Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF How SAP’s Solution Strategy for PLM Extends the Digital Thread Across the Enterprise Key Takeaways SAP positions its solutions for PLM and the SAP Business Suite as providing the system of record for product data, ensuring seamless execution across the enterprise. This enables companies to connect design, supply chain,…

 PDF 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…

 PDF 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,”…

 PDF (German Version) 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.…

 PDF Increasing focus on its Intelligent Product Lifecycle vision On Thursday, 6 November 2025, PTC announced it had entered into an agreement to sell its ThingWorx and Kepware technologies to TPG,[1] a leading global alternative asset management firm. ThingWorx is a comprehensive IoT platform for industrial enterprises that connects systems,…

 PDF Takeaways This year’s SAP Connect unified five previously separate events, underscoring SAP's holistic approach to integrating customer experience, finance, spend management, human resources, and supply chain solutions. SAP’s introduction of a three-tier architecture—SAP Business AI, Business Data Cloud, and Application layers—is designed to leverage AI for deeper insights, enable…

 PDF Takeaways Since the dawn of the Digital Revolution in the 1970s, organizations have continued to expand their applications of digital technology to the product lifecycle. To support their digital transformation objectives, industrial companies want to harness this wide-ranging data into a digital thread that spans their value chain, customers,…

 PDF 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…

 PDF From startups to big business: MCAD flexibility for all Takeaways Using multiple CAD solutions to develop 3D product definition is common across industries but can slow innovation and silo optimization processes. The Designcenter suite comprises four scalable configurations: Designcenter NX and Designcenter X NX, as well as Designcenter Solid…

 PDF Driving Holistic and Optimized Business Outcomes Across Processes, Systems, and Organizations Takeaways Hitachi Digital Services (HDS) is a global player capable of fully integrating Engineering Technology (ET), Information Technology (IT), and Operational Technology (OT) to deliver end-to-end digital transformations that span the complete product and operations lifecycle. An integrated…