News from Russian CAD/PLM Market: Nov 2010 - March 2011

I have just published an isicad.net overview related to couple recents months. In the first part you can find couple general facts related to the Russian market and/or reflected in our English publications: 

• Space & CAD in Russia: 50 Years Since Gagarin’s Flight,
• What Publications on CAD/PLM are the Most Popular in Russia?
• CAD Revolution: Inevitable and Already Started
• A Hot Discussion around BIM at isicad.ru
• "The Dassault Systemes Success Story" by Francis BERNARD
• From COFES-Russia and COFES-Israel to The Big COFES at Arizona
• Russian Social Networking: In and Beyond the CAD/PLM Market
• Microsoft in Russia: +25%
• CAD for military service
• In 95-99 usage of illegal software for biz in Russia decreased by 20%.

In the second part of this paper, I present some news on the activity of particular vendors (mainly at the Russian market): ASCON, Autodesk, Dassault Systemes & SolidWorks, Intergraph, LEDAS, and some others.

See a full paper "News from Russian CAD/PLM Market: Nov 2010 - March 2011".

Autodesk and PTC change heads of the offices in Moscow

Just after long (1-10 January) Russian New Year vacations it was announced that Alexander Tasev decided to leave his position of the head of the Autodesk Russia & CIS to continue his career beyond the company. As the company's notification says, Alex was 5 years running development of the Autodesk business in Russia & CIS and has contributed a lot into achievements of the company and unprecedented growth of its business in the region. Alex willingly cooperated with isicad: gave his interview to isicad.ru and isicad.net, participated in the International multi-vendor CAD/PLM Forum isicad-2008, etc.

Since January 15, Rudolf Danzer, an Autodesk Vice-President on Emerging Countries will temporary keep position of the head of the Russia & CIS office. Thanks to support of the Moscow and West-European Autodesk officers, Mr. Danzer has kindly gave his answers to the brief questions of isicad.net and isicad.ru, see his interview: "I am excited to be more directly in touch with the day-to-day running of the Autodesk business in Russia".

Couple days later, Mr. Valery Pragin was nominated as the head of the PTC office in Moscow. Mr. Pragin was for quite a long time working as a high ranked maneger at Intergraph and IBM PLM offices in Moscow. Valery says he likes PTC "because the company offers their customers not products but rather advantages"...
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