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Key takeaways:

• Effective Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) can generate significant revenue and improve customer satisfaction, but an effective implementation requires clear vision, roadmap, and execution processes
• SLM includes many complex processes such as marketing and planning, sales and distribution, service parts management, and after sales support that must operate holistically and harmoniously to optimize ROI and the customer experience
• TCS’ Service Lifecycle Management framework capabilities include Reliability Based Parts Management, Service Parts Catalog, and Configuration Management that can be leveraged using a maturity based methodology to organize and manage master data and improve service lifecycle processes
• TCS’...

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Key takeaways:

• Three transformational forces affect all industries—data (the what), cloud (the how), and engagement (the why)
• An important value of the Internet of Things is found in gaining insight that leads to action
• The Internet of Things generates a new scale of challenges—such as trusted devices and the need for security intelligence
• IT can no longer add value programmatically—the IT economy is being shaped by a cognitive era

CIMdata recently attended IBM Analytics Day on April 9^th, 2015 at the Museum of Natural History in New York City, where IBM issued its latest press release that continues...

Presentation will discuss how Qualcomm handled a recent corporate divestiture.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 30 April 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Qualcomm’s PLM Architect, Bob Wickens, will make a presentation at PLM Road Map™ for the High Tech Electronics (HTE) Community. The event will take place on June 16^th at the Biltmore Hotel & Suites in Santa Clara, California.

In his presentation, “Divestitures—a New Trend in Redefining Businesses, What about the Assets,” Wickens will look at the impact of divestitures in the high tech industry. Divestitures are something we are experiencing more often than...

Workshop will take place in Santa Clara, California on June 17.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 23 April 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that CIMdata’s Systems Engineering Knowledge Council will present a workshop on the topic of “Systems Engineering Supporting High-Tech Product Development.” The workshop will take place in Santa Clara, California the day after CIMdata’s PLM Road Map for the High Tech Electronics Community.

The workshop, now in its third year, will be facilitated by CIMdata’s practice manager for Systems Engineering, John MacKrell and will focus on the critical area of a systems-approach...

Free educational webinar, focused on how the Internet of Things impacts PLM, will take place on May 20, 2015

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 21 April 2015— CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “The Internet of Things – What Does It Mean for PLM?” The webinar will take place on May 20 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will consider the reality of the Internet of Things and the new challenges and new opportunities it is bringing to product development. Several use cases will be shared, along with a discussion on the...

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...