Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF On January 14, 2020, Aras announced a strategic partnership with ANSYS (NASDAQ: ANSS) that includes ANSYS licensing Aras’ platform technology. The press release states “ANSYS is leveraging Aras’ resilient platform services combined with its proven simulation domain expertise and technology for new product offerings to improve productivity and maximize…

 PDF Key takeaways: Siemens Digital Industries Software's 2019 Simcenter conference, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, was packed with more than 150 comprehensive customer, product update, and training sessions. The multi-industry applicability of Siemens' Simcenter multi-physics simulation and test solution portfolio was demonstrated by their customers throughout the event. The depth…

 PDF Key takeaways: SAP has repositioned their digital supply chain offerings with new messaging and new capabilities. The SAP Intelligent Digital Supply Chain vision is much expanded since 2018, with more networks and initial integrations with Qualtrics. Their PLM offerings play a key role in “Design to Operate”, a core…

 PDF Key takeaways: Autodesk remains focused on their transition from perpetually licensing on-premise to subscription licensing their on-premise and growing cloud portfolios, with several important announcements at Autodesk University 2019. The company remains committed to manufacturing but sees their architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) business as a bigger opportunity. The…

 PDF Key takeaways: Trends like digital transformation and Industry 4.0 require rethinking the fundamental relationship between the product lifecycle and supply chains, thus pushing quality requirements to the forefront in the drive to deliver strategic and incremental business value. While product quality has always had an impact on a company's…

 PDF Key takeaways: Selecting and deploying a product innovation platform is a sizable investment that if done correctly can have a significant impact on the company’s return on investment. Resilient, sustainable solutions consist of much more than apps, the underlying solution architecture and services must be flexible to run on…

 PDF  PDF (Chinese) Key takeaways: China's PLM market continues to rapidly expand, exceeding US$2.35 billion in 2018, up 16.2% from 2017. While the global PLM market grew by 9.4% and reached US$47.8 billion in 2018, China's PLM market share increased at an even faster rate, from 4.6% in 2017 to…

 PDF Key takeaways: Infor made an early commitment to multi-tenant cloud with their industry-focused CloudSuite strategy. With judicious acquisitions like GT-Nexus (now Infor Nexus) and Birst, and internal developments like Coleman, Infor is ready to move to third-generation “Intelligent CloudSuites.” Infor is innovating across the board, applying analytics and AI…

 PDF Key takeaways: IFS has seen significant growth in the last several years and plans to greatly exceed those results by 2021. The company has invested significantly to unify their global operations enabled, in part, by running IFS on IFS, and working to dramatically expand their global partner ecosystem. IFS…

 PDF Key takeaways: Altair’s vision to provide systems modeling and simulation for cyber-physical systems is driving portfolio expansion beyond the traditional mechanical domain. Altair’s 2017 IPO provided capital investment to aggressively pursue expansion. SimSolid technology has the potential to significantly expand the usage of analysis to design engineers as well…