CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 29 February 2008

29 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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Acquisitions

• Acquires Sabio Labs, Enhances Titan Mixed-Signal Design Platform

Events News

• OPEN MIND Technologies AG at the METAV 2008 in Düsseldorf
• SAP and Partners to Present Full Solution Portfolio for Small Businesses and Midsize Companies at CeBIT 2008

Financial News

• Autodesk Reports Record Revenue of $599 Million
• Cimatron Reports Record Revenues of $28.7M and Ten Year Record Net Income of $1.9M in 2007
• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal Fourth Quarter 2008 Results
• Omnify Software’s Empower PLM Drives Company’s Growth in 2007
• Proficiency Closes $4.25 Million Round of Funding

Implementation Investments

• Autodesk Announces Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory as 2007 Inventor of the Year
• Autodesk Announces OPEX Corporation as Inventor of the Month for February 2008
• CAD/CAM Helps Container Systems Grow
• Catalog Data Solutions CAD Downloads Selected by MicroMo Electronics
• CD-adapco Helps Ford Design the World’s Fastest Fuel Cell Cars
• Dassault Systèmes’ DELMIA Automation Key to Fairfield University’s New R&D Center
• Delcam’s CADCAM Aids Manufacture of Precision Medical Implants
• First Act Selects On-Demand Arena PLM to Shorten NPI Cycles and Collaborate with Suppliers
• Kisti Selects ANSYS as a Key Supplier in Engineering Simulations
• LEDAS Licenses Academic Version of Geometric Solvers LGS 2D/3D to Northwestern Politechnical University, China
• Ledy Design Engages Avatech Solutions to Generate Long-Term Competitive Advantage
• Magnetti Marelli Selected Valor’s vManage for Full Traceability and Feeder Verification
• Mentor Graphics Calibre nmOPC on Cell/B.E. Platform Qualified for Production at IBM
• MSC.Software is Selected by Leading Global Business and Information Technology Company, Satyam to Meet Its Engineering Simulation Needs
• Revell’s Robot Kit has SolidWorks Inside
• Schmitz Cargobull Selects LMS Virtual.Lab to Streamline Trailer and Commercial Truck Product Development
  
• SolidWorks: Powerful Enough for Advanced Engineering, Easy Enough for Middle Schoolers
• Technia Conquers the Construction Industry with a Contract from Skanska in Finland
• Worldwide Vehicle Development of Volkswagen and Audi Will be Based on Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter Platform
  

Product News

• Altair Announces :em AG as its Newest Performance Data Management Solution Implementation Partner
• Cimatron Expands in the Philippines Through MDCGroup
• Customers Drive Enhancements to Comet/StructuralDynamics™
• Dassault Systèmes Launches Global Specification Solution for Consumer Packaged Goods
• Enterprise Informatics’ Announces eB Availability for Microsoft Windows Server 2008
• Eurostep’s Share-A-space® Certified for Windows Server 2008™
• Hydraulics Engineers Go with the Flow Using E³.fluid from Zuken
• Invention Machine Joins PTC PartnerAdvantage Program to Help Customers Inject Right Ideas into the Product Innovation Process
• Magma Introduces Titan – First Platform to Combine Full-Chip, Mixed-Signal, Analysis and Verification for IC Design
• Magma Launches QuickCap TLx, a new Interconnect and Transistor Extractor
• Magma Titan Platform Supports IPL Standards and Ciranova PyCell Libraries for Next-Generation Analog/Mixed-Signal Design
• Magma Volcano Supports TSMC 45-nm and 65-nm IC Implementation
• Millions of Standard Parts are Just a Mouse Click Away From KOMPAS-3D
• PTC Extends Shipbuilding Leadership With CADDS® 5 15.0 and Optegra® 15.0
• Share-A-space® 6.0 Released
• Siemens PLM Software Adds Interactive Tool to its “Innovation Connection” Second Life Island
• Siemens PLM Software Announces New Releases for its D-Cubed 2D Component Software Solutions
• STAR-CCM+ V3.02: Three is the Magic Number
• Supplier/Retailer Collaboration Tools Enhance Relationships; Upcoming Release of ecVision XpressCommerce® Increases End User Features for Communication
• Synopsys and SMIC Deliver Enhanced 90-Nanometer Reference Flow to Reduce IC Design and Test Costs
• Synopsys Introduces Industry's First Concurrent Hierarchical Design System With Latest IC Compiler Release
• Synopsys Introduces the Eclypse Low Power Solution
• Synopsys Unveils Proteus Pipeline Technology, Delivering a New Level of Performance
• The MathWorks Introduces Simscape for Modeling And Simulating MultiDomain Physical Systems

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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