CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 26 September 2008

26 September , 2008

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• Your Best Bet in Mechatronics: Use PLM for Multidisciplinary Design Collaboration

Company News

• Dassault Systèmes Launches “Green” Global Headquarters
• Dassault Systèmes to Broaden 3-D CAD Software Sales in Japan
• DP Technology Expands Agreement with Siemens PLM Software
• Sescoi micro-machining at Micronora, France

Events News

• AspenTech Launches Webinar Series on the Seven Best Practices of Engineering Excellence
• Largest ANSYS International Conference to-Date Underscores Increasing Value of Engineering Simulation

Financial News

• Arena Solutions Reports 38% Increase in Revenues and Continued Growth in International Customer Base for Second Quarter 2008
• Avatech Solutions to Report Fiscal 2008 Fourth Quarter and Year-End Results on Monday, September 29, 2008
• Dassault Systèmes to File Form 25 with SEC Pursuant to Previously Disclosed NASDAQ Voluntary Delisting Plans
• Microsoft Announces Quarterly Earnings Release Date
• Microsoft Announces Share Repurchase Program and Increases Quarterly Dividend
• SofTech Announces Annual Financial Results for FY 2008

Implementation Investments

• Agilent Technologies’ GoldenGate Simulator Chosen by Toshiba for RFIC Design, Evaluation
• Avatech Solutions Consulting Group Lands $900,000 in Services Projects
• BAE Systems Company Selects Infor for Integrated ERP and Product Lifecycle Management
• Cambridge Analog Technologies Deploys Cadence Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 for Faster Tapeout of Low-Power Mixed-Signal Chip
• CH2M Hill Licenses Enterprise Informatics’ eB® for Nuclear Corrective Action
• Jyoti Toolings – Well Placed for Further Rapid Growth with MyWorkPLAN
• Lumberg Group Optimizes Concurrent Engineering with PTC® CoCreate®
• OKI Network LSI Reduces Test Time 90% by Combining the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) and Cadence Incisive Technologies
• SAP Expands Public Sector Reach and Gains Ground With State of Louisiana
• Seagrave Deploys Mentor Graphics VeSys Software to Help Design, Manufacture and Service Fire Trucks for FDNY
• Synopsys Announces the Tapeout of NEC Electronics' Latest EMMA System LSI Using IC Compiler

Product News

• Alibre Design 11.0 Now Shipping
• Build Your Own 3D World on Virtual Earth with the Newest Version of Virtual Earth-3DVIA
• Cadence Virtuoso Platform Enables Custom IC Designers to Achieve Breakthrough Results
• Cadence Works with SMIC to Deliver Virtuoso IC 6.1-Enabled Mixed-Signal Reference Flow and Process Design Kit
• Dassault Systèmes Announces Version 5 Release 19 of its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Portfolio
• From Cradle to Grave: IBM Consulting Offering Helps Clients Make Products "Greener"—Cars, Electronics, Consumer Products, Etc.
• Intergraph® and The Napa Group to Collaborate on Shipbuilding and Offshore Applications
• LEDAS Increases the Productivity of LGS 2D Variational Geometric Solver
• McLaren Software Announces Enterprise Engineer for Drawings
• Mentor Graphics Announces Precision Synthesis Support for New Xilinx Virtex-5 TXT Field Programmable Gate Arrays
• Oracle Delivers New Capabilities in Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Furthering its Leadership in Enterprise PLMAchieves
• Siemens PLM Software Delivers Expanded Functionality with Latest Release of No-Charge JT2GO Viewer
• Synopsys Adds Incremental Signoff-Quality Design Rule Checking to IC Compiler
• Synopsys and Microsoft Work Together to Improve Electronic Design Productivity
• Synopsys Enters Mixed-Signal Implementation Market with Galaxy Custom Designer
• VISTAGY and CGTech Partner to Offer Best-in-Class Composites Design-to-Manufacture Solution for Automated Fiber Placement

CIMdata Online Polls

CIMdata is now featuring online polls with real time reporting on our web site at http://www.cimdata.com/polls/polls.html. 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.
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The results of CIMdata's latest on-line poll show that just over 50% of responders indicated that their companies have not established metrics to track business, productivity or process improvements related to their PLM solution deployments. However 23% indicated that they had metrics for engineering and another 23% indicated that they had established metrics in other areas (enterprise wide 13%, and other non-engineering or manufacturing 11%).

CIMdata strongly recommends that companies use metrics to track and validate the impact of their PLM solutions on the business. Only by measuring changes can they quantify the return on their investment and identify areas and processes that have been improved, or those that need additional effort to be improved. Failure to measure can result in incorrect perceptions of the impact of PLM investments on the business and make it difficult to justify further investments. Further, the use of appropriate metrics helps communicate the benefits that PLM provides to individuals and managers within the enterprise that are being affected by PLM-related changes in processes and methods.

While many of the early metrics were focused on the engineering processes and departments, the trend to use enterprise level metrics that look beyond engineering reflects the knowledge that PLM can have a broader impact on a company. Metrics that look at enterprise performance can help management understand both the overall impact of PLM and how it should be positioned compared to other business investments.

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