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This paper has been replaced by updated product review: Product Visualization Across the Extended Enterprise A CIMdata Product Review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 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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Teamcenter Express, “Rapid cPDm Deployment for Mid-Sized Manufacturing Companies” (2008) | 1.25 MB
Describes and assesses the Teamcenter Express program for the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market.

Teamcenter Express, “Rapid cPDm Deployment for Mid-Sized Manufacturing Companies” (2007) | 1.84 MB
Describes and assesses the Teamcenter Express program for the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market.

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.