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Key takeaways:

• Interest in cloud-based PLM is exploding, and deployments are ramping up
• PLM on the cloud has all the usual advantages of cloud-based enterprise solutions, such as low cost of entry, scalability, ease of deployment, and easier supply chain access
• T-Systems is offering Aras Innovator, a well-known, flexible PLM solution, on a public or a private cloud to support small workgroups through global distributed enterprises and their supply chains
• The T-Systems Cloud PLM solution includes T-Systems products as well as the Aras Subscriber-only solutions licensed by user per month

CIMdata has tracked PLM’s growth on the cloud...

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• Dassault Systèmes’ goal of enabling companies across multiple industry segments to build and run virtual environments in which innovative products and processes can be defined, simulated, analyzed, and optimized as a real-life experience and across the full lifecycles is becoming a reality
• Dassault Systèmes’ strategy builds on both their 3DEXPERIENCE platform, as well as on their well-respected brands (i.e., CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, BIOVIA, etc.)
• Dassault Systèmes’ continues to expand their 3DEXPERIENCE platform through a balanced expansion of specific functional capabilities, and a significant number of industry experiences focused on delivering industry-specific business process enablement

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In this free educational webinar participants will gain an understanding about the critical need for learning about failure modes.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 7 July 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Failure Knowledge Capture and Reuse for Designing Dependable Software-Intensive Products.” The webinar will take place on August 11, 2016 at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and will share more about the methods available to assist with product failure knowledge management, the commercial software tools that are available, and strategies for deploying these tools.

According to the webinar host, CIMdata’s Director for Quality...

Third Module of the 2016 PLM MAR Report Series

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 July 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata PLM Market and Solution Provider Analysis Report, the third of five modules of the CIMdata 2016 Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2015. 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...

Popular PLM education program will take place in Andover, Massachusetts from October 3-7, 2016.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 July, 2016 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm, will bring its highly acclaimed Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Certificate Program to the Boston area from October 3-7. The program is recognized as the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution-agnostic education offering.

The three- or five-day program prepares PLM professionals to successfully address the challenges commonly faced in PLM strategy development and implementation. The assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement....

New membership equips members of the financial services community with the technical skills and market knowledge they need to advise clients on PLM-related market activities.

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a new PLM Community membership designed specifically for the Financial Analyst and Financial Services communities.

The US$39B global PLM market is rapidly changing. Trends in the industry, such as, platformization, Industry 4.0, Social, the Cloud, SaaS, and subscription licensing are all leading to increased M&A activity and disruption throughout the PLM ecosystem.

Built on CIMdata's over 30 years of experience in the PLM industry, this...

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Key takeaways:

• Unprecedented convergences of technology and demographics are driving emerging markets and highlighting the need for PLM strategies to help turn emerging markets into emerging economies
• In guiding economic transformations, ministries and other government agencies are adapting the “product” aspect of PLM for policies and planning processes, with Saudi Arabia in the forefront
• PLM can be invaluable for guiding emerging market transformations—from subsistence to sustainability, from borrowing to investing, and from extraction to innovation

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has a crucial role to play in creating the products on which emerging nations and developing markets will...

Survey findings will result in the creation of a report covering AEC Technology & Business Trends.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 28 June 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a new research survey on the adoption of new technologies and processes within the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry.

In recent years, the AEC industry has adopted new technologies and processes, but has only just started to realize the benefits of adoption. CIMdata is surveying AEC practitioners, along with manufacturers and technology solution providers serving this market, to collect their views on the opportunities and obstacles they...

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Key takeaways:

• This biennial NAFEMS conference reaffirms the growing importance of engineering modeling and simulation across all industries and domains
• System Modeling and Simulation is becoming a key element in enabling the growth of the new paradigm of Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE)—“Thinking of a product as the sum of a number of interdependent systems”
• With its mini-symposium on “Democratizing CAE,” NAFEMS demonstrates a clear commitment to provide a platform for educating not just highly trained simulation experts but every engineer who uses simulation as a design tool

Over 320 people met in Seattle, coinciding with the 100th...

Webinar will focus on the options available for unleashing product data to the enterprise.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 24 June 2016—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Gerard Litjens, Director of European Operations, will take part in a webinar to discuss ways to democratize product information so that it is provided to everyone who needs it, when they need it, and throughout the product lifecycle.

In this webcast, “PLM for All: Unleashing Product Data to the Enterprise,” attendees will learn how leveraging product data across teams will drive better actions and decisions that can provide significant...