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Key takeaways:

• PLM is a complex problem that often has been addressed with complex solutions that can be hard to use and difficult to implement.
• Over the years, a number of solution providers have attempted to offer easier to use solutions by taking away needed functionality.
• Upchain started with a clean sheet of paper, using multi-tenant cloud and modern tools to define a new user-centric approach that supports an extended set of PLM use cases while avoiding common PLM pitfalls.
• Upchain’s cloud architecture, data model, UX, and implementation methodology (“Connect the Chain”) have all been designed with...

The report focuses on the overall PLM market results in China.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 8 July 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata 2020 China PLM Market Analysis Report.

This report provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the People’s Republic of China’s (“China”) rapidly evolving PLM market for the calendar year 2019. The report discusses the major PLM trends and issues, PLM purchase investments in software and services, PLM adoption in various industry sectors, and market growth forecasts that pertain to China; an important and quickly expanding economic region....

In this webinar, CIMdata will discuss some of the issues associated with managing this kind of disruption.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 1 July 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Managing Disruption: Using PLM to Support Working from Home.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, July 23, 2020, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will last for one hour.

2020 has been a challenging year so far. The immediate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was to shutdown non-essential businesses and to require workers who didn’t have to be onsite to work...

Third Module of the 2020 PLM MAR Report Series.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 30 June 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Market and Solution Provider Analysis Report, the third of five modules of the CIMdata 2020 Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2019. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, revenues of leading PLM solution providers, and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

"The PLM market...

The S&A market grew by 11% to nearly $7.2 billion in 2019.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 25 June 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata Simulation and Analysis (S&A) Market Analysis Report. This report deepens the S&A market analysis conducted as part of the CIMdata 2020 PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The well-known PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during the calendar year 2019. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, revenues of leading PLM providers, and revenue analyses for geographical...

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Key takeaways:

• Human centered innovation, the idea that people need to be able to leverage technology to solve problems, was a common thread throughout Siemens Digital Industries Software Media & Analyst Conference.
• The cloud is becoming pervasive within the Siemens portfolio with the announcement of Teamcenter X and Teamcenter Share, versions of Teamcenter built using the Mendix architecture, and NX Sketch, a microservice implementation of CAD sketching available in NX and Capital, and to be made available in other Xcelerator applications.
• Mendix continues to be central to Siemens’ solution architecture and is being used globally across...

After 26 years as an “in-person” event, this leading PLM event will take place virtually in November.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 25 June 2020—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce that PLM Road Map & PDT 2020 will take place in November as a virtual event. The event will address the critical topic of “Digital Thread—the PLM Professionals’ Path to Delivering Innovation, Efficiency, and Quality.” The event will take place in two half-day sessions on November 17th and 18th. This event will replace the live event initially set for Stockholm, Sweden, on the same dates.

We aim to offer...

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Key takeaways:

• PTCs first virtual LiveWorx drew an estimated 20,000 participants on the live stream.
• PTC’s on-going transition to SaaS and cloud-delivered solutions (e.g., Onshape) should provide their industrial customers multiple options to update their development, production, and service environment to better work in the “next normal” resulting from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• PTC offered details on their plans for the PTC SaaS platform (Atlas), built using Onshape technology, that is the future home of all PTC SaaS solutions.
• The partnership between PTC and Rockwell is getting deeper and broader, benefiting both companies.
• PTC introduced the...

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Key takeaways:

• Dassault Systèmes’ strengths in their traditional industries has enabled them to build a new strength in life sciences.
• Medidata is well positioned to benefit from an increased demand for field trials of new drugs, treatments, and equipment to battle the COVID-19 pandemic.
• The Power’By strategy is helping Dassault Systèmes win multi-CAD clients in a range of industries.
• A focus on asset management and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) will help Dassault Systèmes better serve clients seeking to support product-as-a-service business strategies.

On June 10 and 11, 2020, CIMdata attended Dassault Systèmes’ first virtual Analyst Event. There...

Second Module of the 2020 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 16 June 2019—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Review and Trends Report, the second of five modules of the CIMdata 2019 Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2019. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, revenues of leading PLM providers, and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

The 2020 PLM Industry Review...