CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 2 April 2010

2 April 2010

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Company News

• Access Commerce Becomes Cameleon Software; a New Name to Support an Ambitious International Growth Strategy
• ASCENT- Center for Technical Knowledge® Releases Three Training Guides for Autodesk 2011 Software
• Dassault Systèmes Names Al Bunshaft Managing Director, Americas
• Delcam Hosts Visit by China Ministry of Commerce
• French Collegiate Team Uses Altair's High-End CAE Tools to Maximize FSAE Race Car Performance
• Luxion Appoinst INNEO as KeyShot Reseller
• Magma Congratulates Winners of MUSIC China "Best Paper" Awards -- Macro Placement, Timing Closure and Simulation Among Popular Topics
• Magma Names EDA Veteran Alok Mehrotra Managing Director of India Operations
• Maplesoft Opens Office in Germany
• M2 Technologies Inducted Into Autodesk Platinum Club 2010 as Top Reseller in Overall Product Sales Growth
• SolidProfessor Releases Premium Product Bundle for SolidWorks 2010
• Tekla Congratulates Customers for Winning Fiatech CETI Awards
• VISTAGY Partners with NS Solutions to Expand Use of its Composites and Engineering Solutions in Japan

Events News

• Aras Announces Aras Community Event 2010 for Enterprise Open Source PLM Strategies Hosted by Motorola
• Avatech Solutions Presents Free Autodesk 2011 Product Presentations
• Boothroyd Dewhurst, Inc., to Host 2010 International Forum on DFMA, June 14-16, in Providence, R.I., USA
• CGTech to Show Latest Release of VERICUT at EASTEC
• Dassault Systèmes Demonstrates Leadership for Apparel Industry at 2010 Prime Source Forum
• Delcam and KUKA to Show Machining By Robot at JEC
• Delcam to Host Third GTMA Emerging Technologies Event
• Delcam to Launch New CopyCAD Pro RE System at PDx/Amerimold
• Delcam to Show Integrated CAM for SolidWorks at EASTEC
• Join PTC and Their Partners at the International Eurosatory 2010 Tradeshow, June 14-18
• Razorleaf at COE 2010 Annual Conference
• Sescoi Participates at COFES, the Congress for the Future of Engineering Software
• 3rd Edition of the Virtual Test and Engineering Simulation Aerospace & Defense Conference Set For May 2010

Financial News

• CENIT to Pay Dividend Following Stable Business Development in 2009
• Delcam Chairman Reports Strong Performance

Implementation Investments

• BAE Systems Reaffirms Long-Term Investment in VISTAGY's FiberSIM® Software as it Transitions from CATIA V4 to V5
• BASF Extends its Intergraph(R) Global Alliance Agreement
• BetaLED Illuminates Value of Green Design with SolidWorks Sustainability Software
• Delcam’s PowerMILL Gives Shop-Floor Success
• Dumur Industries Tops Competitors In Making Significant Productivity Gains With Dassault Systèmes Solution
• GEA Niro Chooses ANSYS
• Kaledo® by Lectra Now Sets the Standard for Design at US Universities
• Lattice Technology Solutions Deliver 3D to Motor Insurance Repair Research Center
• Leading Apparel Company VF Corporation Selects Dassault Systèmes’ PLM Solution
• METRA SpA Relies on SimXpert by MSC.Software to Optimize Design and Performance of Extrusion Components
• RND Automation Tackles One-of-a-Kind Machines with Autodesk Inventor
• Rohde & Schwarz Achieves Higher Quality RFICs with Cadence Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator
• SMIC Bases DFM Sign-off Strategy on Mentor Graphics Calibre Platform
• Springboard Biodiesel Accelerates Its Business with Autodesk Inventor
• Synopsys Galaxy Implementation Platform Enables First-pass Silicon Success on Infineon's 40-nanometer X-GOLD 626 Wireless Product

Industry-Wide News

• EDA Consortium Reports Decrease for 2009 but Sequential Fourth Quarter Gains

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Product News

• Anark and 3D PDF Reduces Dependency on 2D Drawings
• Bentley Announces Availability of Power InRoads and Power GEOPAK
• Cadence Teams With AcAe to Accelerate Customer Transitions to Allegro PCB Products
• Catalog Data Solutions New Analytics System available for 24*7 CAD Download Reports
• CD-adapco and Opus announce Strategic Partnership for Produced Water Treatment in the Oil and Gas Industry
• Design Compiler 2010 Doubles Productivity of Synthesis and Place and Route
• Informative Graphics Corp. Introduces Brava 6.2 for IBM FileNet P8
• Mentor Graphics and Platform Computing Optimize Use of Veloce Emulation Systems as Shared Resources
• Pointwise Partners with 3Dconnexion for 3D Mouse Support
• SiliconBlue Selects Synopsys as FPGA Synthesis Partner for Its iCE65 mobileFPGA Family
• STAR-CCM+ /Power-On-Demand: CD-adapco Pioneers Engineering Simulation on the Cloud
• SYCODE Releases Inventor, Pro/ENGINEER, CATIA V4 and CATIA V5 File Import Plug-ins for Rhinoceros
• Symphony Services Signs Five-Year, Multi-Million Dollar Engineering Services Contract With MSC.Software
• Synopsys' DesignWare SuperSpeed USB 3.0 IP Receives USB-IF Certification
• Zuken Launches Latest Version of Electrical Design Software E³.series 2010

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.

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The results for the last opinion poll are:

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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