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Autodesk once again aggressively pushes against the boundaries we know for CAD modeling with the introduction of Fusion 360. Riding the wave of a new generation of cloud–based applications, Fusion 360 combines stylized modeling techniques obtained from Autodesk’s acquisition of T–Splines, together with the best of Autodesk’s viewing and collaboration technologies. It’s a bold move that continues Autodesk’s commitment to cloud delivery and subscription–based solutions. The market is still unsettled and undecided in its acceptance or rejection of cloud–based CAD and Fusion 360 will need to prove itself in the coming months: Can proper...

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Key takeaways:

• The transportation trend most visible to consumers is the requirement to reduce the environmental footprint of new vehicles
• Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform promises to deliver on the industry solutions needed to enable a dramatic evolution in eco–friendly vehicle design

Dassault Systèmes continues to roll out new Industry Solution Experiences built upon their 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Solution Experiences are designed to cover the full sweep of end-to-end product development and comprise a suite of industry-tuned process application modules that support a particular theme. The latest suite, Lean, Green, and Compliant, targets what Dassault Systèmes calls the Transportation...

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Key takeaways:

• Over the last several years the SAP PLM portfolio of solutions has made great strides, making the question “why not SAP?” harder to avoid for potential customers and competitors alike.
• SAP’s in–memory technology, HANA, is providing significant revenues just a few years from its late–2010 launch.
• Over the next few years, additional SAP offerings will be built upon HANA to leverage its ability to rapidly analyze and visualize big data.

SAP collaborated with its long–time partner, Wellesley Information Services (WIS), to hold their tenth SAPInsider event from March 3 to 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over...

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Key takeaways:

• Shorter product lifecycles require getting product design and cost management right the first time to ensure that each product achieves both its target cost, planned margin and exposes supply risk while there is still time to fix it
• Product Cost modeling using separate solutions in Excel, ERP, SRM or even siloed within PLM lack traceability and support of key integrated sourcing processes and often reduce model accuracy resulting in untapped product cost savings
• The most effective product cost management lies at the intersection of PLM, SRM, and ERP and leverages data and processes from each...

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Key takeaways:

• Companies must have swift, agile organizations that can quickly adapt to changing market demands
• Cloud–based PLM delivers fast deployment, solution flexibility, and reduced IT cost
• Canopy, Joint Venture of Atos, EMC2 and VMware, is providing cloud–based Teamcenter solutions tailored to each company to meet their needs for fast, cost–effective PLM solutions

Introduction
In today’s highly competitive global market, delivering differentiating, right to market products faster is critical to a company’s success as they strive to obtain a “first mover” competitive advantage. Winning companies must have swift and agile organizations that can adopt their products and business...

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Key takeaways:

• Most companies have business processes that need to leverage product information stored within their engineering or product development environments
• Managing and improving those processes has a significant positive impact on the business
• Autodesk PLM 360 provides a flexible, cost effective solution to address business processes as needed

Introduction

In today’s highly competitive global market, bringing compelling new products to market faster is a core strategy for success. For many companies it is critical to obtain a “first mover” competitive advantage. Global competition, product complexity, time to market, regulations, unit cost, life–cycle cost, compliance, and quality continually drive...

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CIMdata attended Oracle’s Value Chain Summit in San Francisco, February 4–6, 2013, along with a few thousand Oracle professionals and customers. The event was billed by Oracle as the event where you will “…learn how Oracle is helping companies transform supply chains into value chains to gain competitive edge.” According to Oracle, they designed this single event to bring together a number of related summits, including the Product Lifecycle Management Summit, Manufacturing Summit, Maintenance Summit, Logistics Summit, and the Value Chain Planning and Procurement Summit, to create a comprehensive conference that included almost 200...

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Key takeaways:

• SolidWorks introduces My.SolidWorks, a free service that allows users to aggregate information drawn from the Internet.
• SolidWorks offers more information on a new product, SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, scheduled for release in September/October 2013.

SolidWorks Corporation held their fifteenth annual user conference, SolidWorks World 2013, over four days, January 20–23, 2013 at the Florida Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort. Forty–five hundred attendees, including end users, resellers, third–party application vendors and SolidWorks employees, were welcomed by Bertrand Sicot, SolidWorks CEO. He emphasized the conference's theme "Design Without Limits" by reminding the audience that the current shipping...

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Key takeaways:

• Companies in all industries face an explosion of information channels without the commensurate ability to monitor that information to access what is most needed.
• Workers are accustomed to having always-on, always-connected devices to help enrich their lives by providing just the right information or assistance at precisely the right time.
• Netvibes, a Dassault Systèmes company, is bringing advanced dashboarding and analysis tools to PLM, scouring the extended enterprise and the web for wisdom to help improve decision making.

Life was so much simpler just a short time ago. Most PC users spent their days with productivity...

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Key takeaways:

• Autodesk’s culture enables a level of risk taking and rapid innovation that is fairly exceptional in the PLM space.
• Autodesk emphasized that their solutions were “powerful, collaborative, accessible,” and that mobile, cloud, and social computing were core to their strategy. Based on the numbers reported by Autodesk, their strategy has shown solid adoption rates, and they believe financial returns will follow.
• This is no longer “your father’s Autodesk.” Their push to the cloud with a broad and deepening set of PLM–enabling capabilities is impressive. Their movement has the potential of changing the game significantly by...