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 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

 PDF Siemens PLM Software’s announcement to acquire LMS International (LMS) is an important event in the PLM industry. The result will be the joining of one of the premier simulation, analysis, and test solutions and services providers with a major player in the broader PLM space. Siemens PLM Software stated that their intention is to “provide closed–loop, systems–driven product development solutions.” This closed–loop concept, combined with the ability to improve quality through the integration of LMS’ simulation, analysis, and test capabilities together with Siemens PLM Software’s product lifecycle management solutions should provide broad benefits to the customers of the joined companies. Siemens PLM Software has been developing systems engineering capabilities for many years. This acquisition supercharges that effort, giving them technology and, more importantly, a large team experienced in implementing a systems engineering approach, often at Siemens PLM Software own customers. The combination also enables systems engineering to be applied more

 PDF Key takeaways: Lack of resources, increasing product and supply chain complexities, and increasing customer and regulatory demands are driving the need for and adoption of systems engineering. Systems engineering and PLM are complementary, and companies that use PLM to enable systems engineering will have a competitive advantage. The current release of Teamcenter delivers comprehensive systems engineering support built on years of broad and deep expertise and functional capabilities. The future of product development productivity and competitiveness demands that systems engineering be supported. In today’s hyper–competitive business environment, companies across almost all industrial sectors have no choice but to find more efficient and effective ways to deal with the lack of resources, increasing product and supply chain complexities, and increasing customer and regulatory demands. Exploiting the product–development discipline of Systems Engineering and enabling it with the information and process management capabilities offered by today’s leading Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions is proving to be a truly

Citrix just announced a new collaboration with partners that will deliver Design Engineer Virtual Workstation solutions to meet the growing demand for secure anytime, anywhere access to 3D design applications. To help support this announcement, CIMdata recently conducted research on the need for 3D remote visualization technology to support mobile product lifecycle management (PLM). This survey was intended for product development or manufacturing personnel that create or access computer-aided design (CAD) technical data or IT staff that support users who create or access 3D content. CIMdata was attempting to validate several use cases for remote access to 3D data, referred to in the survey as “remote visualization,” and wanted to understand if the respondents’ companies were experiencing issues related to these use cases and the importance of each. The use cases described include:   CAD Education – To ensure optimal usage of complex 3D technology many companies have an internal training environment consisting

 PDF Key Takeaways: Autodesk Simulation 360 is a distinctive solution that effectively delivers cloud-based simulation. Innovative delivery and low cost of entry will serve to democratize simulation to a broader base of users and companies. The cloud can be a simple, cost effective way to deliver simulation resources. There will continue to be a need for highly utilized internal computing resources for some simulation requirements. The importance of simulation is expanding as companies move to full digital product development. Performance assessments using digital prototypes can have immense payback in terms of product development time, cost, and quality. Thus, companies are moving to implement “simulation-driven design,” using simulation early in the design process to develop, evaluate, and validate design concepts. Many of these same companies wish to democratize simulation: making it pervasive, integrated into their product design process, and available to a much larger constituency of users. To do so, they must overcome barriers of complexity (e.g.,