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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 7 February 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the formation of its newest business practice focused on the growing needs of PLM channel organizations and their sales partners. Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata, announced that Richard McFall, Director of CIMdata’s Global PLM Community, will lead the creation and delivery of CIMdata’s channel support offering for PLM solution providers and their partners. “Many PLM solution providers, old and new, large and small, will admit privately that they struggle with crafting effective sales channel strategies and sustaining resilient partnerships that reliably deliver new revenue with consistent levels of profitability and customer satisfaction,” commented Mr. McFall. He added, “our new channel practice will help both existing and prospective members of CIMdata’s PLM Community program to review, improve, empower, and track the performance of their indirect sales channels and partner ecologies.” With this new practice CIMdata

Promotions Reflect CIMdata’s Strategic and Expanding Role in the Global PLM Ecosystem ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 29 January 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the promotions of key Company personnel. In addition to recognizing service excellence within the firm, the promotions are designed to drive and support CIMdata’s strategic business direction and growth. Stan Przybylinski has been promoted to Vice President of Research after rejoining CIMdata in 2010 as Director of Research. Mr. Przybylinski was previously with CIMdata as a Senior Consultant from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Przybylinski’s promotion recognizes the increased importance of, and his growing role in, the expansion of CIMdata’s global research services. Mr. Przybylinski has over 30 years experience in the development of business-enabling IT solutions for research, engineering, and manufacturing organizations worldwide. He has worked in R&D, marketing, and communications with both Fortune 100 companies and smaller organizations. Cheryl Peck has been

 PDF Key takeaways: SolidWorks introduces My.SolidWorks, a free service that allows users to aggregate information drawn from the Internet. SolidWorks offers more information on a new product, SolidWorks Mechanical Conceptual, scheduled for release in September/October 2013. SolidWorks Corporation held their fifteenth annual user conference, SolidWorks World 2013, over four days, January 20–23, 2013 at the Florida Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort. Forty–five hundred attendees, including end users, resellers, third–party application vendors and SolidWorks employees, were welcomed by Bertrand Sicot, SolidWorks CEO. He emphasized the conference's theme "Design Without Limits" by reminding the audience that the current shipping version, SolidWorks 2013, supports backward compatibility. SolidWorks 2013 parts can be activated in SolidWorks 2012. Mr. Sicot also proudly noted that in December 2012 the company sold their two millionth copy of the software through their sales channel that now numbers 407 resellers worldwide. Bernard Charles, CEO and President of parent company Dassault Systèmes, also welcomed attendees

Program will take place in Amsterdam – April 22 - 26. Ann Arbor, Michigan — January 22, 2013 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces that it will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Amsterdam, The Netherlands from April 22 - 26, 2013. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership, the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased education and training offering available for today’s PLM professionals. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program prepares PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM strategy development and implementation. This assessment-based certificate program includes a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. Additionally, the program provides intensive and extensive exposure to a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, each participant receives a CIMdata PLM Certificate and becomes a member of

 PDF Key takeaways: Companies in all industries face an explosion of information channels without the commensurate ability to monitor that information to access what is most needed. Workers are accustomed to having always-on, always-connected devices to help enrich their lives by providing just the right information or assistance at precisely the right time. Netvibes, a Dassault Systèmes company, is bringing advanced dashboarding and analysis tools to PLM, scouring the extended enterprise and the web for wisdom to help improve decision making. Life was so much simpler just a short time ago. Most PC users spent their days with productivity tools like Microsoft Office, their enterprise tools, and perhaps a web browser. Now users also fill their days with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, LinkedIn, and the many other channels that demand their attention—and it is their attention that is the limited resource. The number of enterprise systems has also expanded well beyond most peoples’ ability

Forum series offers first public exposure to CIMdata’s analysis of 2012’s PLM market results. Ann Arbor, Michigan, January 8, 2013 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM consulting and research firm announces its international 2013 PLM Market & Industry Forum schedule and program. Now in their nineteenth year, these one-day events will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on April 9, 2013; Frankfurt, Germany on April 16, 2013; Beijing, China on April 19, 2013; and Tokyo, Japan on April 24, 2013. CIMdata’s 2013 PLM Market & Industry Forum is the premier industry event series designed exclusively for PLM solution and service providers of all sizes. During the forum events, CIMdata and forum attendees will collectively explore the issues currently facing the PLM market. Sessions will offer insights into the current economic climate and trends, and their effect on the PLM economy; a detailed presentation on CIMdata’s perspective on the state and

 PDF Key takeaways: Autodesk’s culture enables a level of risk taking and rapid innovation that is fairly exceptional in the PLM space. Autodesk emphasized that their solutions were “powerful, collaborative, accessible,” and that mobile, cloud, and social computing were core to their strategy. Based on the numbers reported by Autodesk, their strategy has shown solid adoption rates, and they believe financial returns will follow. This is no longer “your father’s Autodesk.” Their push to the cloud with a broad and deepening set of PLM–enabling capabilities is impressive. Their movement has the potential of changing the game significantly by radically connecting people anywhere, anytime. On November 27–29, 2012, Autodesk hosted over 9,000 of their closest friends in Las Vegas for their 20th Autodesk University (AU). While initially held just in the United States, AU now has global reach, with separate events in 2012 held in Japan, Russia, Brazil, Germany, and China. According to Autodesk, over 70,000

 PDF Key takeaways: A high impact PLM program begins with a “real vision” — one tied to the business strategy with measurable goals. Effective planning establishes a stepwise progression from measurable goals to an executable roadmap. There have been significant advancements in methods and tools by leading PLM solution delivery firms. In addition to recently reported planning successes, case studies indicate how it is possible to recover from a poor start. To achieve real enterprise benefits, a PLM program has to be perceived, planned and executed as a strategic enterprise initiative. The two key elements of any plan are vision and roadmap — defining where the enterprise wants to go and how it will get there. Assuming the prerequisite executive support is in place the challenge is effective planning to establish a vision and roadmap that can deliver strategic impact. First the vision must be relevant and real, meaning it must support the strategic direction of

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes rebranded their customer events “3DExperience Forums,” a new name consistent with their extensive repositioning and global corporate advertising campaign. Dassault Systèmes believes that creating unique “experiences” the path to sustainable competitive advantage. Systems engineering, based on integral support for the RFLP approach, is at the core of the V6 offerings. On November 5–7, 2012, Dassault Systèmes held their North American customer event, rechristened the “3DExperience Forum,” a new name that is consistent with their extensive repositioning and global corporate advertising campaign. Approximately 800 people (including about 450 customer representatives) attended the Orlando event. Author Joseph Pine played informal MC, providing comments in each plenary session. His 1999 book “The Experience Economy” is right on target for Dassault Systèmes 2012 messaging around ”experiences” as today’s product differentiator. A key point of his day 1 talk is that, to create value, companies are providing services associated with their products. However, those services can

 PDF Key takeaways: The PLM–oriented community experienced a rich and coherent set of presentations that detailed progress of Oracle’s Product Lifecycle Management applications roadmap, and case studies of successful implementations. The highest–value applications of Oracle’s Agile continue to occupy the broader territory of PLM outside of CAD data management. Oracle’s PLM product direction is clearly aligned with the company’s overarching cloud and software–as–a–service (SaaS) strategies. Notable strength in value delivery of Agile’s expanding consulting and system integrator relationships, especially in PLM–emergent industries. At the Oracle OpenWorld 2012 mega–conference, held from 30 September through 3 October in San Francisco, the presence of Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) was woven through numerous tracks but the insight provided was worth the effort of seeking it out. Oracle’s PLM leadership provided navigational guidance to the few hundred PLM devotees out of 40,000+ conference attendees. As a result, the PLM–oriented community experienced a rich and coherent set of presentations by