Siemens PLM doubles staff of its Moscow office

In my recent isicad.ru editorial I wrote: “Some observers noted that during several months, SPLM Russia has been intensively publishing ads for job. According to some rumors, the Moscow office has today about 70 employees…”.

Thanks to a mini-interview with Olga Akulova, Marketing Director Eastern Europe at Siemens PLM Software, I could transform these rumors into facts.

Olga, they say your office is rapidly growing and today has 70 persons.

We have already exceeded 100. This happened over the last two years.   

Could you outline, how this hundred is distributed by specializations? Do you have some new administrative groups?  

We significantly extended groups of professional service, marketing, and sales. We introduced some new more detailed specializations. To improve responsiveness, a quality control group was enhanced. A special group was organized to support Velocity Series product line.  

Was this a result of some concrete decisions? Is it recognition of the good prospects of Russian market?

Our company always considered the Russian market as very promising, you can take a look at the multiple interviews of SPLM top managers. And also, this growth just confirms good results already achieved by our team.   

I remember visiting your rather small office... How could you place there all this 100?!

This spring, the Moscow Siemens moved to its own very modern building in the city center. By the way, last autumn our office in Saint Petersburg also moved into a new building.   

Are there any news about distribution of Solid Edge? There were clear signs of increased attention from the company's top management...

I can mention establishing and extension of the group to promote Velocity. We've received considerable investments into development of partnership network. There was organized a group to adjust the product to the standards of Russian Federation. We definitely feel excellent prospects in this direction.

We are ready to answer your detailed questions. And welcome to our new office!

Thank you. The questions will be sent promptly. And will definitely visit you at least to take a look at the own very modern building of Siemens.

P.S. Detailed questions from isicad have already been sent.  

P.P.S. Note that within approximately one last year, Autodesk, Dassault Systemes, ASCON, and maybe some other companies have also moved into new, much bigger offices in Russia ...   

Thanks to DS and Siemens, Russian PLM market in August was completely devoted to aviation

DS and SPLM are always competing in the Russian aircraft industry however in this August the companies marketing activity seems to become record-breaking. One of the reasons is a traditional biennial Aviation&Space salon MAKS  held  about 10 days ago near Moscow. Within two weeks isicad.ru received from DS and SPLM five (5) press-releases: two of them described effective participation of DS in MAKS, one from SPLM announced that Ukrainian aircraft company “Antonov” for its transport planes selected NX and Teamcenter (btw Antonov also uses DS solutions), while two more press-releases announced that both companies are very closely cooperate with Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI).

DS has installed in MAI five hundred (500!) licenses of SolidWorks Campus, organizes education process based on SW and CATIA for junior and senior courses correspondingly, and apply SW for industrial design of light aircrafts in educational center of MAI.

The SPLM press-release announces deployment of all company’s PLM solutions for all elements of the educational process of MAI.    

Also note that both DS and SPLM actively contributed to the design of the Russian Superjet-100. 

Some Russian links:

Dassault Systèmes announce cooperation with Moscow Aviation Institute

Siemens PLM Software and Moscow Aviation Institute announce extension of their cooperation

Innovation technologies of Dassault Systèmes at MAKS-2011

ANTONOV selects Siemens PLM Software solutions to implement projects for transport aviation

Dassault Systèmes held its press-conference at  MAKS-2011

Discussing LEDAS’ heavy technological karma...

Cadovod is one of the most noticeable and bright bloggers writing in Russian about CAD. (Cadovod in Russian sounds like a person who is cultivating CAD - similar to cultivating vegetables or something…).

Recently Cadovod published an interview with me (in Russian), which might be useful for those English readers who are interested in history, current positioning, and development trends of the LEDAS Company.

Among the questions, there are:

Why did you decide to found LEDAS?

How did cooperation with DS start?

Should CAD vendors build their own geometric solvers or should they license them from Siemens or LEDAS?

Does LEDAS plan to produce its own CAD?

Why did LEDAS start building CAD-oriented applications?

and other...

We at isicad decided to translate that interview and now you can read it in English at isicad.net.