New short courses will focus on providing educational opportunities for busy executives and PLM solution providers.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 April 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the addition of two new programs to its PLM Leadership education and training offering.

The first program, the “PLM Executive Short Course,” has been created to provide busy executives, with limited time availability, access to a right-sized PLM educational offering designed with their specific needs in mind. The PLM Executive Short Course is delivered in one day through a combination of lectures, industry case studies, and group discussions....

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• ESI provides a vision of a “virtual prototype” that is comprehensive and includes manufacturing
• ESI is a leader in the capabilities of its solutions for manufacturing simulation
• End users are looking to ESI for simulation capabilities that include “as-manufactured” material properties and accurate representations of welding, bonding, tribology, and other manufacturing concerns

While many PLM software companies promote digital models or virtual representations for accelerating new product development, ESI has a comprehensive vision of a “virtual prototype” that minimizes or even replaces physical prototypes and testing across the span of conceptual product engineering; detailed design...

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Key takeaways:

• Today’s digital upheavals and disruptions threaten everything and everyone throughout the extended enterprise
• Innovation is more than ever a key to enterprise sustainability; leading enterprises are defining and enabling their PLM platform business models around that insight
• No enterprise can afford to miss the competitive advantages that come with the implementation and proper use of a product innovation platform

Lifecycle management, like every technological advancement, has a lifecycle of its own. CIMdata’s recently unveiled three position paper series on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platformization makes this clear. These papers covered in detail what...

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Key takeaways:

• Platformization has been recognized by CIMdata and other leading market analysts as an emerging trend in how data and process management supports business activities
• To meet their strategic objectives, organizations must be able to support innovation in all business functions and processes, including those associated with PLM
• Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) platforms and strategies seek to empower teams and individuals to explore options and to define the optimal set of innovation imperatives to meet those objectives

Over the last year CIMdata has published extensively about platformization, and how it relates to PLM. A platform is...

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Key takeaways:

• Oracle’s Value Chain Summit offers an appropriate, right-sized venue for learning more about enterprise value chain systems
• Oracle is committed to enabling parallel capabilities for Oracle Agile PLM (for on premise and cloud use) and Oracle Product Value Chain Cloud, which is a new, PLM offering in the Oracle Cloud
• The presentations and CIMdata’s interviews with leading customers suggest that Oracle is delivering to customer expectations

CIMdata attended the Oracle Value Chain Summit 2015 in San Jose, California on January 26-28, 2015. Oracle is one of the PLM market leaders tracked by CIMdata in our...

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• Dassault Systèmes’ continues to evolve and clarify their 3DEXPERIENCE Platform message to the SolidWorks user community
• Dassault Systèmes’ announced a multi-dimensional solution delivery model for SolidWorks users—one that continues the desktop delivery of design capabilities, one that delivers new capabilities via the 3DEXPERIENCE Platform, and one that is a hybrid model that includes a combination of both
• An intriguing set of keynotes set the stage for heated discussion and debate about the future of design

The 17^th annual SolidWorks World conference was held February 8-11, 2015 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, USA....

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Key takeaways:

• All products produced, sold, used, and supported are a result of transforming the virtual into the physical
• Product lifecycle management software has proven its ability to enable aerospace companies around the world to meet complex and evolving challenges
• Siemens offers a broad portfolio of aerospace-specific capabilities, and a demonstrable track record of success in the industry

At the end of the day there is nothing better than witnessing a rocket launch, at least that is how people in the space industry see it. The PLM market is full of designs, collaborative efforts, visualizations, concepts, plans,...

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Key takeaways:

• PLM technology advancement and greater focus on real world use cases are making collaboration easier and more secure
• Enterprises are trying to enable more freeform input and communication during the product lifecycle to improve their products and services while new software technologies and mobile devices are making it easier for a much wider range of stakeholders to participate
• HTML5-based Visual Collaboration capability deeply embeds functionality in the PLM platform for secure threaded discussions and for view and markup of many formats including 3D, 2D, Microsoft Office and other data types at no additional charge
• The...

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Key takeaways:

• About 25% of all Enterprise IT applications support product development, a far greater number than traditional CAD and PDM applications where organizations typically focus their IT efforts
• Industry segments such as automotive, aerospace, high tech & telecom, and industrial machinery all have unique challenges, and all have legacy systems such as mainframe, in-house, and commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) applications, as well as suboptimal information flows embedded within their business processes
• TCS’ Product Development Information Technology (PDIT) transformation offering guides customers along a maturity path using a flexible framework that results in reduced operations and product development...

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Recap of Position Paper 1 of 3: The combination of scarce resources and globalization are driving an upheaval in innovation and lifecycle management. These changes are coalescing into business strategies that recognize the validity of the Circular Economy and the platformization of PLM. The Iron Triangle of better, faster, and cheaper fixes is being superseded. Skeptics overlook many enterprise-level benefits inherent in end-to-end lifecycle management and overestimate the remaining challenges

Recap of Position Paper 2 of 3: The challenges confronting innovation and end-to-end lifecycle management are a matrix and must be addressed that...