Oracle, a global enterprise software leader, has made great strides in improving the sustainability of its own operations, while leveraging its expertise and expansive portfolio of applications and technologies to help customers achieve their sustainability objectives.

CIMdata has followed ESI for many years and is continually impressed by its vision and focus. They understand the needs of their chosen industries and offer proven virtual prototyping solutions. From virtual testing to in-scenario simulation—the latest generation of solutions are exciting and most importantly, provide great value to their customers by improving productivity and enabling safer more sustainable products to be created. All of this supports ESI’s position as a leading virtual prototyping expert.

CIMdata attended aPriori’s Manufacturing Insights Conference 2022 in Boston, MA on November 15-16, 2022. This was a return to an in-person event for the first time since 2019, with approximately 200 attendees filling the halls, exhibit space, and meeting rooms at the Boston Marriott Long Wharf. aPriori is a leading digital manufacturing platform that combines product cost management, design for manufacturing, and supplier collaboration.

CIMdata has identified nine critical imperatives that F&B organizations need to address. This model is based on CIMdata’s combined expertise gained from helping many companies in the F&B industry to identify their critical challenges and respond to them. Centric Software offers a complete and integrated solution allowing F&B brands, retailers and manufacturers to speed new product introductions, maximize product margins, assure compliance and safety, and increase business agility to stay close to the consumer.

A new approach to managing the lifecycle of products called Product Value Management (PVM) offers a way for organizations to continuously and efficiently align their products to market needs. Propel has redefined product lifecycle processes for fast-moving companies by focusing on product value and customer engagement.

Based on CIMdata's research, industrial companies are increasingly choosing cloud-based solutions which simplify their IT landscape, reduce costs, and speed time to value. The CONTACT Cloud offering leverages proven technology and cloud infrastructure to deliver a scalable, configurable product innovation platform applicable to companies in a wide range of industries.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending the Rockwell Automation Fair 2022, held in McCormick Place, a cavernous exhibit space on the south side of Chicago, IL on 16-17 November 2022. This was the company’s first time back in Chicago since 2019, and approximately 18,000 attendees were expected.

The Reuse Company provides an interoperability solution to the difficult systems engineering challenges of keeping product requirements and other data elements readily available when making the best decisions. CIMdata believes that companies using SES will be able to support competitive simultaneous, continuous engineering practices.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Oracle CloudWorld 2022 in Las Vegas, NV on 17-20 October 2022. As with other enterprise solution providers, this was the first in-person Oracle customer event since 2019, when it went by the moniker OpenWorld. Approximately 10,000 attendees crowded The Venetian conference center and other venues in Las Vegas.

CIMdata recommends that companies evaluating their need for improved, agile decision making consider TCS’s PREMAP. As pervasive computing and sensing grows in all products, TCS’ PREMAP provides a platform for adaptive decision making as knowledge is discovered.