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How to Improve Your Go-to-Market Process & Maximize Profitability.

Key Takeaways

• Consumer electronics products dominate our lives, from smartphones to smart home devices, wearable technologies, home appliances, power tools, e-bikes, e-toys, beauty devices, audio products, and medical devices.
• Brand owners and retailers are under increased pressure to plan new product features and develop launch and promotion strategies. Unfortunately, most companies lack a seamless end-to-end process for commercialization, with departments typically working in silos and overly relying on spreadsheets, email, and legacy databases to support their work.
• A more integrated approach to the commercialization of smart, connected products...

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AI-driven global collaboration.

At Realize Live 2023, strategic partners Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens) and Microsoft announced a new collaboration solution which integrates Microsoft Teams, Azure Open AI, and Siemens Teamcenter. A major problem facing companies is their ability to report problems quickly and accurately to those responsible for solving the problem. For example, many product quality issues go unreported because the person finding an issue has no practical way to communicate it to those responsible for addressing the problem. The Teamcenter within Teams solution effectively addresses this issue.

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From concept to ship design through operations and maintenance.

Key takeaways

• Maritime lifecycles are complex and long. Eurostep has developed solutions that help maritime companies support the maritime lifecycle from conceptual design, construction, and throughout the operational maintenance of their ships and maritime products (e.g., oil rigs, etc.)—by gathering and linking the information that creates and supports the digital thread.
• An important aspect of maritime lifecycle support is to develop and track the up-to-date configurations of individual ships, classes of ships and their systems and subsystems throughout their life, regardless of where they are at any...

The report focuses on overall PLM market results in China

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA18 July 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata 2023 China PLM Market Analysis Report.

This report provides detailed information and an in-depth analysis of the People’s Republic of China’s (“China”) rapidly evolving PLM market for the calendar year 2022, with forecasts from 2023 through 2027. The report discusses the major PLM trends and issues, PLM purchase investments in software and services, PLM adoption in various industry sectors, and market growth forecasts that pertain to China, an important...

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Key Takeaways

• Deputy CEO Pascal Daloz will take over as CEO on January 1, 2024, with Bernard Charlès remaining as Chairman of Dassault Systèmes.
• The company is building out Virtual Twin Experiences and plans to offer them as a service in the future.
• Acquisitions like Centric Software and Medidata are fueling growth.
• Their long-time focus on model-based systems engineering (MBSE) is paying dividends beyond just its roots in aerospace & defense (A&D).
• Dassault Systèmes is well-positioned for the emerging Industrial Metaverse.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending the Dassault Systèmes Analyst Days in Paris, France, on May 30 and...

CIMdata’s flagship education program will be made available in Boston, Massachusetts, in October.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 13 July 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will hold its next Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate program in the Boston, Massachusetts area, on 2-6 October.

This unique CIMdata program prepares PLM professionals to address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and evaluations of achievement. CIMdata experts with years of...

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Key Takeaways

• Siemens strategic partnerships with IBM, Microsoft, and SAP are delivering significant new value-added capabilities to both Siemens and their partners’ customers:
  • - IBM Rhapsody integration with Siemens Teamcenter and Capital to enhance Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and early product designs and optimization.
  • - Integration of Microsoft Teams, Azure Open AI, and Siemens Teamcenter for enhanced distributed collaboration.
  • - Delivering 100% fidelity between the Teamcenter and SAP Product Configurators—including the concept of usage.
• Siemens is continuing its rapid move to SaaS and cloud delivery of its Xcelerator portfolio and platform.

CIMdata attended Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens)...

This webinar will consider what drives data governance within a complex product development organization.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 12 July 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Complex Product Development Demands Data Governance.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 10 August 2023, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

Companies developing complex products containing embedded software face increasing pressures for innovation, maturity, coordination, and time-to-market. Historically in mass production companies, the important data items are managed...

The S&A market grew by 11.3% to $8.3 billion in 2022.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 11 July 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata Simulation and Analysis (S&A) Market Analysis Report. This report expands on the S&A market analysis conducted as part of the CIMdata 2023 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The well-known PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis of the worldwide PLM market during the calendar year 2022. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical...

First Module of the 2023 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 6 July 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata 2023 Executive PLM Market Report. This report provides an executive-level view of CIMdata’s comprehensive analysis of the PLM market, with summary charts on the overall market and on specific PLM solution segments (including the chart below). It also includes perspectives on current trends in the PLM industry and how they may affect current suppliers and investments.