Position Papers

In today’s rapidly changing and highly competitive global market, innovation of some type—product and/or process (e.g., how the product or service is defined, delivered, and/or supported)—must be a fundamental element of an organization’s ethos. But as most companies painfully find out, innovation doesn’t just happen without a culture that encourages and nurtures idea generation. Idea generation, or ideation, is the essence of creativity and in fact, it is has been the fundamental rationale of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the end-to-end lifecycle management it supports from the beginning—for 21st century enterprises, it is not optional. A far-reaching shift is underway in end-to-end lifecycle management, which increasingly is about sustaining the extended enterprise and not just enabling better, faster, and cheaper products. This shift is rapidly forcing PLM to be an enterprise business process enabling a platform focused on innovation—one that connects product data, people, and processes from an end-to-end and highly

PTC today announced the ThingWorx-Axeda Integrator, which combines the ThingWorx® development platform with the Axeda® solution to enable customers to speed development and innovation. Specifically, the ThingWorx-Axeda Integrator unifies the ThingWorx AEP platform with the Axeda connectivity, device cloud and applications, providing a blueprint for successful IoT projects. With an ever-growing number of smart, connected products and sensors, the true promise of IoT is in integrating people, systems and things, and developing new innovative applications that disrupt the way industries work. The ThingWorx-Axeda Integrator unifies the strengths of ThingWorx and Axeda to deliver the most complete IoT solution stack in the industry, providing a unified experience for customers to develop solutions for smart connected products. “Every industry is in the midst of a major transformation enabled by connectivity and new IoT applications for smart connected products and sensors. With the potential for meaningful innovation in just about every market, businesses of all sizes

PTC announced a new Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) offering, PTC PLM Cloud, geared to the needs of small and midsized (SMB) product companies. This solution leverages the power of PTC Windchill®, while simplifying PLM adoption with a flexible, hosted subscription offering deployable at a pace that matches the needs of SMBs. Recognizing that many SMB organizations may lack a dedicated IT staff but still want to adopt a proven PLM environment, PTC designed PTC PLM Cloud specifically to enable team collaboration and data management in the cloud. This flexible offering eliminates the typical, but risky, SMB practice of shared folders and file naming conventions which hamper product development. With more effective and reliable data sharing in the cloud, customers are able to improve product development across teams in different locations, teams working with varying CAD applications, and with external teams such as partners and suppliers who are a growing part of the

Luxion in partnership with PixologicTM, makers of ZBrush® software, is pleased to announce the partnership that now makes KeyShot an integral part of the ZBrush workflow, with ‘KeyShot for ZBrush’ and the ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge, available now with the release of ZBrush 4R7. Pixologic’s ZBrush is known throughout the 3D industry as the key software for generating digital sculptures fast. With an integrated workflow between ZBrush and KeyShot introduced in the past, 3D artists realized the two as an indispensable combo for creating concepts quickly. Pixologic takes this integration even further with ‘KeyShot for ZBrush’, a standalone rendering solution with direct integration inside ZBrush through the ZBrush to KeyShot Bridge that allows users to visualize their concepts, creating light studies in KeyShot as they continue to sculpt, texture and paint their model in ZBrush. “The speed and realism KeyShot offers, compliments the ZBrush artist’s workflow perfectly,” says Jaime Labelle, COO at Pixologic. “The feedback

ESI Group announces the launch of Virtual Seat Solution , the only solution on the market dedicated to the virtual prototyping of seats. It empowers OEMs and seat suppliers to design, test, improve and pre-certify their seat prototypes, fully and virtually, without the need for costly physical prototypes. Not only do industrial clients save cost and time, they can also deliver highly innovative seats while ensuring all aspects of their performance. The gains provided by Virtual Prototyping are best expressed in the words of Dr. Vincent Tejedor, Chief Technical Officer of the French company Expliseat, which recently launched the lightest economy class airline seat in history. With their Titanium seat, Expliseat realized the incredible achievement of reducing seat weight to 4kg - over 50% lighter than a regular seat. Tejedor explains: "Virtual Prototyping is a proven industrial approach to pre-certify the manufacturing process and performance of an innovative product, such as our Titanium seat. Our experience working

Encuentro Moda®, a Spanish fashion brand, has selected YuniquePLM™ to provide a centralized platform for its retail, design and manufacturing operations. YuniquePLM has streamlined Encuentro Moda’s product lifecycle management – decreasing time-to-market for their apparel and accessory lines. YuniquePLM, designed specifically for the fashion and retail industries, features a robust functionality in a web-based platform, for seamless integration with existing ERP systems. Teams around the world can communicate more effectively, accelerate their workflows and reduce errors. Encuentro Moda offers a complete line of casual and work wear for women, including jackets, knitwear, trousers, jeans, dresses and accessories. The company began as a wholesale business, and has transformed to a large, retail fashion brand. In 2014, the company reached 100 retail stores, with plans to open 15 additional stores in 2015. Its distribution network consists of four subsidiaries, located in Tenerife, Madrid, Barcelona and Shanghai. As their design-creation, manufacturing and distribution were located

Lectra is pleased to announce that Petit Bateau has adopted Lectra Fashion PLM to accelerate product development cycles and reduce lead times. Petit Bateau is a French brand since 1893. The brand is active in over 60 countries and designs, produces and markets clothing, underclothing and pajamas for babies, children and adults. Petit Bateau is member of the Rocher Group since 1988. Petit Bateau’s main objective is to preserve its know-how, an essential aspect of its DNA, while expanding activities internationally. “Preserving our 120 year history and our unique know-how while expanding our distribution network is our main challenge. We are convinced that Lectra Fashion PLM can help us meet this challenge,” declares Pierre-Antoine Perrot, Chief Operations Officer at Petit Bateau. “Our design and pattern-making teams can attest to the importance of Lectra’s expertise. Lectra helps us challenge ourselves and adopt better industry best practices. This is priceless,” says Nathalie Lempereur, Collection Director

PTC reported results for its first fiscal quarter ended January 3, 2015. Highlights Q1 Results: Non-GAAP revenue of $327 million, up 1% over Q1’14 non-GAAP revenue and up 4% on a constant currency basis; unfavorable currency movements vs. year-ago rates impacted revenue by approximately $12 million. Non-GAAP EPS of $0.50, up 1% year over year and up 12% year over year on a constant currency basis; unfavorable currency movements vs. year-ago rates impacted non-GAAP EPS by approximately $0.05. Subscription solutions bookings (1) represented 19% of License & Subscription Solutions (L&SS) bookings (2), above our guidance assumption of 15%. We believe this higher than expected level of subscription solutions, while positive long-term, reduced L&SS revenue by $3 million and non-GAAP EPS by $0.02. Non-GAAP operating margin of 21.4%, down 400 basis points year over year and down 270 basis points on a constant currency basis. GAAP revenue of $325 million, GAAP operating margin of 11.6% and GAAP EPS of $0.26 Non-GAAP revenue contribution

EMC Corporation today reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2014 financial results. Record fourth-quarter consolidated revenue was $7 billion, up 5% year over year. GAAP net income attributable to EMC was $1.15 billion, an increase of 12% compared with the year-ago quarter. GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share was $0.56 in the fourth quarter, up 17% year over year. Non-GAAP 1 net income attributable to EMC was $1.4 billion, an increase of 10% compared with the year-ago quarter. Non-GAAP1 earnings per weighted average diluted share was $0.69, up 15% compared with the year-ago quarter. Full-year 2014 revenue was $24.4 billion, an increase of 5% year over year. GAAP net income attributable to EMC for 2014 was $2.7 billion, down 6% year over year, and GAAP earnings per weighted average diluted share was $1.32, down 1% year over year. Non-GAAP2 net income attributable to EMC for 2014 was $3.9 billion, an increase of 1% year over year,

Arena Solutions announced strong year-over-year growth from Q4 2013 to Q4 2014, with subscriptions increasing by 38%, capping off another record year for the company. For the entire fiscal year 2014, new customer subscriptions grew by 76% year over year. Arena’s continued investment in the expansion of its product offering, especially over the past 18 months, helped drive this increase, with new deal size growing to record levels and a net retention rate for FY 2014 of 112 percent (net retention rate reflects annual customer renewals, fewer cancellations, plus expansion). A sampling of Arena’s new products over the last 18 months includes: Arena DataExtract: Enables customers to extract all process data to a standard, flat file format, which can be analyzed downstream using a variety of customer analytic tools, from relatively simple spreadsheet applications to highly sophisticated business intelligence and analytics platforms; Arena Scribe: Provides customers an easy-to-use collaboration platform that delivers a real-time