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How to compare off-the-shelf and proprietary eCommerce platforms? This is a very important question, the first you will have to answer before everything else. When creating an eCommerce system, one of the first steps is to decide if we want to build or buy the software platform and CMS (Content Management System). For small-medium businesses,... Continue Reading →
This article was first posted on LinkedIn on October 29, 2018. Finding the best way to display the price of a product in a price tag on an eCommerce product page can be challenging. A/B testing can certainly help you in finding the best solution for price display design, but it is essential to understand why specific... Continue Reading →
I've been recently asked to answer a few questions by Nancy Spurling Johnson, a journalist writing for Cadalyst. As agreed, she didn't publish my interview plainly but rather used my answer to write a white paper sponsored by IMSI, the company making TurboCAD. The white paper was published on May 25th, 2016. I assume I'm... Continue Reading →
A presentation I gave on November 4th, 2015, in San Francisco for the Italiani di Frontiera Silicon Valley Tour lead by Roberto Bonzio. Silicon Valley culture is different. We must be aware of cultural differences to have a successful business meeting. These are the 22 most important rules I presented in San Francisco in 2015... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso il 25 marzo 2013 su Desktop Engineering a cura di Kenneth Wong.
Articolo apparso il 2 gennaio 2013 su Data Manager Online a cura di Antonio Savarese Sono stato intervistato da Antonio Savarese, fondatore di DataManager TV, un online magazine focalizzato su temi di ICT. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yier2KAVNqI L'intervista L'articolo di Data Manager Online con la mia intervista realizzata da Antonio Savarese. Architettura del sistema informativo integrato di Novedge Antonio... Continue Reading →
Articolo apparso il 13 Novembre 2012 sulla rivista Marie Claire e scritto da Anna Volpicelli Franco Folini e Crsitiano Sacchi negli uffici di Novedge Anna Volpicelli, giornalista autrice dll'articolo
Presentazione tenuta il 18 maggio 2010 a Parma per ParmaIn Questa presentazione fu realizzata per una presentazione a parma per il club parmaIn e organizzata dal mio amico ed ex collega universitario Giulio Destri.
Article published on November 30, 2009 on NOVEDGE blog. Italy is a country famous for several reasons. Among them: artistic and historical monuments, great food, fashion, music, and sports cars. Software and technology are seldom added to the list. So when you happen to meet the CEO of a successful Italian software company, the first... Continue Reading →
Rhino is a very flexible application and is gradually penetrating different professional areas, from industrial design to architecture, and jewelry design. Each specific domain can significantly benefit from Rhino's features but requires specific commands and libraries that are usually not provided by Robert McNeel and Associates. What McNeel delivers is a powerful software platform on top of... Continue Reading →
There is a CAD company that has been around for many years that makes a fully integrated CAD/CAM system offering a powerful combination of solid modeling and surface modeling few others can match, with a devoted following of loyal customers. Yet only a few users of CAD will mention this company's product in the list... Continue Reading →
Something must be right for jewelry design in Spain. Not only are several jewelry designers active in Spain, but Spain is also the source of some of the best and most popular software tools for jewelry design. Among those tools, RhinoGold stands out as a reference point, setting standards both for features and customer support. The manufacturer of RhinoGold is TDM... Continue Reading →
Data translation is a critical technology and can be the source of many frustrations. As with many other essential technologies, the better it works, the less visible it becomes. When we move a file from an external CAD system to our favorite design system, we are asking a sophisticated algorithm to extract geometric data from... Continue Reading →
The AutoCAD users' community stands on a few pillars, one of which is the "AutoCAD Bible," published by Wiley and refreshed every year following the new version of the AutoDesk product. The author of this famous and popular book is Ellen Finkelstein, an AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT expert who also publishes a weekly viral newsletter. Ellen is a prolific... Continue Reading →
The recent decision by Alibre to drop the price of their entry-level product Alibre Design Standard (from $999 to only $99) generated a wave of reaction throughout the CAD world (see the blog posts by Deelip Menezes, Roopinder Tara, Matt Lombard, and Ralph Grabowski). The decision caught everyone by surprise. Even at a time when the recession is pushing most CAD manufacturers to substantially lower the price... Continue Reading →
Who is the face customers identify with a typical CAD company? Maybe the CEO whose smile appears on the cover of business magazines, or the tech support guy who handles the most challenging cases, or perhaps the well-dressed salesperson who convinces big customers to buy dozens of licenses? All of them or none of them,... Continue Reading →
Not all CAD companies play in the same arena. While most CAD companies stay busy talking to the press, explaining strategies to financial analysts, and placing expensive ads in magazines nobody reads anymore, some CAD companies invest their time and money in talking to customers. These companies are less likely to be on a stage... Continue Reading →
Lorenzo Puleo is one of the many creative people who fell in love with Mac. However, Lorenzo didn't stop at the user level as most Mac fans do; he went on to conceive a new product and created a company around it. That company shares the name of its primary product and is called Kinemac... Continue Reading →
Articole published on June 9, 2009 on the NOVEDGE blog. One of my recurring complaints about surface modeling is the intrinsic complexity of existing modeling systems. Even if the level of user-friendliness of these systems has improved, sooner or later, every user needs to invest some time to understand how the underlying geometry works and... Continue Reading →
In the past, if someone asked me to come up with improbable or strange combinations of technologies I would have suggested things such as 3D animations and Twitter or CAD and podcasts. I have since learned that if something looks improbable or strange to me it doesn't mean it's impossible or even wrong. Tackling those... Continue Reading →
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