CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 6 November 2009

6 November 2009

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Intergraph® Acquires SIGRAPH® Electrical Engineering Software Business Unit from TCS
• Virage Logic Completes Acquisition of ARC International

CIMdata News

• CIMdata in the News: “Dassault to Acquire IBM's PLM Sales and Consulting Arm”

Company News

• ANSYS, INC. Announces New Addition to Senior Management Team
• aPriori Expands to Europe
• Great Participation and VIP Jurors for the 'PDP Award, Andrea Pininfarina'
• Imaginestics becomes an NCDMM Alliance Partner
• Mentor Graphics Signs Authorize Pty, Ltd. as New Distributor in Australia
• M2 Technologies Joins Autodesk Consulting Services Program
• NGC® Joins ARTS Initiative to Create Retail PLM Standards
• NovaQuest Expands Solution Portfolio to Include Invention Machine Goldfire
• Right Hemisphere Selects Right Connect as its Asia-Pacific Distributor
• Sescoi Opens a New Branch Office in South Korea for WorkNC
• Siemens PLM Software Appoints CADEM as Sole Distributor for NX Software in Singapore
• SolidWorks Launches Donation Program to Raise Awareness of Sustainable Design

Events News

• Apache Design Solutions to Hold Asia Technology Forums in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan
• Delcam’s Orthotics Design Software Goes Trans-Atlantic
• EMC Customers and Partners to Gather in Athens for Nearly Sold-Out Momentum Europe 2009
• Enterprise Informatics Webinar: Reduce Risk, Improve Efficiency and Ensure Compliance for EPC Projects
• ESPRIT at Work: ESPRIT CAM maker DP Technology Presents New Webinar Series
• Submit a Presentation for Consideration to Speak at the COE 2010 Annual PLM Conference & TechniFair
• Valor to Launch ‘DynamiX’ at Productronica
• VISTAGY’s John O’Connor Discusses Complete Solution for Developing Composite Aircraft Assemblies at SAE 2009 AeroTech Event
• Zuken Announces Free Webinars: Functional Block Diagrams to Detailed System Wiring Diagrams – A New and Integrated Approach

Financial News

• ANSYS, Inc. Reports Solid Revenue Results with Strong Margins and Non-GAAP EPS Outperformance for the Third Quarter 2009
• Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Its Third Quarter Fiscal 2010 Financial Results Conference Call Tuesday, November 17, 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time
• Avatech Solutions to Report Fiscal 2010 First Quarter Results on Monday, November 16, 2009
• Magma Schedules Second Quarter Earnings Call and Webcast for Dec. 3, 2009
• Sopheon plc Interim Management Statement
• Virage Logic Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 Results; Revenues Increase 10% Quarter Over Quarter

Implementation Investments

• ABB Selects Intergraph® for North African Gas Pipeline Project
• AES Creates Production-Ready Facility 5 Times Faster with Dassault Systèmes PLM Solutions
• BitWave Semiconductor Deploys Complete Berkeley Design Automation Analog FastSPICE™ Platform
• Catalog Data Solutions Selected by Anvil International for Online Catalog and CAD Downloads
• City of Phoenix, Ariz., Acquires Bentley’s SewerGEMS to Enhance Analysis, Design, and Operation of Wastewater Infrastructure
• Delcam’s FeatureCAM Gives Full Advantage of Turn-Mill Machines
• Exar Selects Cadence as Mixed-Signal EDA Provider
• Fluor Expands Intergraph® Global Alliance Agreement
• Hitachi Achieves Test Compression Levels Four Years Ahead of Industry (ITRS) Roadmap by Leveraging Cadence OPMISR Compression Technology
• Juniper Networks Completes World’s First Network Instruction Set Processor Design Using Mentor Graphics Calibre and Design-for-Test Solutions
• Magma's Talus Selected by Wintegra as IC Implementation Platform for Low-Power, High-Performance 65-nm Chips
• Oy Nautor Ab, Builder of the World Famous Swan Sailing Yachts, Selects Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter as its Corporate-Wide PLM Platform
• Public Service Company of New Mexico Builds a Reliable Network with AutoCAD
• Renault Uses ESI’s PAM-COMFORT Solution to Virtually Design a New Car Seat
• SolidWorks Software Helps Westfield Sportscars Combine New Technology And A Vintage Package
• Synopsys Chosen by Realtek as Its Primary EDA Partner
  
• Synopsys TetraMAX ATPG Cuts Test Development Schedule at Arrow Electronics

Product News

• Altair Achieves Breakthrough Time Savings in Crash Simulations
• ANSYS Releases Ansoft Academic Product Bundle for Next-Generation Engineers
• ArchiCAD 13 Dutch Version Released
• AVEVA NET Gains SAP Certification; Ability to Integrate with SAP® Solutions Provides Extended Information Management Ability to Customers
  
• CADVault® 6 Released
• CCE adds JT Support to its CAD Libraries
• CimatronE's New 64-Bit Version Powers Projects of any Size and Complexity
• Cooling Things off With Motor-CAD
• Delcam Adds More Five-Axis Machining Options to Dental Machining System
• Exa Announces PowerACOUSTICS—the First Validated Interior Noise Prediction Solution for Wind Noise
• Fall 09 Release of Arena Adds Arena Secure Drop Box and Rapid Data Loading Tools to Get New Customers Up and Running in Less Than Five Days
• GibbsCAM Offers New High-speed Rough-milling Option; Integrates VoluMill for Faster Material Removal With Minimal Tool Wear
• ITI TranscenData Releases Proficiency 8.1
• LEDAS Adds Assemblies and Kinematics to Rhino
• Maplesoft’s New Engineering Products Help Meet Complex Physical Modeling Challenges
• Mentor Graphics Outlines Strategy to Unify Silicon Test and Yield Analysis
• ModuleWorks Introduces New Smoothing for 5-Axis Toolpaths
• NEi Software Announces NEi Explicit for Nastran
• Nemetschek North America Releases Spanish-language Vectorworks 2010
• New Mentor Graphics Tessent YieldInsight Product Improves IC Yield Through Statistical Analysis of Test Failure Data
• Parametric Exchange for Siemens NX Now Available on Geomagic Labs Website
• Rasterex Releases RxView & RxHighlight R11
• Synopsys Extends DFTMAX Compression to Reduce the Cost of Pin-Limited Test
• 3Dconnexion 3D Mice Help Extend the Power of Dassault Systèmes’ New CATIA V6R2010
• Virtual Building Explorer for ArchiCAD 13

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:

The responses to last month’s question (Which area of the business would you expect to receive the most value from PLM, but which hasn’t had PLM applied to it yet) were quite interesting. The difference between the highest and lowest answers was 8% - not a significant difference when looking at the various potential answers. However, the answer receiving the highest rating (26%) was “Enterprise Content Management.” Slightly behind the first answer was “Systems Engineering Support” with 23%. Again, not a significant difference between these top two rated areas of potential value that are not supported by PLM capabilities in the responding companies.

The third and fourth rated areas, both with approximately 18% response, were “Enterprise Simulation Management” and “Manufacturing Operations Support.” The area receiving the last place rating (16%) was “Field Configuration Management.” In all of these cases, the ratings reflected reasonable demand for PLM support for the area. In fact, PLM support for these areas is clearly available and PLM is known to provide significant benefit in each. The next question is, “what are we going to do about it?” There is clearly an opportunity to gain additional value by expanding the use of PLM into new areas of the business.

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