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ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 6, 2005 — PTC announced today their acquisition of Polyplan Technologies Inc., a private company based in Montreal, Canada. Terms of the acquisition were not announced. PTC stated that this action was a key to its strategy to enable simultaneous product and process development through enhanced manufacturing process solutions. This move is not surprising and CIMdata is pleased to see PTC take this action. The Digital Manufacturing market, a sub-sector within the overall PLM market, is rapidly gaining visibility and is one of the fastest growing opportunities for PLM suppliers. CIMdata estimates that expenditures for Digital Manufacturing software and services exceeded $400 Million in 2004, and forecasts that expenditures will exceed $1.2 Billion in 2009. This acquisition will move PTC directly into the Digital Manufacturing market and begin to fill a significant hole in their overall suite of PLM product offerings. PTC has not previously supported this growing

Dassault Systèmes (DS) today announced an agreement to acquire 100% ownership of ABAQUS Inc., a leader in nonlinear finite element analysis software, in an all-cash transaction approximating $413 million, subject to the satisfaction of certain customary conditions and approval by the regulatory and merger control authorities, especially in the USA and in Germany. The transaction has received the unanimous support of ABAQUS's owners and management team and is expected to be completed by the end of the third quarter of 2005. DS expects the planned acquisition to be immediately accretive to net income, excluding acquisition costs and the impact of deferred revenue accounting treatment. We have been supporters of the concept that development of the complete virtual product must encompass more comprehensive simulation and analysis throughout the product development lifecycle. As product complexity continues to grow, coupled with increasing customer demands for product variations, the ability to quickly simulate and analyze

 PDF At CIMdata, we constantly monitor the evolution of PLM concepts, approaches, and solutions and look for new industry trends from the perspective of both users and solution providers. Eurostep has been on our radar screen for many years as a well known contributor to the development of global product data standards such as STEP ISO 10303. They have a well-earned reputation for bringing these ideas into actual production using commercial software as well as custom-made solutions. As part of current research efforts focused on solutions addressing the in-service and after-sales domains of the product lifecycle, we have recently reviewed Eurostep's Share-A-space product in detail. Our impression is that Share-A-space is a solid PLMenabling technology offering that supports some critical business needs faced by companies as they seek to implement PLM and other broad enterprise-based initiatives. Share-A-space appears to be an excellent tool for secure collaboration both within an organization as well

Agile announced today, 3 February 2005, the acquisition of Cimmetry Systems. CIMdata believes that this acquisition will have a positive impact on both Agile and Cimmetry as well as on the overall visualization tool market. By this acquisition, Agile has clearly demonstrated their view of the importance of visual collaboration as a key component of a full PLM solution. They have committed to both incorporating Cimmetry’s technologies and knowledge base into Agile’s suite of offerings, and to maintaining Cimmetry as an independent business operation. Cimmetry will continue to build and develop its supplier and partner relationships with a wide-ranging set of companies throughout the industry; companies that utilize the Cimmetry suite of technologies in their own offerings – this includes many companies that are direct competitors of Agile. We have been supporters of the concept that product data visualization is a key technology that rapidly delivers very substantial benefits to companies

UGS’ announcement of a definitive agreement to acquire Tecnomatix comes as no surprise. These two companies announced a strategic working relationship in the third quarter of 2002 and have been diligently working to further integrate both their technologies and customer sales and support activities. Most recently, UGS’ announcement of their Open Manufacturing Backbone (OMB) and its tight integration with the Tecnomatix suite of offerings reinforced these activities publicly. In a teleconference call today to discuss the acquisition, many of the comments from UGS and Tecnomatix personnel focused on the acceleration this acquisition will have upon further integration of the Tecnomatix technologies within the overall UGS product suite. UGS should gain from this acquisition by having direct control over development and support of technology that is critical to their future product suite. Their Digital Manufacturing suite of offerings will be much broader, and customer confidence in UGS’ ability to deliver a complete

Boeing, IBM, and Dassault Systèmes (DS) have announced that Boeing has selected DS' full V5 PLM product suite to be used as the development platform for the 7E7 dreamliner program. This will include use of CATIA, ENOVIA, SMARTEAM, and DELMIA products and services. Boeing stated that they intend to use the DS products across their extended supply chain and will request that suppliers also utilize DS V5 products in order to standardize use of specifications, engineering rules, operational parameters, and simulation results. This is intended to enable Boeing to create a Global Collaboration Environment (GCE) for the 7E7 development program and implement a virtual product development platform to improve collaboration, innovation, product quality, time-to-market, and return-on-investment. In addition, IBM's DB2 Universal Database will be used to provide a secure data repository for Boeing's internal teams and external development partners throughout the development cycle of the aircraft. Boeing and DS also announced a

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, June 7, 2004— Today, MatrixOne announced that they have reached a definitive agreement to acquire Synchronicity, a leader in product information management for the EDA industry. This is a significant event for both parties and good news for the overall PLM industry. It is consistent with MatrixOne's focus over the last couple of years to differentiate themselves in the PLM industry by providing solid PLM support for companies that have significant electronics-design content in their products. While MatrixOne has sustained solid PLM support to companies in a variety of industries, their increasing focus on electronics design content has been clear. Their relationship with Cadence (announced last year) involved a solution focused heavily on product information management in PCB-based design environments. Now, their acquisition of Synchronicity provides a solid capability for IC-based design environments as well. The combination of these efforts should provide them a substantial offering for any

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, March 15th , 2004 — EDS today announced that it has reached an agreement to sell 100% of its UGS PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Solutions business unit for $2.05B. The acquiring entity is comprised of a three-company team: Bain Capital, Silver Lake Partners, and Warburg Pincus Private Equity Group. The sale is expected to be completed within the next 90 days. This sale completes a process initiated by EDS last October, and that has been followed closely by the industry since that time. According to EDS, sale of the UGS PLM Solutions business unit, one of the premier providers of PLM solutions to industry, is a divestiture of a non-core, non-strategic unit while enabling UGS PLM Solutions to further enhance its future growth. Commenting on this, Ken Amann, Director of Research at CIMdata said, “ Establishing UGS PLM Solutions as an independent company is a very positive move for

 PDF Over the last several years, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) has emerged as the common term used to describe the creation, management, and use of product and plant related information and processes (i.e., an enterprise's intellectual assets or complete product or plant definition) throughout the entire lifecycle and across the extended enterprise. Historically, Product Data Management (PDM) and now PLM solutions were practical primarily for large, distributed enterprises that had the extensive resources required to deploy and maintain them. Today's PLM solutions are designed not only for large companies, but also for mid-sized enterprises in multiple industrial sectors. Increasingly companies of all sizes are recognizing the need for PLM solutions. At the same time, the capabilities of the solutions being offered have improved significantly. PLM's ability to enable enterprises to better create and manage their product or plant related information and processes has been proven for some time now. However, until recently

EMC's acquisition of Documentum should strengthen both its software and hardware sales and market position. EMC's strategy aims at becoming a provider of Information Lifecycle Management technology. Their acquisition of Documentum fits this strategy and will improve EMC's position as a major player in the content and information lifecycle management space. Content and information lifecycle management continue to grow in importance to companies in all industries and as the size and type of content to be managed grows, is a driver for storage related hardware and software sales. The integration of EMC storage management solutions with the new acquired Legato and Documentum product suites will enable EMC to offer a comprehensive information management lifecycle solution. From a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) perspective, this acquisition positions EMC as a potential player in that market also. Within PLM, content creation and management - as part of the overall product information lifecycle - has