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Dossier: CONTACT Software
CONTACT Software Dossier
PLM @ CONTACT
CONTACT connects people, teams, and companies.
CONTACT’s mission: Energizing great minds, instead of rigid systems, we create a working environment in which employees can concentrate their skills on providing better products and services. Where collaboration runs more smoothly, processes become more efficient, and routine work becomes easier. And where a guiding framework provides both the security and freedom that allows agile interaction between individuals and teams in complex projects.
Primary Markets and Focus
Automotive & Mobility, Mechanical & Plant Engineering, Medical Engineering, Consumer Products, High-Tech & Electronics, and Logistics & Infrastructure.
Selected CIMdata Reports on CONTACT Software
Embedding Product Sustainability within PLM
The Transformative Impact of SPDM: Stitching simulation data into the enterprise digital thread
The Digital Product Highway: Enabling digital threads across the product lifecycle
IoT Transforms Operations & Maintenance
Product Value Management in the Age of Disruption
CONTACT Cloud - Bringing CONTACT Elements to the Cloud
CONTACT Elements for IoT: An Operating System for Smart Business
Platforms for a Smart Connected World: CONTACT Cloud Connect 2020
CONTACT’s InSync Helps Deliver High Quality User Experiences
CONTACT Software's PLM Products & Services
Products
- CONTACT Elements
Elements is the world's best platform to design and operate smart products. It combines the best open technologies and special applications with a unique user experience. Flexible like Lego®, the modular principle of Elements stands for solutions that are much more than the sum of their parts: each impressive in its own right – combined outstanding! - CIM Database PLM
CIM Database is an open and highly scalable system for Product Lifecycle Management. Better collaboration and faster processes within projects and across disciplines, systems, and organizational boundaries are key benefits. CIM Database's component architecture, consisting of open technologies such as Python, core services, and comprehensive standard applications, simplifies implementation. It helps companies to react agilely to new requirements. - Collaboration Hub
Numerous partners such as suppliers and engineering offices contribute to product development. Users also use a wealth of engineering tools for design, validation, and data management. Processes function optimally when data is available across organizational and system boundaries. CONTACT Collaboration Hub simplifies the data flow through intelligent data sharing and supports continuous processes. - Project Office
Project Office makes hybrid project management, i.e., the combination of classical and agile processes, the standard. The principle: planning, control, and execution by self-organized teams work hand in hand with the same information and specifications - everywhere in a worldwide project and program organization. The advantage: better collaboration and up-to-date data at all times according to the Single Source of Truth principle for management, controlling, and project teams. - Elements for IoT
With CONTACT Elements for IoT, companies quickly provide solutions that intelligently evaluate the data of industrial assets using a Digital Twin. Elements is a complete platform from edge connectivity to business applications for customers on the web. Elements is ideal for creating agile solutions according to the low code principle and fulfilling comprehensive requirements for security, cloud, and multitenancy operation as well as integration into the company's IT.
Professional Services
CONTACT’s services ensure software solutions that work in the real world of day-to-day business and fully exploit the specific strengths of our customers. Clearly defined objectives ensure a reliable ROI and future market success. Learn more at https://www.contact-software.com/en/global-ecosystem/overview/
Sample Customers/Partners
Automotive: MANN + HUMMEL, BOSAL Group
Consumer: Sennheiser electronic, ABUS August Bremicker Söhne
High Tech: Weidmüller, LPKF Laser & Electronics
Infrastructure: EWE, Transtec Gotthard
Machinery: ANDRITZ Sundwig, Enercon
For more information, visit: https://www.contact-software.com/en/industries/overview
Sample Strategic Alliances/Partnerships
IBM, IGS, ISKO, Unity, Adobe Solutions Network, Bosch India. Learn more at https://www.contact-software.com/en/global-ecosystem/overview/
Featured Cimdata Reports
PLM-Enabled Digital Transformation Benefits Appraisal Guide
The Guide is designed to help potential PLM users evaluate the applicability and payoffs of PLM in their enterprise, and to help existing users of PLM monitor the impact it is having on their product programs.
Aerospace & Defense PLM Action Group
A CIMdata administered PLM advocacy group for the A&D industry
PLM Market Analysis Reports
The PLM MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, leading PLM providers, revenue analyses for geographical regions and industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.
PLM Market Analysis Country Reports
These reports offer country-specific analyses of the PLM market. Their focus is on PLM investment and use in industrial markets. Reports cover Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Russia, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Simulation & Analysis Market Analysis Report
This report presents CIMdata’s overview of the global simulation and analysis market, one of the fastest growing segments of the overall product lifecycle management market, including profiles of the leading S&A firms.
CAM Market Analysis Report
CIMdata's definitive guide to the worldwide CAM software and services market. This comprehensive report provides critical intelligence on market size, user expenditures, trends, and segmentation, alongside authoritative rankings of the top CAM solution providers and reseller revenues.