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Donald H. Brown, CIMdata Executive Consultant and founder of Collaborative Product Development Associates (CPDA) died 23 October 2013 following a prolonged illness.  Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata, today issued the following statement: “CIMdata is saddened that Don Brown, a pioneer in the computer systems IT and the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) industry has died. Don was a valuable colleague and friend whose industry insights, innovative thinking, and wisdom will be sorely missed.” During his career Don had developed and managed over a dozen collaborative research programs and advisory services targeting the leading edge for the implementation and development of distributed technology, and had produced many incisive and in-depth studies. He had advised senior executives, developers, implementers, and investors from large companies and start-ups. Don's clients ranged from the automotive and aerospace sectors to the leading computer systems companies, as well as applications solution providers in design and engineering. In May 2011, CPDA was

AVEVA today announced a further expansion of its sales and support network for the growing African market. AVEVA has appointed GN Engineering Service & Solutions as its sales and support representative, based in Luanda, Angola. The new agent will be responsible for the sale and front-line support of AVEVA’s product and solution to the country’s oil & gas, power and marine industries. 'Strategic relationships like this are very important to AVEVA’s growth in key regions,' commented Fredy Ktourza, Senior Vice-President – Western Europe & Africa, AVEVA. 'Angola has great potential in its oil & gas, chemical and mining industries. GN Engineering Service & Solutions are experienced in IT deployment and the vertical markets we serve, making them a great choice for AVEVA and offering both parties growth opportunities and scalability. This new local presence further demonstrates AVEVA’s commitment to the Southern Africa region.' 'We are very pleased to be working with AVEVA

Fourth Module of the 2013 PLM MAR Report Series ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 23 October 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of the CIMdata 2013 PLM Geography report, the fourth of five modules of the CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series. The MAR Series provides detailed information and in-depth analysis on the worldwide PLM market during 2012. It contains analyses of major trends and issues; revenues of leading PLM providers; and revenue analyses for geographical regions, industry sectors, and historical and projected data on market growth. The CIMdata PLM Market Analysis Report Series is packaged as five modules: The CIMdata 2013 Executive PLM Market Report provides an overview of CIMdata’s complete global analysis. It includes key charts on PLM market investment statistics through 2012, forecasts of investments for 2013 through 2017, and a summary of PLM solution providers’ performance in 2012. The CIMdata 2013 PLM Industry

 PDF Key takeaways: CIMdata and MarketKey collaborated on the first–ever combined PI Congress and PLM Road Map, 9–10 October 2013 at the Indian Lakes Resort, Bloomingdale, Illinois As many as five parallel tracks kept the 340+ attendees moving to hear the many informative speakers The PI Congress “Main Tent” sessions included several provocative speakers, and many highlights On October 9 and 10, 2013, over 330 delegates attended the Product Innovation (PI) Congress 2013 and PLM Road Map™ at the Indian Lakes Resort in the Chicago suburbs. For the first time, CIMdata delivered its annual PLM Road Map conference in conjunction with this event, helping to draw the large crowd, populated with business and technical professionals from multiple manufacturing and process industries and countries. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President of Research, acted as the PI Congress Chair while Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s President chaired the PLM Road Map. Day one began with an exciting talk by Brenna Berman,

 PDF Key takeaways: The tier 2’s and 3’s in the A&D market need product data tools that are just as capable as those their OEM customers rely on, but are more cost effective, easy to implement, and easy to support Consultants, Value–Added Resellers, and System Integrators that support the A&D supply chain seek solutions that meet their customers’ requirements and rising expectations, but can still be profitably sold, implemented, and supported with less risk The special expertise solution supplier CMstat is expanding their sales and support channels by looking for partners who desire solutions that support A&D data management requirements including configuration management and deliverables management Product Data and Deliverable Management While the business and trade press focuses on prime contractors of the big multi–year defense projects, like the F–35, Army Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Program, and drone programs, the reality is that there are many more lucrative market opportunities serving the legions of smaller SMB manufacturers

Altium Limited announces a strategic partnership in the Polish market with Computer Controls as an additional reseller in Poland.  Computer Controls is a renowned high-tech distributor for electronic components, test and measurement systems as well as electronic design software in Switzerland and Eastern-Europe. Effective from October 1, 2013, Computer Controls offers Altium’s full suite of products, including the new version of  Altium Designer 14, as well as providing software support, training and integration services to organizations across Poland. "I'm very excited to have Computer Controls as an additional partner for Poland. We have successful partnerships with them in other markets already and I'm now looking forward to extending this relationship," says Michael Leidel, EMEA Channel Manager for Altium. With more than 20 years experience as a technology and solution provider in Eastern Europe Computer Controls has arranged a highly motivated and experienced team with extensive and exceptional Altium know-how for the Polish market. “At Computer

Key takeaways: CIMdata and MarketKey collaborated on the first-ever combined PI Congress and PLM Road Map, 9-10 October 2013 at the Indian Lakes Resort, Bloomingdale, Illinois As many as five parallel tracks kept the 340+ attendees moving to hear the many informative speakers The PI Congress “Main Tent” sessions included several provocative speakers, and many highlights On October 9 and 10, 2013, over 330 delegates attended the Product Innovation (PI) Congress 2013 and PLM Road Map™ at the Indian Lakes Resort in the Chicago suburbs. For the first time, CIMdata delivered its annual PLM Road Map conference in conjunction with this event, helping to draw the large crowd, populated with business and technical professionals from multiple manufacturing and process industries and countries. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata’s Vice President of Research, acted as the PI Congress Chair while Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s President chaired the PLM Road Map Day one began with an exciting talk by Brenna Berman,

ZWCAD+ in Europe  After nearly a decade’s continuous development, ZWCAD has established a powerful channel network throughout Europe. Excellent partners in Europe have had great achievements in their CAD business and services for local users. Developers from industries including architecture, civil, rendering and more have come to join the big ZWCAD family, offering abundant useful design solutions based on ZWCAD+ to design professionals. This time at ZEF 2013, both partners and developers were present to share experience in the application of different industrial solutions, making ZEF a top communication platform for great minds in Europe. List item 1 List item 2 List item 3 ZSOFT also invited the major European customers to join this event. It took this opportunity to exchange ideas about the industrial trends and listen to the product requirements at the end-user level. These valuable feedbacks will help direct the final functionality of ZWCAD+, making it better in line with a variety

Reporting on how the latest technology can solve real business issues ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 17 October 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Stan Przybylinski, Vice President of Research, will review the results of a research project on the use of remote 3D graphics technology. The project assessed several key use cases where remote 3D graphics technology can be used to solve business issues. A white paper reviewing the results freely downloaded from CIMdata’s Publications web page. Use cases covered in the research include: Secure collaborative design Providing mobile access to data Reducing the impacts of hardware and software upgrades Disaster recovery support Join this webinar to hear Stan’s presentation and to hear a follow on discussion with panel of experts from IBM, Citrix and NVIDIA to discuss these issues. The webinar will be held on October 23 at 2pm ET/ 11am PT. https://citrix.webcasts.com/starthere.jsp?ei=1023578&sti=CIMdata. The webinar will be replayed on

Reporting on how the latest technology can solve real business issues ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 15 October 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces publication of a white paper titled “Virtually Delivered High Performance 3D Graphics: Secure collaboration with 3D data on all devices,” which features research on the real-world applications of remote 3D visualization and virtualization technologies. “A picture is worth a thousand words.” That old phrase is as true today as it ever was. Pictures (i.e., those with heavy graphical content) are still too large to easily transfer using the Internet or company wide area networks (WANs). Historically, high-powered desktop computers with dedicated 3D graphics hardware have been required to support data creation and modification. In addition, due to large file sizes, the 3D data needed to be on the local network, since opening the files from remote servers was too time-consuming. Over the last