“Why Microsoft with LinkedIn has the Right Elements to Deliver It”

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 9 March 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, released a new position paper entitled “A Proposed Framework to Simplify Enterprise Network Management, Why Microsoft with LinkedIn Has the Right Elements to Deliver It.”

Enterprises must leverage collective intelligence in their ecosystems to continue to fuel their growth with innovation and new product development. Yet, despite technology advancements, enterprises continue to suffer from inefficiencies in collaboration and network management. One key reason is their historic dependence on functional processes that are critical to...

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Key takeaways:

• Given the rapidly changing technology and business landscape, Enterprises should reevaluate their innovation and network management practices with new lenses. Especially it is critical that enterprises address the functional “data silo” problem which leads to inefficiencies in development of new products and services, and reduces their scale advantage.
• CIMdata’s proposed digital framework described here links People, Organizations, Projects, and Applications/Tools through visible profiles. This framework aligns better with how a business deploys resources to achieve its innovation goals.
• Enterprises have significant opportunities to improve trust and engagement of their key stake holders by adopting...

CIMdata brings you the top ten trending PLM news stories of the prior week

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The Value of a Platform for Scientific and Engineering Simulation

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 1 March 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, released a new whitepaper on Dassault Systèmes SIMULIA’s capabilities titled “Achieving Sustainable Innovation: The Value of a Platform for Scientific and Engineering Simulation”.

Innovation, in particular “sustainable innovation” is becoming, in our modern business environment, an essential element for growth and profitability. Combined with the global trend towards digitalization of all business functions, engineering processes and tools need to be adjusted accordingly. Properly designing and implementing a digital, model-based, and data-driven innovation platform promises to address...

Presentation will investigate how PLM can be seen as the under-pinning for the rapidly evolving enterprise strategy of digitalization.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 27 February 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces its President, Peter Bilello, will make a presentation at PI Congress Berlin entitled “PLM: The Foundation for Enterprise Digitalization.” PI Congress Berlin will take place at the Maritim Proarte, Berlin, Germany on 27-28 February. Mr. Bilello’s presentation will take place during the morning of day 2 of the conference, on 28 February.

Digitalization is rapidly moving from a fuzzy concept to the newest data-driven derailment...

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Key takeaways:

• Oracle Corporation is fully committed to the cloud, and is generating strong growth and an increasing percentage of total revenues from the cloud
• Oracle PLM Cloud is evolving rapidly to fully enable the enterprise product record, demonstrating Oracle’s growing support for a “digital thread”
• The Applications Unlimited philosophy informs their product development strategy and plans, and provides flexibility for customers to move to the cloud when they are ready
• Oracle is extending their portfolio to support both the Internet of Things (IoT) and advanced analytics, key elements of Industry 4.0 and digitalization

CIMdata attended the Oracle...

Founding sponsors among leading PLM solution providers.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 23 February 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the initiation of a multi-sponsor collaborative research program on the use of cloud-based solutions to enable product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and processes in industrial companies.

The initial research program will focus on the collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) segment of PLM, defined by CIMdata as, the category of data and process management solutions at the core of most industrial PLM implementations. In 2015, CIMdata estimated the cPDm segment at over US$5.4 billion, up more than 9.1%...

A CIMdata eBook in Partnership with Dassault Systèmes

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 21 February 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, released a new eBook focused on strategies and technologies to reduce risk and improve business outcomes for capital projects in the oil and gas, chemical, and power industries.

Engineering Procurement & Construction (EPC) firms and owner-operators alike face challenges complying with project schedules and budgets as project complexity continues to increase. Incomplete integration among multi-disciplinary design teams and with project management processes results in problems surfacing late in project execution.

This eBook presents CIMdata’s perspective on the use of...

Educational webinar will present a framework to simplify enterprise network management and enable more effective and efficient collaborative innovation.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 February 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Digitize Your Enterprise Network Management for Competitive Advantage.” The webinar will take place on March 9, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour.

According to research undertaken by the Wharton School of Business, the Network Orchestrators, that is businesses based on digital platforms and virtual networks, are two to four times more valuable and significantly more...

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The morning of February 7, 2017 brought news that Carl Bass was resigning from Autodesk effective February 8. This seemingly sudden announcement is the culmination of years of transition at Autodesk, marked by an accelerated pace over the past few months. Mr. Bass acknowledged as much in a blog post, where he commented that he has been in discussions with the board related to this change “for the past couple of years.”

Mr. Bass is only the third CEO in Autodesk’s history, having taken the helm from Carol Bartz in 2006, who succeeded Autodesk...