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This free educational webinar will look at the confusion surrounding digital twin definitions and the complexity of developing a good plan.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA February 18, 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a free educational webinar, “Digital Twin - Why the big deal?” The webinar will take place on Thursday, March 10, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

The digital twin concept has legs. Most solution providers have included the digital twin in their marketing material, if not their products. This webinar will examine CIMdata’s view on digital twins,...

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Key takeaways:

• Recent CIMdata research on Cloud-SaaS PLM shows that two-thirds of respondents are considering a move to Cloud-based PLM solutions that they see offering them a wide variety of potential benefits.
• Over 40% of the survey respondents plan to phase in cloud-delivered PLM capabilities and integrate with on-premises solutions, and then phase out the on-premises solutions.
• Aras Enterprise SaaS is a PLM solution designed to leverage the scalability and accessibility of the cloud while connecting with legacy and on-premises solutions via its open, resilient integration approach.
• Aras Enterprise SaaS retains the differentiators appreciated by subscribers including...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes is a global market leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) and leads the global computer-aided design (CAD) market in combined revenues from its CATIA and SOLIDWORKS offerings.
• The company has been working hard to bring their considerable technical and business assets to bear to support SOLIDWORKS’ existing customers and a broad range of newer market targets, like makers, entrepreneurs, and long-time users of 2D CAD.
• Organizational and product announcements made at their 2022 3DEXPERIENCE World event illustrate their progress to date and their heady plans for growth.

After 20 years as SOLIDWORKS World,...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 17 February 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Tom Gill, Practice Manager for PLM Enterprise Value and Integration, will participate in a webinar organized by HCL Technologies (HCL). The webinar, “Design for Manufacturing: A Critical Digital Transformation Element,” will occur on Thursday, 24th February 2022, at 8:30 AM PST / 5.30 PM CET.

Digital transformation is a significant trend in manufacturing companies and requires new automated ways to leverage digitalized information. While technology is available for implementing a...

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Brings Cloud-Native Digital Thread Capabilities

Altair Engineering announced today, 16 February 2022, their acquisition of Cassini, an Indian startup based in Hyderabad that offers the cloud-native CassiniPLM platform for product lifecycle management (PLM)—a platform that can be used to span idea through life (a concept core to CIMdata’s preferred PLM definition). Mergers & acquisitions (M&A) are common in the simulation and analysis (S&A) market. This acquisition extends a recent trend for S&A market leaders to provide PLM platform capabilities integrated with their multi-physics S&A portfolios (e.g., Ansys, Aras, Siemens, Dassault Systems). As such, CIMdata...

Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it has been engaged by Sanepar (Paraná Sanitation Company) to lead the process of deploying a business management solution in the cloud, resulting in a significant acceleration of its digital transformation, in partnership with Oracle. Under the agreement, Wipro will lead the migration of Sanepar's Back Office operations to Oracle Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP).

The move to the cloud will provide Sanepar with accurate, real-time insights into its business processes, accelerate decision-making and improve customer service in a rapidly evolving market environment under the...

Gamma Technologies, LLC. (GT), a global leader and innovator in integrated multi-physics system simulation software, today announced a strategic investment from New York-based global private equity and venture capital firm, Insight Partners. Insight Partners joins existing investors TA Associates, a leading global growth private equity firm, and Cove Hill Partners, a long-term oriented private equity firm. At the same time, TA is also making a significant new investment in the business.

Founded in 1994, GT is dedicated to building the most advanced system simulation tools, complemented with state-of-the-art software solutions that provide major productivity improvements for customers. GT develops and licenses...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced it has joined the new Intel Foundry Services (IFS) Ecosystem Alliance to support mutual customers with the development and delivery of innovative system-on-chip (SoC) designs. As a member of the alliance, Cadence is advancing adoption of Intel process and packaging technologies and Cadence® state-of-the-art digital, custom/analog, verification and advanced IC packaging EDA solutions, along with Cadence Design, Verification and Tensilica® IP. Using Intel and Cadence technologies, customers can accelerate time to market while reducing design barriers, risk and costs.

There are several benefits to joining the IFS Ecosystem Alliance. Cadence will have early access to process...

In the context of a rapidly changing IT market, Atos clarifies its governance to accelerate transformation cadence, resume its growth trajectory, optimize economic performance and ultimately create value for all its stakeholders.

The IT services industry continues to develop massive areas of opportunities: the digital spend of customers is rapidly increasing, large digital & transformational customer deals are driving growth, and partnerships and alliances - notably with hyperscalers – are becoming more strategic. Against the backdrop of an intensifying war for talent, Atos evolves its governance to harness these opportunities and enhance its commitments to customer- and employee- satisfaction and to...

Third Wave Systems (TWS), Inc., a premier Finite Element Analysis (FEA)-based machining simulation provider, announced the next stage of evolution in its partnership with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Center (AMRC) in the UK. “We are thrilled to announce we now have a local presence in the United Kingdom at the AMRC to accelerate the adoption of machining modeling technology in the UK and Europe," said Kerry Marusich, President and CEO of Third Wave Systems. “This move will enable us to better collaborate with industry leaders in aerospace and automotive--and reflects our commitment to helping transform the machining industry.”

Third Wave Systems...