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On 1 March 2016, Siemens PLM Software and Autodesk jointly announced they will take steps to improve interoperability between their respective product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions. In the agreement the companies state they will “share toolkit technology and exchange end-user software applications to build and market interoperable products.” They did not specify which software, but by providing access to their respective toolkits each company will have available the other’s official programming interfaces to read and write native data files. While not groundbreaking, since most solution suppliers already reverse engineer data access, the...

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Key takeaways:

• IBM’s executives made it clear that IBM is “all-in” on the cloud and mobile, the foci of the event, and they continue to make investments and acquisitions to build out their capabilities
• IBM has many strengths dispersed across several groups in PLM for smart, connected products, and customer cases are emerging that highlight their breadth of capabilities
• One thing IBM brings to the table that the traditional PLM solution providers do not is a long history and significant investments in analytics and cognitive computing

Billed as “The Premier Cloud & Mobile Conference,” IBM InterConnect 2016...

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Key takeaways:

• Few PLM implementations achieve their original goals and often end up as PDM silos that struggle to evolve as business needs change
• PLM is usually not enabled with a single technology and no solution provider has a complete end-to-end, top-to-bottom solution that fully enables an organization’s end-to-end PLM needs
• Enabling PLM requires a platform that is capable of filling in data and process gaps to connect system silos into a holistic solution that meets current as well as future business requirements
• An organization’s PLM platform should be...

Popular education program will take place at the Mecure Hotel at Amsterdam Airport from June 6-10.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 March, 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management (PLM) strategic consulting and research firm announces that it will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Amsterdam, The Netherlands from June 6-10, 2016. 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...

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Key takeaways:

• ENOVIA is undergoing a number of key organizational changes that will increase their control over the ENOVIA business, which had a good 2015
• EXALEAD and Netvibes are key strategic assets at the heart of Dassault Systèmes’ PLM Analytics and Internet of Experience strategies
• Dassault Systèmes is moving customers to the 3DEXPERIENCE platform, selling Industry Solution Experiences that they continue to broaden and deepen

On 24 February, CIMdata attended ENOVIA’s annual Analyst Day at their North American HQ in Waltham, MA, to get an update on their strategy, offerings, and results. ENOVIA has long played a...

Presentation will share details of an integrated systems modeling and analysis platform built from components that are entirely commercial or open-sourced with components in active use at JPL for flight project work.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 25 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Dr. Bjorn Cole, a systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), will join David Long, the immediate past president of INCOSE (The International Council on Systems Engineering) to make a presentation at CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Knowledge Council workshop which will take place at Michigan State University’s Management Education...

Well know futurist and inventor, will make a presentation on fostering innovation and serendipity.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 23 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Leo Baldwin, Fellow at GoPro, the action camera maker, will round out PLM Road Map™ for the High Tech and Medical Device Industries with a keynote presentation that will consider in depth the role of innovation and its link to corporate survival.

In his keynote address, “Fostering Innovation and Serendipity,” Leo Baldwin will propose that innovation is not only essential to win in today’s marketplace but it is in...

Presentation will call on the systems engineering community to start looking beyond Model-Based Systems Engineering.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that David Long, the immediate past president of INCOSE (The International Council on Systems Engineering), will make a keynote presentation at CIMdata’s Simulation-Driven Systems Development Knowledge Council workshop which will take place at Michigan State University’s Management Education Center in Troy, Michigan on April 27. The event is being held in conjunction with NAFEMS’ Engineering Analysis & Simulation in the Automotive Industry: Emerging Standards & Practices event which...

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Key takeaways:

• SOLIDWORKS announced Xdesign, a new cloud-based CAD product, and Xdrive, a cloud-based storage solution to be delivered in the future
• Bernard Charlès, Dassault Systèmes’ CEO promised a major company push to be #1 in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) market
• SOLIDWORKS and Altium announced a new SOLIDWORKS/PCB application with integration to SOLIDWORKS that provides much needed functionality for developing smart, connected products

Dassault Systèmes recently staged their 18^th annual user conference, SOLIDWORKS World 2016, in Dallas, Texas. Over 5,000 users, value-added resellers, solution partners, press, industry analysts, and SOLIDWORKS employees attended the January 31...

Under the agreement ZXLearning will be the authorized distributor of CIMdata’s premier global PLM Leadership Certificate Program in the greater China region.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 16 February 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that it has entered into a strategic alliance with Shanghai-based ZXLearning, a leading provider of multi-level professional services training. This alliance will help make it easier for PLM professionals in the greater China region, which encompasses mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan, to take advantage of CIMdata’s globally acclaimed PLM Leadership Certificate Program. The program is recognized as the PLM...