{"id":828,"date":"2015-05-04T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T00:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/ROAD-TRIP-Fifth-Annual-Polarion-Software-Motorcycle-Tour-Part\/ba-p\/380972"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:31:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:31:41","slug":"road-trip-fifth-annual-polarion-software-motorcycle-tour-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/road-trip-fifth-annual-polarion-software-motorcycle-tour-part-one\/","title":{"rendered":"ROAD TRIP!  Fifth Annual Polarion Software Motorcycle Tour (Part One)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I bike across the country visiting users of Polarion\u2019s&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/products\/alm\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><SPAN style=\"color: #0000ff;\">application lifecycle management<\/SPAN><\/A>,&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/products\/medical\/index.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">medical device<\/A>, and&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/products\/automotive\/functional-safety-iso-26262-automotive-spice-cmmi.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">automotive<\/A>&nbsp;solutions.<\/p>\n<p>April 26<SUP>th<\/SUP> was Day 1.&nbsp; I began from New Hampshire, the home of my six-month-old granddaughter and the last resting place of my bike from last year.&nbsp; My first stop was Connecticut for a <A href=\"http:\/\/utcaerospacesystems.com\/Pages\/Default.aspx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">UTC Aerospace Systems<\/A> Executive Briefing, which was very insightful.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Day 2 had me travel back to Boston for a week of consulting at Medtronic\/Covidien.&nbsp;&nbsp;It is cold.&nbsp; Too cold.&nbsp; If not for the glory of the thing, I would have rented a car.<\/p>\n<p><A href=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2015\/05\/V__19E2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG class=\" size-medium wp-image-7383 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2015\/05\/V__19E2-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"V__19E2\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/A><\/p>\n<p>Stops I&#8217;m visiting:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI>May 4&nbsp;&#8211; Mattel at East Aurora, New York<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>May 5&nbsp;&#8211; Uber ATC at Pittsburgh, PA<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>May 7&nbsp;&#8211; Forrester Breakfast at Detroit<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>May 8&nbsp;&#8211; AbbVie at North Chicago<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>May 11&nbsp;&#8211; Covidien Surgical at Boulder, CO<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nI plan to continue from Colorado to the West Coast and plan on stops to:<br \/>\n<UL><br \/>\n\t<LI>Intel at Phoenix<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>Align at San Jose<\/LI><br \/>\n\t<LI>Wind River at Alameda<\/LI><br \/>\n<\/UL><br \/>\nOne of the most interesting parts of each tour year over year, is that I ride far shorter and shorter distances to visit prospects and customers, and I get to visit the customers now that were tour prospects in former years.<\/p>\n<p><HR \/><br \/>\n<P style=\"text-align: center;\"><A href=\"http:\/\/www.polarion.com\/company\/events\/streaming.php?eventid=691&amp;utm_source=merrillroadtrip1&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><IMG src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/siemensplm_blogs\/2015\/05\/polarion-forrester-plm-best-practices-briefing.jpg\" alt=\"Banner: Join Live May 7, 2015 - Product Line Engineering Best Practices - Forrester et at\" width=\"660\" height=\"135\" \/><\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P style=\"text-align: right; font-size: smaller; font-style: italic;\">Banner <A href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">photo<\/A>: <A href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/moto_club4ag\/5191653050\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">flickr\/Moto &#8220;Club4AG&#8221; Miwa<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, I bike across the country visiting users of Polarion\u2019s&nbsp; application lifecycle management ,&nbsp;medical device, and&nbsp;automotive&nbsp;solutions.<\/p>\n<p>April 26 th  was Day 1.&nbsp; I b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61320,"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-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}