“According to statistics from CIMdata, there are no competitors which, on a short-term basis, can threaten the longstanding hegemony of big players from an overall PLM suite perspective.
However, the effects of the digitization trend, new technologies and the development of Product Innovation Platforms (PIP)—which is global and covers all industry sectors—can change things faster than expected. Platforms like the Cloud and technologies such as IoT and M2M, combined with quickly changing consumer patterns pointing toward the product-as-a-service direction, have the power to induce transformation.”
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