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The Fourth Module of the 2025 PLM MAR Report Series is now Available

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 November 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Analysis Report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata 2025 Market Analysis Report (MAR) Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis of the worldwide PLM market during 2024. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM solution providers; and revenue analyses for geographic regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

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HCLTech Enables Collaboration Across PLM & ALM Ecosystems

Takeaways

• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is critical for managing increasing product complexity across industries, and especially in regulated industries such as aerospace and medical devices It enables organizations to develop and validate multi-domain systems with greater speed and confidence.
• Integration of multi-disciplinary system design IP (both data and models) across the digital engineering toolchain is essential to realize the full potential of MBSE. Seamless data exchange between system architecture models and PLM/ALM platforms ensures coherent and collaborative decision making, as well as traceability and...

The webinar will focus on how real-world GenAI applications are already transforming operations.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 13 November 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces its participation in an upcoming webinar, “Accelerating Transformation with Hitachi Digital Services’ AI and GENAI-Powered Digital PLM and Digital Thread.” The webinar, sponsored by Hitachi Digital Services (HDS), is scheduled to take place on Thursday, December 18, at 11:00 AM EST.

Industrial enterprises face increasing pressure to deliver...

This free educational webinar will review the significant events in the PLM economy in 2025, helping attendees make sense of them.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA November 11, 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The State of the PLM Economy.” This eagerly awaited annual webinar will take place on Thursday, December 11, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

If there is one constant in the PLM Economy, it is never dull. In this webinar, CIMdata will review the significant events of 2025 and discuss what we might look...

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Increasing focus on its Intelligent Product Lifecycle vision

On Thursday, 6 November 2025, PTC announced it had entered into an agreement to sell its ThingWorx and Kepware technologies to TPG,^[1] a leading global alternative asset management firm.

ThingWorx is a comprehensive IoT platform for industrial enterprises that connects systems, analyzes data, and enables the remote management of devices through a secure and scalable architecture. Kepware facilitates connectivity between industrial automation devices and applications, serving as a communication platform that enables data exchange and integration across a...

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Takeaways

• This year’s SAP Connect unified five previously separate events, underscoring SAP's holistic approach to integrating customer experience, finance, spend management, human resources, and supply chain solutions.
• SAP’s introduction of a three-tier architecture—SAP Business AI, Business Data Cloud, and Application layers—is designed to leverage AI for deeper insights, enable automation, and future-proof enterprise operations.
• SAP announced "Role-Aware" AI Assistants and Joule Agents, which are tailored to specific business roles and help break down functional silos by automating and orchestrating tasks across SAP applications.
• The launch of Business Data Cloud Connect (BDC) enables secure, zero-copy, bidirectional...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 30 October 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces the publication of a new eBook, Maximizing PLM Success: The Critical Role of Organizational Change Management. The eBook highlights the critical role of Organizational Change Management (OCM) in maximizing the benefits of PLM implementations, with a specific focus on PTC's OCM offering.

To fully realize the benefits and sustain the changes enabled by PLM, organizations must drive organizational change through a well-defined and executed OCM program. These programs must be programmatic, enabling continuous...

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Takeaways

• Since the dawn of the Digital Revolution in the 1970s, organizations have continued to expand their applications of digital technology to the product lifecycle.
• To support their digital transformation objectives, industrial companies want to harness this wide-ranging data into a digital thread that spans their value chain, customers, and stakeholders.
• There are many applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in value chain applications, but generative AI and Agentic AI offer many new possibilities to leverage digital thread data and corporate knowledge.
• The Tata Consultancy Services Digital Thread group is helping their industrial customers build robust...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 29 October—The Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) has released a new report, A&D PLM Action Group Model-Based Systems Engineering Research Report of Findings: General Availability Edition.

The report shares the results of a unique collaborative research effort conducted by CIMdata on behalf of the Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group (AD PAG) with multiple PLM solution providers. The primary objective was to understand better industry needs and strategic opportunities related to Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). The participating solution providers were Ansys, PTC, Siemens Digital Industries Software, and The Reuse Company.

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From startups to big business: MCAD flexibility for all

Takeaways

• Using multiple CAD solutions to develop 3D product definition is common across industries but can slow innovation and silo optimization processes.
• The Designcenter suite comprises four scalable configurations: Designcenter NX and Designcenter X NX, as well as Designcenter Solid Edge and Designcenter X Solid Edge. Designcenter has access to more than 140 integrated product components (e.g., Weld Assistant, Structure Designer, and Mechatronics Concept designer) via value-based token licensing.
• Designcenter X NX design solutions, including the recently renamed Designcenter X NX Essentials (formerly Zel X), are...