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Expanding their ALM capabilities to the cloud

• Acquiring Intland Software provides PTC with a cloud-based application lifecycle management (ALM) solution and additional software development expertise to extend their current on-premises PLM solution portfolio.

On Wednesday, 20 April 2022, PTC announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Intland Software, a leading provider of cloud based ALM solutions. Intland develops and markets the Codebeamer™ application lifecycle management (ALM) family of software products, including a cloud-ready, fully integrated offering used extensively in software safety-critical and regulated industries.

Intland Software, headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany, serves a wide...

This annual event presents PLM industry trends, 2021 global PLM market growth, and major research topics to audiences in North America, EMEA, India, China, and Japan.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 21 April 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the successful completion of its 2022 PLM Market & Industry Forum. For 2022 the Forums were held as a live event in North America and virtually in EMEA, India, China, and Japan.

CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forums are the world’s premier event for software and service providers focused on the PLM market and its development and...

The presentation will reflect on the US Department of Defense's Digital Engineering Strategy released in 2018.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 19 April 2022—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep are pleased to announce that Ms. Stephanie L. Possehl, Acting Deputy Director for Engineering and Director for Engineering Policy and Systems, at the US Department of Defense, will make a keynote presentation, Making the DoD Digital Engineering Strategy a Reality - An update in Year 4, at PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2022. This two-day in-person event will take place May 24-25 at the Marriott Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA, near...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 14 April—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Tom Gill, Senior Consultant, will participate in a webinar entitled, “Move from Digital Trauma to Digital Nirvana.” The webinar, sponsored by Aras, takes place on Thursday, April 28th, at 11:00 AM EDT.

In this webinar, Tom will be part of a discussion that will explain how businesses can be transformed using a digital thread enabled by SaaS PLM.

Tom Gill has over 35 years of experience applying computer-based solutions to engineering and manufacturing. Before joining CIMdata, he worked as an independent PLM consultant...

The CEO Spotlight session will feature leaders from Aras, PTC, and Siemens Digital Industries Software.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 13 April 2022—CIMdata, Inc. and Eurostep are pleased to announce that they will bring together the CEOs from three major PLM solution providers for an open discussion at PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2022. The CEO Spotlight, "View From the Top: The Future of PLM in the Age of Digitalization," will be moderated by CIMdata's President and CEO, Peter Bilello. This two-day in-person event will take place May 24-25 at the Marriott Hotel, Tysons Corner, VA, near...

This educational webinar will share CIMdata’s 2022 global PLM status and trends survey results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 6 April 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “2022: PLM Status & Trends.” The webinar will occur on Thursday, 12 May 2022, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

This webinar will provide insight into the results of CIMdata’s recent global PLM Status & Trends research. The study aimed to deepen the global PLM community’s collective understanding of the...

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Success is a multi-variable equation; you need to address all the variables

Key takeaways:

• Successful companies must digitally transform their business to create and sustain their competitive advantage.
• Digital transformation is more than just digitizing data—it requires a change in how a business operates, eliminating information silos and creating a digital thread that spans the value network.
• Digital transformation enables companies to create and drive more competitive business models, opportunities, and business resilience.
• Success requires commitment, planning, focus, and sustained funding and effort.

Introduction

The world is in the midst of a digital industrial revolution, today’s manufacturing enterprises are facing...

How to Maximize Flexibility while Reducing Cost

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 23 March 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of an eBook focused on Siemens Mechanical Bundle for Solid Edge and NX licensing.

Based on annual CIMdata research, the mechanical CAD market is bifurcated into design-focused and multi-discipline mechanical CAD. The design-focused segment supports the majority of product design needs. The multi-discipline segment incorporates advanced capabilities such as advanced surface modeling to support complex, aesthetic shapes needed in styled products in addition to virtual commissioning and factory automation. Annual sales show the relative...

CIMdata’s education offerings will be available in North America and Europe during the second quarter of 2022.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 22 March—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces that it will offer two in-person PLM Certificate Programs during the second quarter of 2022. The programs will take place in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, from 16-20 May and in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 20-24 June.

These programs prepare PLM professionals to address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation allowing them to help their organizations realize the benefits of PLM and its enabling technologies....

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Key takeaways:

• A closed-loop requirements view through all phases of the product lifecycle—from design to manufacturing and including customer use—is critical so that an Automaker can learn, adapt, and adjust continually to stay ahead of its competition.
• Only a fully integrated solution—one that is and remains integrated through a product’s lifecycle across all disciplines—can enable the process revolution essential to establish and sustain an automaker in a leadership position for tomorrow.
• Reducing early physical prototypes with simulation by relating requirements with test results enables repeatable, traceable correlation of virtual to actual performance.
• Concurrently examining how a requirement...