Position Papers

Dassault Systèmes today announced that Damen Shipyards Group, an international shipbuilding group, has selected the 3DEXPERIENCE platform and its marine and offshore industry solution experiences to digitally transform its operations.  The “Designed for Sea,” “Winning Bid for Sea,” “Optimized Production for Sea,” and “On Time to Sea” industry solution experiences integrate sales, marketing, design, engineering, manufacturing and services.  Damen Shipyards Group, with 32 shipyards and 9,000 employees, can improve collaboration, optimize its existing products, processes and services, and accelerate the delivery of innovative and configurable products. Marine and offshore industry trends toward sophistication and globalization are requiring competitive shipbuilders to profitably react to market demands for customized vessels and new business models.  As the complexity of its shipbuilding portfolio increases to satisfy industry trends, Damen Shipyards is digitally transforming its operations to unify collaboration across its engineering offices, shipbuilding sites and suppliers, efficiently manage its portfolio and respond to customer needs with

Cognizant today announced the acquisition of Brilliant Service Co. Ltd., an intelligent products and solutions company headquartered in Osaka, Japan, specializing in digital strategy, product design and engineering, the Internet of Things (IoT), and enterprise mobility. Founded in 2004, Brilliant Service helps organizations build connected businesses by leveraging innovative smart device solutions. The company provides end-to-end Android/iOS applications, embedded software, user experience design and online-to-offline services to major corporations in Japan, who are seeking to create engaging customer experiences. Its client roster includes many of Japan's top telecommunications, manufacturing, and consumer goods companies. As part of the acquisition, a team of 70 professionals with extensive digital solutions experience and insights in the Japanese market will join Cognizant. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. "Products in every industry are becoming 'smart' with sensors, analytics, and new content. Intelligent products and solutions are key to building real-time businesses that can quickly respond to evolving customer

Collaboration with Five Leading PLM Solution Providers ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 March 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Oracle, a leading provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, has joined CIMdata’s a multi-sponsor collaborative research program on the use of cloud-based solutions to PLM strategies and processes in industrial companies. The research program focuses on the collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) segment of PLM, defined by CIMdata as the category of data and process management solutions at the core of most industrial PLM implementations. In 2015, CIMdata estimated the cPDm segment at over US$5.4 billion, up more than 9.1% over 2014, in constant currencies. At present, a small portion of this estimate is cloud-based, but the segment is poised to grow significantly in the next few years. This research program will help CIMdata and the broader PLM economy understand this market evolution. Oracle joins a

“Why Microsoft with LinkedIn has the Right Elements to Deliver It” ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 March 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new position paper entitled “A Proposed Framework to Simplify Enterprise Network Management, Why Microsoft with LinkedIn Has the Right Elements to Deliver It.” Enterprises must leverage collective intelligence in their ecosystems to continue to fuel their growth with innovation and new product development. Yet, despite technology advancements, enterprises continue to suffer from inefficiencies in collaboration and network management. One key reason is their historic dependence on functional processes that are critical to achieving innovation. These fragmented processes lead to data silos that typically are not connected through digital mechanisms. The functional data silos not only cause significant inefficiencies in the overall innovation and product development process, but also make maintaining a holistic corporate memory on what has been done or is being

 PDF Key takeaways: Given the rapidly changing technology and business landscape, Enterprises should reevaluate their innovation and network management practices with new lenses. Especially it is critical that enterprises address the functional “data silo” problem which leads to inefficiencies in development of new products and services, and reduces their scale advantage. CIMdata’s proposed digital framework described here links People, Organizations, Projects, and Applications/Tools through visible profiles. This framework aligns better with how a business deploys resources to achieve its innovation goals. Enterprises have significant opportunities to improve trust and engagement of their key stake holders by adopting CIMdata’s proposed digital framework within a more open culture. With the recent acquisition of LinkedIn, Microsoft now has a “proven” approach to implement the network management framework that is proposed by CIMdata. There is no more debate. In today’s accelerated and connected economy, turning an idea into product innovations that customers need requires integrative thinking and multi-disciplinary collaboration, often

Zero Wait-State has announced today the immediate availability of new cloud enabling technology, CloudState, for product development organizations. This integration platform will allow companies to integrate engineering systems like SolidWorks, Creo, Onshape, AutoCAD Inventor, NX and Catia with cloud-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) offerings from companies including Oracle PLM and Salesforce-based PropelPLM. This platform will also allow cloud-based Computer Aided Design (CAD) tools like Onshape to integrate with traditional PLM tools like Oracle’s Agile PLM, PTC’s Windchill, and Siemens’ TeamCenter. “PropelPLM and Zero Wait-State are extending Onshape's Agile Design capabilities into a true customer-focused PLM system,” said Darren Henry, VP of Product Marketing at Onshape. “Not only can design teams collaborate and iterate faster during the design process, their customers are now able to easily collaborate on crucial product information during development and after product release.” CloudState will enable the exchange of data between platforms allowing companies to select “best in

PTC today announced the release of the latest version of its Mathcad Prime® engineering math software. Specialized engineering calculations are some of a firm’s most valuable information, and the new capabilities of PTC Mathcad Prime 4.0 allow users to show, solve, and secure those vital calculations more effectively, increasing their value and usefulness. PTC Mathcad Prime 4.0 provides capabilities that enable users to protect proprietary information without compromising the ability to share it, benefit from interoperability enhancements, and streamline workflows by better managing larger, complex worksheets. “PTC is listening to the market. The performance and interoperability enhancements in PTC Mathcad Prime 4.0 enable users to simplify inefficient and complex workflows,” said Monica Schnitger, president and principal analyst, Schnitger Corp. “The math in PTC Mathcad Prime 4.0 continues to improve, allowing users to structure it as they want, while also protecting it as proprietary mathematical information.” Key features of PTC Mathcad Prime

Kovair Software, Inc., today announced its entry into the DevOps tools market with its single click solution designated as Kovair Integrated DevOps. “With more than 70 tools integrations in our portfolio with our Omnibus Integration Platform, this was the natural next step for us to take to satisfy the needs of the market. When there are still no single product solutions for DevOps, Kovair comes close to this objective with this new product introduction,” said Bipin Shah, CEO and Chairman of Kovair. Kovair Integrated DevOps will deliver a transformative impact for Enterprises. It enables the Enterprise to select the best of the breed tools and have a cohesive flow from continuous operation to continuous production deployment and monitoring. Kovair’s vision, while offering a standard off-the-shelf integrated DevOps product, is also to let the customer select best-of-the-breed tools and create a simple DevOps integrated flow as a single click solution with extensive

BlueCielo today announced a new release of its flagship software BlueCielo Meridian 2017. With over 300,000 users in 50 countries Meridian, is a world leader in empowering Plant Managers, Document Controllers, and other professionals involved in the maintenance and operations of plants in the Chemicals, Mining, Oil and Gas, Pharmaceutical, Utilities and other industries to be informed, compliant, and in control of their critical information throughout the asset lifecycle.   "We are excited to offer Meridian 2017 with a host of great new capabilities.  Having worked closely with our users and partners through the development and testing of this release, we know that Meridian 2017 provides advantages well aligned with their needs and objectives.  This edition is all about helping organizations simplify IT implementations, improving the user experience for all roles, significantly enhancing web-based workflows, and empowering trusted members of the supply chain with secure self-service accessto information - all to lower costs and improve operational efficiency," says Pat Jenakanandhini, Director of Product Management, BlueCielo.

Lectra is pleased to announce that OVS, an Italian fashion retail group for menswear, womenswear and childrenswear, has chosen Lectra Fashion PLM to restructure their entire product development process. Founded in 1972, OVS has a vertically-integrated retail business model which relies on a strong design sensibility and a unique sourcing strategy based on the key geographical locations of its external suppliers. Today, OVS has a proven track record of success with more than 900 stores around the world. OVS will implement Lectra Fashion PLM in their entire design-to-sourcing process. The user-friendly solution will integrate all data and processes that the entire product and collection lifecycle entails into one streamlined and cohesive data management system. This collaborative platform will simultaneously serve to connect all teams together from different geographic locations. Team members will hence be able to share and work from one single version of the truth and communicate