them, don’t hesitate to contact my folks of the PLM MarketPlace team.

до скорой встречи!*

Michael

*See you soon !