The article sounds like, from the draftsman's point of view, Cadkey was the local optimum. But Catia has to be understood as an end-to-end system and the catalyst of business transformation born from the Dassault experience. Products as complex as Catia are not separable from their organizational context and only express their values as part of business process transformation.
In 2004, the Dassault Falcon 7X became the first aircraft in industry history to be entirely developed in a virtual environment, from design to manufacturing to maintenance. There was no prototype: the first assembled Falcon 7X was a production model - that was revolutionary and borne by Catia. But maybe the draftsmen were still pissed off...
Sounds like a fiber optics referential database and workflow migration I was part of at a large telco, with the design community growing from 12 to 3000 users: of course the early experts were unhappy with the directions the systems went into, but they were no longer the center of gravity - the whole system was.
Disclaimer: my uncle was part of the Dassault team who sold Catia to Boeing...
I don't have any real modeling experienced, but this sentence:
"Products as complex as Catia are not separable from their organizational context and only express their values as part of business process transformation."
Just, wow. This should be framed somewhere and enshrined as an example of the utter stupidity and self referential navel gazing that goes into some of these utter nonsense software orgs...
This is completely backwards - software provides features, not business process. When some process gets enshrined in a bit of software, this doesn't make it any good. You also not making business any better - yeah, sure, biz processes change, writing code to enshrine those processes isn't helping anyone.
Unless you create new features, you aren't doing anything new that might mean the business process might change.
Not to mention the viewpoint that software "expresses values" like it is some hipster...
In 2004, the Dassault Falcon 7X became the first aircraft in industry history to be entirely developed in a virtual environment, from design to manufacturing to maintenance. There was no prototype: the first assembled Falcon 7X was a production model - that was revolutionary and borne by Catia. But maybe the draftsmen were still pissed off...
Sounds like a fiber optics referential database and workflow migration I was part of at a large telco, with the design community growing from 12 to 3000 users: of course the early experts were unhappy with the directions the systems went into, but they were no longer the center of gravity - the whole system was.
Disclaimer: my uncle was part of the Dassault team who sold Catia to Boeing...