CIOs driving innovation – Moving manufacturing to the cloud
August 2, 2013
Grazed from Ferret. Author: Brent Balinski.
LAST year an interview with Autodesk’s CEO in Tech Crunch magazine got a lot of attention from those who follow CAD news. "I’d say two to three years from now, every one of our products will be used online," Carl Bass said in April 2012. "The only way to use them will be online."
Whether or not he was speaking literally was argued on many a message board, and whether or not he was, there’s no doubting the company’s focus on cloud computing as both massively useful for its users and of huge importance to its own future…
"Autodesk over the years has really established a name in a space that was primarily desktop PC-oriented," the company’s CIO, Jeff Brzycki, told Ferret. "It was client-based software that ran in the customer’s premise, that was typically because it was graphically-oriented and really was focussed on trying to sort of – the tag line for the company is to helping people experience their idea before they’re real…
Read more from the source @ http://www.ferret.com.au/c/Autodesk-Australia/CIOs-driving-innovation-Moving-manufacturing-to-the-cloud-n2506964