ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 December 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces new research on “CONTACT Software: Focused on Customer Success.”

In today’s global economy, industrial companies face competitors from around the world. Customers demand increasingly complex products that require new approaches, new value chains, and new enabling technologies. To meet this changing world, many companies apply product lifecycle management (PLM) strategies and enabling solutions. CONTACT Software, a German company with a global strategy, has been successful through their laser focus on their customer’s success. This paper focuses on how CONTACT is evolving their offerings...

Free educational webinar focused on the importance of defining and developing a sustainable PLM strategy, will take place on January 14, 2016.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 December 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Developing a Sustainable PLM Strategy.” The webinar will take place on January 14 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will address the evolving nature of a typical enterprise and how PLM strategies should be defined and implemented in a sustainable manner—one that naturally addresses change.

According to the webinar host, CIMdata’s President, Peter Bilello, “Implementation of PLM is like...

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Key takeaways:

• Effective, early product costing, especially for manufacturers in the automotive, industrial machinery, and high-tech industries is becoming more critical to a company’s ability to propose, deliver, and service the products that are key to their long-term profitably
• Effective lifecycle costing must incorporate the mechanical, electronic, and software components of today’s increasingly complex products as well as production, service, and other factors
• The SAP Product Lifecycle Costing solution enables companies to better manage product costs and quotations in line with strategic targets, especially during the bid and early development phases where design is evolving and...

Attendees will be the first to learn about CIMdata’s analysis of 2015’s PLM market results.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 10 December 2015 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm announces its international 2016 PLM Market & Industry Forum schedule and program. Approaching their twenty-sixth year, these one-day events will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on March 31; Amsterdam, The Netherlands on April 7; Pune, India on April 11; Shanghai, China on April 15; and Tokyo, Japan on April 21.

CIMdata’s PLM Market & Industry Forum is the premier industry event series designed exclusively for PLM solution providers,...

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Key takeaways:

• Smart, connected products are becoming the norm in a wide range of manufacturing industries
• Companies must blend and manage software development tools within their existing PLM environments to strive for a single source of truth
• Acquiring Polarion Software provides Siemens PLM Software with cloud-based application lifecycle management solutions and software development expertise to extend their current PLM portfolio

Over the last few decades, manufactured products have become increasingly “smart” as the level of electronics and software have grown. The ubiquity of Internet access and the availability of cheap sensors and computing power make it easy...

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Key takeaways:

• Increased product complexity and global competition are driving manufacturing companies to increasingly look at PLM for competitive advantage
• Inconsistent alignment of enterprise value elements is leading to a widening of the value gap between the projected value and realized benefits of PLM systems
• Automotive, aerospace, and industrial product companies are implementing PLM best practice templates and rationalizing end-to-end application platforms to add flexibility via simplification and optimization
• Geometric’s PLM+ methodology contains a variety of PLM offerings including consulting and products that lead clients along the most effective path to optimize their PLM environments to deliver...

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 25 November 2015—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the completion of its inaugural PLM Road Map for the Global Automotive Industry. The theme of the event was Automotive’s High Tech Revolution. An enthusiastic group of industrial end users and PLM solution providers attended the event at The Sofitel Bayerpost in the heart of Munich, Germany.

The event comprised presentations made by industry-specific PLM users interleaved with short vignettes about topics of interest and automobile industry case studies presented by the sponsors of the event.

Speakers included:

• PLM – Who Needs It? Paul Thomas,...