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This free educational webinar will introduce an Audit and Risk Assessment Framework to help enterprise leaders evaluate technical debt and plan low-risk platform migrations. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 22 September 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announces a free live educational webinar titled "Managing a PLM Solution’s Lifecycle.” The webinar will be held on Thursday, October 22, 2026, at 11:00 AM ET. Like most enterprise software, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platforms follow a natural lifecycle and eventually reach the end of their architectural life. When this happens, simple upgrades aren't an option, and many organizations face full-scale reimplementation. Waiting for an official End-of-Life (EOL) notice often exposes enterprise teams to significant risks to timelines, budgets, and intellectual property. During this 60-minute webinar, CIMdata’s President & CEO, Peter Bilello, will explore common migration traps—such as custom code, legacy

The webinar will explore why AI in PLM often fails due to poor data quality. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, September 17, 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces its participation in an upcoming webinar titled “The Critical Need for AI Governance and a Strong Product Data Backbone.” The webinar, sponsored by PRO.FILE, will be held on Tuesday, October 13, 2026, at 11:00 AM EDT and will last one hour. Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds massive promise for engineering, but the reality is sobering. Data quality is the primary bottleneck to AI delivering value. Experienced human engineers can easily navigate messy file structures, empty attributes, and inconsistent naming, but AI lacks intuitive context. Two independent surveys found the same result: 60% of industrial customers and 60% of solution providers rank poor data quality as their single greatest barrier

The webinar will cover the technical, operational, and strategic imperatives of replacing legacy PLM systems CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces its participation in an upcoming webinar, “Oracle Agile End of Life: Strategies for a Successful PLM Modernization Journey.” Sponsored by Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens), the webinar will be held on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 1:00 PM EDT and will last one hour. As a PLM system nears mainstream end-of-support, industrial and technology leaders face a pressing mandate: maintain aging software or migrate to next-generation PLM environments. To provide actionable guidance, CIMdata’s Principal Consultant, Tom Gill, will bring CIMdata's deep consulting experience to the discussion, joining Siemens and Wipro representatives in a conversation that addresses the technical, operational, and strategic imperatives of replacing legacy PLM systems. "Transitioning from a legacy PLM platform isn't just

Ten country-specific PLM market analyses now available. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 10 September 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of nine country-specific 2026 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These reports follow the release of the 2026 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year. The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2025 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis offers CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews 2025 investments in PLM-related software and services, and forecasts PLM investments for 2026 through 2030. It includes charts that present the overall PLM market and its sectors as defined by CIMdata. In addition to its global PLM Market Analysis reports, CIMdata offers ten country-specific reports: These reports focus on the PLM market in each country, covering its main segments and the 2025 financial results for

This free educational webinar offers industrial leaders data-driven analysis and practical frameworks to de-risk simulation software roadmaps after major industry consolidation. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 8 September 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announces a free live educational webinar titled, "One Year After the Mega-Mergers: How Simulation Portfolios Are Being Redrawn and What 50 Years of Simulation Software History Can Tell Us About the Road Ahead.” The webinar will be held on Thursday, October 8, 2026, at 11:00 AM EDT. The simulation and analysis sector has experienced an unprecedented wave of consolidation. High-profile transactions, including Synopsys–Ansys, Siemens–Altair, and Cadence–Hexagon/MSC, along with the regulator-driven Keysight divestiture that came with them, are rapidly reshaping solution portfolios, licensing models, and platform boundaries. Designed for engineering executives, IT decision-makers, and strategic planners, this webinar provides an objective assessment of post-merger market

The webinar will show how mid-market manufacturers are reducing complexity, eliminating physical prototypes, and unifying design with simulation, all supercharged by generative and model-based AI. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, September 1, 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, announces its participation in an upcoming webinar, “AI-Powered PLM for Mid-Market Enterprises.” Sponsored by VIAS3D, the webinar will be held on Thursday, October 1, 2026, at 11:00 AM ET (8:00 AM PT). The 60-minute session will address the severe operational delays, high costs, and fragmented workflows currently plaguing mid-market manufacturers. In today's fast-paced environment, manual data handoffs and physical prototyping severely slow product development. During the session, Tom Gill and experts from VIAS3D will highlight how engineering teams are adopting a unified Modeling and Simulation (MODSIM) approach, enhanced by artificial intelligence, to validate designs virtually before committing to physical

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 1 September 2026 - CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the Digital Transformation it enables, today announced that industry veteran Nachiket Pai has joined the firm as Vice President, Global CIMdata Community & Success consulting services, reporting to CIMdata’s President & CEO, Peter Bilello. In this role, Nachiket will lead the expansion and strategic development of the global CIMdata Community, working closely with PLM software and service providers and financial investment firms worldwide. He will focus on growing CIMdata Community memberships, developing and enhancing strategic relationships, supporting CIMdata Success consulting engagements, and helping clients strategically leverage CIMdata’s market intelligence, research, education, and advisory services. Nachiket brings more than 18 years of leadership experience across enterprise software, customer success, business development, and operational leadership. Most recently, he served as Head of Customer Success (Americas) at Siemens Digital Industries