CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 1 July 2011

1 July 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• ANSYS, Inc. Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Apache Design Solutions, Inc.
• Lawson Software Stockholders Approve Merger Agreement with Affiliate of Golden Gate Capital and Infor

CIMdata News

• CIMdata Reports that NC Software Market Grew by 7.6% in 2010
• IBM Rational Executive, Brett Hillhouse, Joins the Keynote Line-up for PLM Road Map™ 2011
• The View from CIMdata: Going “Back to the Future” as PLM Sales Strengthen

Company News

• Advanced Solutions Named Autodesk Reseller of the Quarter for Q1
• Altium Invests in Global Services Team
  
• Autodesk Announces Workshops for Secondary School Educators
• Cadence Donates UVM World Website to Accellera
• Cimatron Helps Brazilian Mold Makers Leverage New Government Incentives
• Delcam China Appoints Eight Dealers for Delcam for SolidWorks
  
• element14 Marks 2nd Anniversary with Launch of the World’s First Interactive Design Automation Hub
• FISHER/UNITECH Signs Partner Agreement to Provide Aras Enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions
• Manufacturers to Benefit from New DELMIA Communities
• NEI Becomes Oracle PartnerNetwork Gold Level Partner
  
• PCO Innovation and Dassault Systèmes Strengthen Services and Consulting Partnership
• SofTech Announces Educational White Paper: The 3 R’s of PLM
• Solibri Partnering with Nemetschek Scia in Europe
  
• To-Increase Asks: Has Product Lifecycle Management & Social Media Integration Arrived?
  

Events News

• Delcam Launch Webinars for 64-bit ArtCAM Artistic CADCAM Software
  
• ESI Participates in the TERATEC Forum, a Growing European High Performance Computing Event on 28 & 29 June, Near Paris
• ESI Takes Part in the 12th International Foundry Trade Fair GIFA
• Sescoi Enhances CNC Knowledge of Chinese CAD CAM Engineers at Chinese Industry Shows
• SoftInWay Announces Turbomachinery Training Schedule for July-December 2011
  
• solidThinking to Showcase its Latest Software at New Designers 2011 July 6-9 in London
  

Financial News

• Autodesk Reiterates Second Quarter and Full Year 2012 Business Outlook
• OPEN MIND is Optimistic about the Future
  

Implementation Investments

• Autodesk Software Helps Carousel Works Bring Back Magic of Wooden Carousel
  
• Autodesk Software Helps Company Turn Waste Into Ultraclean Energy
• California Department of Transportation Selects Autodesk for Road and Highway Design Projects
• Catalog Data Solutions Selected by HBD/Thermoid, Inc.
• CMC Expands CAE's Role in Automotive Development on Altair's HyperWorks Platform
  
• CSDDC and SENER Signed an Agreement to Implement FORAN in the Design Center in China
• Dassault Systèmes’ DraftSight Surpasses One Million Downloads
• Delcam’s FeatureCAM Enables Move to 3D Machining
• French National Computer Center for Higher Education Upgrades to PBS Professional 11.0
• Shanghai University of Engineering Science Implements MATLAB and Simulink School-Wide
  

Industry-Wide News

• Implementing 21st Century Smart Manufacturing Report Released; President Obama’s Advanced Manufacturing Partnership Supported By New Report Today

Product News

• Aras Announces Latest Open Release of Advanced PLM Platform
• Autodesk Vault Works with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to Provide Access to Design Information Across the Enterprise
• Dassault Systemes Goes Cloud with Amazon Web Services
• Dassault Systèmes Launches Version 6 Release 2012
  
• Dassault Systèmes’ 3DVIA and Sculpteo Take the “3D Print” Button to New Frontiers
• Full Version of Tekla BIMsight for Construction Collaboration
• Geometric Releases NestLib® 2011 R2 with Improved Material Savings
  
• IFS Announces IFS Touch Apps for Android and Iphone – Backed by IFS Cloud Services
• Spatial Unveils CGM
  
• STAR-CD and es-ice v4.16: Latest Version of Simulation Toolkit Released
• Synopsys Announces Immediate Availability of Reprogrammable Non-Volatile Memory IP in 180-nm CMOS Process Technology
  
  

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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