How DS Alliance partners adopted our Community blog

Just 5 months ago, we made this community blog become available to all customers and partners. Many things happened since then, and we have seen an enthousiastic partner community welcoming this announcement during our last Partner Summit.

This is quite an innovative approach, since this blog content is created collaboratively by our partner community (software, service, hardware partners). It gives each partner the opportunity to talk to a large community of users in one place. Under the PLM MarketPLace umbrella, our customer community is now able to find and share information about all complementary solutions adding value to DS offers.
Even more interesting for all: the attitude of our partner community. We have there plenty of technical, consulting and sales people, people loving to HEAR and LEARN from customers.

How you will benefit from this momentum

We have people willing to listen, share and talk. What are we going to talk about in the PLM field? Just what our customer and partner tell us!

So, what would be the most interesting and valuable blogpost to read in your mind? Please tell us what you think by answering this poll, or leave us a comment below.  

the PLM MarketPlace blog is yours!!
Keep connected,

Jacques

PLM MarketPlace's blog is changing!

After beeing in the private section of the PLM MarketPlace since last year, our blog is now public. But the scope of this blog has not changed: we have here a business blog dedicated to professionnals (B2B), with a focus on value added by our network of partners referenced on PLM MarketPlace. In this wordle map of our partner's portfolio, we can see that our partner solutions are mostly CAAV5-based softwares today, providing value to CATIA V5 users.

In these pages we will be happy to share experiences about partner products, events, use cases, success stories that can provide value to our community of users. We will welcome contents provided by our referenced partner community. Resellers and customers could propose articles in reference to referenced partner solutions used by Dassault Systemes customers. (Stories about Dassault Systemes' Solutions shall be posted on our corporate website or on our corporate blog).

See you soon on PLM MarketPlace' blog :-)

PS: Sales content has been removed from older blog posts. Confidential information remain on the private section of the Marketplace, with an access limited to VAR members.

Jacques

The recurrent question was “Do I have to post under my real name and mention my Company’s name?”.

Well… I understand that in fact you talk about confidentiality. Obviously, we cannot oblige you to decline your true identity; it is neither a blogging policy nor our role at DS to check your ID card! I think that the greatest alternative (and also a common practice) is to use a nickname (but please, avoid things like “Haris Pilton”, “Teddy Bear”, etc… ;-). We really know that you want to protect your identity and therefore, your business.

Again, consider this space as yours and feel free to express yourself!

Anthony

Our main concern remains to help you do more business with our Referenced Partners and Customers. Consequently, almost all the topics will be business-oriented and deal with products, program offers, case studies, returns of experience, etc… We will also talk about any subjects you may want to consider because, again, this is YOUR blog! From time to time, we'll let our Partners talk about their products and, why not, start a one-to-one discussion with you!

This looks great but at this stage, we need to clarify some points concerning the new powerful communication tool. The PLM MarketPlace blog is moderated just because we want it to be clear and on topic, this means that negative contributions such as profanity, racial and ethnic slurs, and rude behavior like disparaging personal remarks won’t be tolerated nor published. This does not mean that you cannot publish an opposite point of view or disagree with a peer! But all we want is to ensure and maintain a cool atmosphere around here…

Another important thing regarding this blog: it is a not a DS support platform! We do not have the time nor the skills to answer questions dealing with technical issues. However, if your questions involve an opportunity in the scope of the PLM MarketPlace, don’t hesitate to share it with us!

Enjoy!

Anthony