Industry Summary Articles

 PDF On June 14, 2018, Dassault Systèmes, a leader in the global PLM market, announced they had signed a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in Centric Software (Centric), an independent provider of data and process management solutions primarily for the retail, footwear, and apparel (RFA) markets. The announcement…

 PDF PTC and Rockwell Automation, Inc., announced on 11 June 2018 that they have entered into a definitive agreement for a strategic partnership to develop synergies between their respective offerings to help customers transform their physical operations using digital technology. As part of the partnership, Rockwell Automation will make a…

 PDF Key takeaways: OpenBOM's cloud-enabled solution facilitates a company's digital transformation by sharing data across independent silos. The Bill of Material (BOM) and product configurations are at the core of the product development process and current spreadsheet implementations hold companies back. In today’s highly competitive marketplace, customer demands are driving…

 PDF Key takeaways: CIMdata believes Dassault Systèmes has made significant progress simulating the entire Additive Manufacturing (AM) process. Since their acquisition of ABAQUS, Inc., in 2005, the company has transformed the use of Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools from evaluating discrete items to simulating the entire AM lifecycle. The briefing…

 PDF Key takeaways: A global stalwart in mid-market enterprise resource planning, IFS is taking on today’s market challenges, relying on the cloud, and delivering on IoT and AI. EQT, their private equity owners since 2015, have continued to invest in the company, its products and ecosystems, and M&A, extending their…

 PDF Key takeaways: Industrial companies such as Audi, BMW, Microsoft, and Schaeffler are using the Aras PLM Platform to solve complex problems in support of their digital transformation programs. The Aras PLM platform continues to grow in breadth and depth as execution against their public product roadmap continues. Aras is…

 PDF Key takeaways: SAP Infodays for PLM’s focus on PLM and advances in the portfolio makes it a much more informative event for SAP customers than other venues. SAP is rapidly enhancing their PLM offering with support for authoring tools spanning the full product lifecycle, enhanced by elements from SAP…

 PDF Key takeaways: A successful CAD collaboration visualization solution must be cost effective, easy to use, and platform independent. HCL’s Glovius solution meets all three business challenges and delivers important capabilities into the hands of downstream users of design data within the organization and the supply chain. Glovius directly imports…

 PDF Key takeaways: Actify’s solutions enrich and complement existing enterprise environments, such as PLM and ERP, by bridging information silos to provide informed analysis of disparate data, providing product data intelligence. The Actify suite works both within enterprise environments and as a standalone solution that provides an intelligent, visual-based view…

 PDF Key takeaways: Infor continues to invest heavily in “Infor OS,” a strong platform technology stack that includes AI (“Coleman”), Data Lake and Analytics, BI, Cloud, and Common User Experience among others. Numerous Infor applications are being rewritten to leverage the capabilities of Infor OS, combining them into a seamless…