CIMdata PLM Community

The CIMdata PLM Community program provides a valuable portfolio of professional services to the world’s leading PLM solution and service providers who participate as members in the program. This annual membership enables your organization to make more informed business decisions by having timely and accurate market information, customer insights, strategic analysis, and management counsel about the larger PLM market, as well as the many segments in which our members operate (including CAD, CAM, PDM, program and portfolio management, digital manufacturing, simulation and analysis, enterprise content management, etc.). Annual membership in this community also facilitates a much closer on-going working relationship between our two organizations that reinforces and amplifies the effectiveness of your own resources. Membership in the CIMdata PLM Community:

• Expands your market footprint with prospective customers and partners through enhanced visibility and coverage in CIMdata publications, Websites, newsletters, reports, Webinars, articles, and often-quoted industry commentaries.
• Enhances your strategic decision making by providing access to industry leading market research, analysis, insights, and expert advice.
• Entitles your organization to attend CIMdata PLM Certificate programs at reduced rates.
• Enables your organization to benefit from the CIMdata-sponsored global PLM Community, an active group that includes both leading industrial companies and PLM solution providers from around the world.

Silver Solution Provider Membership

The CIMdata PLM Silver Solution Provider Membership is our introductory service. CIMdata's PLM Silver Solution Provider Membership consists of on-going subscription-based research and analyses delivered through printed reports and multiple electronic formats; through telephone consultations and teleconferences with CIMdata experts; in face-to-face briefings; or at our worldwide events.

Gold Solution Provider Membership

The CIMdata PLM Gold Solution Provider Membership is our premium service. The Gold level brings you all of the benefits of the CIMdata PLM Silver Solution Provider Membership plus many additional benefits.

Numerical Control (NC) Service

The NC Market Assessment Report provides the only comprehensive market analysis of the worldwide NC software and related services marketplace available in the industry. It includes extensive information on the market size, trends and segmentation, authoritative rankings of NC software vendors, and results of targeted market surveys. Individual vendors are discussed.

CIMdata PLM Knowledge Council Membership

CIMdata’s PLM Knowledge Councils focus on in-depth research defining best practices for topics of interest to industrial companies who use PLM to support their ongoing product development business strategies and PLM solution providers interested in understanding and setting their PLM strategies and directions. The resulting research is directed at both industrial organizations and PLM solution providers. It emphasizes strategic as well as practical, tactical options for companies to follow as they further adopt Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). CIMdata currently offers five PLM Knowledge Councils. Council topics are developed from CIMdata’s PLM Community as technology evolves and industry dictates.

CIMdata currently offers five PLM Knowledge Councils:

• Design Creation & Collaboration Knowledge Council

• Digital Manufacturing Knowledge Council

• PLM Integration Knowledge Council

• Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council

• Systems Engineering Knowledge Council