CIMdata had the pleasure of attending an SAP Digital Supply Chain Analyst event in Boston, MA on November 14. SAP’s supply chain leadership updated the analysts in attendance on new supply chain messaging, product roadmaps, and progress to-date.

CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Autodesk University 2019 (AU2019) on November 18-21, 2019 in Las Vegas, NV. According to Autodesk over 13,000 attendees participated during the nearly week-long event at the Venetian/Palazzo complex. This commentary focuses on key sessions, messages, and content from the event.

The Oracle PLM Cloud and the company's enterprise product record offer a broad lifecycle view that can power digital twins, helping optimize enterprise product quality. Their innovative use of IoT and customer experience data bring something new to quality management-a capability that seems to be drawing significant interest from Oracle’s customer base and prospects. As companies finally decide to make the move to the cloud, the broad capabilities of the Oracle PLM Cloud offering merit some consideration.

The Aras PLM platform belongs on a short list for companies looking for a flexible platform that can meet their current and long-term PLM requirements.

For Chinese and Asian companies looking for a PLM solution, JWI should be on their short list. For global companies with operations in China or Asia, pay attention to JWI, as it may fit your needs today or likely will in the future. PLM mindshare leaders should also pay attention to competition from the east!

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CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Inforum 2019 held in New Orleans, LA on 23-26 September. Infor held an Analyst Event on September 23rd leading into the main conference sessions through September 26. CIMdata attended the analyst event and a few main tent sessions upon which this commentary is based.

CIMdata had the pleasure to attend the IFS World Conference 2019 held from 8-10 October 2019 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston, MA. According to Mr. Darren Roos, the CEO of IFS, this was their biggest event ever, with 40% more attendees than in 2018.

CIMdata believes that the Altair solutions and their flexible licensing model offers an appealing choice for any discrete manufacturing company who has the need to improve decision making through product concept, design, and virtual validation. We expect to see more from Altair as the simulation and data analytics capabilities expand to include decision making across the entire product lifecycle. Altair has now positioned itself to model, simulate, and analyze mechatronics products and their connection as smart IoT devices and services—be they robots, cars, or home appliances/gadgets.

This commentary focuses on a CPQ offering from Variantum, long known for their skills in lifecycle configuration: Variantum VariSales.