CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 15 July 2011

15 July 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Acquisitions

• Cadence Acquires Azuro
• CONTACT takes over the Fast Concept Modeller from ForceFive AG
• OpenText Acquires Global 360 For Around $260 Million

CIMdata News

• Dassault Systemes takes to the Cloud (CIMdata Commentary)
• PTC is “In It to Win It” with Creo and Windchill (CIMdata Commentary)
  
• PLM Goes Mobile or Does It? You Decide (New Opinion Poll)
  

Company News

• Berkeley Design Automation Expands Worldwide Sales and Support
• Emergent Systems Joins PTC PartnerAdvantage™ Program
• ModuleWorks Appoints Jens Beissel as Marketing Manager
• Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. Announces Partnership with NCS Colour AB
• OpenText Signs Global Launch Partner Agreement with Microsoft for SQL Server Denali
• PTC Recognized as 2011 Microsoft Project and Portfolio Management Partner of the Year
• Synopsys Appoints Dr. C.L. "Max" Nikias to its Board of Directors
• WorldSkills London 2011 Event will be Supported with 24 Machines of Mori Seiki’s Successfully Launched X Class
  

Events News

• Apache Design Solutions to Host Online Low-power Webinar Series
• Intergraph® 2011 Southeast Asia Commences
• 1,000 Years of CAM Experience From Planit Gathers at Atlanta
• Mastercam® X5 Helps Speed Machining
  
• Tata Technologies CAD Geek Tuition-Free ‘Summer School’ is in Session
  

Financial News

• ANSYS to Release Second Quarter 2011 Earnings on August 4, 2011
  
• Cadence Announces Second Quarter 2011 Financial Results Webcast
  

Implementation Investments

• Bayer Technology Services and Autodesk Sign Global Enterprise Agreement
• Cadac Organice has Signed a Framework Contract with A. P. Moller – Maersk
• Cadence Encounter Digital Flow Instrumental in Tapeout of Samsung 20-Nanometer Test Chip
• Catalog Data Solutions Parametric Catalog and CAD Downloads Implemented by Brother International Corporation
• Con-vey Keystone Leverages DELMIA Robotics to Enter New Markets
• GUANGXIN Shipbuilding & Heavy Industry Selects AVEVA MARS
• Lasermax Roll Systems Selects aPriori to Drive Product Cost Efficiencies
• MSC Adams Helps Reduce Expensive Trials in Support of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Initiative
• MSC Software Helps Dongfeng Peugeot Citroen Automobile Accelerate R&D Competitiveness
• Synopsys Announces Critical Milestone in 20-nm Design Enablement Collaboration With Samsung Electronics
• Tetra Pak Improves Product Development Process with Top-to-Bottom Requirements Traceability" Using Cognition's Cockpit Tool
• Thai Colleges Purchase Nearly 1,000 Copies of ZWCAD
• Tork Trux Advances Skateboarding with Autodesk Product Design Suite
• With WorkNC Dental CAD CAM, Biotech Combines Quality and Expertise
  
• WorkNC CAM Software Gives China’s Biggest Bus Manufacturer a 20% Speed Advantage
• Z Corporation 3D Printing Technology Helps The Beck Group Win, Refine and Sell Building Projects
  

Product News

• ASI Offers PDXpert PLM 2010 R6.6
• EMC Unveils New ProSphere Cloud Storage Management
• ESI Group Announces New Release of VA One
• GibbsCAM 2011 Released with Extensive New Enhancements and Improvements
• Knovel Math Expands Mathcad Worksheets for Engineering Calculations
• IFS to Develop and Deploy Enterprise Smartphone Apps using Windows Azure
• New PDXpert PLM Release Offers Easy Data Imports and ODBC Views
  
• OpenText Metastorm Releases New BPM, Smart Business Workspace and Business Performance Intelligence Dashboards
• Rand Worldwide and Autonomy Form Strategic Partnership
  
• Synopsys and GLOBALFOUNDRIES Collaborate to Deliver Interoperable Process Design Kits (iPDKs)
• Synopsys Leads the Way in Delivering Dual-Patterning-Compliant 20nm IC Implementation Support 11 July 2011
  
• ZWSOFT Updates ZWCAD 2011 with Improved User Experience
  
  
  

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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