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Improving Electronic Design Collaboration by Shifting Left and Right

Moore's Lobby · 16 Jul 2024 · 52m · Episode 14

What this episode covers

Ananth Avva, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cloud Platform at Altium, discusses the challenges and strategies of bringing SaaS practices into engineering via Altium 365. He explains the concepts of 'shifting left' and 'shifting right' to improve collaboration between PCB designers and downstream teams like procurement and compliance. Avva highlights that organizations often overestimate the cost of change and underestimate the benefits of adopting cloud-based system-level thinking, which is crucial for managing complex supply chains and ensuring design integrity.

Most relevant to

companies scaling up

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Altium, Renesas
Products
Altium Designer, Altium 365, Marshall Me
Tools
KiCad, Google Drive, OneDrive, Microsoft 365, Gmail
Also
Amazon Cloud, AWS GovCloud

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