Companies thrive on innovation, but how do they assess and plan their actions to meet corporate strategic objectives? Enterprise innovation management (EIM) solutions are helping global companies bridge the chasm between corporate strategy and purposeful action across a wide spectrum of business operations. EIM helps strategically define necessary product and process innovation, including product development actions executed through product lifecycle management (PLM), and other enterprise strategies. EIM and PLM working together can help ensure that product innovation meets both corporate strategic objectives and lifecycle requirements. Download whitepaper here.

On-going research on strategic business alignment ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 17 March 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of a new research paper entitled “Driving Innovation from the Top Floor to the Shop Floor.” Companies thrive on innovation, but how do they assess and plan their actions to meet corporate strategic objectives? New ideas are often needed to meet business objectives, and CIMdata’s definition of PLM has always extended from ideation to end of life. However, PLM strategies and tools do not often explicitly connect back to corporate strategy. Enterprise innovation management (EIM) solutions are helping global companies bridge the chasm between corporate strategy and purposeful action across a wide spectrum of business operations. EIM helps strategically define necessary product and process innovation, including product development actions executed through product lifecycle management (PLM), and other enterprise strategies. CIMdata tracks EIM firms as part of our

MicroSurvey, the maker of MicroSurvey CAD and the MapScenes System, announces the release of MicroSurvey inCAD 2014 and MicroSurvey embeddedCAD 2014. MicroSurvey inCAD 2014 is a powerful plugin that transforms AutoCAD® into a survey and design powerhouse. It adds the MicroSurvey feature set to the latest Autodesk® software – including AutoCAD® 2014, AutoCAD Civil 3D™ 2014, and AutoCAD Map 3D™ 2014 – to offer a complete survey drafting toolkit, including COGO, DTM, traversing, adjustments, volumes, contouring and more. MicroSurvey embeddedCAD 2014 is a standalone application that is powered with Autodesk technology and includes the latest AutoCAD® OEM 2014 enhanced with the suite of MicroSurvey tools. Like inCAD 2014, it incorporates the full suite of survey drafting tools. MicroSurvey embeddedCAD 2014 includes a licensed copy of AutoCAD OEM 2014, and it opens and saves AutoCAD® 2014 drawing files, so implementing it in existing AutoCAD environments is smooth, painless and free of conflicts. Both releases

AVEVA today announced that AVEVA E3D Insight is now commercially available for project decision makers in the power, process plant and mining industries. This Windows 8.1 app enables mobile users to comment and approve AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D) designs from a tablet device. Developed in collaboration with Microsoft, AVEVA E3D Insight demonstrates AVEVA's commitment to anticipating and meeting changing customer requirements by offering the ability to inspect, comment upon, and approve designs at any time, from anywhere around the world. AVEVA E3D Insight streamlines the design review and approval process to support Lean business practices. It maximises project efficiency by providing authorised users with secure, direct access to the live AVEVA E3D design model, regardless of their location, 24 hours a day. "Over the years we have seen how many companies struggle to effectively collaborate across their supply chain," said Bruce Douglas, SVP Product Strategy and Marketing, AVEVA. "AVEVA E3D Insight overcomes this

Altium Limited announces the opening of a new office in Newton, Massachusetts. This is a direct reflection of Altium’s commitment to providing high quality services to its customers and growth of its US user-base. As Altium continues to expand the presence in the US Printed Circuit Board design market, the addition of the new office is part of the investments in the US market allowing Altium to be closer to its strategic partners and customers in the New England area, one of the largest technology hubs in the Americas market. Additionally, the new office will allow Altium to further strengthen what is the largest resell network in the EDA industry and to ensure that the ever growing list of Altium Designer users continue to get access to superior and responsive service. "The opening of Altium's Massachusetts office is an important step towards realizing our goals of becoming more available to all users

Dassault Systèmes announces the extension of the expiration date of the tender offer by its wholly owned indirect subsidiary, 3DS Acquisition Corp., to purchase all of the outstanding shares of Accelrys, Inc. (Accelrys) common stock at an offer price of $12.50 per share in cash, without interest and subject to any required withholding of taxes. Dassault Systèmes and Accelrys have agreed that the expiration date will be extended until 12:00 midnight, New York City time, at the end of the day on Tuesday, March 25, 2014, unless otherwise extended or terminated. Except for the extension of the tender offer, all other terms and conditions of the tender offer remain unchanged. The extension allows for the conclusion of the initial 30-day review period by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) under the Exon-Florio Amendment to the United States Defense Production Act of 1950, as amended. The initial CFIUS

Dr. Jan M. Leuridan, CEO, LMS, A Siemens Business Dr. Jan Leuridan joined LMS International in 1984 as Research and Development Manager and was subsequently appointed to the position of Chief Technical Officer for the company. Since 1987, he also served as a member of the Board of Directors of LMS. Following the acquisition of LMS by Siemens in 2013, Dr. Leuridan became Senior Vice President, Simulation & Test segment, Siemens PLM Software. Dr. Leuridan received an engineering degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Leuven in 1980. He later received a M.Sc. (1981) and Ph.D. (1984) from the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering of the University of Cincinnati.  

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of a new training guide for users of Vectorworks® software: Vectorworks Essentials Tutorial Manual, Sixth Edition. This tutorial, written by expert Vectorworks trainer Jonathan Pickup, is a must-have workbook for anyone new to Vectorworks software, and it has been updated for the 2014 version of the program. The book includes an introduction to the Vectorworks interface; a section to familiarize readers with tools and commands; an introduction to 3D modeling; tips on organizing information to create models, drawings and reports; and a discussion about using worksheets. Notes and practice exercises throughout the tutorial and on an accompanying DVD provide additional guidance. “While we offer several different training options, we know some of our customers prefer to learn at their own pace, and our training guides fulfill that need,” said Jeremy Powell, director of product marketing at Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. “Jonathan Pickup’s tutorials have been

AMC Bridge has released CADtoEarth™ 2.0, a new version of Add-in for SolidWorks® 3D CAD, part of the family of add-ins that establish a bidirectional connection between CAD environments and Google Earth or Google Maps. The new version features support for SolidWorks 2012, SolidWorks 2013 and SolidWorks 2014. CADtoEarth 2.0 now interacts with the CADtoEarth web community, providing all of its benefits to SolidWorks users.