CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 20 May 2011

20 May 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• CENIT AG Acquires Transcat PLM AG, Switzerland

CIMdata News

• CIMdata in the News: “PLM in the PRC: Product Lifecycle Market Going Strong in China”
  

Company News

• Bentley Issues 2011 Be Inspired Awards Call for Entries
• Centric Software Names Vice President of Global Sales, European GM
  
• ChipEstimate.com Launches First Third-party IP Portal Localized for Vital Japanese Design Community
• Dassault Systèmes Fuels Academic Innovation through Software and Technology Initiatives
• Delcam Establishes Orthotics Demonstration Center
• Delcam Hosts China Aerospace Working Group
  
• Delcam Launches Multi-Lingual CAM Learning Zone
• Drexel University Student Brandon Bohrer Receives 2011 Bentley Systems Career Networking Award
  
• ESI Welcomes the RAILENIUM Project Funding Allocation by the French Government
• Klietsch Join Lattice Technology Reseller Network
  
• ProSTEP iViP: ReqIF sets New Standard Within Requirements Management
• PTC Appoints Renato Zambonini to Its Board of Directors
  

Events News

• Anark Announces Live MBD Webinar
  
• AVEVA to Sponsor AccelerateBrazil 2011
• Cimatron to Preview Newest 5-Axis Enhancements at EASTEC
• Dassault Systèmes: 2011 SIMULIA Customer Conference Features Main Stage Presentations by General Motors, BD, and PSA Peugeot Citroën
• Delcam and SoftInWay to hold High-Efficiency Turbomachinery Webinar
  
• Delcam CRISPIN to Show Latest Footwear CADCAM in Guangzhou
  
• Delcam PartMaker Webinar on Manufacture of Fixation Plates
  
• Delcam Presents Orthotic Prescription and Order Tracking to e-Custom Project
• Delcam Software to be Shown by Grupo SEA at FEIMAFE
  
• Geometric to Showcase DFMPro 3.0 at PlanetPTC Live 2011
• IMAGINiT Technologies Hosts “Make Your Ideas A Reality” Events Across Australia to Launch Autodesk 2012 Products
  
• Intergraph® CADWorx® & Analysis University 2011 Scheduled for September 19-21 in Houston
  
• Intergraph® Discovery Tour on May 24 in Yokohama, Japan to Feature CADWorx® Plant
• ITC Infotech to Showcase its PLM Capabilities at Planet PTC
  
• Lectra to Participate at WINDPOWER and SAMPE 2011
• ModuleWorks to Show Latest Woodworking CAD/CAM at LIGNA
  
• Synopsys' PrimeTime Special Interest Group at DAC 2011 - Featuring Next Generation Signoff ECO Guidance Technology
  
• 3D Systems Partners With Alibre
• VISTAGY Webcast Series Presents: How to Improve Communication between OEMs & the Supply Chain to Accelerate Seat Design
  

Financial News

• Aspen Technology to Webcast Investor Day
• Autodesk Reports 11 Percent First Quarter Revenue Growth
  
• Mentor Graphics Corporation to Release Fiscal Q1 2012 Financial Results May 27, 2011
  
• Rand Worldwide Reports Third Quarter Fiscal 2011 Earnings
• Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2011
  

Implementation Investments

• AxSTREAM Software Was Adopted by Moscow Aviation Institute
  
• Catalog Data Solutions Catalog and CAD Download Solution Selected by Ruland Manufacturing
• Cognity Drills Down to Engineering Benefits with ANSYS
• CONTACT Wins Turkish Top 500 Company
  
• Healthy Buildings Technology Group Receives Clean Tech Software From Autodesk
• MSC Nastran is Essential to Reducing Weight and Cost of Composite Laminates
• Pedal-Powered Boat for Trans-Atlantic Voyage Comes to Life with Autodesk Software
  

Product News

• Actify Achieves Microsoft Gold Partner Status™
• Anark - Tetra 4D Announce 3D PDF Product Partnership
• Autodesk Announces 2012 Design Software for Education Market
  
• CADENAS Forms Partnership with Siemens PLM Software
• Collaboration Software from CadFaster for Real-time Annotation and Co-viewing of 3D CAD Models Now Available for Bentley Users
• Dassault Systemes Accelerates Computer-Aided Engineering by Using NVIDIA GPUs
• Dassault Systèmes Delivers New, Innovative Realistic Simulation Technology in SIMULIA’s Abaqus 6.11 Release
• Expanding Multiphysics Applications with COMSOL Version 4.2
  
• Extensible CAD Technologies Announces Two New Automated Inspection Tools: InspectionXpert for PDF and InspectionXpert OnDemand
  
• Gerber Technology’s YuniquePLM 4.0 Offers Customizable User Interface and Multiple Productivity Enhancements
• HP Introduces Web-connected, Large-format ePrinters for Design Professionals
• LMS Releases LMS Test.Xpress Rev 5A and New LMS SCADAS Durability Recorder 02 for Increased Flexibility and Productivity When Durability Testing
• Manufacturing Gets Personal: Autodesk 123D Now Available for Free Download
• New Blum and Dynaplan Interface from TopSolid’Wood
• New Traceability Tool from Lawson Software to Help Food & Beverage Companies Address Global Compliance and Traceability Regulations
  
• Newest Version of Zuken’s CR-5000 Software Focuses on Technology, Infrastructure and Process Optimization
  
• OPEN MIND Develops Proprietary CAD Platform; CAD Tool with Machining Expertise
• SAP Delivers Innovation On Promise, On Premise for SAP® Business Suite Customers
  
• Tecplot, Inc. Announces First CFD Simulation Analytics Tool
• Transoft Solutions Enters 3D Space with Release of AutoTURN Pro 3D
  
• TriQuint Semiconductor, Agilent Technologies Collaborate on Next-Generation Wireless Design Flow
• VANC Selects ModuleWorks as CAM Components Partner
  
  

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:

In CIMdata’s most recent poll, the intent was to assess how well PLM solution suppliers are providing support to their customers, and to determine if there is a difference between the quality of support obtained directly from the solution supplier versus that received from a value added reseller (VAR) or channel partner.

The good news is that 50% of those responding believe that user support was either good or excellent from solution suppliers and resellers alike. For solutions suppliers, the percentage of those responding excellent compared to good was approximately the same. However, for resellers, those responding excellent was only half of those responding good.

These anecdotal results confirm what CIMdata routinely hears in our work with industrial clients worldwide; PLM solution suppliers are doing a good job in providing customer support with some room for improvement. However, there is an opportunity to improve the capacity and training of PLM resellers and channel partners to excel by providing more than just ‘’good” support, which is required in today’s hyper competitive technology landscape.

NOTE: The results of these polls are anecdotal, not scientific.
If you have a suggestion for a poll you'd like to see contact us at info@cimdata.com.

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