CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 8 February 2008

8 February 2008

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata’s 2008 PLM Vendor Forum, “The Emergence of Large Enterprise Suppliers: New Opportunities for All”, will provide a focused review of the impact of the emergence of large-scale PLM suppliers and the challenges and opportunities that this market evolution creates for all PLM suppliers, along with a discussion of effective strategies to address these challenges. As always, CIMdata’s perspective on the state of the PLM market and trends will be reviewed in detail, as well as the first public exposure to CIMdata’s 2007 PLM Market Analysis; including statistics regarding market growth across PLM domains, industries, and regions, and the performance (revenue and market share analysis) of leading PLM providers.

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CIMdata News

• CIMdata Commentary: IFS’ Enterprise Search
• The Impact of the Emergence of Large Enterprise Suppliers on the PLM Market to be Addressed at the CIMdata 2008 PLM Vendor Forum

Company News

• Autodesk Inspires Next Generation of Engineers at 17th Annual FIRST Robotics Competition
• CGTech celebrates 20 years of VERICUT
• Delcam’s Sales Partners Hold Record Meeting in Spain
• EMC Enhances Velocity2 Partner Program for EMEA
• MSC.Software Promotes Amir Mobayen to Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Services
• New TopSolid Quick Reference Guide
• Study Finds Private Label Merchandise Plagued by Quality Concerns
  

Events News

• Apache Design Solutions CEO Andrew Yang to Participate in a Panel Discussion on IC-Package-Board Co-Design
• Call for Speakers: 2008 NA P2E Conference - Delivering on Strategies
• Cimatron's Sponsored Webinar on Design & Manufacturing Integration Attracts Hundreds of Toolmakers
• Grimshaw, SHoP, Zaha Hadid, and Other Leading Organizations to Speak at SmartGeometry 2008 in Munich
• IEC Today Announces Winners of Highly-Coveted DesignVision Awards at DesignCon 2008
• Mastercam Software Used Exclusively at WorldSkills 2007
• Peter Marks, Ping Fu to Keynote Convergence 2008 Conference
• ProSTEP iViP Symposium Expands its Program
• SmartOrg CEO is Featured Speaker at Corporate Portfolio Management Conference

Financial News

• Another Great Year for Missler Software
• Avatech Solutions to Report Second Quarter 2008 Results and Hold Conference Call on Thursday, February 14, 2008
• Delcam Sets New Records for Monthly and Quarterly Sales
• Moldflow Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2008 Results
• Open Text Reports Second Quarter Fiscal 2008 Financial Results
• Planview Continues Rapid Momentum in 2007
• Synopsys Announces Earnings Release Date and Conference Call for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2008
• Synplicity Announces Fourth Quarter 2007 and Full Year Results Record Quarter- Revenue of $20.1 Million
  

Implementation Investments

• Atheros Selects Sequence PowerTheater for Power Management
• Cadence Enables Stmicroelectronics to Verify Latest Multimedia Designs for Wireless Devices
• Efore Chooses Aton PDM Solution
• Fagerhult Group Selects Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter 2007 as its Corporate-Wide PLM Solution
• Hyundai Heavy Industries Uses AVEVA PDMS to Build Offshore Facility
• Joy Mining Machinery to Streamline Technical Publications Business Processes with Right Hemisphere Software
• Kozomara and OptiTex Spark Creative Partnership
• SENER Finalises a Software Contract with BAE Systems
• Sequence Used by NVIDIA for Accelerated Signoff for Latest GeForce GPU
• Siemens Industry Sector Reports “Strong Positive Reaction” to Siemens PLM Software NX 5; Announces Major NX Customer Wins Across Key Industries
• Six Tee Marine and Offshore Engineering Groups Select Intergraph SmartMarine 3D®
• Stork Fokker Chooses Coastal Logic’s convertLogic Enovia MatrixOne Batch Rendering Integration
• Tait Electronics Slashes Time To Market For New 2-Way Portable Radio Using PTC® Product Development System
• TCE Consulting Engineers Ltd. Joins Bentley’s Enterprise License Subscription Program
• Thales Nederland Chooses Valor’s Solutions for Process Engineering

Product News

• Added Value for Product Management: SimPDM - Integration of Simulation and Computation Data
• Altair Engineering and ACUSIM Software Integrate PBS Professional™ into AcuConsole™ Creating an Optimized Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Process
• Emergent Systems Awarded Dassault Systemes CAA Adopter Partnership
• HP Japan and CollabNet Announce Quality Management Solution for Software Development
• IBM Adds New Dassault Systèmes V6 Offering to Product Lifecycle Management
• IFS launches New Solution for the Energy & Utilities Industry
• New Sopheon Solution Synchronizes Strategic Product Planning and Innovation Process Execution
• RAND Worldwide Expands and Enhances Rapid Deployment PLM Program, QuickStart
• Synopsys Expands Leading USB IP Portfolio With New IP for Link Power Management and High Speed Inter-Chip Standards
• Tecplot Inc. and CD-adapco Form Partnership

CIMdata Online Polls

CIMdata is now featuring online polls with real time reporting on our web site at http://www.cimdata.com/research/polls/polls.php. Each week the results of the previous poll will be included in the CIMdata PLM Industry Summary to help you stay on top of trends in the PLM industry.

Take a moment to visit the site and vote on our current poll.

The results for the last opinion poll are:

In CIMdata’s latest opinion poll, users provided insight as to the level of use of simulation and analysis (S&A) as part of the design and engineering processes. Almost 60% of the respondents indicated that they performed S&A on some portion of their products while another 37% indicated that they uses S&A on all their products. Only 5% indicated that they did not use S&A. Structural analysis was the most performed with CFD, Thermal and Motion all approximately equal in use. The respondents indicated that both S&A specialists and general designers are performing S&A.

This poll indicates a growing trend to use simulation and analysis more completely and consistently as part of the product development process. It also shows that S&A is being used by more than S&A specialists, i.e., it is becoming embedded in the normal design process. There will always continue to be a need for S&A specialists, and that more comprehensive S&A will be conducted as part of product development. However, embedding S&A capabilities within other tools and the capture of S&A best practices such that they can be shared and reused is enabling a wider group of users to perform many S&A functions. CIMdata expects this trend to continue and that S&A will become a fundamental part of the development process, not just a specialist activity.

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