CIMdata Press Release

CIMdata Announces Date and Location of Its Next CIMdata PLM Certificate Program: Next CIMdata PLM Certificate Program Scheduled for Neumarkt, Germany, May 3-7, 2010

March 03, 2010

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 3, 2010 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm announces that the next CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is to be held in Neumarkt, Germany from May 3-7, 2010. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership—the PLM industry's most comprehensive non-biased education and training offering for today's PLM professionals.

The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program prepares PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM implementations. This assessment-based certificate program includes an intimate classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. Additionally, the program provides candidates with intensive and extensive exposure to a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, each participant receives a CIMdata PLM Certificate and thereby becomes a member of CIMdata's global PLM Leadership community.

According to Mr. Peter Bilello, CIMdata's Vice President, "CIMdata is excited to announce our May 2010 CIMdata PLM Certificate Program in southern Germany. This program will be hosted by CIMdata's newest PLM Leadership Alliance Member, ECS GmbH. Over the last several years, we have observed an increasing number of German companies looking at PLM as an enterprise critical initiative. As a result, we feel that it is important to make the CIMdata PLM Certificate Program easier to access for companies within the region." PLM Certificate Program participants can register online for either the 3-day or complete 5-day program. This certificate program is available to industrial companies who are considering and / or implementing PLM, and to PLM technology and service suppliers. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is built on CIMdata's more than 25 years of extensive worldwide experience guiding industrial companies in successfully defining and implementing best-in-class PLM strategies and tactics. Please refer to CIMdata's website at www.CIMdata.com for detailed information on the CIMdata PLM Certificate Program, and for registering to it.