{"id":1812,"date":"2011-05-04T14:22:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T21:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Interview-with-Craig-Rode-from-Microsoft\/ba-p\/334676"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:12:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:12:39","slug":"interview-with-craig-rode-from-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/interview-with-craig-rode-from-microsoft\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Craig Rode from Microsoft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Before I started into all this online stuff, I was in charge of the alliance we formed with Microsoft.&nbsp; Way before that, I used to work with a guy named Craig Rode when we were both responsible for the marketing of some CAD\/CAM\/CAE products.&nbsp; Now Craig is at <A href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/enterprise\/partners\/siemensplm.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft<\/A> so I got the chance to both catch up with Craig and with the state of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/partners\/siemensPLM_microsoft.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">our alliance<\/A> at PLM Connection.&nbsp; In the video below I ask Craig about what&#8217;s changed in the last few years in the Microsoft &#8211; Siemens PLM Software alliance, the role that platform providers play in helping customers get value out of PLM and how Office has developed as a platform.<!--more--><BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xm1tjDSbmn0\"><\/IFRAME><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before I started into all this online stuff, I was in charge of the alliance we formed with Microsoft.&nbsp; Way before that, I used to work with a guy named Craig Rode when we were both responsible &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1813,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1812\/revisions\/1813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1812"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}