Commentaries & Highlights

Portworx and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced a solution based reference configuration that allows enterprises of all sizes to easily deploy, scale, and manage stateful container workloads. This new solution enables IT teams to deploy a scale out container platform on bare metal using a combination of HPE Synergy composable system, Kubernetes and Portworx’s cloud native storage platform. The result is a solution that can be rapidly deployed in 30 minutes or less, is highly container and storage elastic, and can scale to many nodes with bare metal performance.   As on-demand applications, such as Uber and Netflix, set the new standard for providing instantaneous responses to user needs, enterprises are moving to more efficient cloud-native and container-centric application architectures in order to meet increasing user demands for speed, reliability and performance. Moving applications to cloud native architectures gives enterprises more agility and the ability to quickly deliver innovative services to their

OpsHub announces its integration support for Jama Software. With OpsHub’s integration support, Jama users will be able to easily connect with 50+ Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), IT Service Management (ITSM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and DevOps systems, such as JIRA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, qTest, CA Agile Central, GitHub, HPALM, Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS), etc. The integration of Jama with other heterogeneous systems in the ecosystem will enable enterprises to make comprehensive decisions based on reliable and contextual data. Teams involved in various stages of ALM struggle mainly because of little or no cross-functional visibility. Product Managers work on their own system with little visibility into the actual implementation status of a task, whereas development and Quality Assurance (QA) teams work in siloes with just one-sided communication coming from product teams. With OpsHub Integration Manager, the integration solution from OpsHub, data will flow seamlessly across the ecosystem in real time and

PTC today announced the BMW Group has selected the PTC Windchill® solution as its PLM backbone for production and sourcing bill-of-material (BOM). Windchill will be the enabler for globally configuring and releasing cars to production. The award-winning PLM solution will support BMW Group in improving efficiency and achieving a leaner global production planning process. In addition, BMW Group has selected the ThingWorx®Navigate™ role-based solution for fast and easy ecosystem access to product data. Both solutions are being obtained through the subscription licensing model. BMW Group will leverage robust Windchill capabilities in configuring large and complex vehicle structure data to achieve its goal of producing vehicles at mass scale globally, while retaining greater flexibility and higher quality. ThingWorx Navigate supports concurrent production planning, enabling BMW Group to shorten overall time to market. Windchill is a robust, end-to-end PLM solution that integrates core PLM functionality with the ThingWorx Industrial Innovation Platform from PTC and the ThingWorx Navigate role-based applications. ThingWorx Navigate

Sopheon is committed to educating the market on how to bring business strategies to life through integrated, well-communicated innovation execution plans. Among Fortune 100 market leaders, there’s no shortage of well-intentioned innovation methods and processes, yet business leaders responsible for innovation are often hamstrung by inefficiencies, cross-functional silos, limited resources and complex processes, diminishing the potential for market impact and profitability. “Enterprise Innovation Management (EIM) is an increasingly critical capability for innovation-driven companies, yet there is still too little attention paid to creating the connected autonomy required for efficient execution,” said Andy Michuda, chief executive officer for Sopheon. “In our experience, even the best-laid strategic plans are often not well communicated, poorly adopted or misunderstood across the enterprise. Our role as a partner to our clients demands that we take our 18 years of extensive learnings from working with the best in the industry and share how companies can close

With a vision to digitize global enterprises, T-Systems is on an Internet of Things (IoT) growth path: Deutsche Telekom’s corporate customer arm, T-Systems, and Silicon Valley-based IoT company, Roambee, today announced a global IoT partnership to offer a real-time visibility solution for goods and assets in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. Together, employing an “on-demand” pay-per-use business model, the two companies are delivering an end-to-end solution featuring real time visibility, tracking, and condition monitoring of shipments and assets in-transit and in-field. Roambee will provide pre-built Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications that include wireless portable sensor devices and cloud-based software, robust reporting, and predictive analytics. The solution will be provided on T-Systems’ highly scalable platform, and offers access to a global infrastructure of highly-secured data centers and cloud solutions from a wide partner ecosystem. Furthermore, Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments, recently led the Series B round by investing $3.1M in Roambee, recognizing that any transformation to Industry

Group to provide research and guidance on the top PLM issues affecting the medical device and life science equipment industries. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 January 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the formation of its newest PLM member service—the Medical Device PLM Action Group, an association of medical device companies within CIMdata’s globally recognized PLM Community Program. The group is an industry-specific PLM advocacy group, as well as a defining organization for unfulfilled common interest PLM-related capabilities. Action Group members will participate in regularly scheduled meetings to review and discuss research and other actions to address PLM-related topics of common interest with the goal of ultimately driving PLM best practices and solution provider development. Additionally, members will drive the prioritization of research and analysis to define current PLM best practices, insights, and lessons-learned for medical device companies in topics such as: The reality of the real-time

These two leading PLM events will co-locate in the Washington D.C area on 15-17 May 2018. CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the co-location of PLM Road Map North America 2018 and PDT North America 2018. The two events will be held in conjunction with each other at the Marriott Hotel in Tysons Corner, Virginia, USA. Participants can choose to attend one of the events or both with a discount. PLM Road Map North America takes place on 15 & 16 May, while PDT North America will take place on 17 May. “CIMdata is committed to delivering high client value with our PLM Road Map conferences,” stated Mr. Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata. “We are excited to announce the third year of our collaboration with Eurostep and the co-location of PLM Road Map North America 2018 with Eurostep's inaugural PDT North America 2018 event,” added Mr. Bilello. “With the successful co-location of

Presentations will take place on Sunday, January 21 in Jacksonville, Florida. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 18 January 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, is pleased to announce that Don Tolle, CIMdata’s Director for Simulation-Driven Systems Development Consulting Practice & Knowledge Council, will make several presentations at the INCOSE International Workshop which takes place at the Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront, in Jacksonville, Florida from January 20-23. Mr. Tolle’s presentations will take place on Sunday, January 21. The first presentation titled, Modeling and Data Interoperability Standards Where to Next, will take place at 10:30 a.m. as part of the Tools Integration and Model Lifecycle Management Working Group. The second presentation titled MBSE, PLM, and the Digital Thread, will take place at 2:00 p.m. as part of the MBSE Workshop. Mr. Tolle has more than 35 years of industry experience in the disciplines of virtual product design, development, and performance validation.

Binggrae has selected Siemens’ Teamcenter® software to enhance its entire product development cycle. With the introduction of Teamcenter, the world’s most widely used digital lifecycle management software, Binggrae expects to shorten lead times for product development and product improvement in order to improve competitiveness and accelerate product innovation. With its optimized infrastructure for collaboration and product lifecycle management Teamcenter help Binggrae establish brand-focused intellectual property systems and set a cross functional team (CFT)-based schedule management system. Through brand-focused information management, an efficient and accurate decision making process can be established to lay the groundwork for effective management and operation of multiple projects. “We expect Siemens’ software to help us optimize our product development processes and lay the foundation for quicker development to manufacture highly competitive products by establishing a cooperative system,” said Mr. DongKi Ha, Head of Information Innovation team at Binggrae. “Teamcenter software provides PLM processes and product development functions

DECISIVE ANALYTICS Corporation (DAC) is pleased to announce they have been awarded a contract to provide Life Cycle Product Support Policy and Program Related Support to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Material Readiness (DASD (MR)). This contract carries a ceiling of over $8M with a total period of performance of up to 5 years including 4 option years. Awarded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (OUSD AT&L), DAC will provide subject matter expertise and support by working with a variety of internal and external DoD customers to field available, reliable, and combat ready weapons systems. DAC's services will assist DASD(MR) in analyzing, developing, recommending, and implementing a wide variety of acquisition and sustainment documentation processes and projects. DAC has been partnered with OSD in providing materiel readiness support for over a decade. Under this new contract, DAC will address the full spectrum of