CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 18 September 2009

18 September 2009

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Announcement of Absorption-Type Merger by Alpha Holdings INC
• MSC.Software Receives Additional Merger Proposals
• MSC Software Receives Revised Merger Proposal

Company News

• Aldous and Tribold form Global Sales and Marketing Partnership
• Autodesk Offers Wide Variety of Resources and Support for Education Community
• AVEVA Partners With ECE Design as North American Reseller of AVEVA Instrumentation
• Industry Veteran Pat Gelsinger Joins EMC as President & COO of Information Infrastructure Products; Howard Elias Promoted to President & COO of Information Infrastructure and Cloud Services
• Lattice Technology Announces r.a.p.s. as a New Reseller
• SAMTECH Opens New Subsidiary in Japan
• Z Corporation Unveils World's Most Affordable Portable 3D Laser Scanner

Events News

• COE University Session Registration Opens for Aerospace & Defense Workshop
• Delcam Canada Plans a Triple Launch at CMTS
• Delcam CRISPIN’s Latest Orthotics Design Software on Show in Québec
• ESPRIT 2009 by DP Technology at the Canadian Manufacturing Technology Show, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Oct. 19-22
• ESPRIT 2009, by DP Technology, at the Wisconsin Machine Tool Show, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 6-8
• ESPRIT 2009 to be Exhibited at Mechatronics Technology (MECT) Japan 2009 Oct. 14-17
• First Trace Webinar: Engineering vs. the Office: Fundamental Differences in Document Management
• Five Pillars of Engineering Document Management
• Hankook Delcam Hosts World’s Largest CAM User Meeting
• Lectra Announces its Latest Innovations for the Fashion Industries at the 2009 CISMA Trade Show, September 22—24, in Shanghai, China
• Oracle® OpenWorld 2009 Highlights Partner Innovation and Specialization
• Si2 Announces the 14th Si2/OpenAccess+ Conference
• Web Seminar: CFD Analysis for MCAD Designers - Better Products, Faster
• Webinar Demonstrates Femap Tips for Increasing Productivity
• Witness SolidWorks 2010 Software at EngATech's Tulsa Launch Event

Financial News

• Avatech Solutions to Report Fiscal 2009 Fourth Quarter and Year-end Results on Monday, September 28, 2009
• ESI Group Sales for the First Half of 2009/10: €31.2 million (+6.4%) - Fine resistance sustained by the Licences installed base and by Services
• Oracle Reports Q1 GAAP EPS of 22 Cents up 8%, Non-GAAP EPS of 30 Cents up 3%

Implementation Investments

• AltaSim Technologies Joins the Global Fight Against Malaria
• Article in Hydrocarbon Engineering Highlights Bilfinger Berger’s Botany Port Successes in Australia Using COADE CADWorx Plant Design Software
• Boeing Subsidiary Uses SolidWorks to Expand 2D-to-3D Conversion Business
• Cosmic Circuits Selects Berkeley Design Automation AFS Nano™
• Delcam’s FeatureCAM Helps Turn a Hobby into a Business
• EADS Innovation Works, Hamburg, Uses Altair's CAE Suite HyperWorks for Optimization and Stochastic Applications
• Entergy Nuclear Expects to Save Up to $1 Million per Day with Dassault Systemes PLM
• LEDAS Geometric Constraint Solver LGS 3D Is Licensed By Joe Gibbs Racing
• Maillefer Chooses IFS Applications to Streamline Business Processes
• MECAPLAST Group, France, Extends Use of HyperWorks to Optimize Automotive Equipment
• Mitsubishi Cable Industries Selects MSC.Software's Simulation Tools to Optimize Product Design
• PARTsolutions and Reid Supply Team to Better Serve Designers and Extend Market Reach
• Rockwell Collins Selects Arbortext® Software For S1000D Initiative
• Sunplus Selects Synopsys as Its Primary EDA Partner
• TSMC Selects Synopsys HSIM Simulator for Sub-40nm Memory IP Characterization
  

Product News

• A New Software Library for 3D Software Editors
• Actify Ships SpinFire 8.4
• Agilent Technologies’ New 3GPP LTE Baseband Exploration Library Enables Throughput Verification for Algorithm, Hardware Developers
• ANSYS Releases HFSS 12.0 Engineering Simulation Software
• Autodesk Releases SketchBook Mobile on the App Store
• CGS Raises the Bar for Enterprise Software with Launch of All New BlueCherry® Infinity
• Collaboration between Microsoft and PTC: When the world of social networking meets product development
• Cranes Software Releases the Latest Version of its FEA Software Suite - NISA
• Edgecam 2010 R1 Turns up the Performance
• Elysium Inc. Announces CADdoctor EX4.1
• EVE’s New ZeBu-Server Offers Fast Compile Time
• Flux – Equipping Technical Innovation in Device Design
• KeyCreator Version 9 to Deliver 3D Dimension-Driven Editing Improvements
• Lattice Technology Announces Lattice3D Dataway
• Maplesoft Announces Partnership with Siemens PLM Software
• Mentor Graphics and Applied Materials Deploy OASIS.MASK Open Data Standard for Higher Efficiency Mask Manufacturing
• Nemetschek North America Launches the Vectorworks 2010 Product Line
• New CimatronE Electrode Capabilities Increase Speed and Reliability
• Quantapoint PRISM 3D / QuantaCAD 10.0 3D Laser Scan Data Software to Begin Beta Testing
• solidThinking, Inc. Introduces solidThinking Version 8.0 to the International Design Community
• solidThinking, Inc. Introduces morphogenesis™ Form Generation Technology with the Debut of solidThinking 8.0 Inspired™
• Tech Soft 3D and Lattice Technology Announce the First Applications Shipped Using the Adobe® 3D OEM Platform
• T-Flex Parametric and TraceParts Partner to Offer Unlimited Access To millions of 3D Native T-Flex Models
• The MathWorks Announces Release 2009b of the MATLAB and Simulink Product Families

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:

In CIMdata’s latest opinion poll, participants were asked to indicate how different factors impact product success. The following chart shows the percentage of respondents rating an item either highest impact (5) or second-highest impact (4).

The results show that bringing a completely new product or significantly improving an existing product can have the most impact on the success of the product in the market. It also illustrates the importance of good service and support on customer satisfaction. Interestingly, lower cost and longer service life, while important, were considered less an impact on success. This would indicate that respondents believe that customers are willing to pay more for new and improved products. This has been true in the past when a first-to-market product (or significantly improved product) has been able to command premium pricing until the competition can catch up. Green/sustainable design is considered less important than other factors, but CIMdata thinks it will grow in importance in the coming years.

When asked who sets priorities for new product design, customer requirements were most important. The following figure shows that after customer requirements, sales and marketing, and design and engineering have an equal role in setting product design priorities. It is interesting to note that reacting to competition was considered less important and than sales and marketing, or design and engineering. However, requirements and priorities from those two groups often reflect competitive factors, e.g., sales and marketing requesting a product feature already available in their competition.

Corporate management was rated the least important when compared to the other factors in the poll; however, many of their priorities may have already been included in sales and marketing requests. The bottom line is that creating new and improved products that meet or exceed customer expectations and requirements is still the best path to success in today’s highly competitive markets.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
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