CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 23 July 2010

23 July 2010

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Eclipse Expands With PLM Solutions Practice

CIMdata News

• CIMdata Will Present “The Growing Importance of Simulation & Analysis in Product Development” at CONGRES NAFEMS FRANCE 2010

Company News

• Aras PLM Software Suite Certified by CMPIC for Enterprise Configuration Management
• ASCON Announces Winners of the VIII KOMPAS-3D Modelling Contest
• Autodesk Chooses Pearson VUE for Computer-based Test Delivery
• Cortona3D Partners with Diginext to Deliver Cost-Effective 3D Publications to the French Market
• Matt Soucy Joins Surfware as VAR Channel Manager
• Think3 Announces the Winner of the PDP Award Andrea Pininfarina Competition
• Zuken Supports Next Generation of Automotive Engineers – Sponsoring Formula Student Team

Events News

• Cimatron Customer Presents: How to Make Dies Faster, Cheaper and Better
• Delcam CRISPIN to Show First Integrated 3D CAD System for Footwear
• Delcam to Show Metrology Range at GTMA Event
• EMC Live Webcast: Document Management on a Budget
• JT Open International Conference Registration is Now Open
• Lectra Showcases Fashion Innovations at Intermoda in Mexico
• solidThinking to Demonstrate New Software Capabilities to Product Designers at IDSA International Conference, Aug. 4-7 in Portland, Oregon
• XEROX Leverages Aras Enterprise Open Source PLM for Global Product Development

Financial News

• EMC Reports Record Second-Quarter Revenue; Quarterly Profit More than Doubles
• Geometric Declares Revenues of Rs. 1,354.50 Mn; an Increase of 6.5% Q-o-Q
• IBM Reports 2010 Second-Quarter Results
• Strong Results from IFS in the Second Quarter

Implementation Investments

• Delcam Aids Medical CADCAM Pioneers in Russia
• EADS PLM Harmonization Program on Track with PTC®
• Fujitsu Adopts Cadence Chip Planning Technology
• Fujitsu Adopts Cadence Encounter Conformal ECO Designer
• General Motors Renews $2 Billion HP Enterprise Services Agreement Supporting Vehicle Design and Production
• GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca and other Pharmaceutical Leaders Reduce R&D Time and Costs Using AspenTech’s Software
• Hitachi Achieves 10,000 Times Performance Boost Using Cadence Technology to Verify Complex Design
• Hitachi Raises System-Level Simulation Performance 100x with Cadence Palladium Transaction-Based Acceleration
• Kinnosa Generates Engineering Productivity at Tacoma Power
• Lifestyle Accessories Leader Randa Selects Gerber Technology’s YuniquePLM
• NationZ Selects Cadence as Provider of Choice on Leading-Edge SoC Designs at Advanced Node
• New Customer LG Display Won in Korea by Innovation Framework Technologies, Planisware Partner
• PARTsolutions 3D Part Catalog Technology Enables DME to Offer 4.5 Million Different CAD Files
• ShipConstructor Chosen by Brazilian Engineering Firm
• TDP, Inc. Selects Product Lifecycle Management Solution from Omnify Software

Product News

• Autodesk Demonstrates On-Demand Rendering Service in the Cloud
• Cadac Organice Issues Case Study about SharePoint Workflow Management
• Cadence and ARM Collaborate to Create an ARM-Optimized System Realization Solution Collaboration
• Cadence Develops Die Model Enabling Comprehensive Chip-Package
• Easily Create 3D Models from Photographs with Autodesk’s Project Photofly
• MachineWorks v.7 Imminent Release
• Mastercam and Unigraphics/NX Data Exchange
• Mentor Embedded Nucleus Real Time Operating System Adoption Exceeds 2.1 Billion Handsets
• ShipConstructor 2011 Released
• TransMagic R8 SP4 Transforms the 3D CAD Translation Industry

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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:

In CIMdata’s latest opinion poll, participants were asked to indicate to what extent their company was using social computing and other Web 2.0 technologies in its product development processes. Two-thirds (66%) of the poll participants indicated very limited to no current use of these technologies. An extremely low percent (9%) indicated that they use these solutions a great deal and 25% indicated some use. In general, these are disappointing numbers for those have predicted an explosion of the use of these technologies within a corporate environment. As we know, Facebook, Twitter, and other social media sites have grown rapidly. The use of them is widespread throughout much of today’s social media-savvy younger generation, but they are not yet readily accessible within today’s corporate product development environments.

CIMdata believes that there are two primarily factors that are limiting the overall deployment and use of social computing technologies in today’s corporate product development environments. The first factor is that the social computing technologies that are offered by today’s PLM solution suppliers are relatively new and offer limited functionality. The second factor is that many companies are still looking at social computing as something that cannot be controlled or managed in a way that increases productivity of their product development process participants while protecting a company’s intellectual property. They are concerned that individuals will use social computing for non-business activities—reducing the time they focus on their assigned tasks—rather than as an enabler for collaboration among the various individuals and groups working within the context of product development. Additionally, they have concerns that the commercial social computing solutions have not been designed with privacy and data security as fundamental capabilities. Use of these tools without such capabilities exposes product designs and competitive information to risk.

Studies have shown that humans are hard-wired to cooperate and share opinions. This means social media can and should be used to support product development. In fact, internal and external communities that can collaborate in a flexible yet controlled manner can better drive an organization’s ability to define and deliver innovative products to the market. There is no doubt that getting the most out of this new way of working and the social computing technologies offered is yet to be fully understood within the typical product development environment. CIMdata’s experience is that, if properly implemented, using social computing/networking techniques provides benefits, but those benefits may prove to be elusive to many. CIMdata believes that the PLM industry has an opportunity to lead the way in using social computing within the business environment—internally by utilizing and externally by delivering best practices and enabling technologies. The ultimate objective should be to leverage social computing technologies to provide enhanced collaborative environments for PLM users that further expand the use of PLM within and across extended enterprises.

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