Agenda for the North American 2010 Vendor Forum: “PLM - Accelerating the Recovery”

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Thursday, March 25th, 2010 (reception the prior evening)
Kensington Court
610 Hilton Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI 48108

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

7:00pm – 8:30pm Cocktail Reception

Morning Sessions - Thursday, March 25th, 2010

8:30 – 9:10 Registration and Breakfast

9:15 – 9:30 Welcome

Ed Miller, President, CIMdata

9:30 – 10:45 State of PLM – Today’s Market and Leading Trends

Ed Miller, President, CIMdata

This session will review the current state of the PLM industry, with particular emphasis on trends and issues critical to suppliers of PLM technologies and services. The significant changes occurring in the global economy continue to challenge industrial organizations of all types, and as a result, the PLM suppliers who are competing to sell to them. In challenging times, PLM as a business-enabling strategy is even more important in enabling an organization’s ability to become more efficient and innovative, especially as companies need to do more with the same or less resources. PLM is more and more accepted as a critical component of a company’s survival strategy and an enabler of business recovery. Additionally, PLM’s rapid adoption as a true “enterprise” initiative is becoming more visible, and is driving investments in expanded solutions and developments to make it more valuable to an ever-broadening range of users. In many cases, PLM is needed for the re-tooling of companies and perhaps even entire industries. Social Computing and Compliance are two of the hot initiatives that are being driven in today’s market, and CIMdata is right in front on these programs. CIMdata will present its views on these trends and the impact that they have on suppliers competing in this increasingly-challenging market. This session also will provide a brief discussion of the future of PLM, including new or expanded business opportunities that should be considered.

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 – 12:30 2009 Market Analysis Results

Ken Amann, Director of Research, CIMdata

Recognized for many years as the best source of comprehensive and accurate insights into the evolution and directions of the PLM industry, CIMdata’s annual PLM Market Analysis is first presented at these Vendor Forums. CIMdata will present and discuss its analysis of the PLM market, including 2009 PLM market revenues and our forecasts of the future from multiple perspectives. This includes a review of industrial investments in various key PLM functional domains, major industries, and geographic regions. In particular, CIMdata provides an exposure to each sector and its dynamics as well as analyzing sector revenue results. In addition to market investments in various sectors, CIMdata provides an analysis and review of the results of Supplier activities in various sectors and their revenue achievement. This session continues following lunch.

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch

Afternoon Sessions - Thursday, March 26th, 2010

1:30 – 2:45 2009 Market Analysis Results (Continued)

Ken Amann, Director of Research, CIMdata

This is a continuation of the late morning 2009 Market Analysis session.

2:45–3:00 Coffee Break

3:00 – 4:30 Key Areas for Future Development

Peter Bilello, Vice President, CIMdata

In today’s global and extremely challenging market, a company’s business success is affected by a variety of ever-changing internal and external pressures. In this session, we will discuss the impacts of two market trends that affect PLM, which if handled well, can truly accelerate a company’s recovery capabilities.

3:00 - 3:45 PLM and Social Networking

The advent and relatively rapid expansion of Social Networking Services, which seek to build online communities of people who share interests and/or activities, is making a major impact on the general world of computing as well as how individuals, groups, and communities interact. Today, several of the PLM suppliers are developing solutions utilizing social networking technologies and principles to support similar highly-collaborative interactions in a PLM context. Their objective is to leverage social networking technologies to provide enhanced collaborative environments for PLM users that further expand the use of PLM within and across extended enterprises. The questions that arise are: Where is this movement going? Why is it important to the PLM industry? What do we expect to see evolve from it? How can this help to accelerate an enterprise’s recovery and how to benefit from it? These are several of the topics that will be discussed during this session..

3:45 - 4:30 PLM and Compliance

Compliance is a major area of impact on most companies’ product development and support programs and strategies, and subsequently on PLM and other major enterprise strategies and supporting solutions. Compliance embodies all of the green, sustainability, regulatory, and related themes in industry today. Analytics is often used to help communicate the status and results of compliance activities to appropriate individuals so that corporate risk is minimized. Many PLM solution suppliers have developed compliance offerings to address critical business needs with many of the solutions focused on specific industry requirements. Where is this area going and what still needs to be done? How can an enterprise take advantage of this emerging PLM support area to accelerate its recovery? Why is it important to the PLM industry and how to benefit from it? These are several questions that will drive this session.

4:30– 4:45 Closing Comments

Ed Miller, President, CIMdata

Registration

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USA : +1 (734) 668-9922
Europe: + 31 (0) 23 568 9385

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Please print this form, complete it with your registration details, and then fax it to CIMdata, Inc. at +1 (734) 668-1957. If you have any questions, please call Karen Miller at +1 (734) 668-9922.

Hotel Reservations

Kensington Court Ann Arbor
610 Hilton Boulevard
Ann Arbor, MI  48108  USA
Tel: +1 (734) 761-7800 or +1 (800) 344-7829
Fax: +1 (734) 995-1085

Block of Rooms
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Kensington Court Ann Arbor for the standard rate of $99.00 plus applicable taxes. Breakfast is additional.

Individual Reservations
You will be responsible for making your own reservations. Reservations can be made by calling +1 (734) 761-7800 or +1 (800) 344-7829 by Wednesday, February 24, 2010. You must identify yourself as a member of the “CIMdata” group. All reservations must be guaranteed by a major credit card. The hotel will not hold any reservations without a guarantee.

Cut-Off Date
The cut-off date is Wednesday, February 25, 2010. After this date, our room block will be released for use by other guests. The Kensington Court will continue to accept reservations for the “CIMdata” group subject to availability.

Check-In and Check-Out
Check-in time is 3:00pm and check-out time is 11:00am.