CIMdata 2010 PLM Vendor Forum

“PLM — Accelerating the Recovery”

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The most recent economic downturn has proven to be painful for many companies around the world. Fortunately, many regions and industrial sectors are starting to see signs of recovery. The current economic cycle has had a major impact on many companies’ businesses—including their ability to compete and expend resources. Companies need to both accommodate economic cycles, and know when and what investments to make in order to recover from a downturn’s impact more quickly. The question is “What will help my company and the overall market recover faster?” Historically, delivering new products and services that consumers want to buy has had a positive impact on the economy—accelerating a return to business growth. Market-leading companies emerge from downturns leaner and stronger, with a portfolio of products that takes advantage of the upturn. These companies look at their core portfolio of products and invest in R&D to ensure that they have the first-mover advantage.

Continued and expanded deployment of PLM can strengthen a company’s ability to compete—delivering new products and services that fuel an economic recovery. In order to support this, PLM solution suppliers are constantly urged to incorporate latest technologies and new collaboration paradigms that help companies and their trimmed-down developer staff work faster and more efficiently. Two areas are having a major impact on PLM environments—digitally-enabled social networks, and streamlining compliance processes. Today’s, and definitely tomorrow’s workers expect to communicate in an online, real-time social interactive manner. They want to quickly find and talk with others who share common interests and knowledge and who can help them solve their problems. At the same time, companies are under increasing pressure to validate that their products comply with a myriad of ever-changing requirements—both regulatory and market driven, e.g., green design. CIMdata recognizes a need for PLM solution suppliers of all sizes to respond to these issues by delivering products that support social networking collaboration in the context of the product lifecycle and that ensure companies deliver products that comply with regulations and other market expectations. A company’s investments in these areas will help them create the products and services that can accelerate their economic recovery.

CIMdata’s 2010 PLM Vendor Forum will provide an insightful view of the impact of the current economic climate and trends on PLM solution suppliers competing in an increasingly challenging market. As always, CIMdata’s perspective on the state and trends of the current and future PLM market will be presented in detail, as well as providing our first public exposure to CIMdata’s perspective on 2009 PLM market results—including our extensive analysis and forecasts regarding market growth and forecasts across PLM domains, industries, and regions, and the performance (revenue and market share analysis) of leading PLM solution suppliers. We will discuss two expansion areas: Social Networking and Compliance, and how they are accelerating the recovery and bringing new opportunities to the PLM market.

Participants in CIMdata’s PLM Vendor Forum should expect to gain a solid understanding of the current PLM market situation, dynamics that are impacting it, and expectations for its continued evolution. In addition, attendees will have the opportunity to gain further insights into opportunities and approaches they can use to navigate the PLM market environment during the current times.

CIMdata 2010 PLM Vendor Forum Dates & Locations

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North America
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Kensington Court
610 Hilton Boulevard, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA

Europe
Thursday, April 15, 2010
Millennium Hotel and Resort
Plieninger Strasse 100, 70567 Stuttgart, GERMANY

Tokyo
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Myojin Kaikan
Sotokanda 2-16-2, Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JAPAN