CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 22 February 2008

22 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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• Vote Now in the Latest CIMdata Opinion Poll

Company News

• Cimatron Names Bill Gibbs President North America
• CONTACT Software GmbH Extends Board of Executives
• Si2’s Low Power Coalition Announces CPF Roadmap

Events News

• Convergence 2008 Provides Portal into Diverse Applications of DSSP
• Demonstrations of Vision for Manufacturing Life-Cycle Management
• Geometric Technologies to Display Advances in Automation with CAMWorks and DFMPro at the WESTEC Show
• JETCAM at MACH 2008
• Lantek Brings Expert III and the Latest Version of Expert II to MACH
• On-Line Tutorial Available for Si2’s Common Power Format
• Partners to Showcase Magma's Design Ecosystem at MUSIC Users Conference Feb. 27-28 in Santa Clara
• Sescoi Brings New CAM/CAD and Management Software to MACH
• The MathWorks to Share Expertise on Multidomain Modeling and System-Level Verification at Date 2008

Financial News

• ANSYS Reports Record Fourth Quarter and Annual Results Driven by Organic Revenue Growth
• Cadence Design Systems Announces Authorization of $500 Million Stock Repurchase
• Cimatron's Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2007 Results Release Scheduled for February 27th, 2008
• Enterprise Informatics Announces First Quarter 2008 Results
• IQS’ Record Growth for Enterprise Quality Management
• Magma Design Automation Authorizes Common Share Repurchase Program
• Mentor Graphics Reports Preliminary Fiscal 2008 Annual Results
• MSC.Software Reports Financial Results for the Fourth Quarter and Year Ended December 31, 2007
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2008
• Valor Concludes 2007 with Record Revenues of $42M
• Visiprise Exceeds 2007 Objectives

Implementation Investments

• Accent Uses Cadence Low-Power Solution for Fast, Accurate Tapeout of Low-Power Production Design
• Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ Selected by Next-Generation Japanese Supercomputer Project for 45nm Verification
• Buell Motorcycle Company Works with thinkID on Innovative 1125R Sportbike Design
• Delcam’s FeatureCAM is the Key to Staying in Business
• German Air Traffic Control Opts for CIM DATABASE; PLM-Platform Utilized for Configuration Management
• Leviton Flips Switch on Innovative Design with SolidWorks
• Lockheed Martin Unit Selects PTC® Product Development System
• MSC.Software's Enterprise Simulation Solutions Enters Agreement With the Boeing Company
• Railroad Service Provider Selects IFS Applications to Replace Numerous Legacy Systems
• SofTech’s ProductCenter PLM Deployed by Cryogenic Industries

Product News

• Ansoft Releases Q3D Extractor v8
• ANSYS Expands HPC Benchmarking Program
• CIMTEK Launches Magellon QLM 3. 3
• Dassault Systèmes and Wing Tai’s Zymmetry Group Deliver Apparel Industry’s First Integrated Global Development and Sourcing Solutions
• Dassault Systèmes Unveils Virtools 4.1 Platform for Real-Time 3D Applications
• Delcam’s New PowerMILL CAM System Offers Quickest-Ever ROI
• D-Cubed 2D DCM from Siemens PLM Software Powers IMSI/Design’s IDX Variable Constraint System Plug-In for AutoCAD
• Improve Document Workflows with Spicer Imagenation® 8.2 and Image a•X™ 8.2
• INOVx Announces Availability of RealityLINx® Exchange – Software That Streamlines Use of Laser Scan Data in Engineering Design
• ITI TranscenData Releases CADIQ V5.1
• Mentor Graphics Delivers Breakthrough in Verification Intelligence
• ProDesign and Mentor Graphics Sign OEM Agreement
• Right Hemisphere Unveils New, Easy-to-Use "Deep Access" Digital Media Asset Management Software
  

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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