CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 24 June 2011

24 June 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Oslo, Norway	September 26-30, 2011	Registration Info
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Acquisitions

• TriStar Incorporated Completed its Acquisition of BRT Solutions

CIMdata News

• Best-in-Class S&A Capabilities Through an Alliance of Partnerships (CIMdata Highlight)
• CIMdata Announces Date and Location of Its Next CIMdata PLM Certificate Program; Oslo, Norway, September 26-30, 2011

Company News

• aPriori Continues EMEA Expansion
  
• COMSOL Announces ATOA Scientific Technologies as Certified Consultant
  
• ConnectPress Drills Down on PLM with New Windchill Connections Website
• ConnectPress Launches Creo Community
• Delcam Celebrates Recovery in North American Manufacturing
  
• Direct Modeling Interactive eBook Provides Guidance, Pointers for Engineering Managers
• Geometric Partners with Metamation, Inc.
• IMAGINiT Technologies Earns Autodesk Consulting Specialization Designation
• Innovator Solutions Joins Aras Partner Program
• KACST and Dassault Systèmes Sign a Groundbreaking Agreement at the Paris Air Show 2011
  
• Siemens PLM Software Invites Solid Edge and Velocity Series Customers to be Part of New Academic Initiative - Contact Info Updated
  

Events News

• Cimatron Receives Widespread Exposure at InterMold Thailand
  
• Cimatron to Showcase Background Calculations, Motion Simulation and PMI at DMS Tokyo
  
• ESI Hosts a Conference at the Paris Air Show Le Bourget on Virtual Prototyping, Demonstrating how it Helps Reduce Costs and Increase Competitiveness in the Aeronautic Sector
• ESPRIT by DP Technology at EMO Hannover 2011
• Intergraph® CADWorx® & Analysis University 2011 Early Bird Registration Ends in Less Than 11 Days
  
• Planisware Celebrates Successful 10th Annual Life Sciences User Conference
• Si2 to Host “DFM Standards: Driving Design Ecosystems from PDK's to Manufacturing” Workshop at SEMICON West
• Tribold Live Webinar, June 30th, 2011: Product Experience: Leveraging Enterprise Product Management to Enhance the Customer Experience
  

Financial News

• Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Webcast of Investor Event: Meeting with Autodesk Management
• Gerber Scientific, Inc. Reports Fiscal 2011 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Results
  
• Lawson Software Gives Notice of Anticipated Fundamental Change and Right to Convert to Holders of Its 2.50% Senior Convertible Notes due 2012
• Oracle Reports Q4 GAAP EPS Up 34% to 62 Cents; Q4 Non-GAAP EPS Up 25% to 75 Cents
  
• Sopheon plc Annual General Meeting Statement
  

Implementation Investments

• Astrium and EADS Innovation Works Partner with Dassault Systèmes to Design the Future of Space Vehicles
• Brite Semiconductor Achieves First-Pass Silicon Success with SMIC's 40nm Process
  
• Delcam’s ArtCAM Used for Custom-Made Castings
• Infinia Corporation Powers Up with SofTech's ProductCenter PLM
• Kindy Strengthens Innovation Strategy With Selection of Centric Software PLM
• Majenta-Supplied NX Design Software Plays Leading Role in Adastra Trimaran Super-Yacht
  
• MSC Marc Optimizes Composite Materials at CETENA
  
• Newcrest Mining to Use Cadac Organice for Controlled Documents
  
• Siemens PLM Software Achieves Significant Milestone with Licensing of First d-cubed Component in Turkey
• Siemens PLM Software Technology Enables LIG Nex1 to Drive Productivity Improvements in Product Development
  
• SolidWorks Software Helps Non-Engineer Design and Test “SuperTruck”
• Spanish Manufacturer Grifone Goes Live with Lawson for Fashion
• Thales Alenia Space Improves Global Engineering Efficiency with Dassault Systèmes’ PLM Solutions
  

Product News

• Altair Enables High Performance Innovation in the Cloud by Launching HyperWorks On-Demand
  
• Altair Releases HyperWorks 11.0, Creating the Most Comprehensive Open-Architecture CAE Solution in Engineering
• Altium and Würth Elektronik Collaborate on New Component Libraries
  
• Bentley’s New NCS Workspace for Civil Incorporates United States National CAD Standard in InRoads and GEOPAK
• Delcam Launches 64-bit PowerINSPECT Inspection Software
• First Trace Releases Kinnosa 5.0
• Fishbowl Solutions Announces Support for PTC® Windchill® 10.0
• Fujitsu Announces "Engineering Cloud" for New Era in Manufacturing
• hyperMILL® in Autodesk® Inventor® and for SolidWorks® Available in a 64-bit Version
  
• Intergraph® CADWorx® Plant Design Suite 2012 Compatible With AutoCAD® 2012
• Mastercam’s Multiaxis Machining Increases Speed and Finish Teams
• MathWorks Extends FPGA Support For Model-Based Design to xPC Target
  
• Mentor Graphics Announces Embedded Linux Platform Support for Freescale Semiconductor’s Most Advanced QorIQ Family of Multi-threaded 64-bit Processors
• New Release of OpenText Social Workplace Powers Purpose-Driven Teams
• Rally Software Achieves Oracle Validated Integration With Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
  
• TopSolid’Cam – the Ideal CAD/CAM Solution for Programming Mill Turn Machines
  
  

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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