Commentaries & Highlights

 PDF Key takeaways: Over the last several years the SAP PLM portfolio of solutions has made great strides, making the question “why not SAP?” harder to avoid for potential customers and competitors alike. SAP’s in–memory technology, HANA, is providing significant revenues just a few years from its late–2010 launch. Over…

 PDF Key takeaways: Shorter product lifecycles require getting product design and cost management right the first time to ensure that each product achieves both its target cost, planned margin and exposes supply risk while there is still time to fix it Product Cost modeling using separate solutions in Excel, ERP,…

 PDF Key takeaways: Companies must have swift, agile organizations that can quickly adapt to changing market demands Cloud–based PLM delivers fast deployment, solution flexibility, and reduced IT cost Canopy, Joint Venture of Atos, EMC2 and VMware, is providing cloud–based Teamcenter solutions tailored to each company to meet their needs for…

 PDF Key takeaways: Most companies have business processes that need to leverage product information stored within their engineering or product development environments Managing and improving those processes has a significant positive impact on the business Autodesk PLM 360 provides a flexible, cost effective solution to address business processes as needed…

 PDF CIMdata attended Oracle’s Value Chain Summit in San Francisco, February 4–6, 2013, along with a few thousand Oracle professionals and customers. The event was billed by Oracle as the event where you will “…learn how Oracle is helping companies transform supply chains into value chains to gain competitive edge.”…

 PDF Key takeaways: SolidWorks introduces My.SolidWorks, a free service that allows users to aggregate information drawn from the Internet. SolidWorks offers more information on a new product, SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, scheduled for release in September/October 2013. SolidWorks Corporation held their fifteenth annual user conference, SolidWorks World 2013, over four days,…

 PDF Key takeaways: Companies in all industries face an explosion of information channels without the commensurate ability to monitor that information to access what is most needed. Workers are accustomed to having always-on, always-connected devices to help enrich their lives by providing just the right information or assistance at precisely…

 PDF Key takeaways: Autodesk’s culture enables a level of risk taking and rapid innovation that is fairly exceptional in the PLM space. Autodesk emphasized that their solutions were “powerful, collaborative, accessible,” and that mobile, cloud, and social computing were core to their strategy. Based on the numbers reported by Autodesk,…

 PDF Key takeaways: A high impact PLM program begins with a “real vision” — one tied to the business strategy with measurable goals. Effective planning establishes a stepwise progression from measurable goals to an executable roadmap. There have been significant advancements in methods and tools by leading PLM solution delivery…

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes rebranded their customer events “3DExperience Forums,” a new name consistent with their extensive repositioning and global corporate advertising campaign. Dassault Systèmes believes that creating unique “experiences” the path to sustainable competitive advantage. Systems engineering, based on integral support for the RFLP approach, is at the…