CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 19 February 2010

19 February 2010

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

News and Information on Product Lifecycle Management

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Acquisitions

• Mentor Graphics Acquires Virtual Garage Technology from Freescale to Expand Electrical Design Scope

CIMdata News

• Announcing Poll Results: Where do you get news and information on PLM?
• New Opinion Poll: How can PLM best help you cope with economic downturns?

Company News

• Delcam Launches Dedicated Web Site for Healthcare Division
• FREE SURFCAM Student Learning Version Now Available for Download
• Mentor Graphics Names New Vice President
• Selerant Takes a Bigger Bite Out of the Big Apple; Selerant Moves US Operations to Manhattan, New York
• Symmetry Solutions Tops North American Market; Value-added Reseller Wins Top Reseller Award in North America for Subscription Service
• Tata Technologies Earns Two Dassault Systèmes Honors for 2009
• Tribold and Giza Systems Announce Partnership for Enterprise Product Management Delivery in Middle East

Events News

• Bluebeam Announces Bluebeam PDF Revu 8 to UK Green Builders at Ecobuild
• CGTech Announces 24 North American VERICUT Users’ Exchange Events
• CGTech will Exhibit Version 7 of its VERICUT CNC Machine Simulation and Optimisation Software on Stand 5168 at MACH 2010
• Cimatron to Showcase Productivity Enhancements to GibbsCAM, CimatronE at METAV
• COADE Schedules February 18 CAESAR II User Group Meeting in Houston
• Delcam to Demonstrate More Accurate Composite Machining at JEC
• ExxonMobil and Tetra Pak Highlight 2010 SIMULIA Customer Conference
• Geometric to Display Automation Intelligence at METAV 2010
• IFS Joins FIATECH and Aims for ISO15926
• Zuken and Krets-Planering Exhibit at Scandinavian Electronics Event

Financial News

• Avatech Solutions Reports Strong Second Fiscal Quarter Results
• CENIT Releases Preliminary Figures for 2009
• Cimatron's Fourth Quarter 2009 Results Release Scheduled for February 22nd, 2010 after Markets Close
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for First Quarter Fiscal Year 2010

Implementation Investments

• Aras Selected by PCC Structurals for Enterprise-wide Product Lifecycle ManagementDelcam’s CADCAM Software has Ambler Sitting Pretty
• Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation Adopts Simucad's SmartSpice Analog Circuit Simulator
• BrightBuilt Barn, Designed in ArchiCAD, Wins LEED Award for Innovation
• Delcam’s CADCAM Software has Ambler Sitting Pretty
• Delcam’s OrthoModel Boosts Orthotics Output for Blatchford
• Greaves Cotton Limited Expands Adoption of PTC’s Windchill for Product Lifecycle Management
• Medical Device Manufacturers Turn to Dyadem for Regulatory Compliance
• PCO Innovation Partners with Schneider Electric in Maintaining Symphony, its Technical Data Management Application
• SINI Selects Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise Solutions for its Oil and Gas Projects
• The MathWorks Reports 60-Plus Universities Implemented Campus-Wide Access To MATLAB And Simulink Tools In 2009
• 3Dconnexion Powers North American Bid to Break Land Speed Record
• Utah Design Team Uses SolidWorks to Create Skeleton Sled for Olympic Racer in Record Time and for Thousands Less Than Standard Design
• Vital Engineering to Deploy Bentley’s Hevacomp Simulator V8i on $80 Million, Mixed-Use Complex to Achieve Net-Zero Energy Impact

Product News

• Agilent Technologies’ New LTE Applications Target 4G System-Level Designers
• Bentley Delivers New 3D City GIS Information Modeling Software to Enhance Design and Operation of Intelligent Cities
• Cadac Organice BV Announces Offline Support in Organice Explorer 2010
• CyberGlove Systems and HAPTION Partner to Enhance Dassault Systemes Product Suites
• Czech and Polish Version of KOMPAS-3D V11 Released
• Dassault Systèmes Launches Release 20 of V5 PLM Platform
• ESI Announces VA One V2009.0
• EXAPT Selects ModuleWorks as CAM Components Partner
• Generate Spare Parts Catalogues Directly from SolidWorks and CATIA
• GRAPHISOFT Delivers Building Information Modeling to Small Firms at an Affordable Price
• ICAM Launches Gold Series Post-Processors for Mastercam
• Luxion Releases KeyShot
• Mentor Graphics Eases Android Development with Support of Inflexion Graphical User Interface on the Zoom OMAP36x-III Mobile Development Platform
• New Lawson for Fashion Solution Helps Speed Product Time-To-Market
• NGC® Streamlines Global Trade Logistics with New Vendor Payment Automation Solution
• Planview Brings New Dimensions to Portfolio Management with Brand Impact Analysis Capability
• Planview Redefines Portfolio Management by Bringing Breakthrough Capabilities to Business Leaders Across the Enterprise
• SURFCAM V5 Release Today
• TradeStone Introduces Free Fashion Forward™Migration Tool for Gerber webPDM™
• Zuken Launches E³.series Revision Management Module

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:

CIMdata Analysis:

CIMdata’s latest opinion poll on the sources our readers and website visitors use to keep informed regarding Product Lifecycle Management shows that their most important source of news and information related to PLM is email newsletters (48%), followed by blogs (31%), and then by PLM vendor press releases at 7% . Facebook and hard copy magazines, each at 4%, were far down on the list of PLM sources along with LinkedIn Groups (2%), Twitter (2%), and YouTube (2%).

Our experiences indicate that there are a number of factors that account for email newsletters as the most favored source. (1) They offer PLM news and information in near-real-time with high visibility (email or RSS) that is available 24/7 wherever there is Internet connectivity, and (2) they are versatile, i.e., news can be forwarded or copied and shared easily, and some even include links to electronic copies of articles from online versions of hard copy magazines. This facilitates quick skimming of relatively robust content for items of interest.

With regard to Blogs, our experiences indicate that they can contain useful news and industry expert comments that are not contained in PLM vendor and service provider press releases and newsletters. Additionally, they often raise issues and welcome comments from readers. This facilitates other viewpoints and stimulates discussion and can be a good source of PLM market intelligence.

Finally, it is possible that email newsletters and blogs are comprehensive enough that the other sources mentioned in our poll are used only to supplement them and/or to tap into more social aspects of PLM knowledge acquisition.

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