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Successful Events for the PLM Economy in North America, Europe, and AsiaANN ARBOR, Michigan, 30 April 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm announces the successful completion of its 2013 PLM Market & Industry Forum series of four global events in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Frankfurt, Germany; Beijing, China; and Tokyo, Japan. CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forums are the world’s premier gathering of technology and service providers focused specifically on the PLM market and the issues concerning its development and growth. Participants gathered to hear CIMdata’s perspective on the state and trends of the PLM market, as well as a detailed discussion of CIMdata’s research and viewpoints on the 2012 PLM market results. These included CIMdata’s extensive analysis and forecasts regarding market growth across PLM domains, industries, and regions, and the performance (revenue and market share analysis) of leading PLM solution providers. The

The Brazil-based aircraft manufacturer completes strategy and solution provider selection phases of its next generation PLM program with CIMdata’s guidance and support.ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 April 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, today announced its strategic role in Embraer’s next generation PLM initiative. Embraer, the world’s largest manufacturer of commercial jets up to 120 seats, first engaged CIMdata in 2011 to provide strategic advice and counsel during the strategy development and PLM solution provider selection phases of its enterprise PLM program. Embraer’s PLM program team was responsible for gathering and harmonizing the global organization’s requirements, setting the vision, and selecting the solution provider for its future PLM environment. “CIMdata’s wealth of PLM expertise, global perspective and independence were invaluable to our program. CIMdata provided us with critical insight and expertise that accelerated our program definition,” said Mr. Fernando Ranieri, Embraer’s VP Strategy - Engineering and

 PDF Key takeaways: Companies are striving to apply simulation early in the product development cycle, where systems engineering is often used to allocate requirements and to define and evaluate multi-discipline tradeoffs. The majority of product lifecycle cost is determined by decisions made early in the development process. The decisions upon which costs are based become very expensive to alter or correct later in the process. Products are no longer simply mechanical systems. Model-based systems engineering can be used to enable collaboration across multiple engineering (e.g., mechanical electrical, software, and controls) and other enterprise disciplines (e.g., purchasing, finance, and project management). CIMdata believes that systems engineering will become the pervasive paradigm for product development, supporting and promoting a systems thinking mindset. Companies have always faced intense competitive pressure to develop products better, faster, and cheaper. Simulation is a key enabler to accomplishing this today and into the future. Improved software, better integration with design tools and faster

Presents PLM Trends, 2012 Global PLM Market Growth & Major Research TopicsANN ARBOR, Michigan and WEERT, The Netherlands, 19 April 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) management consulting and research firm announces the successful completion of its 2013 European PLM Market & Industry Forum—the second in a series of four global events. This forum was held in Bad Homburg, Germany on 16 April 2013 with 37 PLM industry participants representing 24 leading PLM solution providers.  CIMdata's PLM Market & Industry Forums are the world’s premier gatherings of technology and service providers focused specifically on the PLM market and the issues concerning its development and growth. Participants gathered to hear CIMdata’s perspective on the state and trends of the PLM market, as well as a detailed discussion of CIMdata’s research and viewpoints on the 2012 PLM market results. These included CIMdata’s extensive analysis and forecasts regarding market growth across PLM

Presents PLM Trends, 2012 Global PLM Market Growth & Major Research TopicsANN ARBOR, Michigan, 11 April 2013 – CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) management consulting and research firm announces the successful completion of its 2013 North American PLM Market & Industry Forum–the first in a series of four global events. This forum was held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on 9 April 2013 with 58 PLM industry participants representing 30 leading global PLM solution providers. CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forums are the world’s premier gathering of technology and service providers focused specifically on the PLM market and the issues concerning its development and growth. Participants gathered to hear CIMdata’s perspective on the state and trends of the PLM market, as well as a detailed discussion of CIMdata’s research and viewpoints on the 2012 PLM market results. These included CIMdata’s extensive analysis and forecasts regarding market growth

 PDF Key takeaways: Making better-informed decisions produces better business results. Presenting product- and business-related information three-dimensionally makes digital content more accessible and understandable to users. This is a visual world. Using 3D graphical images of products in development or of facilities being managed makes digital content more accessible and understandable to users, because most people find 3D visual representations easier to comprehend than tabular data, lengthy textual descriptions, or drawings. When joined with other business data associated with an item being viewed, stakeholders gain stronger insights relative to the everyday assessments and judgments they must make to deliver value. Such visual decision making can improve productivity and otherwise increase the corporate bottom line—i.e., making better-informed decisions produces better business results. The SAP 3D Visual Enterprise solution affords SAP and non-SAP customers alike the ability to interact with 3D images of their products, business information, and facilities in order to accelerate decision making within and across

 PDF 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 1,500 people attended tracks on enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), and product lifecycle management (PLM). The keynote from Steve Lucas, Executive Vice President, SAP Database & Technology, highlighted SAP’s 2010 in–memory product introduction, HANA. In the presentation, titled “Business Suite on HANA: Innovation at the Speed of Imagination,” Mr. Lucas

Program will take place in Oslo – June 10-14.Ann Arbor, Michigan — 19 March, 2013 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces that it will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Oslo, Norway from June 10-14, 2013. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership, the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased education and training offering available for today’s PLM professionals. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program prepares PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM strategy development and implementation. This assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. Additionally, the program provides intensive and extensive exposure to a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, each participant receives a CIMdata PLM Certificate and becomes a member of CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community. According

An Emerging 3D TechnologyAnn Arbor, Michigan, 13 March 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces a new paper investigating the emerging technology of 3D geometric search. Many new products are designed using the 3D models of existing products as a starting point. The emerging technology of 3D geometric search fits into a company’s process best when the designer needs more than a text search to find a needed model. By quickly creating a 3D shape that embodies the most important aspects of the original model or models they seek, designers can perform a 3D geometric shape search and discover existing released models in the company’s repository. More importantly, they can sometimes find associated simulation and manufacturing data for those models that closely match their search criteria. CIMdata has looked at the current product offerings for 3D geometric search and identified those aspects of a solution

 PDF 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 of these enterprise systems Introduction Controlling product cost early in a product lifecycle is a critical aspect of business success. If products lack an appropriate profit margin, the products will ultimately fail and the company could suffer in business and financial performance. In addition, speed is of the essence – companies have to get their products released and