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TTX Company moves finance, supply chain, and HR to Oracle Cloud to increase efficiencies and rapidly respond to changing customer demands.

TTX Company, a railcar pooling company that operates more than 165,000 railcars across North America, has replaced SAP with Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite to support its mission of improving regional transportation efficiency. In addition, TTX has selected Oracle Analytics Cloud and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse to improve decision making. With the Oracle Cloud, TTX has been able to optimize finance, supply chain, and HR processes to reduce costs and rapidly respond to changing...

SAP SE will release its results for the second quarter of 2021 on Wednesday, July 21.

SAP CEO Christian Klein and CFO Luka Mucic will host a virtual analyst conference to present second quarter financial figures, as well as an outlook on the current financial year.

Media representatives may listen in on the virtual analyst conference via Webcast at 2:00 p.m. CET/8:00 a.m. ET, accessible at https://broadcast.co.sap.com/go/QReport.

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Microsoft Corp. (Microsoft) and NEC Corporation on Tuesday announced an expansion of their decades-long collaboration. Through a new multi-year strategic partnership, the companies will leverage Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365, NEC’s network and IT expertise, including 5G technologies, and each other’s AI and IoT solutions to help enterprise customers and the public sector across multiple markets and industries further accelerate their cloud adoption and digital transformation initiatives.

The partnership will see NEC adopt Microsoft Azure as its preferred cloud platform to deliver enhanced capabilities to drive sustained digitalization, help customers transform their business models, and build Digital Workplaces for the post-pandemic “new...

Third Module of the 2021 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 13 July 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the CIMdata PLM Market and Solution Provider Analysis Report release, the third of five modules of the CIMdata 2021 Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2020. It contains analyses of major trends and issues, revenues of leading PLM solution providers, and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth.

“The PLM market grew to...

The program, designed for PLM professionals, will take place at the end of September.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 13 July 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, announces that it will hold a PLM Core Virtual-Live Certificate Program the last week of September. The class will take place from 27 September through 1 October and is available to students in multiple time zones including the Americas and Europe.

The program comprises two modules—PLM Basics, three self-paced e-learning sessions, and PLM Core Concepts, five half-day virtual-live...

This educational webinar will consider best practices for PLM solution evaluation and selection.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA July 8, 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a free educational webinar, “PLM Solution Evaluation & Selection.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, August 12, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

CIMdata has created a set of detailed guidelines for evaluating available solutions and selecting the most appropriate one to support a company’s defined PLM strategy. When properly followed, these guidelines...

Report Focuses on the Overall PLM Market Results in China.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 7 July 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the CIMdata 2021 China PLM Market Analysis Report.

This report provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the People’s Republic of China’s (“China”) rapidly evolving PLM market for the calendar year 2020, with forecasts from 2021 through 2025. The report discusses the major PLM trends and issues, PLM purchase investments in software and services, PLM adoption in various industry sectors, and market growth forecasts pertaining to China; an important and...

Empowering Automation, Convergence, and Collaboration

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 6 July 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of an eBook “Digital Twin: Weaving the Digital Thread” focused on a product’s digital twin as the up-to-date, single source of truth that enables a businesses’ varied departments to work cohesively together. The digital twin and digital thread are the vehicles upon which to expand automation of many downstream operations, reduce product development timelines, and provide the data consistency required for improved product quality.

According to Ken Versprille, Ph.D., Executive Consultant, CIMdata, “Downstream applications are undergoing...

This PLM-focused event, the second in a series on disruptive technologies, will take place virtually in November.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 1 July 2021—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce that PLM Road Map & PDT Fall 2021 will take place in November as a virtual-live event. The theme for our 2021 PLM Road Map & PDT conferences is “Disruption—the PLM Professionals’ Exploration of Emerging Technologies that Will Reshape the PLM Value Equation.” The fall event will expand upon the topics discussed during the spring event with new presentations, speakers, and topics. The event will take place over...

CAM Market Shrank by 5.4% in 2020

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 30 June 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of the 2021 CIMdata CAM Market Analysis Report (MAR), the twenty-ninth annual study of the global Computer-Aided Machining (CAM) market. CIMdata estimates that based on end-user payments, the worldwide CAM software and related services market shrank by 5.4% in the calendar year 2020. The estimated end-user payments reduced from nearly $2.4 billion in 2019 to just over $2.2 billion in 2020.

According to Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President, “The CAM results at the...