CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 11 July 2008

11 July 2008

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Technia to Acquire Ravalik Oy in Finland – Strengthening the Company’s Position as the Leading Supplier of PLM Systems in the Nordic Region

CIMdata News

• New Opinion Poll: What is the primary driver for deploying PLM solutions within your business?

Company News

• ASCENT Updates Four Autodesk Training Guides
• Autodesk Announces Salzburg, Austria, as First Pilot City of Its Digital Cities Initiative
• Autodesk Names CADD Microsystems Americas Reseller of the Quarter
• Cooperation Agreement: ProSTEP iViP and ASD-STAN are Jointly Setting International Standards
• Eurostep Nominated for Microsoft .Net Awards
  
• First Place At Michelin Again
• Mastercam #1 among CAM Software Applications
• Sales of Zuken’s CADSTAR Solution in America Doubled Last Year Thanks to Tropical PCB Design Services Inc.
• SolidCAM Fastest Growing CAM Vendor in 2007 - reports CIMdata
• 2008 Microsoft Partner of the Year for Global ISV Technology Innovation Special Recognition Award

Events News

• Delcam to Launch New FeatureCAM Release at IMTS
• DP Technology Corp. Introduces ESPRIT 2009 and ESPRIT Mold Version 10
• DP Technology Italy hosts Third Annual User Meeting July 15 in Parma, Italy
• Surfware, Inc. and Swift-Carb CNC to Launch Swift-Carb TrueMill(R) Certified Series of Cutters at IMTS, 2008
  
  

Financial News

• AVEVA Group Interim Management Statement for the period from 1 April 2008 to 30 June 2008
• Cadence Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results Webcast
• PTC to Announce Fiscal Q3 Results on Tuesday, July 22nd and Host Conference Call on Wednesday, July 23rd at 8:30 am ET

Implementation Investments

• Atrion Delivers Key Value to Three New Accounts Within The Food & Beverage Industry
• Cadence Virtuoso IC 6.1 Successfully Deployed by Matsushita for Analog and Mixed-Signal SOC Designs
• Cambric Switches to the HyperWorks CAE Suite as Its Simulation Backbone Worldwide
  
• CDS Catalog Selected by Hi Plains Filtration
• Daktronics Selects Fishbowl Solutions and EAC as Their Preferred Partners for Their PTC® Product Development System Initiative
• Dassault Systèmes Renews its R&D Support for K-Challenge America’s Cup Team
• Delcam Crispin Software Keeps Footwear Company One Step Ahead
• Euphonic Technologies Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success With DesignWare IP for PCI Express
• Florida Turbine Technologies, Inc. Selects CMstat
• Force Protection Industries Chooses HyperWorks Simulation Platform for Military Vehicle Product Development
• Free Source Energies Selects Arena PLM to Streamline Processes and Make Geothermal Energy More Broadly Available
• JSC NPO Saturn Extends its Usage of Software From ANSYS
• Qingdao Beihai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Expands with AVEVA
• Renesas Adopts Cadence Virtuoso Spectre Circuit Simulator With Turbo Technology
• Sixty Formula SAE Teams Join the CFdesign Premier Sponsorship Program
• Thermal Simulation Reduces Cost of Stacked Module Potting Compound 50%
• University of Glasgow Purchases 200 Licenses of SolidWorks Software
  
  

Product News

• Autodesk and Bentley to Advance AEC Software Interoperability
• Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD Connectors for Aras
• Awaited Release of KOMPAS-3D V10 is Coming Soon
• Bentley Unveils Bentley Gas V8 XM Edition
• CEI's EnSight Visualization Suite to Be Distributed in Israel by J-Rom Ltd.
• Dassault Systèmes and Sogeti Group Sign Industry Solution Alliance
• Dassault Systèmes Unveils ENOVIA High Tech Accelerator for New Part Request and Development
• Delcam Launches Latest Version of PartMaker CAM Software
• Enable Regulatory Compliance with printLogic 5.6 - Coastal Logic's Dassault Enovia MatrixOne Batch Printing Integration
• First Trace Releases Korrigo Engineering Document Management Solution
  
• Geometric Releases Version 6.1 of ‘eDrawings Professional for Autodesk Inventor’
• hyperMILL® Certified and Seamlessly Integrated in Autodesk® Inventor™ 2009
  
• ICP Solution Joins Aras Partner Program
• Invention Machine Adds New Multi-Lingual and Risk Analysis Capabilities to Goldfire Innovator to Further Accelerate and Sustain Product Innovation
• Just When You Thought it was Safe to go Back in the Water: STAR-CCM+ V3.04
• LMS Releases LMS Imagine.Lab AMESim Rev 8A
• National Instruments DIAdem 11.0 Expands Test Data Management and Visualization
• New WorkNC Module Optimizes Feedrates to Cut Machining Times by up to 20%
• Oracle Delivers Oracle’s AutoVue Enterprise Visualization 19.3
• PaTech To Promote and Sell Altair's HyperWorks Platform
• Power Forward Initiative Momentum Continues With Addition of Three Leading Japanese Design Services Companies
• Selerant Releases DevEX 2.0 with Features and Functionality that Take a Completely New View on PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)
• Standard for Component- and Geometric Data Descriptions in the Harness Environment Released
  
• Think3 Signs Partnership With Think PLM Solutions to Strengthen its Presence in the UK and US
  

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
In another sign that PLM is moving from the engineering department to the board room, more than 55% of the those responding to CIMdata’s latest opinion poll indicated that the most important criteria in their company’s PLM evaluation and selection process were the ability to address their process and business requirements. Coming in a second with approximately 18% were technology features and functions. In CIMdata’s experience this illustrates that more and more companies understand PLM’s business enabling characteristics and as a result fewer companies see these solutions as just an extension of a computer-aided design (CAD) system.

Additionally, less than five percent (5%) indicated that the products and solution suppliers they currently work were an important criteria in their company’s new PLM evaluation and selection process. This would appear to indicate that an incumbent PLM solution supplier doesn’t have a significant edge in new competitive situations. This may reflect a willingness to change, dissatisfaction with the incumbent, or a potential underestimation of the effort/cost that could be required to migrate from a long-time established environment.

Finally, it is important to note that just less than twelve percent (12%) indicated that the future vision and direction of the supplier played an important role. In CIMdata’s opinion this is somewhat disappointing and it may indicate that either today’s solution suppliers are doing a poor job communicating their vision and direction and its value to their customers or that industrial companies are too focused on today’s (short term) requirements – a situation that can have long term negative consequences for a company.

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