CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 11 April 2008

11 April 2008

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• IBM: Watchtower Has Increased Its Holding in Telelogic to 98.7%

CIMdata News

• CIMdata in the News “High Tech for Hard Times”

Company News

• Bentley Appoints Christopher Barron as Vice President, Corporate Marketing
• CollabNet Strengthens Management Team with Key Additions
  
• Comet Solutions, Inc. Expands Customer-Facing Team to Capture Increasing Market Demand and Capitalize on Customer Success
• OptiTex Inks Partnership with Luidi While Expanding Its Worldwide Network
• Siemens PLM Software Improves Channel Partner Productivity
• When People Think ''PLM,'' They Think ''Dassault Systèmes,'' Says Analyst Firm CIMdata
  

Events News

• ALGOR Showcases V21.1 and PipePak V10.2 at Offshore Technology Conference 2008
• Arena Solutions Launches Free Webinar Series for Professionals Engaged with the Manufacturing Product Development Process
• Bentley Opens BE Conference 2008 Registration, Announces Keynotes by Leading Infrastructure Experts
• Cadence Launches Worldwide Series of User Conferences in 2008 With CDNLIVE! EMEA
  
• Delcam to Show Complete CAM Range in Korea for First Time
• Geomagic Qualify 10 Now Shipping
• INCAT Expands its User Group Web Chapter Program with April 23 Event for Inventor® Users
• INCAT Will Hold Metro Detroit Technical Careers Fair
• New File Share Services Delivers Enterprise-wide Transparent Content Management
• Record-Breaking Crowd at Synopsys Users Group
• Register for the Only Developer-Focused PLM Event in the Nation
• Si2 Announces the 12th Si2/OpenAccess+ Conference
• VX to Demonstrate Mold Design Automation at Moldmaking Expo 2008
• Webinar Series on Validation and Optimization Focuses on Design with Composite Materials
  

Financial News

• ASCON Group Announced Results of the Year 2007
• Cadence Announces First Quarter 2008 Financial Results Webcast
• Dassault Systèmes: Filing of the 2007 Form 20F and French 'Document De Référence'
• Magma Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal 2008 Financial Results Webcast
• Open Text to Report Third Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 Financial Results on Tuesday, April 29, 2008
• Primavera® Grows at Record Pace in 2007
  
• PTC Q2 Earnings Release Wednesday April 23rd Before Market Open and Conference Call at 10:00 am ET

Implementation Investments

• Autodesk Honors Architectus With Revit BIM Experience Award for Sustainable Design Process and Multi-Team Collaboration
• Automotive Supplier TMS Chooses Dassault Systèmes’ DELMIA Body-in-White Solution
• Axell Reduces Power, Increases Productivity With Sequence’s PowerTheater
• Callaway Golf Improves Collaboration Internally — and Across Continents — With Microsoft Solution, Helping Innovate New Products Faster
• Catalog Data Solutions Customer, Advanced Machine & Engineering, Doubles Online Sales Leads
• Delcam’s FeatureCAM Helps Win Million Dollar Contract
• domo Gives Emergency Responders Eyes on the Spot with Video Technology Designed in SolidWorks Software
• German Engineering Company CADCON Implements the HyperWorks Platform for Innovation
• IFS Applications Selected by Synthos
• Koninklijke Nooteboom Trailers Selects Siemens PLM Software’s NX and Teamcenter
  
• NXP and CoWare Establish Strategic Relationship for the Company Wide Deployment of ESL Technologies
• Picchio Develops Faster Race Cars With LMS Virtual.Lab Motion
• RECARO Aircraft Seating Implements CIM DATABASE PLM Solution
  
• SANYO Semiconductor Adopts Apache’s Power Signoff Solution
• Seiko NPC Sees a Big Productivity Boost in DFT Design Flow With Integrated Cadence Test and Synthesis Technologies
• Silicon Creations Tapes Out Complete Mixed-Signal Chipset Using Simucad Design Flow
  
• STARC Adopts Cadence Encounter Timing System as its Static Timing Analysis Signoff Solution
• Summit Microelectronics Selects Analog FastSPICE™ for Full-Circuit Performance Verification of Programmable Power Management ICs
• Taylor Woodrow Selects Open Text and Causeway to Anchor Its ECM Strategy
• Technia and MacGREGOR Sign Agreement for Product Lifecycle Management
• Tsuneishi Shipbuilding Standardizes on Intergraph® SmartMarineTM Enterprise Engineering Design and Data Management Solutions Suite
  
• Van de Velde, Specialist In Luxury Lingerie, Chooses Lectra’s New Generation VectorLingerieMX Automatic Cutting System
• Wi-Fi Technology Innovator Ruckus Wireless Counts on Arena PLM to Make Wi-Fi Reliable for Home, Office and Hot Spot Use Around the World
  

Product News

• Alibre CAM™ Makes 3D Parametric CAD/CAM Accessible To Everyone
• Cimatron Appoints GibbsCAM Reseller T-Support as Distributor for Czech Republic and Slovakia
• Dassault Systèmes Announces New Release of Abaqus for CATIA V5 from SIMULIA
• Engineous Software Announces New Product Releases
• ESI Group Announces VA One 2007.5
• ESPRIT by DP Technology Receives Autodesk Inventor 2009 Certification
• ICAM and Dalian Strengthen their Business Relationship
• JETCAM Signs Delcam-Ural as New Dealer in Russia
• Mentor Graphics and Agilent Technologies Announce Industry-First EDA Integrated Solution Expected to Cut RF-PCB Development Time in Half
• PTC Introduces FlexPLM™ 9.0 with New Capabilities to Manage Merchandising, Design & Sourcing Data
• Siemens PLM Software Delivers Parasolid Version 19.1
• SpaceClaim Launches SpaceClaim Professional 2008– the Natural 3D Design System – Empowering CAD Users to Design the Way They Think
• ThermPaq from Flomerics Accelerates Thermal Characterization of Semiconductor Packages
• Virage Logic First to Deliver Complete Memory Compiler and Logic Library IP Portfolio for TSMC 40nm Process
• WorkXPlore 3D –New Software From Sescoi

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:

The poll indicates that 35% of responders consider PLM implementation to be as complex as implementing an ERP solution.

Another 26% of responders indicated that PLM implementation was more complex than ERP. For large enterprises, PLM implementations generally encompass a significant amount of process change and integration with other business and technology applications. This can require a major amount of services and can have significant impact on how people work. Such change is inherently complex – similar to or more so than many ERP implementations.

Some 39% indicated that PLM implementation was easier than ERP implementation. For smaller enterprises, PLM implementations tend to be more narrowly focused than those at larger companies. This results in less integration, process impact and other changes. PLM implementations of smaller scope can be completed in a much short time than ERP implementations at the same company.

The results of the poll reinforce that larger implementations (and most PLM implementations to date have been in larger enterprises) much be planned and executed as would any other enterprise level system – and can be just as complex.

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