CIMdata PLM Industry Summary 11 November 2011

11 November 2011

CIMdata PLM Industry Summary

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Location	Date	Pricing & Registration
Santa Clara, California, USA	December 5-9, 2011	Registration Info
Atlanta, Georgia, USA	February 6-10, 2012	Registration Info
Birmingham, United Kingdom	March 12-16, 2012	Registration Info
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA	May 7-11, 2012	Registration Info
Oslo, Norway	June 11-15, 2012	Registration Info
Dallas / Fort Worth, Texas, USA	September 17-21, 2012	Registration Info
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands	November 12-16, 2012	Registration Info

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Acquisitions

• Bentley Acquires FormSys to Expand SACS Offerings for Floating Structures
• Bentley Makes Point Clouds Valuable Across Full Infrastructure Lifecycle Through Acquisition of Pointools Ltd
  
• Infor Expands Service Management to Deliver Greater Speed, Flexibility and Accuracy to Customers
• Siemens Drives Forward Its Expansion in Industrial Software: Siemens to Acquire US Company Vistagy, Inc.
  

CIMdata News

• CIMdata Announces the 2012 CIMdata PLM Certificate Program and Schedule
• The mobility revolution: What does it mean for CAE? (New Opinion Poll)
  

Company News

• Atos Chooses SAP to Accelerate its Sustainability Strategy
• Autodesk Announces Appointment of Stacy J. Smith to Board of Directors
• Bentley Announces Winners of 2011 Be Inspired Awards
• Mastercam Announces 6th Annual “Innovator of the Future”: Contest winner designs and cuts working guitar capo
• Mentor Graphics Receives TSMC’s Partner of the Year Award for 3D-IC Design Enablement
  
• OPEN MIND Relaunches its Website
• ProSTEP iViP Initiative “Codex of PLM Openness” Gets Worldwide Support
• SINTEF Hosts Kick-Off Meeting of the TERRIFIC Collaborative R&D Project in Oslo
• Survey Shows European Businesses and Consumers Eager to Invest in Sustainability
• Synergis Earns Autodesk Factory Specialization
• Synopsys Awarded TSMC's Interface IP Partner of the Year
  
• Syntel Joins Aras Partner Program
  

Events News

• Added Bonus for Planit at Advanced Engineering Exhibition
  
• Automated CADCAM and Advanced ERP from Sescoi at EuroMold
• AVEVA Showcases AVEVA Plant at Erbil Oil & Gas Exhibition
• CEI EnSight News
  
• Cimatron Solutions Powering Milling, Mill-Turn & Multi-Tasking Machines in India
• Dassault Systèmes’ Customers Improve Quality, Efficiency, and Productivity with Simulation Lifecycle Management
• Delcam Reseller Trimech to Host Webinars on Latest in Feature-Based Machining
• Delcam to Show Feature-Based Mill-Turn Programming At Euromold
  
• ESI Honored at NUMISHEET 2011 Conference in Korea, for Most Accurate Predictions of Drawing & Ironing Processes with PAM-STAMP 2G
• IES Launch New Special Offer Packages and Live Webinars Exclusively for Architects
• Innovation Comes to Life at Annual Dassault Systèmes North America Customer Conference
• OPEN MIND at EuroMold: Reduce Programming Times with hyperMILL®
• Register for the Upcoming COE Ask the Experts Webcast: What You Want to Know about Deploying ENOVIA V6 on IBM eX5 Enterprise Systems
• SAP to Host Press Conference from SAPPHIRE® NOW + SAP® TechEd Madrid
• SoftInWay Hosts a Free Webinar on Upgrading Industrial Steam Turbines: Market Analysis, Rationale, Advantages and Challenges
• Transoft Solutions Hosting Live Online Event for the New Release of TORUS Roundabouts 3.0
  

Financial News

• CENIT Posts Positive Q3 Results on Increased Software Sales
• Cimatron Reports Revenues of $9.6M and Non-GAAP Operating Profit of $1.0M in Q3/11
• Mentor Graphics Corporation to Release Fiscal Q3 2012 Financial Results November 17, 2011
• PTC to Speak at the UBS Global Technology & Services Conference on Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
• Rand Worldwide to Report Fiscal First Quarter 2012 Results on Monday, November 14, 2011
• SAP Investor Presentations in November 2011
• Synopsys Announces Earnings Release Date and Conference Call for the Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2011
  

Implementation Investments

• Adapteva Uses Magma's RTL-to-GDSII Flow to Tape Out a 28-nm 64-Core Microprocessor Chip
  
• Autodesk Design Software Used for Competitive Edge in UK Solar Market
• Building Information Modeling Helps Double the Panama Canal’s Transit Capacity
  
• Catalog Data Solutions Configurator, Catalog and CAD Download Solution Selected ITT Compact Automation
• Cessna Selects Dassault Systèmes’ Version 6 to Enhance Product Lifecycle Management Processes
• eSilicon Uses Magma to Tape Out 28-nm 1.5GHz Microprocessor Cluster for Embedded Platforms
  
• Fisker Automotive Eco-Luxury Car Effort Achieves Electric Success With Dassault Systèmes PLM Solutions
• Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipbuilding Division Presents Technology Innovation Award to Siemens PLM Software
• Joe Gibbs Racing and Siemens PLM Software Extend Multi-Year Technology Partnership
• Lectra Announces a Successful PLM Implementation at La Jolla Group
• Nexus Implements Engineering Document Management and Control Based on Microsoft SharePoint and Cadac Organice
• S&C Electric Company Plugs in aPriori for Product Cost Management
• ShipConstructor Helps Improves Ingalls' Efficiency
• University of Maryland Creates Human-Powered Helicopter with SolidWorks
  

Product News

• Altair Reaches Agreements to Offer Four New Partner Applications Through its Flexible and Cost Effective Licensing Model
• ANSYS Subsidiary Apache Design Launches RTL Power Model, Enabling Early Planning and Accelerating Ultra-Low-Power Design Delivery
• Aras Announces Latest Release of The a9 AppConnect for Aras Innovator™
• Averna Joins PTC® Channel Advantage™ Program
• Bentley Announces Commercial Availability of AECOsim Energy Simulator and AECOsim Building Designer
• Bentley Announces Relationship With Microsoft for Azure-cloud-based Transmittal Services Offering
• Bentley Extends Integrated Structural Modeling to Broader Range of Project Stakeholders
• Bentley i-models Deliver AECO Information Mobility ‘With Integrity’ in PDF Workflows by Leveraging Adobe and Bluebeam Software
• Business Analytics from SAP Moves to the Masses, Delivering Greater Value to Business Professionals
• CCE’s EnSuite Updated for Automotive, Aerospace & Industrial Machine Industries; Update Includes Support for CATIA V5 R21 and Solid Edge ST4 Systems
• CIDEON Conversion Engine Release 4.2.7 Available now from the CIDEON Support Portal
• Cortona3D Viewer 7.0 is Now Available
  
• DP Technology Corp. Now Shipping ESPRIT 2012 CAM Software
• Enhancements for Machining Strategies in Alphacam 2012 R1
  
• Experience Greater Integration for Collaboration with CADSTAR 13.0 Release
• Geomagic Enhances 3D Imaging Software Using Tech Soft 3D Technology
• Geomagic Releases 2012 Product Line for Reverse Engineering and Inspection
• Geomagic Releases Geomagic Qualify 2012
• Geomagic Studio 2012 Line Integrates with Popular MCAD Products
• Geomagic Releases Geomagic Studio 2012
• Geomagic Studio 2012 Provides Direct Link to SpaceClaim
• Geomagic Releases Geomagic Wrap 2012
• Introducing Solid Edge Design1; the First Easy-To-Afford Professional CAD Software for Design and Engineering Enthusiasts
• Kubotek USA Announces KeyCreator Direct CAD with XMD-S Automated Mold Design Software
  
• Mentor Graphics Delivers First ARM Cortex and AMBA Family Verification Solution that Spans Simulation and Emulation
• NEi Software Announces the Pre-release of NEi Nastran V10.1
• NextLabs® Compliant Enterprise Entitlement Manager Now an SAP-Endorsed Business Solution
• New Version of VariCAD 2012-1.02 Released
• OpenText Forms Business Process Solutions Group Bringing Together World-Class Capabilities of Recent Global 360 and Metastorm Acquisitions
• Theorem Solutions Ford Supplier C3PNG P2.0 PRI F014.10 Released
• Transforming 3D As We Know It: Autodesk 123D Family Expands

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:

CIMdata’s latest opinion poll was developed to gauge the current level of adoption and future potential use of mobile devices within the context of an organization’s product lifecycle management (PLM) environment. As indicated by the responses, almost half of those who participated in the poll indicated that they feel that mobile devices are great and that they are in the early stages of be adopting within their PLM environment. This is very promising and clearly indicates that adoption is well underway. Approximately, thirty percent (30%) of the poll’s participants indicated that they also feel that mobile devices are great but that they will not be adopted within their PLM environment any time soon. This suggests that the future adoption and use of mobile devices within organizations’ PLM environment could continue to increase. Finally, it should noted that almost ninety percent (90%) of the poll’s participants indicated that they believe that mobile devices are great and they have a role in today’s and/or tomorrow’s PLM environments.

This opinion poll confirms CIMdata’s view of the need and applicability of mobile devices in today’s PLM environments. We have already seen the use of these devices in various industries where product data is needed in the field for maintenance and operations support. We are also seeing companies in multiple industries starting to apply PLM-enabled mobile devices to deliver product data to the factory floor in the support of machine operation and assembly instructions. The future of mobile devices as a data delivery device in a PLM context appears to be very bright and we expect their use to increase significantly over the next three to five years.

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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