CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 17 June 2011

17 June 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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CIMdata News

• CIMdata Shares Its Expertise at the SAP Product Lifecycle Management Customer Network Forum

Company News

• Accept Corporation and AIPMM Executive Study Finds Growing Gap Between C-Suite and Product Development
  
• CENIT Accredited for Dassault Systèmes’ Exalead CloudView
• Delcam Launches Web Guide to Delcam for SolidWorks
  
• Delcam to Support Dormer Tools Challenge
• French CADSTAR Market Booms: Novacad Wins Zuken’s CADSTAR European Distributor of the Year Award
• New CEO Technia and President for Business area Product Lifecycle Management
• Next Generation Solution Revolutionizes How AEC Firms Implement Autodesk Technology
  
• OptiTex Captures Europe: Expansion into the European Market Begins with New VP
  
• PTC Broadens Partnership with FIRST to Launch New FIRST LEGO League Teams in Las Vegas
• ShapeSpace Ltd Creates a Consultancy Services Group
  
• Siemens PLM Software Invites Solid Edge and Velocity Series Customers to be Part of New Academic Initiative
• Students Race to Win Ferrari’s World Design Contest with Autodesk Software
  
• ‘Ultimate Engineering Productivity’ is the Goal of i GET IT 3Dconnexion Packaged Offering
  

Events News

• A User’s Perspective: Innovating Smarter With Invention Machine Goldfire (Webinar)
  
• Altair's PBS Professional Celebrates 20th Anniversary, Exhibits at International Supercomputing Conference June 19-23 in Hamburg, Germany
  
• CGTech to Feature VERICUT CNC Machine Simulation at Offshore Europe 2011
  
• CGTech to Show Creo-to-VERICUT Interface at PlanetPTC Live
  
• CGTech to Showcase VERICUT 7.1 at EMO 2011
• Cimatron to Demonstrate Ultra-Fast Material Removal and the SuperBox Accelerator at Technologia Israel 2011
  
• Delcam’s Latest CAM Range on Show in Vietnam
• Discover Best Practices for Innovation In Product and Portfolio Management at SAP Product Lifecycle Management Customer Network Forum — June 22-23, 2011
  
• Intergraph® CADWorx® & Analysis University 2011 Early Bird Registration Ends in Less Than 18 Days
• Intergraph® PV Elite® Webinar on June 22 to Discuss the Analysis of Vibrations in Pressure Vessel Design
• Intergraph® to Participate at MIOGE 2011 in Moscow June 21-24
• Join Linx/AS at the SAP PLM Customer Network Forum
• 10 Seminars Across Japan Introduce the Country’s Engineers to WorkNC V21
• UKTI and EEF to hold “Growth through Export” Event at Delcam
  

Financial News

• ESI Group: Q1 2011/12 Sales: €17.3 Million (+8.8%)
• Infor Reports 28 Percent Organic License Growth in Fourth Quarter
• PTC to Provide Investor Update at PlanetPTC Live On Tuesday, June 14, 2011
  
• SofTech Provides Update, Announces Sale of AMT Product Line & Q3 FY2011 Operating Results

Implementation Investments

• Albion Industries Leverages 3D Part Catalog Technology from PARTsolutions to Yield More Leads Faster
• Delcam Customer Zytek Wins at Le Mans
• Frers Naval Architecture & Engineering Sets Sail with Siemens PLM Software Technology
• Jonathan & Fletcher Adopts YuniquePLM to Manage the Complexities of Performance Apparel Design and Manufacturing
• SETAL Óleo e Gás S/A Realises Compelling Business Benefits with AVEVA Plant
• Sundance Catalog Company Completes Centric PLM Implementation in Record Time
• Synopsys Custom Design Solution Enables Moortec Semiconductor to Tape Out High-performance Analog IP
  

Product News

• ArchiCAD 15 Has Started Shipping
• Catalog Data Solutions CAD Model Search Engine included in PTC Creo™ Design Software
• Companion Apps Now Available in AutoCAD 2012
  
• CT Core Technologies Joins PTC® PartnerAdvantage™ Program
• e-Xstream Signs an Agreement about DIGIMAT Distribution with Computational Mechanics Laboratory (CompMechLab) in Russia
• Extensible CAD Technologies Announces Service Pack for InspectionXpert for PTC's Creo™
• iBASEt Announces New PLM Execution Strategy for the Extended Enterprise at PlanetPTC Live
  
• ITI Introduces CAD to MBS Interface for Creo - Integration of CAD Data in SimulationX
• Latest MapleSim Release Opens New Avenues for Model Development
• LMS-InterAC Partnership Completes the LMS Acoustic Simulation Solutions to Cover The Full Frequency Range
• Luxion Releases KeyShot® 2 for PTC® Creo™ 1.0
  
• MachineWorks Launches Polygonica at CAD'11
• NEi Software Debuts NEi Nastran For Creo™ at PlanetPTC Live
• New Electrodeposition Module for COMSOL Multiphysics Released
• New Release of OpenText Integration Center Lets Customers Unify Information Across the Enterprise
• NetIDEAS Now Offering PTC's Windchill® 10.0 in the Cloud
  
• OPEN MIND Renews Agreement with MachineWorks
• OpenCFD Releases OpenFOAM® Version 2.0.0
  
• PSA Announced Two New Features for PLM Tool CMPRO at CMPROficiency 2011
• PTC Declares New Era of Product Design with Delivery of First Creo™ Apps
  
• Siemens PLM Software Introduces New Ecosystem for Solid Edge and Femap Application Development Partners
• Solid Edge ST4 Delivers New Tools to Help Machine Designers and Engineers Develop Better Products Faster
  
  

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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