CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 23 May 2008

23 May 2008

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Company News

• Dassault Systèmes Inaugurates Global Virtual Campus for Students and Educators
• Former SAP, MatrixOne Executive Janet Heppner-Jones Tapped to Head Cordys in the US
• Just OnePlace Selects Holt Consulting for Apparel Industry
• LMS North America Opens New Headquarters and Expanded Technical Center
• New Video from Flomerics and Matchstick Productions Explains Human Flight in Wingsuits
  
• Open Text and Eduserv Sign Preferential Pricing Agreement for New Exceed Freedom™ Product from Hummingbird®, the Open Text Connectivity
• Open Text Wins SAP® Pinnacle Award in the Category Software Solutions: Field Engagement
• PTC Announces Winners in 2008 CoCreate® Explicit Modeling Design Competition
• PTC Appoints Software Industry Veteran, James Heppelmann, to PTC’s Board of Directors
• SAP Fosters Collaboration and Education Among Its Growing Business Process Expert Community
• Siemens PLM Software and Satyam Sign Alliance to Enhance PLM Solutions Value Delivery
• Think3 and EXTECH Join Forces to Lead Chinese Market
• Worksoft®Appoints Shoeb Javed Vice President of Engineering

Events News

• ESPRIT at PTC User World Event 2008, Long Beach, Calif., June 1-4, 2008
• Flomerics Announces Workshops on Optimizing Data Center Cooling
• 45th Design Automation Conference Offers Diverse Line-up of 14 Workshops
• 45th Design Automation Conference to Host Six Collocated Events
• Magma Highlights Expanded Product Portfolio At DAC 2008
• The COE 2008 Fall Industry Workshops Call for Speakers is Open
• Webinar, May 28, 2008: Efficient Collaborative Engineering Change Management
  
• Webinar on Engineering Analysis, Simulation and Virtual Test Software in the Design of Heavy Machinery

Financial News

• Ansoft Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results Release Date
• Cimatron Reports Record Revenues of $10.3 Million in Q1 2008 on a Non-GAAP Basis
• Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal First Quarter Results
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2008

Implementation Investments

• Altair HyperWorks Now in Use by the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR)
• ANSYS Fluid Flow Modeling Software Improves Vehicle Design at Honda
• Bank of Ireland Selects Business Objects as Its Enterprise Business Intelligence Standard
• Bayer MaterialScience Selects SAP to Improve Chemistry With Customers
• Bell Helicopter Textron Selects MSC.Software's SimManager to Drive Innovation and Accelerate New Product Development
• Capgemini Standardizes on CollabNet for Global Collaboration
• Dedini, a Leading Capital Goods Manufacturer in Brazil, Selects Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter
• Delcam’s PowerINSPECT Enables More Complex 3D Inspection
• Erling-Klinger Selects Digital Lifecycle Simulation from Siemens PLM Software
• Kabel BW Selects SAP to Strengthen Connection to Customers
• Mentor Graphics Calibre LFD Selected by STMicroelectronics for Litho Variability Analysis at 65 and 45 Nanometers
• Metropolitan Police Service Selects SAP As Corporate ERP Solution
• Patella Manufacturing Selects Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge
• Power Analog Microelectronics Tapes Out First of Several Integrated Circuit Products Using Simucad Design Flow
• SAP Enables Unilever to Drive Implementation of Global Strategy Through Key Integration Technology
• SAP Supports Daimler in Global IT Harmonization
• Toshiba Selects Mentor Graphics Calibre DFM Platform for its Device Extraction Flow
• University of St. Gallen and SAP Prove Business and Technology Value of Service-Oriented Architecture for SAP Customers

Product News

• Alibre Releases Integrated 3D Parametric CAD/CAM Solution
• Altair Releases HyperWorks 9.0, Connecting Engineers with New Solver Technology and to the Global Grid
• aniPart™ 3.5 Handles Product Revisions
• Apache Announces Sentinel-PI, A Global Chip-Package-System Co-Design and Co-Analysis Solution for Power Integrity
• Brocade and EMC Collaborate to Further Simplify Enterprise Data Security and the Management of Information Risk
• Capgemini Announces Enhanced Data Conversion Offerings to Financial Services Firms
• Dassault Systèmes Announces Major Advancements in New Abaqus Release from SIMULIA
• Delcam and Doosan Agree Strategic Partnership
• EMC Extends the Power of Application Discovery and Best Practices for VMware® Enabled Data Centers
• Geometric to Unveil DFMPro for Pro/E at PTC World 2008
• GibbsCAM Certified by Autodesk for Inventor 2009
• HiQube Delivers an Integrated, On-Demand Business Intelligence Solution to Altair’s HyperWorks Customers
• IBM Announces Enhancements to Telelogic Change that Support Global Application Lifecycle Management
• IBM Maximo Drives Cost Savings; Expands Scope of Assets Managed; Supports Application Consolidation
  
• Informative Graphics Announces Automated Redaction for EMC Documentum
• LEDAS Releases New Version of its Variational Geometric Solver LGS 3D
• Lenovo Establishes New Simulation Center with Solutions from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA
• Mentor Graphics Supports Altera’s Stratix IV FPGA Device Family for 40 Nanometer Design Applications
• MSC Software Announces the 2008 Releases of its Engineering Analysis and Next Generation MD Technologies
• Planview Introduces Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics
• PTC Announces CoCreate® 2008
• RedEye RPM and Alibre Partner to Offer Instant Rapid Prototyping Quotes From Alibre Design
• SAP Empowers Midsize Companies to Deliver Superior Customer Value
• SAP Unveils Comprehensive SOA Service and Support Offering
• Siemens PLM Software Delivers Four Millionth Teamcenter License
• Siemens PLM Software Launches New Velocity Series Products
• Siemens PLM Software Launches NX 6 Software
• Siemens PLM Software Launches Solid Edge Synchronous Technology
• SMW Autoblok Gets Grip on Streamlined Product Design with SolidWorks 3D CAD Software
• Synchronous Technology Added to Product Lifecycle Management Software
• Synopsys Announces Immediate Support for Altera Stratix IV FPGAs
• Tacton and MP Engineering Enter Into Reseller Agreement for TactonWorks
• Zuken Unleashes the Power of the Dragon New Intelligent Autorouting Platform

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:

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
If you have a suggestion for a poll you'd like to see contact us at info@cimdata.com.

Analysis
CIMdata’s latest opinion poll indicates that a significant majority of those responding see their company’s PLM effort, including the development of its strategy, being led by one of the following three groups: engineering, manufacturing, or corporate management. While CIMdata is somewhat surprised to see that 38% of the respondents indicated that manufacturing is driving their PLM initiative we are encouraged by this because we believe that this is an indication that many companies understand the value and necessity of accurate and complete product definition information being available to manufacturing. This may also indicate a growing acceptance of digital manufacturing and those PLM enabling solutions that support manufacturing engineering as various computer-aided design and analysis tools have supported product engineering.

It is no surprise that 34% of the respondents indicated that their company’s PLM initiative is being driven by engineering. For many years engineering has been the prime driver for the implementation of PDM, CAD, and a number of other PLM enabling aolutions.

Finally, it is important to note that the third largest driver was corporate management. This points to a trend that CIMdata has seen for some time; a trend towards companies considering PLM more and more as an enterprise initiative. CIMdata expects this trend to continue as PLM is seen by companies in multiple industries as a true enterprise business strategy.

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