Commentaries & Highlights

This CIMdata educational webinar will identify the problem and offer actionable ways to encourage executives to provide and maintain the level of support needed to ensure success.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 9 December 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Winning the C-Suite: How to Build the Executive Case for Sustained PLM Investment.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 8 January 2026, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last...

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Major announcements at IFS Industrial X Unleashed

Key Takeaways

• At their one-day IFS Industrial X Unleashed event in New York City, IFS highlighted the strategic importance of leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) across their solution portfolio.
• Their June 2025 acquisition of TheLoops, now IFS Loops, added industrial-grade agentic AI capabilities to the AI functionality already embedded in their solution.
• At the event, IFS announced four new partnerships—with Anthropic, 1X Technologies, Boston Dynamics, and Siemens Grid Software—that bring new technology and industry expertise that should turbocharge IFS’ pursuit of their Industrial AI vision.

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This series of five global events offers the first public release of 2025 PLM Market performance metrics and findings from CIMdata’s groundbreaking survey on AI in PLM adoption benchmarks.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 4 December 2025— CIMdata, Inc., the leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its digital transformation, announces “AI in PLM: Expanding Capabilities Across the Product Lifecycle” as the theme for its 2026 PLM Market & Industry Forum event series.

Today, following the disruptive rise of Generative AI (genAI), the PLM Economy faces an urgent mandate to operationalize AI capabilities. This massive market...

Eleven country-specific PLM market analyses are now available.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 4 December 2025— CIMdata, Inc., the leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its digital transformation, announces the release of ten country-specific 2025 PLM Market Analysis Reports. These reports follow the release of the 2025 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year.

The CIMdata 2025 PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2024 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in...

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Key Takeaways

• Oracle was one of the first enterprise software firms to embrace generative AI (genAI), and at Oracle AI World 2025 they announced new initiatives and technologies that highlight how AI is core to their business going forward.
• According to Oracle, 2026 is the year for “operationalizing AI,” and their announcements at this event can go a long way to helping their customers and partners make this a reality.
• The AI Data Platform provides a secure, managed environment to leverage data from a heterogeneous set of applications, and the AI Agent Studio is...

Delivering the Non-Biased Expertise and Actionable Frameworks Required to Lead PLM-enabled Digital Transformation.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 2 December 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its digital transformation, announces the offering of its industry-standard PLM Certificate Program in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, from March 9-13, 2026.

This intensive, week-long program is designed to equip PLM professionals with the actionable strategic frameworks and high-level knowledge they need to formulate and execute effective PLM strategies. Participants gain expertise in addressing common challenges while taking a deep dive into advanced topics—including the practical application...

The Fifth and Final Module of the 2025 PLM MAR Report Series is now Available

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 18 November 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Geography Analysis Report, the last of five modules of the CIMdata 2025 Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series offers detailed information and in-depth analysis of the global PLM market for 2024. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, revenues of leading PLM solution providers, and revenue analyses by geographical region and industry sector, as well as historical and projected...

The Fourth Module of the 2025 PLM MAR Report Series is now Available

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 November 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Industry Analysis Report, the fifth of five modules of the CIMdata 2025 Market Analysis Report (MAR) Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis of the worldwide PLM market during 2024. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM solution providers; and revenue analyses for geographic regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

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HCLTech Enables Collaboration Across PLM & ALM Ecosystems

Takeaways

• Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is critical for managing increasing product complexity across industries, and especially in regulated industries such as aerospace and medical devices It enables organizations to develop and validate multi-domain systems with greater speed and confidence.
• Integration of multi-disciplinary system design IP (both data and models) across the digital engineering toolchain is essential to realize the full potential of MBSE. Seamless data exchange between system architecture models and PLM/ALM platforms ensures coherent and collaborative decision making, as well as traceability and...

The webinar will focus on how real-world GenAI applications are already transforming operations.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 13 November 2025—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, “Accelerating Transformation with Hitachi Digital Services’ AI and GENAI-Powered Digital PLM and Digital Thread.” The webinar, sponsored by Hitachi Digital Services (HDS), is scheduled to take place on Thursday, December 18, at 11:00 AM EST.

Industrial enterprises face increasing pressure to deliver...