New feature will showcase the most read PLM stories based on the preferences of readers of their weekly PLM Industry Summary.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 March, 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management (PLM) strategic consulting and research firm, announces that it will now be sharing the “Top Ten PLM News Stories of the Week” in a special section of their webpage.

The Top Ten is aggregated from CIMdata’s global PLM Industry Summary newsletter, the longest running in the industry.  Each week thousands of subscribers receive CIMdata's PLM Industry Summary (Industry Summary) in their inbox.  The Industry Summary covers topics like financial news,...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes’ continued investment in SOLIDWORKS, as well as its connection to their 3DEXPERIENCE platform, illustrates a long-term commitment to add value and ensure that SOLIDWORKS remains a design platform of choice for its customer base.
• Dassault Systèmes is driving to reduce the distance between the virtual and the physical to zero.
• SOLIDWORKS World 2017 demonstrated the strength and size of the SOLIDWORKS community and greater eco-system that continues to develop around it.

The 19th annual SOLIDWORKS World conference was held February 5-8, 2017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. A...

Popular education program will take place at the DoubleTree Amsterdam Centraal Station from June 12-16.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 March, 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management (PLM) strategic consulting and research firm, announces that it will bring its world-renowned PLM Certificate Program to Amsterdam, The Netherlands from June 12-16, 2017. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The program, which includes several options that have been designed to accommodate the needs of those involved in the industry at any level, prepares PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development...

Educational webinar will offer a road map on how disruptive technologies can fit into an enterprise application architecture.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 March 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “How to apply IoT, Industry 4.0, and Predictive Analytics in the Manufacturing Domain.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 13, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) has been used in many industry sectors over the past several decades. However, current practices do not leverage all the opportunities available to improve the...

Collaboration with Five Leading PLM Solution Providers

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 March 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Oracle, a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, has joined CIMdata’s a multi-sponsor collaborative research program on the use of cloud-based solutions to PLM strategies and processes in industrial companies.

The research program focuses on the collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) segment of PLM, defined by CIMdata as the category of data and process management solutions at the core of most industrial PLM implementations. In 2015, CIMdata estimated the cPDm segment at over US$5.4...

“Why Microsoft with LinkedIn has the Right Elements to Deliver It”

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 March 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new position paper entitled “A Proposed Framework to Simplify Enterprise Network Management, Why Microsoft with LinkedIn Has the Right Elements to Deliver It.”

Enterprises must leverage collective intelligence in their ecosystems to continue to fuel their growth with innovation and new product development. Yet, despite technology advancements, enterprises continue to suffer from inefficiencies in collaboration and network management. One key reason is their historic dependence on functional processes that are critical to...

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Key takeaways:

• Given the rapidly changing technology and business landscape, Enterprises should reevaluate their innovation and network management practices with new lenses. Especially it is critical that enterprises address the functional “data silo” problem which leads to inefficiencies in development of new products and services, and reduces their scale advantage.
• CIMdata’s proposed digital framework described here links People, Organizations, Projects, and Applications/Tools through visible profiles. This framework aligns better with how a business deploys resources to achieve its innovation goals.
• Enterprises have significant opportunities to improve trust and engagement of their key stake holders by adopting...

CIMdata brings you the top ten trending PLM news stories of the prior week

1. Oracle Expands Powerful AI Capabilities in Oracle AI Database@Google Cloud to Supercharge Enterprise Data Innovation

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2. SAP to Announce Results for First Quarter of 2026

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3. PROSTEP demonstrates Connectivity to Data Ecosystems at HMI

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4. Siemens Industrial Edge ecosystem strengthens data and AI integration

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5. MongoDB Expands Product Leadership to Accelerate Growth and Innovation

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6. Accenture and Avanade Collaborate with Microsoft to Develop Agentic Factory to Help Reduce Manufacturing Downtime

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7. HCLTech launches Gemini Enterprise Business Unit to accelerate Agentic AI...

The Value of a Platform for Scientific and Engineering Simulation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 1 March 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, released a new whitepaper on Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA’s capabilities titled “Achieving Sustainable Innovation: The Value of a Platform for Scientific and Engineering Simulation”.

Innovation, in particular “sustainable innovation” is becoming, in our modern business environment, an essential element for growth and profitability. Combined with the global trend towards digitalization of all business functions, engineering processes and tools need to be adjusted accordingly. Properly designing and implementing a digital, model-based, and data-driven innovation platform promises to address...

Presentation will investigate how PLM can be seen as the under-pinning for the rapidly evolving enterprise strategy of digitalization.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 27 February 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces its President, Peter Bilello, will make a presentation at PI Congress Berlin entitled “PLM: The Foundation for Enterprise Digitalization.” PI Congress Berlin will take place at the Maritim Proarte, Berlin, Germany on 27-28 February. Mr. Bilello’s presentation will take place during the morning of day 2 of the conference, on 28 February.

Digitalization is rapidly moving from a fuzzy concept to the newest data-driven derailment...