CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 16 April 2010

16 April 2010

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

News and Information on Product Lifecycle Management

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Acquisitions

• BlueCielo Acquires Majority Stake in Finnish Software Company Kronodoc Oy

Company News

• By Blog, Tweet, and Vote, DS SolidWorks Invites Engineers Everywhere To Contribute Ideas to New Interactive Product Design Web Show
• Defiance Technologies Joins Aras Partner Program
• EDA Consortium Elects Officers and Board Members
• IronCAD Signs New Reseller in Russia
• Magma Appoints Noriaki Kikuchi President of Magma KK -- Longtime Technology Executive Brings Wealth of Experience to Japanese Team
• PTC Expands its Support for 2010 FIRST World Championship in Atlanta
• Tacton Systems and T-Systems Multimedia Solutions Have Signed an Agreement to Collaborate in the Area of E-Configuration

Event News

• CimatronE Multicore Capabilities to be Showcased at Intermold
• Delcam Previews PowerMILL 2010 on Webex
• Delcam Sales Partner DiTra Holds User Meeting in Bulgaria
• Delcam to Support Broad Range of Machine Tools at Ontario Open House
• Lattice Technology Brings DMU and Technical Documentation Discussion to COFES 2010
• MSC.Software Offers Webinars on Nonlinear, Motion and Multidiscipline Simulation Solutions Helping Engineers Tackle Design Challenges and Optimize Virtual Product Testing
• PDVSA Engineering & Construction and PEMEX to Present Best Practices in Collaborative Engineering and Optimization At AspenTech Seminars in Latin America
• Sescoi’s Productivity Software Draws Large numbers to its Booth at Die & Mould India
• solidThinking to Highlight Benefits of Conceptual Design Technology on Product Development at 2010 Altair Engineering Americas HyperWorks Technology Conference
• Synopsys Recognizes Technical Excellence at 20th Annual SNUG San Jose Conference
• Zuken Call for Papers for Z-DAC Americas Conference

Financial News

• ANSYS to Release First Quarter 2010 Earnings on May 6, 2010
• Apache Design Solutions Starts 2010 with Record Q1 Sales
• Cadence Announces First Quarter 2010 Financial Results Webcast
• Open Text to Report Third Quarter Financial Results on Thursday, April 29, 2010
• SpaceClaim Secures $5 Million in New Funding

Implementation Investments

• Apache Design Solutions’ Power and Noise Platforms Adopted by Aptina
• AVL Develops Combustion Controller With MathWorks Tools
• eSilicon Joins Synopsys' IP OEM Partner Program
• HiSilicon Adopts Cadence Mixed-Signal and Low-Power Technologies
• Leading Radiopharmaceutical Provider Pharmalucence Selects Pilgrim Software for Quality and Compliance Management
• LSI Adopts Broad Range of Cadence Mixed Signal Technologies
• Mentor Graphics Veloce Emulation Platform Adopted by STMicroelectronics to Accelerate Time-to-Market for its New Generation Set-Top-Box Chip Sets
• NOK Corporation Selects Aras for Enterprise PLM
• SolidWorks Helps Danish Company Reduce Packaging Machine’s Environmental Footprint
• Synopsys Expands IP OEM Partner Program with Two New Members

Product News

• Autodesk Certifies 32-bit and 64-bit GibbsCAM 2010 for Autodesk Inventor 2011
• Blue Ridge Numerics Releases CFdesign 2010 Spring Update
• CoFluent Design Joins the MathWorks Connections Program
• Delcam’s PartMaker receives Autodesk 2011 Certification
• Geometric Introduces CAMWorks® 2010
• Intergraph® CADWorx® 2010 Now Compatible with AutoCAD® 2011
• ITI TranscenData Releases Proficiency 8.2
• Kubotek Partners with Luxion to Integrate KeyShot for Photographic Image Creation
• LEDAS Adds Movie Recording and Localization to RhinoAssembly
• Mentor Graphics Extends DO-254 Platform Offering with Enhanced HDL Coding Standards
• Missler Software Releases TopSolid’Progress 2010
• MSC.Software Releases Enterprise Mvision 2010
• New Partnership Between Missler Software and SimCon
• New Software from Geomagic: Simpler, More Powerful and Integrated
• Open Text Introduces Media Management 7 with New User Interface, Powerful Process Automation Capabilities
• Right Hemisphere and Flatirons Solutions Bring Advanced 3D Capabilities to DITA-Based Technical Publishing
• SmartCAM V17 Features New Z-Level Roughing, Improved Solid Pocket Milling
• TSMC Expands Cadence Tool Support in Integrated Signoff Flow by Adding Synthesis, Place and Route, and RC

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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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