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 PDF Key takeaways: Infor has a diverse set of applications that span many industries and they believe opportunities for “adjacent innovation” are a company strength Infor continues to make significant investments in their application layer and bringing their solutions to the cloud, with strong early results The company is working to shore up a weakness in services with both organic investments and key partnerships with systems integrators like HCL Over 7,000 attendees converged on the Javit’s Center in New York City to attend Inforum 2016, the Infor user event of the year, held from July 10 to 13. Infor is a major provider of enterprise software constructed mainly through acquisitions and offers dozens of applications. In several instances the company has more than one offering in the same enterprise software segment, such as in enterprise resource planning (ERP). Five years ago, a new management team was brought in to help the company move forward, led

 PDF Key takeaways: While PLM strategies are common in manufacturing industries, they can provide just as much value in the development and long-term monitoring of insurance coverages and banking products. Insurance policy premiums and bank loan repayments do not fundamentally differ from a manufacturer's flow of revenues from sales of goods. Financial companies are searching for people with PLM implementation experience while PLM solution providers seek people with backgrounds in underwriting and lending. One sure sign of a strategy’s lasting success is its uptake by industries that have seemingly little in common with the industry that generated the strategy in the first place. Such is the case with industrial mainstay Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), now drawing interest from financial, insurance, and other similar companies. From its roots in aircraft and automotive manufacturing in the early 1980s, PLM spread into other discrete industries (e.g. high-tech and industrial equipment) and then into the process industries, food, apparel and

 PDF Key takeaways: Interest in cloud-based PLM is exploding, and deployments are ramping up PLM on the cloud has all the usual advantages of cloud-based enterprise solutions, such as low cost of entry, scalability, ease of deployment, and easier supply chain access T-Systems is offering Aras Innovator, a well-known, flexible PLM solution, on a public or a private cloud to support small workgroups through global distributed enterprises and their supply chains The T-Systems Cloud PLM solution includes T-Systems products as well as the Aras Subscriber-only solutions licensed by user per month CIMdata has tracked PLM’s growth on the cloud for many years. Initially, security and performance with large datasets were the big concerns. Product development organizations lagged other enterprise domains in cloud deployments due to these concerns, but that appears to be changing. Security is no longer a major impediment; sales and even financial data are commonly stored in the cloud today. Large file or data

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes’ goal of enabling companies across multiple industry segments to build and run virtual environments in which innovative products and processes can be defined, simulated, analyzed, and optimized as a real-life experience and across the full lifecycles is becoming a reality Dassault Systèmes’ strategy builds on both their 3DEXPERIENCE platform, as well as on their well-respected brands (i.e., CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, BIOVIA, etc.) Dassault Systèmes’ continues to expand their 3DEXPERIENCE platform through a balanced expansion of specific functional capabilities, and a significant number of industry experiences focused on delivering industry-specific business process enablement CIMdata recently attended Dassault Systèmes’ annual two-day PLM analyst meeting, which was held at their worldwide headquarters in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, in June. During two carefully composed days of presentations and demonstrations, senior management of Dassault Systèmes shared with analysts their strategy and the progress the company has made with regards to their 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Dassault Systèmes’ executives continue