Autodesk

Autodesk’s Digital Prototyping for Manufacturing Program: “A Review of Autodesk’s Digital Manufacturing Program” (2010) | 149 KB
Provides CIMdata’s reflections as well as describing the experiences of Autodesk customers and their perceptions of Autodesk’s technology and program.

Autodesk's Evolution as a PLM Solution Supplier “A Review of Autodesk’s Transition” (2010) | 237 KB
Provides CIMdata’s perspective on the transition that Autodesk is executing to transform itself from a supplier of individual PLM-focused point solutions to a supplier of industry-focused solutions that can be the fundamental platform for a company’s overall PLM strategy.

Cimmetry

Product Visualization Across the Extended Enterprise (2005) | 195 KB
“Cimmetry's AutoVue Enables Global Product Development”. Demonstrates the usefulness and benefits of employing visualization and collaboration solutions in all roles throughout the enterprise and beyond. A checklist of requirements of an effective visualization and collaboration solution is provided, as well as a description of Cimmetry’s AutoVue solutions.

Visualizing Product Information (2001) | 530 KB
"Cimmetry's AutoVue Enables Visualization and Collaboration"
This paper has been replaced by updated product review: Product Visualization Across the Extended Enterprise A CIMdata Product Review

Comet

Transform Product Development with Comet’s Early Simulation Solution - A Key to Product Success (2007) | 2.49 MB
Describes the benefits of Comet's framework for managing PLM, CAE. and CAD data.

Configit Software

Configit Software, “A Powerful Approach to Managing Complex Configurations” (2006) | 452 KB
Describes the difficulties generally associated with traditional approaches to configuration management and how Configit Software’s technology has been designed to overcome many of them.

Contact Software GmbH

CONTACT Software: “Focused on Customer Success” (2011) | 1.98 MB
Describes the CIM DATABASE offering and documents the success stories of several of CONTACT Software's many customers.

CONTACT Software GmbH (2005) | 2.15 MB
Provides CIMdata’s overall review and assessment of CONTACT Software GmbH and their PLM solution and includes Market Position, Operations, Product and User Assessments.

Dassault Systemes

Dassault Systèmes V6 IP Lifecycle Management “Taking Control of Your Company’s Intellectual Property” (2010) | 231 KB
Describes some of the compelling business drivers for IP Lifecycle Management and how Dassault Systèmes V6 IP Lifecycle Management capabilities support this critically important area.

Dassault Systèmes V6 Program Management “Streamlining Program and Project Management” (2010) | 648 KB
Provides CIMdata’s perspective on the ENOVIA V6 Program Management Solution from Dassault Systèmes. This report describes how this solution delivers value to the enterprise.

Dassault Systèmes’ V6 Platform TCO “Improving the Enterprise’s Return on its PLM Investment” (2010) | 293 KB
Presents the major drivers for why this new architecture is important in the current PLM market space and how it provides tangible and important benefits to, and lowers the total cost of ownership (TCO) of PLM for companies that adopt V6.

Dassault Systèmes Value for Mid-Market “ENOVIA SmarTeam’s Impact on Mid-Sized Companies” (2008) | 351 KB
Provides a review of mid-sized companies’ challenges, a brief description of the ENOVIA SmarTeam solution suite, and customer reports based on CIMdata interviews with a select group of customers from various industries and geographies.

Dassault Systèmes’ V6 Program “A Focus on PLM 2.0 for Enterprises” (2008) | 873 KB
Identifies the challenges that businesses face in today’s markets that are driving development and deployment of PLM solutions, the evolution of PLM, DS’ key role in PLM, and a review of their new V6 program.

Dassault Systèmes’ PLM Solutions for the Mid-Market (2007) | 417 KB
Solutions for Mid-Sized Companies through CATIA PLM Express and ENOVIA SmarTeam.

PLM and APQP How PLM Supports this Key Automotive Industry Initiative (2007) | 636 KB
Advanced Product Quality Planning (APQP) and how the ENOVIA MatrixOne Automotive Accelerator™ supports it.

Dassault Systèmes – Electrical & Electronics PLM Program (2005) | 589 KB
Provides an introduction to both PLM and to Dassault Systèmes’ PLM program, with a review of their program that is focused specifically on the Electrical and Electronics (E&E) industries.

Measuring Business Process Benefits Achieved Using SMARTEAM® (2005) | 320 KB
Results of a survey of a cross section of SMARTEAM® customers to understand the improvements these companies have achieved in a number of product-related business processes.

Eurostep

Eurostep’s Share-A-space (2007) | 1.2 MB
Describes Eurostep’s solution and provides a review of its ability to support the real life challenges faced when working within a complex and ever changing extended enterprise across a product’s lifecycle.

ECS

ECS’ eCenter: An Enterprise Usability Solution (2006) | 2.17 MB
Exploration of new IT capabilities to gain user acceptance of and improve the quality of business processes and accelerate the speed of multi-application implementations and a review of ECS’s eCenter product with respect to these capabilities.

Federation

Using Federation to Integrate the Extended Enterprise (2003) | 565 KB
Discusses Federation services that provide convenient and rapid data access for organizations that have to conduct their product development activities in a distributed environment. A federated approach enables these organizations to automatically maintain their product information in multiple geographic locations so that it can be quickly accessed without the need for moving large blocks of information on an on-demand basis.

IFS

IFS Applications “Product Lifecycle Management for Project-Oriented Enterprises” (2009) | 1.1 MB
Describes IFS’ broad and comprehensive family of business applications that meet many of the specific needs required by project-oriented companies in key functional areas of their operations.

Mentor Graphics

CFD for Mechanical Design Engineers “A Paradigm Shift for Better Design” (2009) | 337 KB
This paper provides CIMdata’s perspective on Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) analysis; the motivations for its use, its value and future, and the importance for making CFD available to all engineers earlier in the product design/development lifecycle.

ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Solutions “Integrating Mechanical and Electrical Product Design” (2009) | 561 KB
Provides an overall description of collaboration between the ECAD and MCAD disciplines and presents issues and benefits as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the ECAD-MCAD collaboration solutions of PTC and Mentor Graphics.

MSC

MSC SimEnterprise "Providing Simulation to the Enterprise" (2008) | 215 KB
Provides an overall description of the Enterprise Simulation Management (ESM) market as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the SimEnterprise program.

PARTsolutions

3D Part Catalog Management: "A PLM Strategy to Reduce Direct Material Costs" (2010) | 635 KB
Presents the case for the need for an easily deployed and used part catalog solution that integrates with a company's native CAD environment.

PDM Technology

BlueStar PDM/PLM for Microsoft Dynamics AX: “Delivering PDM/PLM from within an ERP Environment” (2008) | 683 KB
Describes PDM technology’s BlueStar PDM/PLM solution and the benefits that result from it being developed on top of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution’s information technology (IT) platform.

Proficiency

Leveraging Product Knowledge: Integration Enabling Product Information Re-Use Throughout the Enterprise (2007) | 210 KB
Discusses usage of Proficiency’s Collaboration Gateway to leverage product knowledge.

Exchanging Product Design Data
This report has been replaced by an updated program review, Leveraging Product Knowledge: Integration Enabling Product Information Re-Use Throughout the Enterprise.

PTC

Economic Benefits of PLM-Enabled Collaboration “A Review of PTC Customer Experiences” (2009) |178 KB
Provides insights into how PLM-enabled collaboration provides savings and supports the requirements for multiple industry verticals, including aerospace and defense, automotive, electronics / high-tech, and fabrication and assembly.

ECAD-MCAD Collaboration Solutions “Integrating Mechanical and Electrical Product Design” (2009) | 561 KB
Provides an overall description of collaboration between the ECAD and MCAD disciplines and presents issues and benefits as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the ECAD-MCAD collaboration solutions of PTC and Mentor Graphics.

RuleStream

The Value of Rules-Driven Product Management (2005) | 170 KB
Examines Rules-driven Product Management and the way it can help organizations retain and access knowledge of products and includes results from survey of RuleStream users.

SAP

SAP’s New PLM Roadmap “Enabling Product and Service Leadership” (2008) | 335 KB
Identifies the challenges facing businesses today, SAP’s approach to helping companies address these challenges through their business strategy-based initiatives, PLM’s role in supporting those initiatives, and a detailed look at SAP’s new PLM roadmap.

Seemage

Repurposing Digital Assets "Extracting Value from Your Product and Process Data" (2006) | 630 KB
Describes the role of a Mockup Visualization and Publishing (MVP) solution in the effective dissemination of product information within multidisciplinary product development teams and offers details about the capabilities of Seemage's MVP Solutions.

Siemens PLM Software

Modern Engineering Simulation Environments “Maximizing the value of your CAE investments” (2011) | 742 KB
Presents the challenges that companies face in selecting and deploying suitable modern, productive CAE environments across relevant CAE user organizations to achieve collaborative business benefits, defines the key necessary elements of such environments, and describes how Siemens PLM’s NX CAE responds to those needs.

The Increasing Value of SOA-Based Unified Architectures for PLM: “Harmonizing the Environment” (2011) | 692 KB
Presents the challenges that companies are currently facing, defines a SOA-based unified PLM architecture approach, describes the benefits that it can deliver, discusses factors companies should consider in evaluating whether to transition to a unified architecture, and discusses approaches to such a transition.

Solid Edge Insight “A Microsoft SharePoint-Based Dedicated Design Data Management Solution for Solid Edge Communities” (2010) | 885 KB
Describes Solid Edge Insight and how it is a proven design-centric PLM solution focused on supporting Solid Edge communities.

Teamcenter “unified”: “Siemens PLM Software’s Next Generation PLM Platform” (2010) | 662 KB
Traces the roots of Siemens PLM Software’s next generation Teamcenter “unified” platform—from a set of integrated PLM enabling applications to a new extended enterprise enabled four-tier unified architecture that incorporates the latest in technology and business functionality.

Meeting the Challenges of Transitioning PLM Implementations “A Review of Siemens PLM Software Customer Experiences” (2009) | 162 KB
Describes some key challenges faced by companies as they transition their PLM implementations through the series of version releases provided by their PLM solution suppliers.

Teamcenter Express “Rapid cPDm Deployment for Mid-Sized Manufacturing Companies” (2009) | 1.1 MB
Provides an overall description as well as CIMdata’s assessment of the Teamcenter Express program for the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market.

Siemens PLM Software’s Velocity Series Portfolio - PLM for Mid-Sized Companies (2008) | 308 KB
Offers perspective on the Velocity program since its inception, including a status of the program as it exists and observations about its progress.

Service-Oriented Architecture for PLM An Overview of UGS’ SOA Approach (2006) | 300 KB
Description of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), its use in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution enablement, its benefits and how one company, UGS, is adopting SOA throughout its product suite.)

SofTech, Inc.

SofTech, Inc. ProductCenter™ PLM (2005) | 96 KB
Identifies PLM and its benefits for mid-sized companies and reviews SofTech’s ProductCenter PLM solution offering including results of interviews conducted with a number of SofTech’s customers.