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- Conferences
- Masterclass: Developing a Realistic PLM Roadmap
- Digital Transformation Short Course
- Systems Modeling & Simulation Certificate Program
- Standard Certificate of PLM Leadership
- Core Certificate of PLM Leadership
- PLM Fundamentals for Solution Providers Short Course
- Private PLM Certificate Program
- PLM Market & Industry Forums
- Customized Education & Training Programs
- Complimentary CIMdata Educational Webinars
- The Sustainability Investment Imperative: Where PLM Delivers the Greatest Impact
- Managing a PLM Solution's Lifecycle
- Year One After the Mega-Mergers and What 50-Years of Simulation Software Can Tell Us
- How to Build and Execute an Effective PLM Strategy
- From AI Experimentation to Enterprise Value: AI Governance Strategies for Trusted AI at Scale
- The State of AI in Product Development: What CIMdata’s AI in PLM Global Study Reveals
- The Value Potential of Digital Twins and Digital Threads - Results of Industry Research
- 2026 PLM Market Update
- 2026 PLM Status & Trends
- Digital Threads and Twins In Theory and In Practice: Benchmarked Industry Use Cases
- The Five AI Implementation Patterns in PLM: A Framework for Informed Decision-Making
- Does SysML v2 Improve MBSE Collaboration?
- Leveraging AI, Semantics, and Ontologies within your PLM Integration Strategy
- Winning the C-Suite: How to Build the Executive Case for Sustained PLM Investment
- The State of the PLM Economy: 2025 and Beyond
- Benchmarking AI in PLM
- The Code of PLM Openness – what it is and why it matters now more than ever!
- AI in Physics-Based Product Performance Simulation: From Surrogates to Solvers
- Beyond Features: Transforming Your Go-To-Market Strategy to Sell Business Value
- Executive Support; Does it Really Matter to Drive a Successful PLM Program?
- PLM Status & Trends 2025
- 2025 PLM Market Update
- AI Governance: Ensuring Responsible AI Development & Use
- Embedding Sustainability within PLM
- The What and Why of Digital Threads and Twins – A Report from the Field
- Physics-Based Simulation Software: Consolidation Implications for Industry
- Recovery for a Stalled PLM Initiative – Part Two
- A Common Language for Aerospace
- PLM Benefits and Metrics
- The State of the PLM Economy: 2024 and Beyond
- Recovery for a Stalled PLM Initiative – Part One
- The Importance of Comprehensive Product Data Governance
- The Elevation & Expansion of MBSE – Initial Research Findings
- The Elevation & Expansion of MBSE
- Leveraging AI & ML in the Digital Thread
- Sustainability and PLM: The Industrial Perspective
- 2024 PLM Market Update
- PLM Status & Trends 2024
- How Software & Electronics are Transforming Product Engineering
- The Value of Digital Threads and How to Build Out an Enterprise Digital Web
- AI & PLM: Beyond All the Hype
- Maximizing Business Impact by Unleashing the Power of Proven Best Practices
- The State of the PLM Economy: 2023 and Beyond
- The Digital Twin’s Role in the Product Lifecycle
- How Product Manufacturing Information Enables Digital Transformation
- How Education Supports PLM Deliberations
- Developing an A&D Digital Twin/Digital Thread Position – a Lesson in Consensus Building
- Complex Product Development Demands Data Governance
- The Digital Transformation of Food & Beverage Product Development
- Collaboration Management System (CMS) User Experience Engagement Kick off
- 2023 PLM Market Update
- PLM Status & Trends 2023
- Meeting Sustainability and Green Energy Transition Objectives: The industrial Perspective
- The Importance of Data Governance within Digital Transformation
- The Promise and Reality of the Digital Thread - Results of Industry Research
- Attaining Successful Digital Transformation through a Well-Executed Implementation
- The Green Energy Transition and Sustainability
- The State of the PLM Economy: 2022 and Beyond
- CIMdata’s Critical Dozen: The Top 12 Trends & Enablers for Digital Transformation
- How Electrification is Transforming PLM Strategies
- The Digital Thread in Aerospace & Defense, Current State, and Future Direction
- Safer Complex Products use Digital Engineering and Agile Processes
- Transforming Your Enterprise Application Architecture
- Business Value of the Multi-view Approach to Lifecycle Product Structures Management
- Digital Transformation’s Critical Dozen: None Are Optional
- 2022 PLM Market Update
- 2022 PLM Status & Trends
- The Value Potential of Multi-view Bill of Materials
- Digital Twin - Why the big deal?
- Building a Consensus Agreement on an A&D MBD Minimum Position
- Getting People to Care: The Case for Organizational Change to Support Digital Transformations
- The State of the PLM Economy
- The Next Step: Being Prepared for the Next Disruption
- Why an mBOM Alone Isn’t Sufficient
- Aerospace OEM to Supplier Collaboration: A Look Inside their Future Vision
- Complex Products Are Safer with PLM and Digital Twins
- The Digital Thread is Really a Web, with the Engineering Bill of Materials at Its Center
- Education: Driving Systems Modeling and Simulation Understanding & Adoption
- PLM Solution Evaluation & Selection
- “Should I Stay, or Should I Go?”: Cost, Risks, and Rewards of Moving-On from a Legacy PLM Solution
- Structured Content: A Critical Component of a Robust PLM Strategy
- 2021 PLM Market Update
- 2021 PLM Status & Trends
- Data Governance: Avoiding Detours on your Digital Transformation Roadmap
- Defining a Practical PLM Roadmap
- Education: Driving Systems Modeling and Simulation Understanding & Adoption
- Research on Cloud/SaaS Adoption in PLM
- CAD Trends—Real Change or Marketing Hype?
- The “M” in MBx
- Cloud and SaaS in the PLM Economy
- M&A: Using PLM to Achieve Promised Synergy
- The State of the PLM Economy
- Today’s PLM Trends & Tomorrow’s Disruptors
- Transforming Your Enterprise Application Architecture
- CAD Maturity: Identifying Your Strategic and Tactical Ranking
- The Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group as a Model for Industry Collaboration
- Bridging Information Silos to Improve Product Decisions
- Putting the SAP-Siemens Partnership in Context
- Why is PLM so Hard? How to make the complex simple.
- Data Governance in the Era of Digital Transformation
- Managing Disruption: Using PLM to Support Working from Home
- Systems Modeling and Simulation: An Introduction
- Digital Skills Transformation: Assessing, Defining & Enabling the Workforce of the Future
- 2020 PLM Market Update
- Generating Actionable Insight While Predicting Manufacturing Operation Faults - A CIMdata Research Update
- PLM Benefits, Metrics, and ROI
- 2020 PLM Status & Trends
- Potential Impacts of COVID-19 on the Global PLM Market
- Managing the Lifecycles of Large Capital Projects and their Assets
- Extended Product Data – Making a Product Salable
- Making Multiple-View Bill of Materials Management a Reality
- PLM in Medical Devices
- PLM and ERP Drive Digitalization
- Digital Engineering at Cummins
- Today’s Disruptions: Sub-optimization Is Not an Option
- Anyone Measuring Digital Transformation?
- Lifecycle Digitalization
- A Call for Collaboration Revolution
- The State of the PLM Economy
- The Rise of Simulation – Redux
- Beyond Generative Design
- PLM Status & Trends
- PLM at the Core of Analytics-Driven Innovation
- Digitalizing Reality
- Augmented Intelligence is Critical for Robust Digital Transformation
- The As-Maintained BOM: Managing the Product Lifecycle After the Sale
- Innovators Need PLM: Why PLM Should be a Bigger Priority than ERP
- Securing the Additive Manufacturing Digital Thread
- Setting up a PLM Program Performance Dashboard that Performs
- Driving a PLM Center of Excellence
- PLM Trends and Global Market Risks to Medical Device Companies
- Barriers & Solutions to Industrializing Additive Manufacturing
- The State of the PLM Economy
- PLM’s Application in the CPG Industry: Protecting the Brand
- Blockchain in PLM for Digital Asset Innovation
- Blockchain for Enhancing the Value of PLM
- Model-Based Enterprise & Standards
- Topology Optimization Changing the Face of CAD
- Digitalization and PLM - The Next Big Thing or All Hype?
- Blockchain Technology and PLM Usage
- Industrializing Additive Manufacturing to make practical end-use products
- What does Semantic Technology do for Robust Design?
- Multiple Views into the Bill of Information
- Creating Value When PLM and ERP Work Together
- Design for Additive Manufacturing—reinventing how we design everything we make
- Generative Design: The Changing Nature of Product Development
- Managing PLM Solution and Data Obsolescence
- Semantic Web Technology helps Design-for-Reliability
- Rip & Replace or Embrace & Extend to enable a PLM Platform
- The Essential Role of PLM in the Adoption of Additive Manufacturing (AM) into Mainstream Production
- Simulation-Driven Systems Development: Challenges and Opportunities
- How to apply IoT, Industry 4.0 & Predictive Analytics in the Manufacturing Domain
- The State of PLM on the Cloud
- Digitize Your Enterprise Network Management for Competitive Advantage
- How to Claim the Benefits of PLM for your Business
- Why Connected Intelligent Products Need Semantic Web Technology
- Navigating the PLM Standards Universe
- Connecting the Clouds in AEC & EPC—Where to Start?
- How do you ensure your connected intelligent products can be trusted? Deploy knowledge systems for reliability design
- Transforming AEC – Obstacles and Opportunities
- Improving Collaboration in the Aerospace Design Chain
- Failure Knowledge Capture and Reuse for Designing Dependable Software-Intensive Products
- Using Agile Methods to Speed Time to Value in a PLM Deployment
- Ensuring the Dependability of Smart Connected Products
- Materials Engineering & PLM for the Automotive Industry
- Developing a Sustainable PLM Strategy
- Technology Impact on Ideation and Idea Management
- PLM Support for Knowledge Capture & Management
- IoT – Hype or Value?
- Simulation Governance: Managing Simulation as a Strategic Capability
- Training Best Practices for Solution Providers Education: The key to unlock PLM market value
- Enterprise Innovation Management Solutions - Connecting the Dots!
- Project Management Practices for PLM Success
- Managing Product Changes
- Innovation in the Digital Age
- The Internet of Things - What does it mean for PLM?
- PLM for Process-Based Products
- High Tech, PLM, and the Cloud
- PLM & ERP: What’s the Difference, and Why Should you Care?
- Not Getting The Most out of PLM? How to Close the Value Gap
- PLM’s Expanding Footprint: Enabling Innovation
- PLM Solution Evaluation & Selection
- PLM-Enabled Digital Transformation Appraisal Workshop
Managing a PLM Solution's Lifecycle
Managing a PLM Solution's Lifecycle
A Complimentary CIMdata Educational Webinar with Peter Bilello, President & CEO, CIMdata
22 October 2026
11:00 ET | 08:00 PT | 17:00 CET
Do these challenges sound familiar?
- We’re concerned about our current PLM platform’s potential End of Life (EOL) (or have even received an EOL notice), and we don’t know what to do.
- We know we need to replace our current PLM platform, but we don’t understand what’s required.
- We’re having a hard time convincing management that we need to invest to ensure that a future EOL is handled in a way that reduces risk to our intellectual assets.
- We are planning a reimplementation initiative but aren’t sure it covers all required elements.
- We are considering a one-for-one replacement, but we’re not sure it's the best approach or whether we should take the opportunity to explore what other benefits we could achieve.
- All the talk about artificial intelligence is overwhelming, and we would like to better understand how it fits into an overall EOL initiative.
Like most enterprise software, PLM platforms follow a natural lifecycle and eventually reach the end of their architectural life. When that happens, simple upgrades aren't an option, and organizations may face a full-scale reimplementation. This pattern has repeated many times over the commercial PLM market's 40-year history, yet many organizations are caught off guard.
Waiting for an official EOL announcement before acting is a mistake. As legacy PLM platforms approach sunset, the biggest threats to your timeline, budget, and IP often stem from unquantified technical debt, including:
- Custom code and legacy process extensions
- Fragile integrations and obsolete middleware
- Custom data models and complex schemas
- Unmaintained CAD connectors
Issues like this can slow progress, increase migration complexity, and make it harder to adopt newer capabilities, including artificial intelligence. Many organizations considering a platform replacement do not yet know what they do not know, so they risk replacing one system with another without fully leveraging modern PLM capabilities.
In this webinar, we’ll examine these challenges and introduce a practical Audit and Risk Assessment Framework. Enterprise teams can use it to support discovery, assess technical risk, and estimate migration complexity before selecting or implementing a replacement Product Innovation Platform.
By attending this webinar, you will learn:
- The main elements of PLM investment sustainability.
- How best to prepare for PLM obsolescence.
- How best to create a workable PLM replacement roadmap.
- How to execute an Audit and Risk Assessment Framework.
- When to upgrade and when to replace.
Who should attend?
Executives responsible for PLM initiatives; those leading digital transformation; PLM team leaders and members; PLM users; product managers; IT leadership; Engineering VPs; IT Directors; Enterprise Architects; or anyone evaluating system modernization amid inevitable platform sunsetting.
During the webinar, you’ll also have the opportunity to ask questions about the topics discussed.
Featured Cimdata Reports
PLM-Enabled Digital Transformation Benefits Appraisal Guide
The Guide is designed to help potential PLM users evaluate the applicability and payoffs of PLM in their enterprise, and to help existing users of PLM monitor the impact it is having on their product programs.
Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group
A CIMdata administered PLM advocacy group for the A&D industry
PLM Market Analysis Reports
The PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, leading PLM providers, revenue analyses for geographical regions and industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.
PLM Market Analysis Country Reports
These reports offer country-specific analyses of the PLM market. Their focus is on PLM investment and use in industrial markets. Reports cover Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Simulation & Analysis Market Analysis Report
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CAM Market Analysis Report
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