Dassault Systemes: Taking Crowd Sourcing to Next Level
August 17, 2011
With crowd-sourcing becoming more and more prevalent in an effort to capitalize on collective intelligence, it’s no surprise that Dassault Systemès recently announced the creation of a military vehicle created entirely from crowd-sourcing. The article, DARPA, Dassault and Local Motors Crowdsource New Military Vehicle, on MCADCafe,
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) joined with 3D Project Lifecycle Management experts, Dassault Systemès to bring this ingenious idea to the world market of engineers and vehicle enthusiasts. It was simple really. The U.S. military needed a vehicle that was built for Combat Reconnaissance and Combat Delivery & Evacuation. Local Motors (experts in crowd sourcing) partnered with Dassault Systemès to entice a large global community of vehicle enthusiasts to design the vehicle through an online challenge. The result: the military vehicle DARPA had wanted, going from an idea to prototype in less than six months.
Dassault Systemès is pretty fascinating, but they don’t do it alone. Several other companies help make the 3D mega minds perform at the level they do. One such company is Exalead, whom we adore. The content management company is like a herd of little worker ants diligently processing data for its clients. As their web site explains,
The system collects data from virtually any source, in any format, and transforms it into structured, pervasive, contextualized building blocks of business information that can be directly searched and queried, or used as the foundation for a new breed of lean, innovative information access applications.
The landscape of digital data is changing and we like where it is going. Crowd sourcing is increasing in popularity and use, and with more data coming and going content management is becoming a necessity for all companies. Projects like the one mentioned in this article give us just a taste of what the future holds.
Catherine Lamsfuss, August 17, 2011
Sponsored by Pandia.com, publishers of The New Landscape of Enterprise Search
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