{"id":2060,"date":"2011-09-07T14:05:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-07T21:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Tony-Affuso-Highlights-Innovation-and-Customer-Commitment\/ba-p\/334755"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:15:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:15:26","slug":"tony-affuso-highlights-innovation-and-customer-commitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/tony-affuso-highlights-innovation-and-customer-commitment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Affuso Highlights Innovation and Customer Commitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Tony Affuso presented this morning at our analyst\/media event here in Boston. He focused on innovation, customer commitment and key areas we are winning business.<BR \/><BR \/>He noted the culture of innovation at our company is even stronger today as a part of Siemens. There isn&#8217;t a presentation of Tony&#8217;s that doesn&#8217;t reference our motto &#8220;never let a customer fail.&#8221; Today Tony outlined in more detail how we work with customers to ensure they succeed in implementing our software. Tony referenced the Nissan use case where we engaged in a four-year commitment to <STRONG>deliver two times the vehicle development capacity at 50 percent less cost<\/STRONG>. He also spoke quite a bit about systems engineering, a key area we&#8217;re winning business at companies like BAE Systems and Daimler. <!--more--><BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/siZ7UcYlWQU\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>You can learn more about our work with Nissan, in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_sg\/Images\/flvplayer_tcm963-23557.swf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">this video case study<\/A>.<BR \/><BR \/>In case you missed some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/twapperkeeper.com\/hashtag\/siemensplm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">tweets <\/A>during Tony&#8217;s presentation, he highlighted we now have 70,000 customers &#8211; 3,000 new in the past year &#8211; with a total of 7.2 million installed seats of software.<BR \/><BR \/>&#8211; Dora<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony Affuso presented this morning at our analyst\/media event here in Boston. He focused on innovation, customer commitment and key areas we are winning business.    He noted the culture of innovatio&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61893,"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-2060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060","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\/61893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2061,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2060\/revisions\/2061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=2060"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}