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What caused ADSK's biggest share price plunge (in three years)?, and Rewriting Inventor Fusion for Mac

Issue #748 From reading through transcripts and analyses, it appears to me that there were three reasons for the sudden* slowdown in Autodesk sales in Q2, which lead to the company's CFO reducing revenue projections for the rest of the... Read more →

SolidWorks Gets into the Electrical Vertical

Issue #747 Eric Leafquist is product manager for SolidWorks Electrical with a background in electromechanical design, and his job is to get the product launched. He last week delved into the details about this month's launch of Dassault Systemes' newest... Read more →

Second Generation Maximus from NVIDIA Professional Solutions Group

Issue #746 Last week NVIDIA announced new graphics products at SIGGRAPH; the week before, however, the company spent an hour telling upFront.eZine about them. Before I go on, however, it's best to understand the meaning of the many names that... Read more →

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Issue #745 The problem: the huge amount of money people have to put up front to implement a search solution, such as PLM. But this costs too much and takes too long to implement + the pressure from the vendor... Read more →