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 PDF Key takeaways: Making better-informed decisions produces better business results. Presenting product- and business-related information three-dimensionally makes digital content more accessible and understandable to users. This is a visual world. Using 3D graphical images of products in development or of facilities being managed makes digital content more accessible and understandable to users, because most people find 3D visual representations easier to comprehend than tabular data, lengthy textual descriptions, or drawings. When joined with other business data associated with an item being viewed, stakeholders gain stronger insights relative to the everyday assessments and judgments they must make to deliver value. Such visual decision making can improve productivity and otherwise increase the corporate bottom line—i.e., making better-informed decisions produces better business results. The SAP 3D Visual Enterprise solution affords SAP and non-SAP customers alike the ability to interact with 3D images of their products, business information, and facilities in order to accelerate decision making within and across

 PDF Key takeaways: Over the last several years the SAP PLM portfolio of solutions has made great strides, making the question “why not SAP?” harder to avoid for potential customers and competitors alike. SAP’s in–memory technology, HANA, is providing significant revenues just a few years from its late–2010 launch. Over the next few years, additional SAP offerings will be built upon HANA to leverage its ability to rapidly analyze and visualize big data. SAP collaborated with its long–time partner, Wellesley Information Services (WIS), to hold their tenth SAPInsider event from March 3 to 8 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over 1,500 people attended tracks on enterprise resource planning (ERP), supply chain management (SCM), customer relationship management (CRM), and product lifecycle management (PLM). The keynote from Steve Lucas, Executive Vice President, SAP Database & Technology, highlighted SAP’s 2010 in–memory product introduction, HANA. In the presentation, titled “Business Suite on HANA: Innovation at the Speed of Imagination,” Mr. Lucas

Program will take place in Oslo – June 10-14.Ann Arbor, Michigan — 19 March, 2013 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic consulting and research firm announces that it will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Oslo, Norway from June 10-14, 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 CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community. According

An Emerging 3D TechnologyAnn Arbor, Michigan, 13 March 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces a new paper investigating the emerging technology of 3D geometric search. Many new products are designed using the 3D models of existing products as a starting point. The emerging technology of 3D geometric search fits into a company’s process best when the designer needs more than a text search to find a needed model. By quickly creating a 3D shape that embodies the most important aspects of the original model or models they seek, designers can perform a 3D geometric shape search and discover existing released models in the company’s repository. More importantly, they can sometimes find associated simulation and manufacturing data for those models that closely match their search criteria. CIMdata has looked at the current product offerings for 3D geometric search and identified those aspects of a solution

 PDF Key takeaways: Shorter product lifecycles require getting product design and cost management right the first time to ensure that each product achieves both its target cost, planned margin and exposes supply risk while there is still time to fix it Product Cost modeling using separate solutions in Excel, ERP, SRM or even siloed within PLM lack traceability and support of key integrated sourcing processes and often reduce model accuracy resulting in untapped product cost savings The most effective product cost management lies at the intersection of PLM, SRM, and ERP and leverages data and processes from each of these enterprise systems Introduction Controlling product cost early in a product lifecycle is a critical aspect of business success. If products lack an appropriate profit margin, the products will ultimately fail and the company could suffer in business and financial performance. In addition, speed is of the essence – companies have to get their products released and

 PDF Key takeaways: Companies must have swift, agile organizations that can quickly adapt to changing market demands Cloud–based PLM delivers fast deployment, solution flexibility, and reduced IT cost Canopy, Joint Venture of Atos, EMC2 and VMware, is providing cloud–based Teamcenter solutions tailored to each company to meet their needs for fast, cost–effective PLM solutions Introduction In today’s highly competitive global market, delivering differentiating, right to market products faster is critical to a company’s success as they strive to obtain a “first mover” competitive advantage. Winning companies must have swift and agile organizations that can adopt their products and business processes to meet rapidly changing market demands. Operational speed and flexibility are key factors in improving business performance and addressing the issues of time, cost, market change, and resource availability. Companies need to have the ability to access the functional applications they need, as they need them, for as long as they need them without having to pre–define

Workshops will take place in Cincinnati, Ohio on 30 April & 1 May Ann Arbor, Michigan, 6 March 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that CIMdata’s Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council and Systems Engineering Knowledge Council will offer two one-day workshops in Cincinnati, Ohio. These workshops will explore emerging best practices on how to address the critical issues facing participants in the simulation and analysis, and systems engineering communities. On 30 April, CIMdata’s Simulation & Analysis Knowledge Council and a select group of leading-edge users will share how they have been able to create a competitive advantage by deploying simulation and analysis to facilitate product and manufacturing system development. The workshop, now in its tenth year, will be facilitated by CIMdata’s practice manager for Simulation & Analysis, Dr. Keith Meintjes. The workshop will focus on two critical areas; the democratization of simulation and simulation capabilities, maturity,

Applying social product development strategies to improve collaboration and foster better product and business decisions Ann Arbor, Michigan, 5 March 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) management consulting and research firm announces the formation of its newest business practice on Social Product Development and Collaboration. The practice will concentrate on the use of social media tools and techniques to improve product development and innovation. Peter Bilello, President of CIMdata, announced that Dana P. Nickerson will lead the practice. “We are very pleased that Mr. Nickerson will be leading this new practice,” stated Mr. Bilello. “He is a thought leader in how to use information technology to improve product development to foster innovation and has deep knowledge and expertise in this area. He has implemented PLM at a fortune 500 industrial company, founded a software company that produces a Component Supplier Management product and provided PLM consulting to the

Program will take place from May 13-17, 2013 Ann Arbor, Michigan, 28 February 2013—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that it will bring its highly acclaimed PLM Certificate Program to Ann Arbor, Michigan from May 13-17, 2013. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership, the PLM industry’s most comprehensive solution provider agnostic 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 CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community. “We

 PDF Key takeaways: Most companies have business processes that need to leverage product information stored within their engineering or product development environments Managing and improving those processes has a significant positive impact on the business Autodesk PLM 360 provides a flexible, cost effective solution to address business processes as needed Introduction In today’s highly competitive global market, bringing compelling new products to market faster is a core strategy for success. For many companies it is critical to obtain a “first mover” competitive advantage. Global competition, product complexity, time to market, regulations, unit cost, life–cycle cost, compliance, and quality continually drive businesses to become more efficient and innovative across industries. Each year every company has a select number of initiatives in which they will invest to achieve their business goals but not all are design and engineering focused. Finding the right solutions to support these initiatives is critical to business success. One area that is crucial to success