PLM Industry Summary Editor: Christine Bennett Vol. 10 No. 21 Friday 23 May 2008 Contents

Company News ______3 Dassault Systèmes Inaugurates Global Virtual Campus for Students and Educators ______3 Former SAP, MatrixOne Executive Janet Heppner-Jones Tapped to Head Cordys in the US ______3 Just OnePlace Selects Holt Consulting for Apparel Industr ______4 LMS North America Opens New Headquarters and Expanded Technical Center ______5 New Video from Flomerics and Matchstick Productions Explains Human Flight in Wingsuits ______6 Open Text and Eduserv Sign Preferential Pricing Agreement for New Exceed Freedom™ Product from Hummingbird®, the Open Text Connectivity ______7 Open Text Wins SAP® Pinnacle Award in the Category Software Solutions: Field Engagement ______9 PTC Announces Winners in 2008 CoCreate® Explicit Modeling Design Competition ______10 PTC Appoints Software Industry Veteran, James Heppelmann, to PTC’s Board of Directors ______11 SAP Fosters Collaboration and Education Among Its Growing Business Process Expert Community _____ 12 Siemens PLM Software and Satyam Sign Alliance to Enhance PLM Solutions Value Delivery ______13 Think3 and EXTECH Join Forces to Lead Chinese Market ______14 Worksoft®Appoints Shoeb Javed Vice President of Engineering ______16 Events News ______17 ESPRIT at PTC User World Event 2008, Long Beach, Calif., June 1-4, 2008 ______17 Flomerics Announces Workshops on Optimizing Data Center Cooling ______17 45th Design Automation Conference Offers Diverse Line-up of 14 Workshops ______18 45th Design Automation Conference to Host Six Collocated Events ______19 Magma Highlights Expanded Product Portfolio At DAC 2008 ______20 The COE 2008 Fall Industry Workshops Call for Speakers is Open ______22 Webinar, May 28, 2008: Efficient Collaborative Engineering Change Management ______22 Webinar on Engineering Analysis, Simulation and Virtual Test Software in the Design of Heavy Machinery ______23 Financial News ______24 Ansoft Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results Release Date ______24 Cimatron Reports Record Revenues of $10.3 Million in Q1 2008 on a Non-GAAP Basis ______24 Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal First Quarter Results ______25 Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 ______29 Implementation Investments ______31 Altair HyperWorks Now in Use by the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) ______31 ANSYS Fluid Flow Modeling Software Improves Vehicle Design at Honda ______32 Bank of Ireland Selects Business Objects as Its Enterprise Business Intelligence Standard ______33 Bayer MaterialScience Selects SAP to Improve Chemistry With Customers ______35 Bell Helicopter Textron Selects MSC.Software's SimManager to Drive Innovation and Accelerate New Product Development ______36 Capgemini Standardizes on CollabNet for Global Collaboration ______38 Dedini, a Leading Capital Goods Manufacturer in Brazil, Selects Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter __ 39 Delcam’s PowerINSPECT Enables More Complex 3D Inspection ______40 Erling-Klinger Selects Digital Lifecycle Simulation from Siemens PLM Software ______41 Kabel BW Selects SAP to Strengthen Connection to Customers ______42 Mentor Graphics Calibre LFD Selected by STMicroelectronics for Litho Variability Analysis at 65 and 45

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Page 2 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Synopsys Announces Immediate Support for Altera Stratix IV FPGAs ______94 Tacton and MP Engineering Enter Into Reseller Agreement for TactonWorks ______95 Zuken Unleashes the Power of the Dragon New Intelligent Autorouting Platform ______95 Company News

Dassault Systèmes Inaugurates Global Virtual Campus for Students and Educators 22 May 2008 Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced the inauguration of a global virtual campus for students and educators, as well as employers interested in the education ecosystem. This international community Web site is designed to inspire visitors through its forums, tutorials, project showcases, articles, training materials and downloadable software, ultimately helping them develop the knowledge and skills necessary for success in tomorrow’s dynamic workplace environments. The site, named “DS Campus”, helps future engineers and technicians master cutting-edge 3D and PLM solutions used by innovative companies and that are quickly becoming mainstream. The global virtual campus provides among other services free online video training materials to help members boost their PLM software skills. It also facilitates international collaboration through its discussion forums, project showcases, and capabilities for students to recruit sponsors. One of the many students and educators who worked with Dassault Systèmes to prepare the site, Edwin Anderson, CATIA teaching assistant at the University of Idaho, commented, “I thoroughly enjoy having DS Campus available for the students, particularly the tutorials. They are very short and to the point, and they allow the students to gain a brief overview of a workbench and its functionality. From here we can explore more in-depth tools and processes.” The international community Web site is also for educators, with a platform dedicated to teaching methods and the provision of specialized teaching materials. Through DS Campus, teachers also have access to one of cyberspace’s most advanced online PLM libraries. “PLM and 3D technologies are advancing at an incredible speed. To keep up, it’s crucial for educators to be able to easily access an international exchange platform such as DS Campus and to leverage teaching best practices from around the world,” explained Xavier Fouger, director of Dassault Systemes’ Global Learning and PLM Academy. “DS Campus is built upon real workplace scenarios and is relevant to how industries are using PLM today and tomorrow. It helps prepare truly global engineers.” DS Campus not only provides a full library of over 400 interactive courseware items. A first in the U.S. and Canada, it also enables students to download software packages including CATIA V5 for only the price of a textbook. To learn more about DS Campus, visit: http://www.campus.3ds.com Click here to return to Contents

Former SAP, MatrixOne Executive Janet Heppner-Jones Tapped to Head Cordys in the US May 20, 2008 Cordys, a leading provider of Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) technology, today announced that it had appointed IT industry veteran Janet Heppner-Jones to the position of President, Cordys Inc. In this role, Heppner-Jones will be responsible for driving the company’s US expansion as it capitalizes on the momentum of 153% revenue growth worldwide during the last fiscal year. Heppner

Page 3 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Jones will report to Wim Heijting, President and Chief Operating Officer of Putten, The Netherlands- based Cordys Holding B.V., and will be based at the company’s US headquarters in San Jose. “Janet is a proven leader with strong management and customer relationship skills that will enable rapid growth of our US operations. She also has the international experience to capitalize on our global presence,” said Jan Baan, Founder, Executive Chairman and CEO of Cordys Holding B.V. “She is a results-oriented team builder and she understands thoroughly what enterprise customers need from their software partners.” Heppner-Jones has spent the last 24 years building successful technology and software organizations. Most recently as CEO at Syndera, she established a global sales strategy and a predictable delivery model. As Senior Vice President, Worldwide Field Operations at MatrixOne, she drove global sales and channel distribution. As CEO of Convey Software, she successfully transformed the company into a solutions provider of globalization software and services. Previously Heppner-Jones was Senior Vice President and General Manager at SAP America, where she ran a $550 million business unit. Heppner- Jones also spent 7 years at IBM, twice earning the prestigious Eagle Award given to the top one-percent of the sales force and consistently attaining Golden Circle status. She has a degree in Computer Information Systems from the University of Colorado. “Cordys technology has deep capability in multiple industries with a very strong ROI. Cordys solutions help leading network service providers reduce downtime and increase customer service. The company’s e-banking solutions drive online offerings for some of the largest banks in the world. In claims management, Cordys improves efficiency, visibility, new service time-to-market and operational control for top insurance companies. Cordys helps leading transportation companies streamline the customer onboarding process. In aerospace and defense, Cordys facilitates automated secure publishing for several of the largest manufacturers in the industry,” Heppner-Jones said. “I look forward to driving aggressive growth for Cordys in the US and continuing the commitment to excellence that is pervasive in everything Cordys does.” About Cordys Cordys provides an industry-leading Business Process Management Suite (BPMS) to Global 2000 companies. Cordys’ unique SOA-based solution enables customers to design, execute, monitor and improve business processes more rapidly, with better performance, and with greater adaptability than any other available solution. Companies from major industries worldwide have selected Cordys to support business performance improvement because business executives can continually optimize IT systems in real-time within a code-free environment. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Cordys is a global company with offices in the USA, the UK, Germany, China and India. Click here to return to Contents

Just OnePlace Selects Holt Consulting for Apparel Industr May 16, 2008 Just OnePlace, a leading developer of web-based Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and Workflow software solutions, today announced that it has selected Holt Consulting as an official partner as part of the company’s North American growth strategy. Holt Consulting will provide implementation, training, and business process consulting services for the OnePlace PLM & Workflow system for the apparel industry.

Page 4 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary “The OnePlace PLM & Workflow solution is an amazing new web-based PLM solution for the apparel industry.” said Stacy Holt, owner of Holt Consulting. “The user experience is remarkably similar to the products most users are already very familiar with (MS Outlook, most notably). This facilitates rapid adoption and implementations that only take a couple of weeks – no other system on the market even comes close to that.” “We are excited to be working with Holt Consulting.” stated Winston Teperson, CEO of Just OnePlace. “Their focus on customer satisfaction matches up perfectly with ours, and their 20+ years of hands-on experience in the apparel industry will provide immeasurable benefits to our clients.” Teperson continued “It is not often that you can find someone with their breadth and depth of experience and we are fortunate to partner with them because of their proven expertise and focus on results.” About Just OnePlace Just OnePlace is a leading supplier of product lifecycle management (PLM) and workflow solutions specifically designed for use in the fast moving consumer goods industry. Its flagship OnePlace PLM solution extends the value of traditional PLM systems by integrating a visual, dynamic workflow engine that enables companies to create a management-by-exception environment with the simplicity of a drag- and-drop design. Just OnePlace is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner and their innovative utilization of .Net and other emerging Microsoft technologies such as Windows Workflow Foundation, SQL Server, Visual Studio and Microsoft Expressions, resulted in the company being selected as the Microsoft “2007 ISV Software Solution Partner of the Year (ANZ)”. Click here to return to Contents

LMS North America Opens New Headquarters and Expanded Technical Center May 8, 2008 LMS, the engineering innovation company, is proud to announce an Open House celebration to unveil its new North American Headquarters to the public. After many years of continued growth in the North American market LMS has moved to a new corporate headquarters in Troy, Michigan. LMS has been located in the Troy area since it opened its first North American office in 1989 with only 6 employees. The new headquarters comfortably fits the almost 90 employees of the North American operations and allows for the continued growth and expansion. The new facility enables LMS to further intensify and improve customer interactions through extensive meeting rooms, training facilities and open office spaces. The engineering laboratory allows LMS Engineering Services to conduct in-depth simulation, product testing and evaluation with an improved control over security and testing conditions. The Open House celebration will be held at the North American headquarters on May 27th from 3PM to 7PM. LMS executive management from global headquarters in Leuven, Belgium will be attending to give key note presentations and personally greet customers who plan on attending. Dr. Urbain Vandeurzen, Chairman and CEO of LMS, will personally host the ribbon cutting ceremony. Technical demonstrations of LMS products will also be given throughout the facility for people to interact with and learn more about LMS products and services. Local dignitaries from the area will also be in attendance to meet LMS customers and employees. The celebration will also highlight LMS’s many years of continued success in the North American market. The LMS solutions include test and simulation tools used by leading manufactures to optimize

Page 5 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary product performance in the areas of noise, vibration, durability, dynamics, electrical, mechatronic, thermal, energy management, and fuel economy.. These tools have been embraced by many industries from automotive to aerospace to consumer goods to defense. For many Automotive OEMs, aircraft manufacturers, and ‘white goods’ producers the unique offering of test and simulation products integrated under one common architecture by one company have saved literally millions in improved product design and development. Engineering test data and simulation models can easily be shared across entire organizations with LMS solutions making it easy for global companies with engineering centers around the world to collaborate with one another. ABOUT LMS LMS is an engineering innovation partner for companies in the automotive, aerospace and other advanced manufacturing industries. LMS enables its customers to get better products faster to market, and to turn superior process efficiency to their strategic competitive advantage. LMS delivers a unique combination of virtual simulation software, testing systems, and engineering services. We are focused on the mission critical performance attributes in key manufacturing industries, including structural integrity, handling, safety, fuel economy, reliability, comfort and sound quality. Through our technology, people and over 25 years of experience, LMS has become the partner of choice for most of the leading discrete manufacturing companies worldwide. LMS, a Dassault Systèmes Gold Partner, is certified to ISO9001:2000 quality standards and operates through a network of subsidiaries and representatives in key locations around the world. For more information on LMS, visit the company’s web site at www.lmsintl.com. Click here to return to Contents

New Video from Flomerics and Matchstick Productions Explains Human Flight in Wingsuits 22 May 2008 Flomerics and Matchstick Productions have released a short video, which for the first time reveals the complex 3D airflow around a wingsuit that enables human beings to glide through the air like a bird. The video combines actual footage of human flight in wingsuits with airflow simulations using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software. The actual wingsuit flight segments come from the film “Seven Sunny Days” by Matchstick Productions. Flomerics’ EFD family of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software was used to calculate the fluid flows and pressures that produce lift and drag forces that enable wingsuit fliers to glide with an extraordinary level of control that enables them to trace the contours of rock ledges and other obstacles from just a few feet away. The wingsuit flier enters a freefall wearing both a wingsuit and a parachute. When exiting from a base jumping site or a helicopter, the flier begins with a vertical drop to use the forces of gravity to accelerate to a speed that the wingsuit can then use to produce lift. Wingsuit fliers typically fly at speeds of about 60 mph (95 km/h). The wingsuit flier manipulates the shape of their body to balance the aerodynamic forces and create the desired amount of lift and drag. The hands act as ailerons and very small hand movements control pitch and roll movements. An experienced flier can demonstrate amazing maneuverability by arching or bending at shoulders, hips and knees or changing the shape of their torso. The wingsuit flier finally lands by deploying their parachute. Flomerics’ EFD software made it possible to use 3D computer aided design (CAD) geometry directly to represent the human body. Flomerics engineers added thin shell elements between the arms and torso and between the legs to create a model of a human wearing a wingsuit. The rotation of key body joints

Page 6 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary such as wrists, knees, elbows was specified and changed easily within the solid model. Then they attached boundary conditions to the model such as giving the body a forward velocity of 60 mph. All ancillary data required for flow simulation, such as material properties and boundary conditions were associatively linked to the CAD model and carried along with all design changes. The software analyzed the CAD model and automatically identified fluid and solid regions without user interaction. Then the automatic mesher created the mesh while maintaining an exceptionally high level of quality, eliminating the need for any manual intervention. The ability to use the 3D CAD model directly was a key advantage in this analysis because of the need to model different arm, leg and hand positions in order to understand the extraordinary maneuverability of wingsuit fliers. The engineers performing the analysis simply changed the angles of various body joints in the CAD model. Then in a few minutes they were able to mesh the new models and perform CFD analysis in much less time than would be required using conventional CFD methods. While many engineers still think of CFD software as being difficult, time-consuming and expensive to use, this application demonstrates that a new generation of CFD software has addressed all these concerns. EFD’s ability to integrate CFD into the design process allows design engineers to focus on the physics of the problem, which in most cases they already understand well, and generate results much more quickly. This makes it possible for design engineers to get reliable answers, gain insight, and deliver tangible results that lead to improvements in product performance, lower costs and reductions in time to market. Click here to watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q09fO5SqHIo Click here to return to Contents

Open Text and Eduserv Sign Preferential Pricing Agreement for New Exceed Freedom™ Product from Hummingbird®, the Open Text Connectivity May 21, 2008 Open Text™ Corporation, a global leader in enterprise content management (ECM), announced today that it has signed a preferential pricing agreement with Eduserv, a not-for-profit, professional IT services group, to offer colleges, universities and research labs in the UK significantly reduced pricing for Exceed Freedom™, the latest product from Hummingbird®, the Open Text Connectivity Solutions Group. The agreement will enable these institutions to use advanced remote access software and services they would have otherwise been unable to afford. Located in Bath, UK, Eduserv's mission is to realize the benefits of information and communications technology for learners and researchers, and the institutions that serve them. The organization's licence negotiation and management service, Chest, delivers preferential pricing for software and data licenses on behalf of UK universities, colleges and other institutions engaged in educational or research activities for over 20 years. Ninety-seven percent of UK universities and colleges benefit from at least one Chest agreement, enabling many to obtain software at affordable prices. Open Text has had several products as part of the Chest program but its Hummingbird Connectivity portfolio has had the longest run: For 15 years, Connectivity products Exceed®, NFS Maestro™, HostExplorer® and Connectivity Secure Shell™ have connected students, researchers and academics to people, data and applications across the UK. This latest agreement expands the product offerings by including the newest product in the Connectivity product portfolio, Exceed Freedom. Colleges and universities that have been relying on Exceed to connect to UNIX hosts for scientific research and

Page 7 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary academic studies can now also acquire Exceed Freedom through Chest at reduced rates, thanks to Chest's shared service model. "Open Text's Hummingbird team has been fantastic to work with," said Johanna Fyfe, Supplier Relationship Manager for Eduserv's Chest service. "We can rely on Hummingbird to look after the institutions that use their products. That is why Exceed was one of the first products added to the Chest program and it has been providing institutions great value for their money." "Both Eduserv and Open Text have a thorough understanding of the needs of higher educational institutions, which we've gained through close cooperation with colleges and universities over the past 15 years. We are very happy with the relationship we have with Eduserv and look forward to working with them for years to come," said Eugene Cherny, General Manager of Hummingbird, the Open Text Connectivity Solutions Group. "Adding Exceed Freedom to the mix of products offered in the Chest program will give these institutions access to world-class software and services which is essential to furthering the education of future generations." For more information on the program offered by Hummingbird and Eduserv, go to: http://www.hummingbird.com/eduserv_ss Exceed Freedom: Pushing the Limits of UNIX Applications A first in the UNIX connectivity market, the innovative design of Exceed Freedom 2008 empowers learners and researchers to collaborate on projects in real-time. With new UNIX desktop sharing capabilities, Exceed users can now easily and securely share their UNIX desktop environments and applications with others over any geographical distance, Exceed Freedom helps organizations improve communication efficiency, reduce unproductive wait time, and accelerate business development and processes. Exceed Freedom lets mobile workers suspend and resume their UNIX application environments, so that users can easily gain access to the same UNIX desktop and applications from any location. Exceed Freedom preserves users' project assignments or researches in progress and keeps valuable data alive in the event of a sudden loss of power or network connection, significantly reducing down time and productivity loss. For more information about Exceed Freedom, please visit: www.hummingbird.com. Open Text's Leadership in Connectivity Solutions Hummingbird® , Open Text's Connectivity Solutions Group, provides solutions that connect people, data and applications in mission-critical environments through its complete line of remote application access and data integration solutions. With 90 percent of Global 2000 companies relying on its award- winning solutions for over 20 years, Hummingbird understands the financial and operational challenges that most organizations face, whether it is multiple systems, disparate data sources or geographically dispersed teams. For more information about Hummingbird, go to: www.hummingbird.com About Eduserv Eduserv is a not-for-profit, professional IT services group with the mission to realise the benefits of IT for learners, researchers, and the institutions that serve them. Eduserv achieves its charitable mission through the provision of sustainable services and funding research and development. Services include: • Secure access to online resources (Athens and OpenAthens)

Page 8 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary • Licence Negotiation & Management - (Chest) • Managed web hosting • Content management (CMS) and web development. Trading surpluses are used to support work across the education sector. About Open Text Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise content management, helps organizations manage and gain the true value of their business content. Open Text brings two decades of expertise supporting 46,000 customers and millions of users in 114 countries. Working with our customers and partners, we bring together leading Content Experts™ to help organizations capture and preserve corporate memory, increase brand equity, automate processes, mitigate risk, manage compliance and improve competitiveness. For more information, visit www.opentext.com. Click here to return to Contents

Open Text Wins SAP® Pinnacle Award in the Category Software Solutions: Field Engagement 20 May 2008 Open Text™ Corporation announced that it has received the SAP® Pinnacle Award in the category of Software Solutions: Field Engagement. SAP Pinnacle Awards are granted to a select few SAP partners that have excelled in developing their partnership with SAP by providing high-quality products, solutions and services to customers. Each year, SAP partners are eligible for awards in performance categories ranging from sales and marketing, to development of solutions and applications. SAP announced the winners of its coveted SAP Pinnacle Awards 2008 Sunday at an exclusive ceremony during the SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin conference. Around 300 representatives from partner companies from all over the world as well as SAP executives attended the ceremony. For the winners and finalists of the SAP Pinnacle Awards 2008, go to: http://www.sap.com/ecosystem/partners/recognitionprograms/pinnacleaward.epx. The award comes after SAP’s announcement a year ago that it would begin reselling solutions from Open Text on a global basis (http://www.opentext.com/news/pr.html?id=1879). Open Text’s capabilities for secure, long-term archiving and document access complement the existing document management capabilities of SAP® applications. The solutions help customers increase business process efficiency, reduce risks and ensure compliance with government regulations. Open Text is the only ECM vendor with solutions that are resold by SAP. The global reseller agreement builds on over two decades of partnership and co-development between SAP and Open Text. Open Text’s ECM suite for use with SAP applications is an offering deployed in more than 2,700 SAP customer sites around the world. Open Text offers a complete range of capabilities for managing and archiving business documents -- incoming/outgoing invoices, orders, delivery notes, quality certificates, human resources documents – that originate from customers’ SAP solutions. “This award recognizes Open Text’s long-standing dedication to delivering world-class ECM solutions to the SAP customer base,” said Patrick Barnert, Vice President, SAP Solutions Group at Open Text. “Over the past year, we have worked extremely hard to engage with the SAP field. As this award demonstrates, Open Text and SAP have enjoyed tremendous success in jointly delivering ECM solutions that help customers globally further improve business operations.”

Page 9 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary “SAP is committed to extending the customer experience by orchestrating a unique ecosystem to foster co-innovation between SAP, customers and partners,” said Zia Yusuf, Executive Vice President, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group, SAP. “This year's Pinnacle Award recipients have demonstrated industry-focused excellence, innovative solutions and reliable services that address high-priority business needs and deliver exceptional customer value. We thank Open Text for their dedication and passion in teaming with SAP to help redefine the customer experience.” Open Text is an SAP software solution partner with products that have achieved SAP Certified Integration status. For more information on Open Text’s ECM solutions for use with SAP applications, go to: http://www.opentext.com/products/sap. Click here to return to Contents

PTC Announces Winners in 2008 CoCreate® Explicit Modeling Design Competition May 19, 2008 PTC, The Product Development Company®, today announced the winners of its 2008 CoCreate explicit design competition celebrating excellence in design. CoCreate, PTC’s explicit CAD, PDM & collaboration software provides companies with a lightweight and flexible approach to designing products. Contestants from 118 companies around the world participated in the competition, submitting more than 170 entries. Users were invited to submit a screenshot, rendered image, 3D model, 2D drawing or animation of an original design in any of 20 different product categories. Winners were selected in each of the following major categories by more than 2,500 voters who selected their favorite designs. • Best Overall Design – Liebherr Hausgeräte Lienz GmbH • Office & Personal Electronics – RKS • Industrial & Professional Electronics – Molex Holding GmbH • Test & Measurement – RKS • Medical Products – Eppendorf Liguid Handling • Laboratory Equipment – ID Group,Inc. • Food Handling, Storage & Packaging – Liebherr Hausgeräte Lienz GmbH • Non-Food Packaging and Handling Equipment – Harro Hofliger, Verpackungmaschinen GmbH • Air and Heating, Cooling & Power Equipment – AIRTEC Anlagenbau GbR • Material Handling, Preparation & Storage – Bedeschi SpA • Non-Electronic Consumer Products – ID Group, Inc. • Machine Tools – Kellenberger & Co, AG • Conceptual Designs – ID Group, Inc. • Drives, Motors & Gears – ID Group, Inc. • Transportation, Cranes & Lifting Devices – Liebherr Werk Ehingen, GmbH

Page 10 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary • Agricultural Equipment – IHI STAR Machinery Corporation • Household Products – RKS • Furniture – ID Group, Inc. Liebherr Hausgeräte Lienz GmbH was named as the winner for best overall design, capturing the highest number of votes for its “ice cream display and storage unit." This visually appealing and innovative entry was also named winning design in the Food Handling, Storage and Packaging category. Additional categories new to this year’s competition included Student Designs, Designs Created with CoCreate Modeling PE and a miscellaneous “other” category. The complete results and winning designs may be viewed here. “Congratulations to the winners of this year’s design competition. An amazing variety of innovative products designs were submitted by customers around the globe,” said Robert Gremley, divisional vice president, marketing, PTC. “CoCreate’s explicit modeling approach allows designers and product development teams to quickly create and modify 3D product designs, which allows faster design cycles and brings flexibility to the design process.” Click here to return to Contents

PTC Appoints Software Industry Veteran, James Heppelmann, to PTC’s Board of Directors May 20, 2008 PTC, The Product Development Company®, today announced the appointment of James Heppelmann to its Board of Directors. In addition to this appointment, Mr. Heppelmann remains as PTC’s executive vice president, software products and chief product officer. The appointment of Mr. Heppelmann expands PTC’s board to seven members. In his current management position, Mr. Heppelmann is responsible for PTC’s overall product direction, development, and marketing. Mr. Heppelmann has worked in the software industry since 1985 and has extensive experience developing and deploying large-scale product development systems within the manufacturing marketplace. Prior to joining PTC, Mr. Heppelmann was founder and chief technical officer of Windchill Technology, a Minnesota-based company acquired by PTC in 1998. Before founding Windchill Technology, Mr. Heppelmann served as chief technical officer at Metaphase Technology, Inc. Heppelmann brings a valuable combination of business strategy, market knowledge, and software product development experience to PTC’s board. As the driving force behind Windchill®, now one of PTC’s most successful product offerings, Mr. Heppelmann understands the challenges of creating, and commercializing, enterprise software solutions. Mr. Heppelmann’s broad industry knowledge enables him to provide critical input to PTC’s long term business strategy. “Jim is a seasoned executive whose broad technical and management expertise will further strengthen the board,” said Noel G. Posternak, chairman of the Board of Directors, PTC. “He understands the challenges and opportunities facing PTC customers and has demonstrated his ability to translate that understanding into a product strategy that addresses their needs.” About PTC PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides leading product lifecycle management (PLM), content management and

Page 11 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary dynamic publishing solutions to more than 50,000 companies worldwide. PTC customers include the world's most innovative companies in manufacturing, publishing, services, government and life sciences industries. PTC is included in the S&P Midcap 400 and Russell 2000 indices. For more information on PTC, please visit http://www.ptc.com. Click here to return to Contents

SAP Fosters Collaboration and Education Among Its Growing Business Process Expert Community May 20, 2008 SAP AG today announced new incentives for the more than 350,000 members of its Business Process Expert community (http://www.bpx.sap.com/), which has more than tripled its size since 2007. The community is a collaborative online environment where members can share business process solutions, organizational expertise and best-practices to increase business agility. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held May 19-21 in Berlin, Germany. The Business Process Expert community—consisting of business analysts, project managers, business process architects, application consultants and other business process professionals—continues to expand rapidly. Over recent months, several new interest areas have been released to the community, such as: • Enhancement packages for the SAP® Business Suite family of business applications • A dedicated space that fosters collaboration and best-practices for customer relationship management (CRM) implementations and the development of CRM solutions • A community-authored book to equip aspiring Business Process Expert community members with tools and recipes for success • Expanded industry forums to bring innovative collaboration tools to new markets SAP has rolled out a collaborative wiki area to co-create enhancement packages for its flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, SAP® ERP, including an enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA) starter kit for the members of the Business Process Expert SOA community. The enhancement packages will provide the community with a first-hand look into important roll-out information on new SAP Business Suite offerings. The community will also be invited to contribute feedback about the packages on wikis, blogs and forums, which will be incorporated into existing and future enhancement-package updates. The SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP® CRM) Business Process Expert community is one of the first solution areas to actively engage the community for input on product development. Traditionally, product managers have used a one-way "push" model to communicate launches and update products. Today, SAP CRM managers are using the community to engage customers and partners in a "push-pull" or collaborative development model. Using Web 2.0 tools such as crowd sourcing, viral networking and video blogging, SAP invites actionable feedback from members before product launches and throughout the CRM product lifecycle. The SAP community-written book, Sophisticated Empathy, will provide details on how the Business Process Expert community members can help their organizations succeed. Members have contributed the factors for success in the book, the first-ever of its kind. It is co-edited by Dan Woods, former chief

Page 12 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary technology officer of TheStreet.com and Capital Thinking, and Marco ten Vaanholt, SAP's head of the Business Process Expert community. The foreword has been written by Zia Yusuf, executive vice president, SAP Ecosystem and Partner Group. The book contains 150 pages of helpful information about the value and benefits of business process best-practices, as well as practical advice and examples on how to gain competitive advantage from business process excellence and innovation. The formation of two new additional industry communities—professional services and transportation and logistics—brings the total number of industry-focused community forums to 18. These important additions illustrate leadership and continued momentum from SAP's growing use of Web 2.0 approaches to co-develop industry solutions with industry leaders, which are tailored to address their specific business challenges. Three case studies in the aerospace & defense, oil & gas and public sector communities capture the value of the various communities at SAPPHIRE 2008 Berlin, along with: • A showcase of Business Process Expert community and corporate social responsibility (CSR) engagements, featuring James Farrar, vice president, CSR, SAP, discussing issues including how the community can help to reduce individuals' carbon footprints. • A showcase of online and Web 2.0 Business Process Expert community assets as well as community presentations, solution demonstrations and live blogging from the event by community members. SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire. Click here to return to Contents

Siemens PLM Software and Satyam Sign Alliance to Enhance PLM Solutions Value Delivery May 21, 2008 Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, and Satyam Computer Services Ltd. (NYSE: SAY), a leading global consulting and IT services provider, today announced a global consulting and systems integrator alliance to provide optimized PLM software and services to help customers enhance efficiency and top-line growth. The alliance will enable clients to benefit from Satyam’s global domain expertise, combined with Siemens PLM Software’s industry-leading PLM technology. “This alliance with Satyam, a leading PLM service provider, will enhance the ability of both organizations to deliver outstanding PLM products and services to customers in critical industries,” said John Graham, executive vice president, Global Sales and Services, Siemens PLM Software. “It will also enhance our focus on non-traditional verticals and geographies and bring the benefit of PLM to these customers.”

Page 13 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The companies will use Siemens PLM Software’s PLM technology to create focused solutions for the chemical, oil and gas, and industrial machinery industries. Collaborating on aligned sales, marketing, and delivery strategies will enable the companies to more efficiently bring PLM solutions to their global customer base including those in the focus industries. “Siemens PLM Software’s world-class PLM technology, combined with our multi-industry expertise, will enable us to further evolve the PLM industry,” said Joseph Lagioia, Director, Senior Vice President, and Global Head for Consulting and Enterprise Solutions at Satyam. “As partners, we will deliver solutions to a much larger, more diverse market and create real value for our clients. It also reaffirms our commitment to providing clients with the widest range of services, through the most advanced global delivery models.” About Satyam Satyam (NYSE: SAY), a leading global business and information technology services company, delivers consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing solutions to clients in 20* industries and 63* countries. Satyam leverages deep industry and functional expertise, leading technology practices, and an advanced, global delivery model to help clients transform their highest-value business processes and improve their business performance. The company’s 51,127* professionals excel in engineering and product development, supply chain management, client relationship management, business process quality, business intelligence, enterprise integration, and infrastructure management, among other key capabilities. Satyam development and delivery centers in the US, Canada, Brazil, the UK, Hungary, Egypt, UAE, India, China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Australia serve 654* clients, including more than one third of the Fortune 500. For more information, see www.satyam.com. (*as of March 31, 2008) About Siemens PLM Software Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 5.5 million licensed seats and 51,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software’s open enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products and services. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm. About the Siemens Industry Automation Division The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the Siemens Industry Sector, is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. Click here to return to Contents

Think3 and EXTECH Join Forces to Lead Chinese Market May 20, 2008

Page 14 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Think3 Inc., the only supplier to offer technology solutions that combine product concept, engineering and tooling environments, and Beijing Extech Science and Technology Co Ltd, a Chinese leading PLM software vendor, have announced the creation of a joint venture called EXTECH. Supported by new investment in think3 from world leading venture capital firms NEA and CrossLink, the newly launched company is set to become the leading player in the Chinese manufacturing software market. The alliance will allow think3 to enter this strategic market to jointly provide CAD/CAPP/PDM/MPM integrated solutions through Beijing Extech Science and Technology' established sales network backed up by its deep understanding of Chinese customer requirements. The new investments in the joint venture will considerably strengthen EXTECH's R&D capability and local support coverage. EXTECH will also benefit from Beijing Extech Science and Technology Co Ltd's strong distribution and sales network which counts 18 sales offices across the country, with over 6,000 customers. The new company will combine think3's current solution offering with EXTECH's portfolio of products to penetrate the fast growing Chinese CAD, CAM and PLM markets with cutting edge solutions. Filippo Zuccarello, CEO of think3, Joneson Wang, CEO of Beijing Extech Science and Technology Co. Ltd., and the new management team presented the background to the Joint Venture and shared the vision for the aggressive growth plans at the Official Announcement Ceremony in Beijing. The new company will have its head quarters in Beijing and the global R&D organization will have bases in China, Italy, France and India. "This agreement is key to think3's strategy to grow its direct presence in China" said Filippo Zuccarello, CEO, think3 and Chairman of EXTECH. "Drawing on the combined strengths of think3 and Beijing Extech Science and Technology, the newly launched company will be able to deliver incredible value through expanded research and development, a broader range of products and services and massive sales and support capabilities". "The winning formula combining advanced international technology and strong financial investment will provide Chinese customers with the perfect technology solution coupled with an excellent customer orientated local service. This unique position of EXTECH as a Chinese company with a Global Technology and Development Network will enable Chinese Manufacturers to rapidly become innovation leaders" said Joneson Wang, President & CEO, of EXTECH. "The joint venture between Think3 and Beijing Extech Science & Technology is a new business model for our investment strategy in China. We believe the new venture will create tremendous value to Chinese customers and make a great contribution to the IT revolution of Chinese manufacturing industry by combining initiatives around technology, product portfolio and marketing. Our team in China fully endorses the new venture. We also strongly believe the Chinese Government and industry partners in will support the new company," concluded Mark Perry, General Partner of NEA. EXTECH combines advanced technology from think3, global R&D resources as well as local culture and knowledge from Beijing Extech Science & Technology Co. Ltd. to form a new PLM provider, delivering fully integrated solutions from concept design to manufacturing production. This puts EXTECH in an enviable position to quickly become the largest PLM player in China. Representatives from the Chinese Government Science & Technology Committee, the Ministry of Industrial Information, Tsinghua University and Italian Embassy attended the ceremony. They encouraged EXTECH to use advanced technology and over 14 years of local support and services to unveil the latest PLM integrated solutions and significantly contribute to innovation in the Chinese manufacturing industry.

Page 15 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary About think3, Inc. think3 has been operating in the ICT sector for more than 25 years and provides the only technology that links three separate design areas: the concept, its development and the finished product. In this way, think3 enables thousands of company customers to innovate, to compete and to rise to the challenges of global markets, by the integration of processes, which helps to accelerate time to market and to reduce costs. Having been active in emerging markets with dedicated structures for many years, think3 can provide outsourcing services, thus offering companies a new opportunity to go international. All this means that think3 can count among its customers some of the most significant enterprises in the industrial market. With offices in Europe, Asia and USA, think3 is present throughout other global markets too, with its network of selected VARs. For further information, please visit http://www.think3.com About Extech Science & Technology Co. Ltd Beijing Extech Science & Technology Co., Ltd, owned by Tsinghua Chengzhi Technology Development Co.,Ltd , is a large-scale software enterprise specializing in developing software and providing China manufacturers with frontline IT products and services. Ever since its establishment in Tsinghua Science Park in 1994, Beijing Extech has already grown into a powerful force that can exert great influence in the industry in its mere ten years development. For further information, please visit http://www.extech.cn Click here to return to Contents

Worksoft®Appoints Shoeb Javed Vice President of Engineering May 19, 2008 Worksoft, Inc., a leading provider of testing solutions to automate, accelerate, and optimize deployments of SAP® applications, today announced the appointment of Shoeb Javed as vice president of engineering. Javed is an experienced executive with more than 17 years of experience leading the development of cutting-edge network infrastructure, enterprise software, and service management solutions. In his new role, he is spearheading the development of Worksoft’s testing solutions software and is responsible for managing Worksoft’s development team, as well as overseeing product and customer support. “Worksoft is experiencing rapid growth and to meet these growing market opportunities, we are expanding our leadership team," said Bruce Johnson, president and CEO of Worksoft. “Shoeb’s extensive experience designing and delivering quality software -- built with customer needs in mind -- will be an invaluable asset for Worksoft and our customers as our growth continues." Prior to Worksoft, Javed was CTO of Variview Technology, where he was responsible for product development, operations, and business development. He successfully restructured the company's webcasting, enterprise content management, and digital media solutions to increase the customer base, (including Fortune 500 companies), as well as revenues per customer. He also held leadership roles at companies that include Ericsson, M68 technologies, Vesta Broadband Services, and Intelect Network Technologies. “I am excited to be part of Worksoft’s dynamic and highly talented team,” said Javed. “Worksoft’s application lifecycle management solutions are truly best of breed and are gaining rapid market

Page 16 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary acceptance with many new customer deployments. I look forward to leading the engineering organization to rapidly accelerate this momentum with new solutions and continue Worksoft’s tradition of not only meeting, but exceeding, our customers’ expectations.” About Worksoft, Inc. Worksoft pioneers innovative approaches to software quality testing, and is a premier provider of lifecycle automation solutions for use with SAP® solutions to reduce the total cost of ownership for users. Worksoft’s unique “scriptless” or code-free approach to creating and maintaining test cases speeds the rollout of SAP solutions by up to 60 percent; shortens time-to-value by improving reliability of business processes; and meets compliance, training and reporting requirements through the auto- generation of documentation and capture of reusable business process knowledge. Worksoft's customers include industry leaders in manufacturing, financial services, government, healthcare, retail and transportation. Worksoft was founded in 1998 and has its headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Click here to return to Contents Events News

ESPRIT at PTC User World Event 2008, Long Beach, Calif., June 1-4, 2008 21 May 2008 The latest version of computer-aided-manufacturing (CAM) software created by DP Technology will be on display June 1-4, when ESPRIT® 2008 will be featured at the PTC User World Event 2008 in Long Beach, Calif. The annual PTC User World event is a conference that offers technical training, networking opportunities and exhibits featuring innovative solutions from leading technology companies. Visitors to the ESPRIT booth can expect personal attention from DP staff, as well as demonstrations and presentations of the software. Upgrades available in the new release include turning stock automation for lathes, EDM machine specific machining technology, improved 3D machining performance, open pocket milling, expanded CAD to CAM feature exchange (FX), enhanced KnowledgeBase™ machining (KBM) functionality, and B-axis turning for 5-axis mill-turn machines. On display at PTC User World Event 2008, enhancements within ESPRIT 2008 reduce the time required to produce part programs, increase the quality of those programs and help reduce machining cycle times. Click here to return to Contents

Flomerics Announces Workshops on Optimizing Data Center Cooling 21 May 2008 Flomerics has announced regular workshops on how to optimize the thermal performance of data centers using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation software. The workshops will explain how to simulate the thermal performance of an existing or planned data center configuration using templates and libraries that enable users to simply drag and drop building blocks into the model. The three-day seminar includes two days of training while the third day is devoted to helping attendees model their own data center. “This new workshop will help architects, engineers and facility owners optimize

Page 17 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary cooling performance and minimize energy costs for both new and existing data centers,” said Paul Rose, Principle Consultant Engineer with Flomerics. “Interested companies can contact us and we will schedule a workshop specially for them at their convenience.” The first two days of the workshop will explain how to model data centers including the following topics: 1) using templates that provide the basic structure of the layout; 2) creating the room layout including walls, raised floor, etc. 3) adding floor grills from a library; 4) add computer room air conditioners (CRACs) either in the data center or in a utility room; 5) modeling cabinets containing computing and communications equipment; 6) solving the model and generating visual and numeric results; 7) making improvements in the design of the data center to optimize cooling and minimize energy consumption. The rapid increase in power density of today’s computing and communications equipment has strained traditional data center design methods to their limits. The traditional approach involves calculating the bulk cooling and airflow requirements in the data center then providing a cooling system that can manage the load with plenty of room to spare. Today, however, power densities and overall power consumption have risen to levels where this approach is no longer practical. It has become too expensive simply to throw more computer room air conditioners (CRACs) at the problem. Data center designers now need to understand the local 3D airflow within the room to allocate the existing cooling capacity more efficiently and ensure that every piece of equipment is properly cooled and redundancy requirements are met. Flovent CFD software provides a solution to this problem. CFD predicts and graphically illustrates the complete 3D airflow patterns as well as temperature and pressure distributions within the data center. This makes it possible to go beyond bulk measurements and make the most efficient use of the cooling capacity by ensuring cool air is directed exactly where it is needed. The user has the opportunity to evaluate changes in the cooling system layout or equipment configuration and optimize the design of the data center for each change. This results in substantially lower initial costs and operating costs for the cooling system while ensuring reliable operation of the data center. To get more information or schedule a workshop, contact your nearest Flomerics office: http://www.flomerics.com/contactus/index.php Click here to return to Contents

45th Design Automation Conference Offers Diverse Line-up of 14 Workshops 21 May 2008 Attendees to the 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC) will be able to participate in 14 workshops at this year’s conference. The workshops cover a wide variety of design technology areas as well as business-related topics. The 45th DAC will be held June 9 – 13 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. Business Workshops Four workshops focusing specifically on business issues will be offered at this year’s DAC. The Women in Design Automation: Networking, Negotiation, and Nonsense: Achieving Career Balance in an Unbalanced World is set for Monday, June 9 from 9 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. and speakers will address the foundations of various business skills such as negotiation and networking. The other business workshops include Effective Technical Writing and the Introduction to Chips and

Page 18 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary EDA for a Non-technical Audience, both on June 10 and Maximizing Efficiency in the Development Cycle on June 12, will give DAC attendees a detailed look at integrating valuable business-related skills into everyday practice. Design Workshops DAC will offer workshops in four separate design categories: Low Power Design; Synthesis and FPGA; System Level and Embedded; and Strictly Design. The Low Power Coalition Workshop – Advances in Low Power Design for Circuits and Systems, scheduled for June 8 at 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., will present the steps forward since the last Low Power Workshop at DAC 2007 and discuss future directions and end-user experiences with the technology developed and implemented so far. The Low Power Technical Committee of ACM Special Interest Group on Design Automation (SIGDA) will partially sponsor the Cross-layer Power and Thermal Management full-day workshop on June 9 and will bring together new researchers to develop new visions for research on power and thermal management. The full-day workshop, System and SoC Debug on June 8, is based on two successful workshops originally organized by ECSI in 2007 and 2008. It will provide overviews of several standards related to multicore debug and will include representation from IEEE working groups, including Nexus Forum, IJTAG (IEEE P1687) and groups within the OCP-IP, Multicore Association, SPIRIT and Eclipse consortiums. The 4th Integrated Design Systems Workshop - OpenAccess: A Platform for Continuous Evolution and Innovation workshop on June 9 will examine the innovations changing the future of IC design. Verification and Test Workshop The full-day Diagnostic Services in Network-on-Chips (DSNOC) workshop, organized in conjunction with DAC and slated for June 9, will address the latest developments of Network-on-Chips (NoCs) related to test, debug and online monitoring. The focus of this workshop is to examine and explore NoCs and their impact on system design. New and Emerging Technology Workshop The full-day workshop, Biochips to Interface and Monitor Human Biological Functions, on June 8, will provide insights on new and emerging technologies, specifically focusing on biochip technologies and the future of medical science. The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for Electronic Design Automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. More details are available at: http://www.dac.com. Click here to return to Contents

45th Design Automation Conference to Host Six Collocated Events 21 May 2008 The 45th Design Automation Conference (DAC) has coordinated with organizers of six related industry events and conferences to collocate with DAC to provide greater benefit to participants. This year’s

Page 19 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary DAC collocated events are: the Semiconductor Test Consortium; MEMOCODE 2008; 6th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors; Gigascale Systems Research Center Quarterly Workshop (GSRC); International Workshop on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST-2008); and the IEEE/ACM Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures (NANOARCH ’08). The 45th DAC will be held June 8-13, 2008 at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif. From June 4-6 at the Hilton Hotel in San Diego, the Semiconductor Test Consortium will host an interactive forum to meet industry colleagues worldwide and address solutions to the technical and business test-related challenges. The consortium will feature presentations from industry professionals throughout the semiconductor supply chain. MEMOCODE 2008 scheduled for June 5-7 at the Anaheim Convention Center, will bring together researches and professional practitioners of modern hardware and software systems design to address how future design methods can benefit from new results on formal methods. The 6th IEEE Symposium on Application Specific Processors, set for June 8-9 at the Anaheim Convention Center, will address system level and embedded design to address challenges and solutions facing today’s designers. The GSRC workshop, on June 8 at the Anaheim Hilton, will address the challenges of parameter variability and circuit reliability, power, concurrency and reliability. On June 9 at the Anaheim Convention Center, the International Workshop on Hardware- Oriented Security and Trust (HOST-2008) will serve as an open forum to discuss the issues surrounding the vulnerabilities in chip design in military and financial systems. From June 12-13, NANOARCH ’08 will focus on new and emerging technologies. Serving as a forum for presentation and discussion, the conference will include technical sessions, panel discussions and a keynote address by Dr. James R. Heath of the California Institute of Technology. NANOARCH ’08 will take place at the Anaheim Convention Center and registration is available at http://www.dac.com. Click here to return to Contents

Magma Highlights Expanded Product Portfolio At DAC 2008 22 May 2008 Magma® Design Automation Inc. announced a line-up of demonstrations for the 45th Design Automation Conference that will show how engineers can use Magma's broadened line of software to create electronic products that innovatively address today's consumer demands. The new Titan™ analog implementation system, methods for minimizing power consumption, and design for manufacturability (DFM) capabilities integrated in the design flow will be among the technology Magma demonstrates at DAC 2008, June 8-13 in Anaheim. Magma's slate of demonstrations at DAC will include: * "Power of Green": Magma's complete low-power solution in an era of global green initiatives to minimize carbon footprint. * "Automated Hierarchical Design Solution": Features Hydra™, Magma's recently announced auto- interactive hierarchical design platform. * "Best Physical Implementation Throughput through Sign-Off": Talus® Vortex, Quartz™ RC,

Page 20 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Quartz Time and Talus qDRC help designers implement designs across multiple modes and process, voltage, temperature (PVT) corners. * "Accelerating Analog Circuit and Memory Simulation": How FineSim™ SPICE, FineSim Pro and SiliconSmart® are used for various types of analog IP and memory designs. * "Accelerating Mixed-Signal Design": See how the Titan mixed-signal design platform provides a truly unified, automated, full-chip, mixed-signal design solution. * "Advanced Library and IP Characterization": See the accuracy, automation, and throughput of the SiliconSmart characterization system when used to characterize custom cells, I/Os, and macros. * "Accelerating Analog Design Migration": The traditional analog/mixed-signal design environment has not changed in 20 years. In this demo we will show how the Titan environment reduces analog IP migration from years to weeks. * "Accelerating SoC Finishing and Verification": Quartz DRC, Talus and Titan Chip Finishing are integrated to reduce the amount of time spent on chip finishing and physical verification tasks. * "Enhancing Yield through Integrated Yield Management": See the latest offerings for device debug and failure analysis offered in Magma's Camelot™ software and options, along with Magma's integrated fab-wide yield management system, YieldManager®, and LogicMap™ for true design for manufacturability. * "Chip-Package Co-Design": RioMagic™, a package-aware chip design tool that bridges the gap between packaging and chip design, provides a single platform for chip-package co-design, minimizing the number of iterations between chip and package teams. Custom sessions focus on flip-chip finishing, package-centric and top-down planning/design. In addition to the software demonstrations, Magma will be involved in other activities during DAC: * "Design and Verification of Low Power ICs." Workshop, Sunday, June 8, 2 p.m. * "Women in Design Automation" Magma's Mar Hershenson will deliver the keynote address. Monday, June 9, 9 a.m. * "The Proof is in the Pudding" IPL Workshop, Monday, June 9, 12:30 p.m. * "Titan Chip Finishing and Faster Analog Design Implementation" Exhibitor Forum presentation, Monday, June 9, 2 p.m. * "Electronics and Politics: What the Industry Needs From the Incoming U.S. Administration" Panel discussion, Tuesday, June 10, 10:30 a.m. * "Reinventing EDA with Many core Processors" Panel discussion on Tuesday, June 10, 2 p.m. * "What's Holding Back Analog Design Automation?" Pavilion Panel discussion, Wednesday, June 11, 5 p.m. More information on the demos and DAC activities is available online at http://www.magma- da.com/DAC. Click here to return to Contents

Page 21 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The COE 2008 Fall Industry Workshops Call for Speakers is Open May 2008 The success of all COE events is based on the advanced knowledge sharing between COE members. Submit an abstract of your presentation for consideration by the Workshop Planning Committees by Friday, June 6, 2008. Contact [email protected] if you have questions. COE 2008 Industry Workshop - Automotive

Submit an abstract to become a speaker at the COE 2008 Industry Workshop - Automotive. COE 2008 Industry Workshop - Aerospace & Defense

Submit an abstract to become a speaker at the COE 2008 Industry Workshop - Aerospace & Defense. Visit the individual workshop pages for more information and how you can get involved. Click here to return to Contents

Webinar, May 28, 2008: Efficient Collaborative Engineering Change Management 22 May 2008 In many cases today, development of products within industries like Automotive and Aerospace is executed in a collaborative environment. A key issue in these collaborations is the management of information changes. A typical project involves a number of companies with well functioning but different internal change processes. Efficient collaboration requires that the internal processes at the participating companies can communicate in a standardized way. One initiative addressing this area is the ECM standardization work performed by the Automotive industry within VDA and SASIG. Another important initiative within the area of Collaboration was the VIVACE project performed by the European Aerospace industry. Volvo Aero and Eurostep presented a Collaboration HUB approach to ECM based on the above at a conference earlier this year. The webinar will present the benefits of a Hub based approach to ECM as well as an example on how

Page 22 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary such a standards based solution can be implemented using Share-A-space along with technologies like MS Sharepoint and MS Biztalk. If you would like to attend the webinar please contact Ulrika Peterson at Eurostep. Click here to return to Contents

Webinar on Engineering Analysis, Simulation and Virtual Test Software in the Design of Heavy Machinery May 20, 2008 Noran Engineering, Inc. (NEi) will host a webinar on “Using Engineering Analysis, Simulation, and Virtual Test Software for Heavy Machinery Design” on Tuesday June 17, 2008 at 10:30-11:30 am EDT. The webinar is intended for manufacturers of heavy equipment and machinery found in industries like earth moving and offshore oil platforms that are challenged by keeping design and manufacturing costs low while maintaining a competitive edge in the global market. Major manufactures have been early adopters of finite element analysis (FEA) and simulation software in their engineering process because of the cost savings, improved quality, promotion of safety, and faster time to market. Among the specific benefits realized when applying FEA into an engineering environment are: • Ability to explore more “What-If” scenarios • Create shorter development cycles • Design for strength and increased performance • Reduced the number of physical prototypes The one-hour webinar will introduce the ease-of-use capabilities of creating digital prototypes with the FEMAP® pre/post processor and NEi Nastran robust solvers. Specific topics that will be covered include: • Assemblies – Faster and easier analysis through Automated Contact Generation (ACG™) • Dynamics – Vibration, mode shapes and frequency response • Material Selection – Examine material options to achieve cost objectives Interested parties may attend this webinar by registering at: www1.gotomeeting.com/register/498299079. Additional information is available by phone at 714-899- 1220 or through email at [email protected]. About Noran Engineering, Inc. (NEi) NEi is a global leader in developing finite element analysis (FEA) and simulation software for virtual testing in aerospace, automotive, maritime, petroleum, medical, and consumer products. The core product NEi Nastran works with all major pre and post processors including Femap® by Siemens PLM and in house brands NEiFusion™ and NEiWorks™ for SolidWorks®. Engineers gain design insight early in the development process with graphic visualizations of parameters like stress, deformation, vibration modes, and heat transfer. Companies gain a competitive edge improving their product development process making it faster and less costly while delivering designs that are more innovative, reliable, and higher quality. Website: www.neinastran.com.

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Ansoft Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results Release Date 21 May 2008 Ansoft Corporation will release financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended April 30, 2008 before the market opens on Thursday, May 29. In light of the press release issued on March 31, 2008 announcing the signing of a definitive agreement relating to the acquisition of Ansoft Corporation by ANSYS, Inc., there will be no conference call to discuss the results of the fourth fiscal quarter of 2008. Click here to return to Contents

Cimatron Reports Record Revenues of $10.3 Million in Q1 2008 on a Non-GAAP Basis 20 May 2008 Cimatron Limited announced financial results for the first quarter of 2008. Following the merger and acquisition transactions with Gibbs in early 2008 and with Microsystem in 2007, Cimatron's results in the first quarter of 2008 consolidate Gibbs’ financials for the first time and consolidate Microsystem's results for the first time in a first calendar quarter. In addition, following these transactions, and due to business combination accounting rules that have a significant impact on Cimatron's financial results, Cimatron is, for the first time, also reporting non-GAAP financial data. Financial Highlights: Revenues on a GAAP basis for the first quarter of 2008 increased 88% to $10 million, as compared to $5.3 million in the first quarter of 2007. The increase was attributed both to organic growth and to the consolidation of Microsystem's and Gibbs' results. Gross Income on a GAAP basis for the first quarter of 2008 was $8 million as compared to $4.5 million in the same period in 2007. Gross margin in the first quarter was 80%, compared to 84% in Q1 2007. The decrease in gross margin is mainly attributed to business combination accounting rules, and as expected, to Microsystem's lower margins on third party hardware products sales as compared to the margins on Cimatron sales. Operating Loss on a GAAP basis in the first quarter of 2008 was $(218) thousand, compared to an operating income of $113 thousand in the first quarter of 2007. Net Loss for the quarter on a GAAP basis was $(298) thousand, or $(0.03) per diluted share, compared to a net income of $181 thousand, or $0.02 per diluted share recorded in the same quarter of 2007. Revenues on a non-GAAP basis for the first quarter of 2008 increased 92% to $10.3 million, as compared to $5.3 million in the first quarter of 2007.

Page 24 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Gross Income on a non-GAAP basis for the first quarter of 2008 was $8.4 million as compared to $4.5 million in the same period in 2007. Gross margin on a non-GAAP basis in the first quarter of 2008 was 82%, compared to 84% in Q1 2007. Operating Income on a non-GAAP basis in the first quarter of 2008 was $277 thousand, as compared to non-GAAP operating income of $123 thousand in the first quarter of 2007. Net Income on a non-GAAP basis in the first quarter of 2008 was $235 thousand, or $0.02 per diluted share, as compared to non-GAAP net income of $191 thousand, or $0.02 per diluted share in the first quarter of 2007. Commenting on the results, Danny Haran, President and Chief Executive Officer of Cimatron, said, “We are pleased to show year-over- year revenue growth as a result of organic growth and the addition of Microsystem and Gibbs. The Gibbs merger process is well underway, as Cimatron's global distribution network has broadened its offering with GibbsCam solutions, and currently starting initial GibbsCAM sales. During the first quarter of 2008 we have kept our business momentum, still, the strong devaluation of the US Dollar against the New Israeli Shekel resulted in a 20% increase in the costs of our Israeli operations in Q1 2008, as compared to Q1 2007. This devaluation effect was only partially offset by the more favorable Dollar to Euro exchange rate. We are taking cost control measures to counter the weak Dollar effect on our financial results and expect to see the benefits of such measures during 2008.” Reconciliation between results on a GAAP and Non-GAAP basis is provided here. Non-GAAP financial measures consist of GAAP financial measures adjusted to include recognition of deferred revenues of acquired companies and to exclude amortization of acquired intangible assets and deferred income tax, as well as certain business combination accounting entries. The purpose of such adjustments is to give an indication of our performance exclusive of non-GAAP charges and other items that are considered by management to be outside our core operating results. Our non-GAAP financial measures are not meant to be considered in isolation or as a substitute for comparable GAAP measures, and should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Our management regularly uses our supplemental non-GAAP financial measures internally to understand, manage and evaluate our business and make operating decisions. We believe that these non- GAAP measures help investors to understand our current and future operating cash flow and performance, especially as our two most recent acquisitions have resulted in amortization and non-cash items that have had a material impact on our GAAP profits. These non-GAAP financial measures may differ materially from the non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies. Click here to return to Contents

Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal First Quarter Results 22 May 2008 Mentor Graphics Corporation announced first quarter fiscal 2009 revenue of $179.2 million. Non-GAAP earnings per share were a loss of $.10. On a GAAP basis, earnings per share were a loss of $.30, including significant special charges driven by cost control activities in the quarter.

Page 25 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary “In a difficult environment, the company performed as we forecast,” said Walden C. Rhines, chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics. “Our investments in new technologies and markets continue to pay dividends, with growth in analog/mixed-signal design, electronic system level (ESL) design, automotive and design-for-test, among others.” During the quarter, the company launched the Questa® InFact intelligent testbench which offers customers improved design verification, as well as the Questa Multi-view product which allows designers to span different levels of abstraction in their verification flows. The company also simplified the complex task of debugging multicore designs with the Questa Codelink product. Agilent and Mentor Graphics launched a tight integration of their respective tools to simplify and accelerate RF board design. “During the quarter, we extended our cost management efforts, resulting in virtually flat headcount year over year, despite several acquisitions over the last year and our investment in field benchmarking staff for our Olympus place and route campaigns,” said Gregory K. Hinckley, president of Mentor Graphics. “Looking forward, we continue to see a strong second half driven by renewals.” Guidance For fiscal year 2009, the company expects revenue of approximately $915 million, with non-GAAP earnings per share in the range of $1.05 to $1.10 and GAAP earnings per share in the range of $.45 to $.50. For fiscal second quarter, consistent with the previously forecast weaker first half, the company expects revenue of about $173 million, non-GAAP loss per share of $.10 to $.15 and GAAP loss per share of $.18 to $.23. Discussion of Non-GAAP Financial Measures Mentor Graphics management evaluates and makes operating decisions using various performance measures. In addition to our GAAP results, we also consider adjusted gross margin, operating margin and net income (loss), which we refer to as non-GAAP gross margin, operating margin, and net income (loss), respectively. These non-GAAP measures are derived from the revenues of our product, maintenance, and services business operations and the costs directly related to the generation of those revenues, such as cost of revenue, research and development, sales and marketing, and general and administrative expenses, that management considers in evaluating our ongoing core operating performance. These non-GAAP measures exclude amortization of purchased and other identified intangible assets, in-process research and development, special charges, equity plan-related compensation expenses and charges, and gains which management does not consider reflective of our core operating business. Purchased and other identified intangible assets consist primarily of purchased technology, backlog, trade names, customer relationships, and employment agreements. Special charges consist of post- acquisition rebalance costs including severance and benefits, excess facilities, and asset-related charges, and also include strategic reallocations or reductions of personnel resources. Equity plan-related compensation expenses represent the fair value of all share-based payments to employees, including grants of employee stock options, as required under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123 (revised 2004), “Share-Based Payment” (SFAS 123R). For purposes of comparability across other periods and against other companies in our industry, non-GAAP net income (loss) is adjusted by the amount of additional taxes or tax benefit that we would accrue using a normalized effective tax rate applied to the non-GAAP results. For the three months ended April 30, 2008 and April 30, 2007, we excluded $0 and $164 thousand,

Page 26 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary respectively, of interest expense attributable to net retirement premiums and write-offs of debt issuance costs. The amounts were expensed in connection with the refinancing or repurchase of certain convertible debt. The amounts were excluded as management does not consider these transactions a part of its core operating performance. For the three months ended April 30, 2008 and April 30, 2007, we excluded $168 and $0 thousand, respectively, of equity in losses of unconsolidated entities. The amounts represent our equity in the losses of a common stock investment accounted for under the equity method. The amounts were excluded as management does not consider these transactions a part of its core operating performance. In certain instances our GAAP results of operations may not be profitable when our corresponding non- GAAP results are profitable or vice versa. The number of shares on which our non-GAAP EPS is calculated may therefore differ from the GAAP presentation due to the anti-dilutive effect of stock options in a loss situation. Non-GAAP gross margin, operating margin and net income (loss) are supplemental measures of our performance that are not required by, or presented in accordance with, GAAP. Moreover, they should not be considered as an alternative to any performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP, or as an alternative to cash flow from operating activities as a measure of our liquidity. We present non- GAAP gross margin, operating margin and net income (loss) because we consider them to be important supplemental measures of our operating performance and profitability trends, and because we believe they give investors useful information on period-to-period performance as evaluated by management. Management excludes from our non-GAAP measures certain recurring items to facilitate its review of the comparability of our core operating performance on a period-to-period basis because such items are not related to our ongoing core operating performance as viewed by management. Management considers our core operating performance to be that which can be affected by our managers in any particular period through their management of the resources that affect our underlying revenue and profit generating operations during that period. Management uses this view of our operating performance for purposes of comparison with our business plan and individual operating budgets and allocation of resources. Additionally, when evaluating potential acquisitions, management excludes the items described above from its consideration of target performance and valuation. More specifically management adjusts for the excluded items for the following reasons: • Amortization charges for our purchased and other identified intangible assets are inconsistent in amount and frequency and are significantly impacted by the timing and magnitude of our acquisition transactions. We therefore consider our operating results without these charges when evaluating our core performance. Generally, the most significant impact to inter-period comparability of our net income (loss) is in the first twelve months following an acquisition. • Special charges are primarily severance related and are due to our reallocation or reduction of personnel resources driven by modifications of business strategy or business emphasis and by assimilation of acquired businesses. These costs are originated based on the particular facts and circumstances of business decisions and can vary in size. Special charges also include excess facility and asset-related restructuring charges. These charges are not specifically included in our annual operating plan and related budget due to the rapidly changing technology and competitive environment in our industry. We therefore exclude them when evaluating our managers’ performance internally. • Management supplementally considers performance without the impact of equity plan-related compensation charges and believes this information is useful to investors to compare our performance to

Page 27 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary the performance of other companies in our industry who present non-GAAP results adjusted to exclude stock compensation expense. We view equity plan-related compensation as a key element of our employee retention and long-term incentives, not as an expense that should be an element of evaluating core operations in any given period. We therefore exclude these charges for purposes of evaluating our core performance. • Income tax expense (benefit) is adjusted by the amount of additional tax expense or benefit that we would accrue if we used non-GAAP results instead of GAAP results in the calculation of our tax liability, taking into consideration our long-term tax structure. We use a normalized effective tax rate of 17%, which reflects the weighted average tax rate applicable under the various tax jurisdictions in which we operate. This non-GAAP weighted average tax rate is subject to change over time for various reasons, including changes in the geographic business mix and changes in statutory tax rates. Our GAAP tax rate for the three months ended April 30, 2008 is 18% after consideration of discrete items. Without discrete items of $1,581 thousand, our GAAP tax rate is 23%. Inclusive of discrete items, our full fiscal year 2009 GAAP tax rate is projected to be 31%. The GAAP tax rate considers certain mandatory and other non-scalable tax costs which may adversely or beneficially affect our tax rate depending upon our level of profitability. Non-GAAP net income (loss) also facilitates comparison with other companies in our industry, which use similar financial measures to supplement their GAAP results. However, non-GAAP net income (loss) has limitations as an analytical tool, and you should not consider this measure in isolation or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. In the future we expect to continue to incur expenses similar to the non-GAAP adjustments described above and exclusion of these items in our non-GAAP presentation should not be construed as an inference that these costs are unusual, infrequent or non-recurring. Some of the limitations in relying on non-GAAP net income (loss) are: • Amortization of purchased intangibles, though not directly affecting our current cash position, represents the loss in value as the technology in our industry evolves, is advanced or is replaced over time. The expense associated with this loss in value is not included in the non-GAAP net income (loss) presentation and therefore does not reflect the full economic effect of the ongoing cost of maintaining our current technological position in our competitive industry, which is addressed through our research and development program. • We regularly engage in acquisition and assimilation activities as part of our ongoing business and therefore we will continue to experience special charges and merger and acquisition charges on a regular basis. These costs also directly impact our available funds. • Our stock option and stock purchase plans are important components of our incentive compensation arrangements and will be reflected as expenses in our GAAP results for the foreseeable future under SFAS 123R. • Our income tax expense (benefit) will be ultimately based on our GAAP taxable income and actual tax rates in effect, which often differ significantly from the 17% rate assumed in our non-GAAP presentation. • Other companies, including other companies in our industry, may calculate non-GAAP net income (loss) differently than we do, limiting its usefulness as a comparative measure. Click here for the full press release that includes financial tables. Click here to return to Contents

Page 28 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 21 May 2008 Synopsys, Inc. reported results for its second quarter ended April 30, 2008. For the second quarter, Synopsys reported revenue of $324.6 million, a 10.8 percent increase compared to $292.9 million for the second quarter of fiscal 2007. "Synopsys continues to deliver predictable revenue growth and solid earnings expansion," said Aart de Geus, chairman and CEO of Synopsys. "We are seeing good momentum as our leading technology, comprehensive solutions and strong field support make us a long-term, reliable partner to our customers." GAAP Results On a generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) basis, net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2008 was $39.4 million, or $0.27 per share, compared to $41.3 million, or $0.28 per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2007, which included a $12.5 million litigation settlement received from Magma Design Automation, recorded in other income, net. Non-GAAP Results On a non-GAAP basis, net income for the second quarter of fiscal 2008 was $59.7 million, or $0.41 per share, compared to non-GAAP net income of $53.2 million, or $0.35 per share, for the second quarter of fiscal 2007. Non-GAAP net income consists of GAAP net income excluding employee share-based compensation expense calculated in accordance with FAS 123® and, to the extent incurred in a particular quarter or period, amortization of intangible assets (which could include in-process research and development charges), facilities realignment charges, and other significant items, and the related tax-effect of each, which, in the opinion of management, are infrequent or non-recurring. See "GAAP Reconciliation" below. Financial Targets Synopsys also provided its operating model targets for the third quarter and full fiscal year 2008. These targets constitute forward-looking information and are based on current expectations. For a discussion of factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from these targets, see "Forward-Looking Statements" below. Third Quarter of Fiscal Year 2008 Targets: -- Revenue: $335 million - $343 million -- GAAP expenses: $290 million - $308 million -- Non-GAAP expenses: $260 million - $270 million -- Other income and expense: $0 - $3 million -- Tax rate applied in non-GAAP net income calculations: 26 - 27 percent -- Fully diluted outstanding shares: 143 million - 148 million -- GAAP earnings per share: $0.18 - $0.24 -- Non-GAAP earnings per share: $0.38 - $0.40

Page 29 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary -- Revenue from backlog: greater than 90 percent Full Fiscal Year 2008 Targets: -- Revenue: $1.325 billion - $1.340 billion -- Tax rate applied in non-GAAP net income calculations: ~ 26 percent -- Fully diluted outstanding shares: 146 million - 149 million -- GAAP earnings per share: $0.99 - $1.11 -- Non-GAAP earnings per share: $1.60 - $1.64 -- Cash flow from operations: ~ $325 million GAAP Reconciliation Synopsys' management evaluates and makes decisions about the Company's business operations primarily based on the bookings, revenue, and direct, ongoing and recurring costs of those operations. Management does not believe amortization of intangible assets (including in-process research and development charges), facilities realignment charges and other significant infrequent items are ongoing and recurring operating costs of its core software, intellectual property and service business operations. In addition, while employee share-based compensation expense calculated in accordance with FAS 123( R ) constitutes an ongoing and recurring expense of the Company, such expense is excluded from non- GAAP results because it is not an expense that requires cash settlement by the Company and because such expense is not used by management to assess the core performance of the Company's business operations. Therefore, management excludes such costs, to the extent incurred in a particular quarter, from the following historical and targeted GAAP financial measures included in this earnings release: total cost of revenue, gross margin, total operating expenses, operating income, income before provision (benefit) for income taxes, provision (benefit) for income taxes, net income and net income per share. For each such measure, excluding these costs provides management with more consistent, comparable information about the Company's core performance. For example, the Company does not undertake significant restructuring or realignments on a regular basis, and, as a result, excludes associated charges in order to enable better and more consistent evaluations of the Company's operating expenses before and after such actions are taken. Management also uses these measures to help it make budgeting decisions, for example, as between product development expenses (which affect cost of revenue and gross margin) and research and development, sales and marketing and general and administrative expenses (which affect operating expenses and operating margin). Finally, the availability of such information helps management track performance to both internal and externally communicated financial targets and to its competitors' operating results. Management recognizes that the use of these non-GAAP measures has certain limitations, including the fact that management must exercise judgment in determining whether certain types of charges, such as those relating to workforce reductions executed in the ordinary course, should be excluded from non- GAAP results. However, management believes that, although it is important for investors to understand GAAP measures, providing investors with these non-GAAP measures gives them additional important information to enable them to assess, in a way management assesses, Synopsys' current and future continuing operations. Reconciliation of Second Quarter Results Click tables to for information that reconciles the specific items excluded from GAAP in the calculation

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Altair HyperWorks Now in Use by the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) May 16, 2008 Altair Engineering, Inc., a leading global provider of technology and services that empower innovation and decision-making, announced today that the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) is now providing HyperWorks CAE tools for graduate and undergraduate courses in structural design and optimization. CU-ICAR is a premier educational and research facility for automotive and motor sports engineering. Its unique academic program offers master's and doctoral degrees in automotive engineering with an emphasis on systems integration. CU-ICAR's evaluation of HyperWorks, the industry's most comprehensive open-architecture CAE solution, highlights its great potential for creating innovative engineering courses and research programs. "Our students are using HyperMesh and OptiStruct to design innovative structural systems that require advanced finite-element meshing capabilities and optimization," said Dr. Lonny L. Thompson, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Innovative Computational Engineering and Mechanics Lab at Clemson University. "The HyperWorks open architecture—to be able to easily import parts and assemblies from different CAD packages, create meshes, and export to different finite-element programs—enables us to integrate with the different formats of our industry partners. Clemson's mechanical engineering program is also expanding the role of HyperWorks tools in multi- disciplinary engineering analysis courses. "In our senior-level technical elective course, ME 440—Materials for Aggressive Environments—we have been introducing the students to the concept of total-life-cycle (TLC) material selection," said Dr. Mica Grujicic, Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. "The use of multi-disciplinary computational engineering analysis to assess manufacturability, performance, durability and recyclability of alternative designs is an integral part of the TLC approach. Such analyses entail solid modeling, pre-processing, topology, size and shape optimizations, linear and non-linear structural mechanics computations, manufacturing process simulations, and post-processing. We are very pleased that all of these capabilities are available within Altair HyperWorks." "Having a single computer package that possesses all of these capabilities makes it possible to cover a large range of concepts, methods, and tools in a one-semester course," Grujicic said. "HyperWorks is also proving to be a critical tool in our ongoing research into the use of polymer-metal hybrid technologies in load-bearing body-in-white components to reduce weight and cost." "The HyperWorks CAE platform provides answers to many engineering challenges facing today's automotive industry," said Dr. David Schmueser, University Program Manager of Altair Engineering, North America. "We expect more inquiries about HyperWorks from university research centers, particularly in the areas of optimization and complex system integration. All industries have to frontload

Page 31 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary their research and development processes and will need to optimize products as early as possible." "I am very happy that CU-ICAR has chosen HyperWorks, and I am sure that CU-ICAR students, faculty, and industrial partners will benefit from the flexibility and advanced simulation solutions in HyperWorks," Schmueser said. About CU-ICAR CU-ICAR is a unique, advanced technology research campus and community designed to integrate university, industry and government partnerships. Situated on 250 acres of property on I-85 in Greenville, SC, CU-ICAR is surrounded by automotive assemblers and suppliers and two-thirds of the nation's racing teams. Unlike traditional research parks, CU-ICAR is designed to foster integration of faculty, students and industrial partners. In each of five "technology neighborhoods," a multidisciplinary University magnet facility serves as a catalyst building to provide critical resources and linkages for graduate education and R&D. The Carroll A. Campbell Jr. Graduate Engineering Center in Technology Neighborhood One houses the automotive engineering graduate programs. To learn more, please visit: http://www.cu-icar.com. Click here to return to Contents

ANSYS Fluid Flow Modeling Software Improves Vehicle Design at Honda May 20, 2008 ANSYS, Inc., a global innovator of simulation software and technologies designed to optimize product development processes, today announced that its computational fluid dynamics software FLUENT® for CATIA® V5 was chosen by Honda R&D Co., Ltd. for fluid flow analysis and has contributed significantly to improving design process efficiency. Honda R&D (located in Haga-gun, Tochigi Prefecture; Asaka-shi and Wako-shi, Saitama Prefecture) is a research and development subsidiary of Honda, one of the world’s leading automotive manufacturers. Honda’s state-of-the-art technology enjoys a high reputation all over the world. At Honda R&D, computer-aided engineering (CAE) has long been considered an important foundation in support of the company’s highly advanced technology. To enhance efficiency in design and manufacturing, the company introduced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) into the design cycle as well as in research and development. Honda R&D chose FLUENT for CATIA V5 software, which works within the company’s existing major design framework, CATIA V5. “CATIA V5 already has structural analysis features, which now are used efficiently by designers. Equipped with the highly reliable FLUENT solver as its core, FLUENT for CATIA V5 technology has made CFD analysis as easy as structural analysis. This has resulted in increased significance of CAE tools in our development work,” commented Kouhei Oosono, chief engineer at Automobile R&D Center of Honda R&D Co., Ltd. FLUENT software, a CFD product from ANSYS, Inc., already is used by a large number of research and development engineers in the automotive industry. The development of FLUENT for CATIA V5 technology was motivated by the need to bring the superior fluid analysis capability of FLUENT software into the CATIA V5 environment. ANSYS engineers developed the product in concert with Honda to best respond to the automotive company’s demanding requirements. Based on Honda’s decision to choose both FLUENT and FLUENT for CATIA V5 technologies for flow simulation, engineers at Honda have been able to optimize their product development processes.

Page 32 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The decision to bring together technology from ANSYS used in conjunction with the CATIA V5 environment is consistent with the ANSYS philosophy of being an open CAE supplier via an adaptive architecture. “The success of this product stems from our ability to be able to work closely with our customers and satisfy their needs,” said Joe Fairbanks, vice president, worldwide sales and support at ANSYS, Inc. “The enormous cooperation provided by Honda during the development period is greatly appreciated.” About Honda R&D Honda R&D Co., Ltd. is the research and development subsidiary solely owned by Honda (NYSE:HMC). The superb performance and quality of Honda products created by Honda R&D ensure Honda to be one of today's leading manufacturers of automobiles and power products and the largest manufacturer of motorcycles in the world. Honda produces a wide range of products, including motorcycles, ATVs, generators, marine engines, lawn and garden equipment and automobiles, that bring the company into contact with over 23 million customers annually. About ANSYS, Inc. ANSYS, Inc., founded in 1970, develops and globally markets engineering simulation software and technologies widely used by engineers and designers across a broad spectrum of industries. The Company focuses on the development of open and flexible solutions that enable users to analyze designs directly on the desktop, providing a common platform for fast, efficient and cost-conscious product development, from design concept to final-stage testing and validation. The Company and its global network of channel partners provide sales, support and training for customers. Headquartered in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., with more than 40 strategic sales locations throughout the world, ANSYS, Inc. and its subsidiaries employ approximately 1,400 people and distribute ANSYS products through a network of channel partners in over 40 countries. Visit http://www.ansys.com for more information. Click here to return to Contents

Bank of Ireland Selects Business Objects as Its Enterprise Business Intelligence Standard May 20, 2008 SAP AG today announced that Bank of Ireland has selected Business Objects, an SAP company, as its business intelligence standard, following an extensive review of available business intelligence solutions. Bank of Ireland is a long-time SAP customer and the addition of BusinessObjects™ XI Release 3.0, the leading enterprise-scale business intelligence platform, will enable the bank to more easily access, analyze and distribute information throughout the company and more quickly respond to market events. New business intelligence solutions from Business Objects, combined with SAP's flagship enterprise resource planning (ERP) application, SAP® ERP, and SAP for Banking solutions, will provide executives and line of business managers with increased transparency into performance data from across the organization, giving them the insight needed to optimize business performance while minimizing risk. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19 - 21. "As our bank continues to grow both in Ireland and abroad, we need complete visibility into our business performance," said Vincent Lattimore, manager of IT Procurement Services, Bank of Ireland. "Our close working relationship with SAP has helped us streamline operations and better manage credit risks. With our rapid expansion, we needed to centralize all information related to operations and give

Page 33 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary our management a 360-degree view across our distributed business units. Selecting the business intelligence platform from Business Objects was the logical choice to help extend the value of our SAP deployment. The Business Objects business intelligence platform has the functionality to support both our current and future information needs—and empowers our executives with the information they need to improve day-to-day decision making." Bank of Ireland is a diversified financial services group with market-leading positions in Ireland and niche markets internationally. The company has been successfully using the SAP® Business Suite family of business applications to help better manage business processes, including finance, human resources and procurement. In addition, the bank relies on the SAP® Bank Analyzer set of applications to support compliance with Basel II while enhancing finance and risk management. As the bank grew, it required a rapid, secure way to bring together SAP and non-SAP data in one place and increase the outflow of information to employees. Given the current financial climate, Bank of Ireland also wanted to ensure that it was maximizing all financial data and gaining a holistic view of operational and financial performance. The bank selected the BusinessObjects XI Release 3.0 platform because it provided one solution to more quickly access information from across its enterprise and deliver relevant, trusted information to authorized employees where and how they work. For example, with Business Objects, the bank will be able to automatically distribute performance reports to managers in branches and trading desks on a daily or weekly basis. Deploying business intelligence solutions from Business Objects with existing SAP solutions will also empower risk and finance executives with regularly scheduled reports on real- time performance data, enabling them to increase efficiency, mitigate risk and react quickly to market changes. "Combining Business Objects solutions with SAP solutions helps our joint customers, like Bank of Ireland, ensure that strategy and execution are intimately linked and enables customers to optimize their business performance in a closed-loop solution," said John Schwarz, CEO, Business Objects, an SAP company, and member of the Executive Board, SAP. "The business intelligence platform from Business Objects is a powerful tool that allows users to make their process and decision more intelligent. Bank of Ireland is a perfect example of how Business Objects adds value to SAP customers' existing IT investments and helps them take their business to the next level. We look forward to working with Bank of Ireland to create an enterprise-wide strategy that closes the gap between information and action." Business Objects and SAP Provide Immediate Benefits to Banks Immediately following the acquisition's close, SAP and Business Objects joined forces to help the banking industry address critical issues, including risk management and compliance, improved operational efficiency, and cross-selling to customers across banks' various lines of business. Bringing together Business Objects business intelligence solutions with analytic applications for banks from SAP provides banking companies with a suite of integrated, industry-specific solutions to address these challenges. For example, the SAP Bank Analyzer helps banks address legal compliance challenges, as well as perform financial accounting, cost controlling, risk management, asset liability management and profitability analysis. Business Objects adds value to SAP Bank Analyzer by providing advanced analytic, reporting and dashboard capabilities, making actionable data easily accessible to a wide variety of users. The combination of deep banking expertise offered by both companies will help banks enact an integrated risk and finance approach, and provide them with accurate, immediate insight to help ensure that the execution of business process is aligned with corporate strategy.

Page 34 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary "Having Bank of Ireland as one of our first joint customers further confirms the value our combined organizations offer to the banking industry," said Thomas Balgheim, senior vice president, Global Banking Line of Business, SAP AG. "Both SAP and Business Objects have a strong tradition of supporting our customers' need for solutions that are appropriate for their individual businesses. Uniting our complementary banking solutions adds instant value to our joint customers in the banking community." SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE®2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire. About Business Objects As an independent business unit within SAP, Business Objects transforms the way the world works by connecting people, information and businesses. Together with one of the industry's strongest and most diverse partner networks, the company delivers business performance optimization to customers worldwide across all major industries, including financial services, retail, consumer-packaged goods, healthcare and public sector. With open, heterogeneous applications in the areas of governance, risk and compliance; enterprise performance management; and business intelligence; and through global consulting and education services, Business Objects enables organizations of all sizes around the globe to close the loop between business strategy and execution. For more information about Business Objects, visit: http://www.businessobjects.com/. Click here to return to Contents

Bayer MaterialScience Selects SAP to Improve Chemistry With Customers May 19, 2008 SAP AG today announced that Bayer MaterialScience, a division of Bayer AG and one of the world's largest producers of high-performance plastics, has selected the latest version of the SAP® Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) application, SAP CRM 2007, to help enable its global sales force to deliver superior value to its customers. The simplicity of the user interface offered by SAP CRM 2007, combined with the value of an integrated business process platform were the key factors that led Bayer MaterialScience to select SAP solutions over competitive CRM vendors like Siebel and Salesforce.com. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19 - 21. As part of an initiative to modernize its technology landscape, Bayer MaterialScience is currently replacing outdated legacy systems with standardized software, including SAP applications. The company will integrate the SAP CRM application into its existing SAP® Business Suite family of business applications, with the ultimate goal to lower costs and improve efficiencies. Currently, the software is being piloted in a three-month project and upon successful completion will be rolled out to

Page 35 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary employees worldwide. "The look and feel of SAP CRM 2007 immediately grabbed our attention when we first saw the new application at an SAP event in March," said Kurt De Ruwe, CIO, Bayer MaterialScience. "Only two weeks later, we decided to implement SAP CRM in a pilot project. Once this project has been successfully completed, we plan to roll out the application to approximately 2,500 users throughout the company. Of these, 800 will access SAP CRM directly from their mobile devices." The latest version of SAP CRM was launched in December 2007. (See December 4, 2007 announcement, titled "SAP Unveils Next-Generation Customer Relationship Management Solution.") It has been in unrestricted shipment since early March, two months ahead of schedule. Approximately 250 customers are currently implementing SAP CRM 2007 and many more have requested shipments. The application is also available with industry-specific functionality to help companies optimize their unique business process requirements and gain a competitive edge in their respective industries. At SAPPHIRE 2008 Berlin, demonstrations of SAP CRM 2007 will be available in a special area of the show, the CRM Village, located in Hall 1. SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire. About SAP® Customer Relationship Management SAP offers market-leading customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, based on an enterprise service-oriented architecture, that help companies drive new growth, maintain competitive agility and attain operational excellence through customer-centric processes. Delivering best-in-class front-office capabilities with enabling end-to-end, industry-specific processes, the SAP® CRM application enables customers to empower their teams, delight their customers and grow their business by driving rapid user adoption and enhanced productivity. SAP CRM is one of the core applications within the SAP® Business Suite that is built upon the SAP NetWeaver® platform. The software helps companies empower employees with the real-time information and analysis they need to gain customer insight, acquire new customers, boost customer loyalty and build lasting relationships. Click here to return to Contents

Bell Helicopter Textron Selects MSC.Software's SimManager to Drive Innovation and Accelerate New Product Development May 19, 2008 MSC.Software, the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions including simulation software and services, today announced that Bell Helicopter Textron has selected its enterprise simulation management solution, SimManager to drive innovation and accelerate new product development.

Page 36 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary SimManager, a component of SimEnterprise, is MSC.Software's enterprise simulation data and process management solution, and has been selected as a key component to support Bell Helicopter's initiative for accelerated new product development. The deployment of SimManager across Bell Helicopter's engineering organization is strategic to harnessing simulation data management and process automation, establishing a standardized simulation and testing knowledge database, and helping to rationalize in- house and legacy technology onto a common integrated environment. "SimManager will enable us to manage simulation processes, resources and information across our engineering organization," said Christopher Spencer, Vice President Air Vehicle Engineering, Bell Helicopter Textron. "SimManager drives reliable, consistent and automated simulation methods and processes while capturing, sharing, and enabling reuse of engineering simulation data and processes to speed the innovation and product development process. This is key to the collaborative knowledge management environment that Bell Helicopter Textron is creating and is a critical factor in providing a foundation for best practices and continuous process improvement. Over time, simulation methods and processes can be improved to achieve results that can be relied on in place of physical prototypes, accelerating product development and reducing cost." "Bell Helicopter's vision is an exciting example of how to harmonize, manage, and collaboratively extend engineering lifecycle processes across the enterprise including partners and suppliers and provides a strong testament to the value of the MSC.Software," said John Howaniec, Sr. Vice President Americas, MSC.Software. "Bell Helicopter Textron recognizes SimManager's innovation in providing organizations with the ability to work more efficiently, react more quickly, and to differentiate themselves and their products from the competition and has chosen MSC.Software as their enterprise simulation partner." About SimManager SimManager allows business to harness the sea of data produced in product development and save time and costs with easy management and integration of engineering data within the IT infrastructure. MSC.Software embeds and optimizes IBM technology, including DB2, WebSphere software and Tivoli, as a part of SimManager, pre-configuring and testing these technologies for ease of installation, rapid scalability and aligning smoothly with enterprise architecture strategies such as the adoption of an enterprise Service Oriented Architecture. The combination of IBM's technology, services and integration expertise along with SimManager's capabilities provides a complete solution stack for the management of simulation processes and product performance data, ensuring scalability for global deployments. More information on SimManager and SimEnterprise can be found at www.mscsoftware.com or https://cpd-associates.com/download/index.cfm?download=simmanagermsc&company= About MSC.Software Corporation MSC.Software (NASDAQ: MSCS) is the global leader of enterprise simulation solutions that help companies make money, save time and reduce costs associated with designing and testing manufactured products. MSC.Software works with thousands of companies in hundreds of industries to develop better products faster by utilizing information technology, software, services and systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1100 people in 23 countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit www.mscsoftware.com. About Bell Helicopter Bell Helicopter is an industry-leading producer of commercial and military, manned and unmanned vertical lift aircraft and the pioneer of the revolutionary tilt rotor aircraft. Globally recognized for world-

Page 37 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary class customer service, innovation and superior quality, Bell's global workforce serves customers flying Bell aircraft in more than 120 countries.

About Textron Inc. Textron Inc. is a $13.2 billion multi-industry company operating in 34 countries with approximately 44,000 employees. The company leverages its global network of aircraft, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative solutions and services. Textron is known around the world for its powerful brands such as Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft Company, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, Greenlee, Fluid & Power, Textron Systems and Textron Financial Corporation. More information is available at www.textron.com. Click here to return to Contents

Capgemini Standardizes on CollabNet for Global Collaboration May 19, 2008 CollabNet®, the leading provider of a collaborative platform for distributed software development teams, today announced that Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, has standardized on CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise as the platform to support the company’s Rightshore® global collaboration initiative on an enterprise-wide level. The recent acquisition of SourceForge Enterprise by CollabNet will extend the company’s international presence and add Subversion® expertise backed by CollabNet’s global and commercial CollabNet Subversion support and technology - key elements of the Rightshore initiative. “The way we work sets us apart. The Rightshore initiative aims to offer clients the right resources of the highest quality, in the right location at competitive cost, to produce better, faster and more sustainable results. We have tens of thousands of globally distributed consultants based in the United States, India, Europe and 27 other countries. Collaboration is part of Capgemini’s DNA, and is one of the pillars of our service delivery, enriched by our tools and techniques, and highly experienced people,” said Mark Standeaven, director, Group Methods, Tools, Communities and Knowledge Management, Capgemini Group. “Our longstanding partnership with SourceForge Enterprise and now with CollabNet, a top technology company, brings unsurpassed expertise in distributed development and support for Subversion - which enhances the company’s strategy,” says Mark Standeaven. “In the previous 12 months, SourceForge has been facilitating collaboration in a tangible way for thousands of developers, managers and customers and we will be extending this capability to additional groups across the enterprise. We can substantially improve communication, collaboration and coordination by creating the effect of having team co- location without the need to physically bring them together.” SourceForge Enterprise, now owned by CollabNet, provides a unified platform for sharing project documentation and developed source code for Capgemini’s Rightshore teams based across Europe, North America and India. The integration with Subversion provides the next generation version control system that will enable Capgemini to standardize and optimize code repositories for distributed development projects and critical software assets. “What Capgemini has accomplished with SourceForge Enterprise exemplifies the transformation and benefits that any company can achieve through better collaboration across projects and teams,” says

Page 38 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Mike Hallett, vice president of worldwide field operations, CollabNet. “Collaborating effectively across geographies, distributed teams and business partners is a mandate for any business that wants to successfully compete in the global economy. We’re extremely enthusiastic about this close partnership with Capgemini, which is all about redefining global collaboration for software development and pioneering a new, more cost-effective way to develop software.” About CollabNet With 1.5 million users, CollabNet is the most widely used platform for distributed software development. By connecting remote teams and integrating disparate development tools, the CollabNet platform simplifies distributed development, reduces infrastructure costs by up to 50%, and eliminates silos between isolated teams to speed innovation. CollabNet is the company behind Subversion, the world’s best version control and Software Configuration Management solution for distributed teams. More than 500 industry leading companies use CollabNet’s solutions today, including Reuters, Philips Medical Systems, Capgemini, and Barclays Global Investors among others. Visit CollabNet at http://www.collab.net or get more information about Subversion at http://www.collab.net/subversion. Click here to return to Contents

Dedini, a Leading Capital Goods Manufacturer in Brazil, Selects Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter May 19, 2008 Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced that Dedini S/A Indústrias de Base selected Teamcenter® software as its engineering product data management platform to enhance efficiency and collaboration. Teamcenter, Siemens PLM Software’s digital lifecycle management solution and the world’s most widely used PLM portfolio, will allow Dedini to better manage product data throughout its engineering department. Teamcenter will serve as the central repository of data for multiple existing systems. This selection is the first step in Dedini’s corporate strategy to build a global collaboration platform that manages all engineering data within a single system to provide enhanced product development capacity and improve the speed of innovation. “The combination of Siemens, Siemens PLM Software and Teamcenter’s exceptional capability made our decision easy,” said Pedro Anchieta, IT Director, Dedini.”Teamcenter will provide the platform to manage a single-source of engineering data, enabling us to enhance knowledge sharing and collaboration throughout the enterprise.” “We are pleased to have Dedini, one of Brazil’s leading companies, place their trust and confidence in Siemens and Siemens PLM Software. We knew that joining the Siemens’ family was the right choice and this win represents the latest example of the unique power of our integration,” said Dave Shook, senior vice president and managing director, Americas, Siemens PLM Software. “Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter technology will enable Dedini to consolidate enterprise-wide engineering data on a single open platform and will provide a scalable solution that can grow with the company and enhance innovation every step of the way.”

Page 39 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary About Dedini Dedini S/A Indústrias de Base manufactures parts, components, equipment, complete plants and units for different market segments. With headquarters in Piracicaba and units in Sertãozinho (SP), Maceió (AL) and Recife (PE), the group was founded 86 years ago and is a world leader in the supply of equipment and complete plants for the sugar/alcohol sector. At present, the distilleries designed and set up by Dedini are responsible for 80 per cent of the national production of alcohol and around 25 per cent of world production. The company has already furnished 120 complete factories, at a rate of about 24 per year. Dedini develops new technologies through research projects and partnerships, to offer higher productivity and lower costs to its customers, such as those of integrated biodiesel and ethanol factories and alcohol distilleries. The company’s team of professionals is trained to offer a variety of services, such as viability studies, initial process evaluations, engineering projects, manufacture of equipment, supervision of assembly, assembly and installation of industries in a variety of areas such as: sugar and ethanol; foods, juices and drinks; biodiesel; cellulose and paper; breweries; cement; energy and cogeneration; fertilizers; hydroelectrics; mining and metallurgy; petroleum, gas and petrochemicals; chemicals; metallurgy and effluent treatment. Dedini today employs more than 5000 staff and exports 15 per cent of its turnover to 25 countries such as the United States, Jamaica, Mexico, Canada and Sweden, among others. About the Siemens Industry Automation Division The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the Siemens Industry Sector, is worldwide leading in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. Click here to return to Contents

Delcam’s PowerINSPECT Enables More Complex 3D Inspection 20 May 2008 Like many other UK subcontractors, Kristek Precision Ltd. is moving away from simple projects based on drawings towards larger, more complex, 3D machining from CAD models. The purchase of a FARO PowerGAGE and Delcam’s PowerINSPECT inspection software has enabled the company to achieve quick and easy inspection of these components. The PowerGAGE portable CMM was designed with the production floor in mind and offers extreme accuracy and flexible mounting options. The system at Kristek was supplied with two versions of PowerINSPECT; a complete system for offline programming and a simplified "player” module for use on the factory floor. Kristek based in Melksham, Wiltshire, was formed in 1987. The company supplies high-precision, CNC-machined components to a wide range of industries and customers, including the power

Page 40 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary generation, automotive testing and analytical testing industries. With substantial investment over recent years in CNC turning and machining centres, the company is able to produce prototype and small-to- medium batch production work to very high standards and tight tolerances. Kristek’s policy is to maintain consistent high quality in both its service levels and its products. The recent purchase of the PowerGAGE and PowerINSPECT helps in improving on its previous high standards. The combination allows users to inspect components in-situ on the machines. This alleviates the need to remove the component for checking, as was necessary when using the conventional CMM, resulting in a vast reduction of time when inspecting complex components. In addition, PowerINSPECT also allows Kristek to inspect components machined from 3D CAD models supplied by customers. Before the purchase of the software, this would have been extremely complicated and time consuming. From the inspection results, detailed inspection reports can be produced and supplied to customers. This is much quicker than the manual reports that had to be compiled previously. Click here to return to Contents

Erling-Klinger Selects Digital Lifecycle Simulation from Siemens PLM Software May 19, 2008 Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services today announced that ElringKlinger, a leading supplier of cylinder head and specialty gaskets to the global automotive industry, has selected NXTM simulation software to optimize product design efficiency and further enhance its renowned product quality. ElringKlinger uses NX software, the comprehensive digital product development portfolio from Siemens PLM Software, to design its products. The company was looking to improve the efficiency of its engineering analysis and to increase the number of components that undergo the analysis. After a comprehensive evaluation of several leading simulation software offerings, the company selected NX simulation due to its superior functionality, seamless integration with ElringKlinger’s design environment and the software’s intuitive user interface. “The NX simulation software has not only added significant capability to our engineering analysis process but it has also dramatically simplified the way we work,” said John Kapcoe, senior product engineer, ElringKlinger. “Our engineers were able to run an analysis in NX in three hours that used to take three days. The power, integration and remarkable ease-of-use allow us to run simulation analysis on more components than ever, further optimizing the quality of the solutions we deliver to our customers. The software is so powerful and well designed that it is easy to forget how advanced it really is.” Making simulation pervasive throughout the product lifecycle The NX simulation suite consists of a wide variety of integrated modules that work seamlessly within the NX integrated environment. ElringKliner selected NX Advanced Simulation, NX Response Simulation, NX Flow Simulation, NX Thermal Simulation and NX Nastran® Advanced Non-linear for a single integrated tool to perform all of their structural, modal, computational fluid dynamics, response simulation and non-linear analysis. “We are delighted to welcome ElringKlinger to the growing list of customers who have discovered that

Page 41 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary advanced simulation does not have to be difficult to use or restricted to highly trained specialists,” said Jim Rusk, vice president, Digital Simulation Solutions, Siemens PLM Software. “The key to maximizing the value of digital lifecycle simulation applications is to use them as early as possible and throughout the product lifecycle. By delivering an intuitive interface on top of powerful functionality, NX enables simulation to be more pervasive throughout the product lifecycle. Thorough and efficient analysis leads to better product design quality and drives product innovation.” About the Siemens Industry Automation Division The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the Siemens Industry Sector, is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. Click here to return to Contents

Kabel BW Selects SAP to Strengthen Connection to Customers May 19, 2008 SAP AG today announced that Kabel BW, one of Europe's fastest-growing providers of cable television and Internet and telephone service, has selected the latest version of the SAP® Customer Relationship Management application, SAP CRM 2007, to strengthen its connection to customers and build its foundation for future growth. The company, which serves more than 2.3 million subscribers, also plans to enhance its existing deployment of SAP's flagship enterprise resource planning application, SAP® ERP, with the industry- specific SAP solution for telecommunications providers, the SAP® Revenue Management and Contract Accounting application. The objectives of its modernization efforts are to streamline the company's customer service and ultimately deliver superior customer value. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19 - 21. Kabel BW will leverage the integration between its existing SAP ERP application and SAP CRM 2007, along with industry-specific solutions from SAP, to boost business growth through the development of new and dynamic product and service offerings, and by targeting customers more effectively and through expansion of the company's sales partner ecosystem. The new IT infrastructure will deliver the technology foundation for these business goals and is thus a key success factor of the project. "In 2007 we increased our revenue by approximately 30 percent," said Dr. Holger Puechert, CFO, Kabel BW. "Growth remains one of our key priorities and we needed a more modern IT system to help us meet this objective. We selected SAP as our technology partner because of its extensive approach to customer relationship management and because we were impressed by the flexibility, usability and the integration power of SAP CRM. With SAP, our goal is to deliver superior customer value to our customers and partners." Knowing the Customer as Competitive Differentiator Following the modernization of its cable infrastructure, Kabel BW elected to augment and update existing IT systems with new functionality in order to better support customer sales, service, marketing

Page 42 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary and billing needs. Using the SAP® Customer Relationship Management and Order Management for Telecommunications package, nearly 100 sales employees and more than 2,000 sales partners will be able to ensure the uniform delivery of customer services across all communications channels — telephone, e-mail, fax and post. Additionally, to help ensure more informed and efficient customer service, Kabel BW's 700 employees will now have a comprehensive view of customer data and history—regardless of whether customer queries concern telephone, television or Internet service. The integrated approach to CRM will provide Kabel BW and its sales partners with unprecedented insight into customer needs and buying patterns -- knowledge that is crucial for the company's future growth. An integrated product catalog with telco-specific product modeling components within SAP CRM will also allow Kabel BW to package new service offerings quickly, efficiently and tailored to the specific needs of the customers, helping speed time-to-market. In addition to SAP CRM, the company will leverage SAP ERP for asset management, logistics and analytical processes. Kabel BW will also implement the industry-specific application for accounts receivables and payment management, SAP Revenue Management and Contract Accounting. Through the SAP NetWeaver(R) technology platform, the system is open to interact with third-party applications and will be closely integrated into Comverse Kenan FX, a billing system widely used in the telecommunications industry. Kabel BW's IT modernization project was launched on April 1, 2008. A team under the leadership of SAP special expertise partner movento, as well as experts from SAP Consulting, is responsible for the project management. "Strong relationships with customers and powerful CRM software are key elements for a successful go- to-market strategy in the telecommunications industry," said Bob Stutz, executive vice president and general manager, Product & Technology Unit Industries and CRM, SAP. "Kabel BW clearly recognizes the competitive advantage of IT and, as its trusted technology partner, SAP will work together with Kabel BW to successfully drive its growth strategy." Strong Momentum for SAP CRM 2007 The latest version of SAP CRM was launched in December 2007. (See December 4, 2007 press release, titled "SAP Unveils Next-Generation Customer Relationship Management Solution.") It has been in unrestricted shipment since early March, two months ahead of schedule. Approximately 250 customers are currently implementing SAP CRM 2007 and many more have requested shipments. The application is also available with industry-specific functionality to help companies optimize their unique business process requirements and gain a competitive edge in their respective industries. At SAPPHIRE 2008 Berlin, demonstrations of SAP CRM 2007 will be available in a special area of the show, the CRM Village, located in Hall 1. SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire.

Page 43 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary About SAP® Customer Relationship Management SAP offers market-leading customer relationship management (CRM) solutions, based on an enterprise service-oriented architecture, that help companies drive new growth, maintain competitive agility and attain operational excellence through customer-centric processes. Delivering best-in-class front-office capabilities with enabling end-to-end, industry-specific processes, the SAP® CRM application enables customers to empower their teams, delight their customers and grow their business by driving rapid user adoption and enhanced productivity. SAP CRM is one of the core applications within the SAP® Business Suite that is built upon the SAP NetWeaver® platform. The software helps companies empower employees with the real-time information and analysis they need to gain customer insight, acquire new customers, boost customer loyalty and build lasting relationships. Click here to return to Contents

Mentor Graphics Calibre LFD Selected by STMicroelectronics for Litho Variability Analysis at 65 and 45 Nanometers 23 May 2008 Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that STMicroelectronics has selected the Mentor Graphics Calibre® DFM (design for manufacturing) platform with the Calibre LFD™ (Litho-Friendly-Design) system for its Litho Variability Analysis solution aimed at controlling manufacturing variability at 65 nanometer (nm) and beyond. The announcement follows an extensive evaluation of commercially available solutions by STMicroelectronics based on accuracy, speed and ability to integrate with existing design flows. This decision builds on the existing relationship between STMicroelectronics and Mentor, which started with the use of Calibre OPC tools at 130nm, and has continued for all following nodes, including 45nm. "To analyze variability effectively, the process models need to be very accurate. The models used by the Calibre LFD solution have been measured and proven accurate on silicon for 65nm and 45nm generations,” said Joel Hartmann, Silicon Technology Development Director at STMicroelectronics. “In addition, the Calibre solution makes it easy to re-calibrate the models when parameters change during process ramp-up.” The Calibre DFM platform is a comprehensive and tightly-integrated flow that provides better control of manufacturing variability. It provides accurate modeling of how the lithographic process responds to variations in exposure, defocusing, resolution enhancement technology (RET) processing, and etch characteristics and is fully integrated with the Calibre LVS (Layout vs. Schematic) component, allowing critical device dimensions to be extracted based on LFD-modeled contour geometries. The resulting device parameters, which reflect actual as-built device shapes, can then be plugged into a SPICE model to produce an accurate timing simulation of how the real device will work. “STMicroelectronics selected Calibre LFD for its advanced DFM variability solution because accurate prediction of litho variations over the process window is a critical factor in our advanced DFM flow,” said Philippe Magarshack, STMicroelectronics Technology R&D Group Vice President and Central CAD and Design Solutions General Manager. “Calibre LFD provides an optimum combination of speed and high accuracy, plus excellent integration with the rest of our Calibre design flow.” With the verified accuracy provided by the Calibre LFD system, customers like STMicroelectronics can

Page 44 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary be confident that detected litho hotspots are real systematic yield limiters and not merely “false positives,” and that device parameters reflect expected manufacturing results, not idealized values. Designers can then proceed with layout enhancements knowing their efforts will have a real impact on manufacturing yield. Tight integration with the Mentor Graphics Olympus-SoC™ place-and-route system also allows automatic litho fixing during design creation, making the overall solution very efficient. The Calibre LFD solution is being made available as part of the STMicroelectronics certified design kit to its designers worldwide. Click here to return to Contents

Metropolitan Police Service Selects SAP As Corporate ERP Solution May 19, 2008 SAP AG today announced that the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), whose headquarters are situated at the world-famous New Scotland Yard, has selected SAP as its corporate enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution. The Metropolitan Police Service presides over one of the world's largest metropolitan areas, covering 620 square miles and a population of 7.2 million. It employs more than 31,000 officers, more than 14,000 police staff and more than 4,500 traffic wardens and police community support officers -- and, like most public sector organizations, the MPS is aiming to achieve greater efficiency from existing resources. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19 - 21. Following a thorough evaluation of several providers, the MPS chose SAP as the best-suited ERP solution provider. The MPS intends to exploit the capabilities of its evolving SAP environment to the fullest, supporting its aim to deliver ever better services and public value for the citizens and visitors of London. This means that, where practical and appropriate, the MPS will seek to utilize SAP software in support of frontline policing as well as for its supporting functions. The MPS already uses SAP software for its financial systems. By streamlining core processes on the newest release of SAP's flagship ERP application, SAP® ERP, the MPS gains an established core system and can phase out appropriate legacy applications. In addition, SAP ERP will enable the MPS to add on new functionality via its enhancement packages. "The MPS has always held a unique place in the history of policing; with this initiative, it is charting its course to be a lighthouse example for police service organizations around the globe," said Rod Massey, vice president, SAP Public Sector and Security. "We are honored to support the MPS on this initiative." SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire.

Page 45 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary About Metropolitan Police Service The Metropolitan Police Service has a worldwide reputation and has a unique place in the history of policing. It is the largest of the police services operating in the United Kingdom. Sir Robert Peel founded the Metropolitan Police Force in 1829. The original establishment of 1,000 officers policed a seven-mile radius from Charing Cross and a population of less than 2 million. Today, the Metropolitan Police Service employs 31,141 officers, 14,000 police staff, 4500 traffic wardens and Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs), and since the realignment of police boundaries in April 2000, it covers an area of 620 square miles and a population of 7.2 million. Click here to return to Contents

Patella Manufacturing Selects Siemens PLM Software’s Solid Edge May 19, 2008 Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced Patella Manufacturing Inc., a leading manufacturer of architectural millwork and custom office furniture, purchased 24 seats of Solid Edge® 3D CAD software from Siemens PLM Software partner Designfusion, a focused technology solution provider to the Canadian manufacturing and design community. Patella selected Solid Edge over competitive solutions from SolidWorks and Autodesk. Solid Edge is the core CAD component of the Velocity SeriesTM, Siemens PLM Software’s portfolio for the mid- market. “Solid Edge will reduce both design errors and rework we experienced with 2D AutoCAD and will enhance communication between engineering and manufacturing,” said Darlo Pack, executive vice president, Patella. “Solid Edge also proved to be the best option for handling our legacy 2D data.” Patella also based its investment decision on future needs for integrated product data management (PDM) Teamcenter® Express is the collaborative PDM product in the Velocity Series. “We are growing and recognize that we need more than just design solutions from our technology provider,” said Pack. “We prefer working with one source for those multiple technologies and Siemens was the only provider with that option.” "Patella's vision impressed us and creates an opportunity to build a technology partnership based on advanced integrated solutions that, until recently, were only available to very large companies," said Kevin Johnstone, president of Designfusion. “Designfusion excels in its customer relationships and in its ability to articulate the business value of our products, key factors that ensure long-term success for their manufacturing customers in Canada,” said Phil Taylor, vice president, Canada operations, Siemens PLM Software. “The combination of Designfusion and Siemens PLM Software provides manufacturers with a premium combination of technology and support.” About the Siemens Industry Automation Division The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the Siemens Industry Sector, is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its

Page 46 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. Click here to return to Contents

Power Analog Microelectronics Tapes Out First of Several Integrated Circuit Products Using Simucad Design Flow 20 May 2008 Power Analog Microelectronics, Inc. (PAM), a company that focuses on designing advanced analog and high-voltage power integrated circuits (ICs), successfully taped out the first of several complex integrated circuit products using an all-Simucad tool design flow. The PAM3101 IC, now in production, was designed, simulated and laid out using Simucad's TSMC05_5V MM Process Design Kit (PDK) and Simucad's Custom IC CAD design software. Other PAM IC products are in development using Simucad's TSMC025_40V and TSMC06_40V BCD PDKs. "The purpose of these ICs is to combine unique circuit design with innovative device and process technologies to produce the most cost-effective, highly efficient, power-saving products that can result in considerable cost-savings for end users and consumers," said Vincent Fong, Vice President of Engineering at PAM. Fong further described the toolset used. "We used Simucad's Gateway for schematic entry, SmartSpice for analog simulation, Expert for layout editing, Guardian DRC/LVS/NET for physical verification, and HIPEX for hierarchical and parasitic extraction. Using a single vendor design flow has many benefits, specifically ease of tool use, better design productivity and great support." "It is fun working with a great customer like PAM on a complex circuit design project combining high quality PDKs with a well integrated Simucad toolset," said Dr. Ivan Pesic, CEO of Simucad. Click here to return to Contents

SAP Enables Unilever to Drive Implementation of Global Strategy Through Key Integration Technology May 20, 2008 SAP AG today announced that Unilever has implemented the SAP NetWeaver® Master Data Management (SAP NetWeaver MDM) component to support five countries in the Asia/AMET (Africa, Middle-East and Turkey) region. With 400 brands spanning the food, home and personal care industries, Unilever requires a unified view of master data to remain agile and quickly address changing business needs while maintaining strong local market performance. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19- 21. Consumer products companies are facing fierce competition in emerging markets, increased costs for raw materials, and a continuously changing business landscape. As a result, the ability to make operational decisions for product introductions, supply chain changes and to manage profitability is

Page 47 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary more critical than ever to achieving success. "Given Unilever's expansive brand portfolio and global presence, it was crucial to provide them with a standardized view of their market landscape," said Hartmut Schaper, senior vice president, SAP NetWeaver Master Data Management. "SAP's expertise in driving business results through a heterogeneous information technology environment ensures Unilever can respond locally in a global context." Following implementation for suppliers and products at locations in Turkey, South Africa and in the Middle East, Unilever has seen improved data accuracy, which will deliver more accurate metrics and reporting and will provide a better basis for a global view of enterprise business objectives and performance indicators. The implementation will also result in cost reduction by radically simplifying the IT environment through elimination of redundant systems. Additionally, SAP NetWeaver MDM future-proofs Unilever's information base, allowing flexibility to respond to changing business models, product portfolio and organization. "Our success as a company depends on good information and keeping things simple," said Chris Turner, chief technology officer, Unilever. "To improve our performance further still, we need to become more efficient in all areas of business and SAP will help us in IT. SAP understands our need for an accurate, harmonized view of the business at all levels, utilizing all data sources. This is the first step in moving our master data to SAP's platform, providing us with consistent information about the products, materials and organizations we deal with, while also providing flexibility for both regional differences and to accommodate changes in the way we may operate in the future." Unilever has been active in master data management for more than a decade. In choosing SAP NetWeaver MDM for this upgrade, Unilever confirmed both a combination of solution and road-map maturity and strategy, seeing opportunities to improve key differentiators such as transforming and improving external-facing processes both in consumer marketing and in partnering with service providers, customers and suppliers. As these local implementations roll out regionally and globally, Unilever is creating a foundation for its strategy of harmonizing the landscape with standard products. Longstanding Commitment to Transforming Global Business Strategy This recent implementation strengthens Unilever's long-time relationship with SAP. Unilever has been a user of SAP products for more than 20 years, with SAP solutions implemented in Europe, North and South America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, supporting 35,000 users in more than 250 locations. These implementations comprise a variety of SAP solutions including planning, enterprise resource planning (ERP) operations and strategic enterprise management. Last year, Unilever named SAP as its global premium IT partner for applications to enable and support Unilever's global business transformation strategy. Unilever signed a global enterprise agreement with SAP, which enables customers to maximize their SAP investment by providing unrestricted access to all available current and future SAP solutions. Strengthening its position as a long-term strategic partner, SAP enables business agility and growth as customers evolve their global IT landscapes to enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). (See May 15, 2007 press release, titled "Unilever Selects SAP as Standard for Global IT Strategy"). SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier

Page 48 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire. Note to Editors: Webcasts, announcements, media roundtables, keynote presentations and podcasts from SAPPHIRE 2008 will be available in the events' virtual newsroom at http://www.sapsapphire.com/emea2008/newsroom/index.htm. To view video stories on diverse topics, visit http://www.sap-tv.com/. From this newly launched site, you also can embed videos into your own Web pages, share video via email links and subscribe to RSS feeds from SAP TV. No registration is required. To preview and request broadcast-standard video digitally or by tape, log on to http://www.thenewsmarket.com/sap, where registration and video is free to the media. To request video materials not available on these sites, or for general questions, please contact [email protected]. Click here to return to Contents

SAP Supports Daimler in Global IT Harmonization May 19, 2008 SAP AG today announced that it will support Daimler AG, one of the world's largest automobile manufacturers, as a global IT solution provider in order to drive Daimler's comprehensive IT harmonization strategy. Daimler signed a global enterprise agreement (GEA) with SAP to standardize and harmonize all automotive supply chain and financial processes on SAP solutions. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19 - 21. By entering a GEA, SAP offers Daimler broad access to licensed SAP solutions and technology. The agreement will accelerate the worldwide rollout of end-to-end business solutions leveraging SAP enterprise software. SAP software, based upon the powerful SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, will help drive Daimler's global IT harmonization and enterprise service-oriented architecture (enterprise SOA). SAP has been Daimler's software partner since 1984 and became Daimler's top strategic software partner by entering a software development partnership in 2002. Today, Daimler has more than 65,000 SAP users, which will extend to more than 100,000 users under the new agreement. "SAP continues to be our trusted partner and will extend its importance for our IT strategy as we journey toward standardization and harmonization and also into enterprise SOA," said Dr. Michael Gorriz, CIO Daimler AG. "This agreement with SAP is important to the success of our IT harmonization strategy and frees us to concentrate on our core business." The agreement includes software, software maintenance, strategic software developments, 'maximum attention' support and high-profile consulting services. The business benefits will include cost reduction and increased efficiency, process stability and flexibility in auto production and key automotive processes. This agreement extends SAP's position as a leader in providing comprehensive enterprise software for the automotive industry. Successful business transformation is vital in an industry such as automobile

Page 49 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary manufacturing, which constantly faces rising costs, increased global competition and growing government regulation, while striving for market share and greater profitability. "The deepening relationship with Daimler reflects SAP's ongoing commitment to remaining at the forefront of innovation and leadership in the rapidly changing automotive industry," said Leo Apotheker, co-CEO, SAP AG. "At the same time, this agreement also demonstrates the strength of SAP's core business and the strategic value we bring to the world's largest companies." SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire. About SAP® for Automotive SAP® for Automotive is an industry solution that combines SAP(R) Business Suite applications and tailored functionality to help automotive companies integrate the entire engineering, procurement, manufacturing, sales and service value chain. With more than 2,000 automotive customers worldwide, SAP for Automotive supports industry-specific business processes within all types of automotive companies, including original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), suppliers, and sales and service organizations. Built on the open architecture of the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform , SAP for Automotive helps companies collaborate with business partners, acquire and service customers, and attain competitive advantage by meeting today's dynamic business demands. Additional information is available at http://www.sap.com/automotive/. Click here to return to Contents

Toshiba Selects Mentor Graphics Calibre DFM Platform for its Device Extraction Flow May 19, 2008 Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that Toshiba Corporation has selected the Calibre® DFM Platform for its Device Extraction Flow aimed at controlling manufacturing variability at 45 nanometers (nm) and beyond. “Taking actions at the design stage to minimize manufacturing variability is essential to maintaining competitive advantage at advanced process nodes,” said Dr. Fumitomo Matsuoka, senior manager of Advanced Logic Technology Department, System LSI Division at Toshiba. Calibre solutions are helping Toshiba meet its objectives by providing detailed device parameters based on accurate simulation of the lithographic process window and specific device interactions at very small geometries. Toshiba has been addressing manufacturing variability issues with close cooperation between engineers in their design and device divisions. Their goal was to develop an advanced systematic device extraction flow integrated with its lithography flow that could provide more accurate transistor models incorporating precise effects that become significant at 45nm and smaller nodes. Toshiba adopted the Calibre DFM platform as a key technology in its variability-aware design

Page 50 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary methodology due to its high accuracy and compatibility with Toshiba’s overall flow. The Calibre DFM solution includes the Calibre LFD™ (Litho-Friendly Design) capability which is fully integrated with new Calibre LVS ADP (Advanced Device Parameter) features, allowing critical device dimensions to be extracted from the LFD-modeled contour geometries to determine a set of equivalent effective dimensions for the devices. The resulting device parameters, which reflect actual as-built device shapes, can then be plugged into a SPICE model to produce an accurate timing simulation of how the real device will work. For drawn parameters, the Calibre LVS component is compliant with the latest industry standard models and includes foundry-specific models for handling advanced stress effects. The combination of the Calibre LFD and LVS capabilities provides a complete and integrated solution that improves SPICE simulations by providing more accurate results that better reflect actual silicon performance. “Toshiba is leading the way to the next stage of DFM which involves going beyond eliminating catastrophic defects and addressing the issues that affect parametric yield,” said Joseph Sawicki, vice president and general manager of the Design-to-Silicon division at Mentor Graphics. “As foundries and EDA vendors work together to accurately model the manufacturing process at advanced nodes, we can have a substantial impact on overall device yield and performance.” About Mentor Graphics Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ:MENT) is a world leader in electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing products, consulting services and award-winning support for the world’s most successful electronics and semiconductor companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues over the last 12 months of over $875 million and employs approximately 4,350 people worldwide. Corporate headquarters are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon, 97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/. Click here to return to Contents

University of St. Gallen and SAP Prove Business and Technology Value of Service-Oriented Architecture for SAP Customers May 19, 2008 SAP AG today announced findings of a research effort conducted with the University of St. Gallen that show IT projects based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA) improve software reusability, reduce operations cost and offer substantial process efficiencies. Findings of the study will be presented to attendees at SAPPHIRE(R) 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21. As SOA is currently undergoing mass adoption and establishing itself as a de facto technology standard for implementing software architectures for increased flexibility and simplified integration, organizations are looking for more economic justification for their initial SOA projects. The study focuses on the SOA business-value proof points that organizations are using to convey the benefits of an SOA strategy to decision makers. To enable best-practices sharing, SAP cooperated with the University of St. Gallen, which specializes in business and information management research, to interact with SAP and non-SAP customers spanning industries such as financial services, telecommunications, media and the public sector in this research. Key findings from the study show that customers view the business case for SOA in two different

Page 51 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary ways. The first is an IT-centric approach in which the benefits of the SOA technical infrastructure and organization are the driving factors behind implementation. This approach values the IT savings that SOA can bring through its "reuse of services," or the efficiency gains experienced through reduced software-development time and cost. "Our study shows that service orientation significantly improves the reusability of software functionality," said Prof. Dr. Robert Winter, Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen. "In mature organizations, we found an average reuse rate of four, which leads to considerable IT consolidation and cost-saving potential. However, strict governance is absolutely vital." Certain companies, especially those who are SAP customers, do not stop here. The second approach uses the IT-centric method as one component in a broader, more comprehensive foray into evaluating SOA. Burda Digital Systems, for example, approaches SOA from an enterprise standpoint, or as an open architecture for adaptive business solutions. This architecture elevates the design, composition and management of Web services to address business requirements. "SOA is a powerful concept that allows us to increase our productivity dramatically," said Gerhard Thomas, CEO, Burda Digital Systems. "We achieve 10 to 20 percent savings in operations cost and 20 to 30 percent shorter project durations across our IT landscape. Sometimes it's even more. However, the major benefit of SOA unfolds on the business-process side. We achieve increased process efficiency of between 10 to 30 percent, and also benefit from improved process quality due to consistent data and role-specific process design. This is only possible if you closely align your IT with the business and design services along process needs. SAP's concept of built-in business semantics into enterprise services is exactly the way to guarantee this." Public Sector Organizations Benefit From SOA With a business process platform following SAP's business-driven SOA approach (enterprise SOA), the University of Hagen and the City of Hagen complied with new challenges faster and more effectively, while also responding to constituent demands at a quicker rate. The customers designed and built an online portal for citizen and constituent services, called "Rathaus 21" and equipped with more than 50 different predefined service offerings. The portal significantly improves constituent and cross-agencies processes. The blueprints of reusable process scenarios such as shopping carts and e-payment functions are now also offered to other cities and agencies, all to be implemented at higher speeds and efficiency rates when compared to traditional development approaches. "Ensuring compliance with legal regulations, such as the new European Union service directive, is critical for public administration," said Prof. Dr. Gunter Schlageter, Institute for Cooperative Systems, University of Hagen. "At the same time, we also need to provide new or enhanced citizen and constituent services. Enterprise SOA allows us to drive flexibility and efficiency into our processes. We are now able to provide improved public services and achieve higher efficiency at the same time. The resident registration process is a very good example: we increased our internal-process efficiency by 16 percent, as citizens can now use a new self-service interface and benefit from a reduced process- execution time—from eight days to 60 seconds. For us, enterprise SOA is not only a technological concept—it has strategic relevance for our business." "SAP embarked on this study with the University of St. Gallen to hear directly from customers how enterprise SOA is helping them swiftly adapt to rapidly changing market needs," said Patrick Frerichs, consulting director for SAP. "We view this study as an installment in the qualitative research and

Page 52 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary feedback that SAP is constantly collecting from its customers. This study shows many SOA projects start without an explicit business case, but the need for proving value increases rapidly down the road of SOA adoption. This is incredibly useful for us, for we are able to take this feedback and work closely with current and prospective customers on how to maximize SOA." This research comes on the heels of newly announced SAP business process management capabilities (see May 6, 2008 press release, titled "SAP Ushers In New Era for Business Process Management"), which will further increase the ability to deliver insight, flexibility and efficiency based on a comprehensive SOA, and delivered with the service-enabled business suite, SAP NetWeaver® technology platform and vibrant ecosystem of SAP services and partner-delivered applications. SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire. Click here to return to Contents Product News

Alibre Releases Integrated 3D Parametric CAD/CAM Solution May 16, 2008 Alibre, Inc. announced today that the Alibre CAM™ product family is now available for download. Unveiled last month, Alibre CAM is the first fully integrated 3D parametric Personal CAD/CAM™ solution that is accessible and affordable for manufacturers and machine shops of any size, even individuals. Greg Milliken, CEO of Alibre says, “Alibre is changing the status quo by providing a single, integrated parametric CAD/CAM solution for mainstream design and manufacturing at a fraction of the price of anything else on the market.” Alibre CAM is integrated into Alibre Design, the 3D parametric CAD product family from Alibre, so there is only one interface to learn and changes to the design automatically update tool paths. Alibre CAM products provide 2½ to 5-axis CNC milling, including profiling, pocketing, facing, v-carving, engraving and hole and thread milling, as well as a variety of roughing, re-roughing and finishing operations such as horizontal, parallel, and radial. Hole making operations are also supported, including drilling, tapping, boring and reverse boring, along with animated toolpath simulation. All Alibre CAM products come with numerous post-processors as well as a custom post-processor generator. Alibre CAM runs inside of the Alibre Design user interface and can be purchased as a bundle with Alibre Design, or as an add-on to a previously purchased version of Alibre Design. A detailed listing of the features in the Alibre CAM product family is available on the Alibre web site at www.alibre.com/products/mechanical/alibre_design_cam.asp.

Page 53 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary About Alibre Alibre, Inc., the Personal CAD/CAMTM Company, develops and markets Alibre DesignTM, the fastest growing 3D parametric solid modeling software for mechanical design and manufacturing. In addition, Alibre CAM™ extends Alibre Design to offer integrated parametric 2½- to 5-axis CNC machining. One-fifth the cost of comparable software, Alibre Design and Alibre CAM are easy to use with rich functionality and world-class support and training, making 3D CAD/CAM accessible to every engineer, machinist or inventor, similar to office software like Word or Excel. Alibre also offers Alibre Design Xpress and Alibre CAM Xpress, the industry's only true 3D parametric modeler and integrated CAM system available free of charge. Alibre products are available in fifteen languages and distributed worldwide. Founded in 1997, Alibre Inc. is privately funded and based in Richardson, Texas. For more information on Alibre, or for a free trial of Alibre Design, please visit www.alibre.com. Click here to return to Contents

Altair Releases HyperWorks 9.0, Connecting Engineers with New Solver Technology and to the Global Grid May 19, 2008 Altair Engineering, a global provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making, today announced the release of Altair HyperWorks 9.0, the next generation of its popular integrated suite of computer-aided engineering (CAE) software applications. HyperWorks is an enterprise simulation platform to support product lifecycle management (PLM) processes. It is the leading simulation-driven design solution for product development across the world's top corporations. "Over the past decade, Altair HyperWorks has become the preferred simulation platform for the worldwide advanced manufacturing community," says James R. Scapa, president and CEO of Altair. "Through advancements in simulation technology, a value-driven business model and superior customer support, the adoption of HyperWorks continues to outpace the CAE market with a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of more than 25%." Grid Enablement and New ISV Partner Program The release of HyperWorks 9.0 is the first engineering simulation solution to deeply embed grid computing management tools with compute-intensive CAE software applications. HyperWorks 9.0 clients can now use unallocated HyperWorks units in their existing pool to immediately access Altair's popular PBS GridWorks on-demand grid-computing technology suite at no incremental cost. This common licensing model allows corporations to virtualize their global computing infrastructure -- maximizing the throughput of analysis jobs as well as the utilization of hardware and software resources. In addition, HyperWorks 9.0 extends its patented business model to deliver on-demand, third-party software applications. Participating partners and the formal roll-out of Altair's partner solutions program will be announced on Wednesday May 21st, 2008. Next-generation Solver Technology and New Multi-core Licensing Business Model With the release of HyperWorks 9.0, Altair has integrated all of its linear and nonlinear finite-element solvers into a single solver application. RADIOSS 9.0 now delivers a robust solution for simulating linear statics and dynamics, nonlinear transient dynamics and fluid-structure interaction events. This

Page 54 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary consolidation and integration uniquely positions RADIOSS in the CAE solution market and further increases the value of HyperWorks. From a user perspective, RADIOSS 9.0 simplifies multi- disciplinary analysis studies and data exchange between analysis types. Business benefits include lower software licensing costs and simplified IT administration. "The advent of cluster and multi-core computing environments requires new, more affordable software licensing models," says Jeffrey M. Brennan, vice president of Altair's HyperWorks division. "Our unit- based licensing model -- already a market differentiator -- has been further enhanced to allow companies to take full advantage of multi-core computing environments with our solvers through virtualization and an aggressive pricing model." Extended Interoperability and Microsoft Office Integration The open-systems design of the HyperWorks platform allows engineers to seamlessly work with any CAD solution, any solver, and any pre- and post-processing environment. The 9.0 release extends this interoperability even further to include Microsoft Office suite applications fostering enterprise collaboration and information sharing. This direct integration not only offers efficiencies to the reporting process but also will support design robustness investigations through a direct integration with Microsoft Excel and HyperStudy, Altair's design optimization study application. HyperGraph and HyperView post-processing applications now export directly to Office applications, as well. New Capabilities and Functionality "This release is significant on many different levels," says Dr. Uwe Schramm, Altair vice president of product technology. "Substantial investments were made to evolve the graphical user interface to quickly gain new user acceptance and shorten learning curves for enterprise deployments. Industry specific advancements, especially for our rapidly growing aerospace community, have been made across all of our core products including HyperMesh, HyperView and OptiStruct." Modeling and visualization advancements include: • Enhanced "Windows-like" graphical user interfaces (GUI) • HyperCrash: A new automotive crash pre-processor • New rapid HEX solid meshing capabilities • Shrink-wrap meshing to accelerate the creation of large solid models Optimization and data management advancements include: • Rapid multi-body dynamics optimization • Free-shape optimization with manufacturing constraints • Free-sizing optimization for composites • Model assembly, batch meshing and performance data management automation For a complete listing of all 9.0 new products and functionality, please visit http://www.altairhyperworks.com/hw9. Global distribution of HyperWorks 9.0 is ongoing; and current customers can download this version and the Release Notes, by visiting Altair's Client Center portal at http://www.altairhyperworks.com. For more information on the HyperWorks 9.0 release, training schedules, regional roll-out events and to

Page 55 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary request a HyperWorks 9.0 demonstration, please visit http://www.altairhyperworks.com/hw9. About HyperWorks Built on a foundation of design optimization, performance data management and process automation, HyperWorks is an enterprise simulation solution for rapid design exploration and decision-making. As one of the most comprehensive CAE solutions in the industry, HyperWorks provides a tightly integrated suite of best-in-class tools for modeling, analysis, optimization, visualization, reporting and performance data management. Leveraging a revolutionary "pay-for-use" token-based business model, HyperWorks delivers increased value and flexibility over other software licensing models. Firmly committed to an open-systems philosophy, Altair HyperWorks continues to lead the industry with the broadest interoperability to commercial CAD and CAE solutions. For more information, please visit www.altairhyperworks.com. About Altair Altair Engineering, Inc. empowers client innovation and decision making through technology that optimizes the analysis, management and visualization of business and engineering information. Privately held with more than 1,300 employees, Altair has offices throughout North America, South America, Europe and Asia/Pacific. With a 20-year plus track record for enterprise analytics, product development, and advanced computing, Altair consistently delivers a competitive advantage to customers in a broad range of industries. To learn more, please visit http://www.altair.com. Click here to return to Contents

aniPart™ 3.5 Handles Product Revisions 22 May 2008 Animech Technologies announced a new major release of aniPart™ featuring unique functionality to streamline the complex task of handle product revisions. Most technical products experience a number of construction changes and updates during their lifetime. To update technical information according to the revisions is traditionally a complex and expensive task - but not anymore! The aniPart Studio 3.5 one of a kind 3D import process will automatically match old objects with new and decide how the changes to the new 3D will apply to the work already invested in the instruction. ”With the new visual matching functionality, this is a revolutionary product far superior to anything in the marketplace. Our customers can now easily and cost effective handle and distribute product revisions”, says Björn Berg, General Manager, Animech Technologies. By using aniPart™ software suite companies can create visual information for service and assembly enabling superior cognitive values even before the real product is ready to launch. Further new features In aniPart™ Client 3.5 Play/Pause button and a progress bar for actions are just two of the new functionalities further enhancing the usability of the viewer. In aniPart™ Studio 3.5 a number of novel functions have been implemented. Animech Technologies´ solutions enable companies to streamline visual product communications and speed product time to market, reduce operational and maintenance costs and increase revenues.

Page 56 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Animech Technologies possesses deep knowledge in visualization and utilization of 3D CAD data. Read more about their solutions at http://www.animechtechnologies.com/ Click here to return to Contents

Apache Announces Sentinel-PI, A Global Chip-Package-System Co-Design and Co-Analysis Solution for Power Integrity 20 May 2008 Apache Design Solutions announced Sentinel-PI, the industry’s first fully-integrated chip-package- system co-design and co-analysis solution for power integrity. Sentinel-PI provides SoC-aware modeling and analysis of the system-level power delivery network to enable IC package and PCB designers to optimize their designs, from early stage prototyping to system signoff. This latest product offering expands the company’s Sentinel platform to assist semiconductor and systems companies mitigate design risks, optimize system cost, and improve productivity. Sentinel-PI delivers the following new capabilities in a single integrated solution: • 3D, full-wave power network extraction and power integrity co-analysis engine • DC, AC, and transient/dynamic analysis within a single tool • Seamlessly integrated Chip Power Model (CPM) for SoC-aware package/board power integrity SoC-Aware Package and PCB Power Integrity Sentinel-PI provides a next generation 3D full-wave power network extraction and power integrity analysis engine optimized for package and PCB designs. The new engine delivers accuracy, performance, and capacity required for a complete chip-package-system co-analysis. From a single product, Sentinel-PI enables designers to perform resistance check and static IR-drop analysis (DC), frequency-domain simulation including impedance analysis of multi-port power delivery network of the chip, package, and board (AC), and time-domain dynamic voltage drop analysis (transient). By embedding CPM, Sentinel-PI enables SoC-aware package/PCB power analysis from early in the design flow and throughout the entire process. During early design, Sentinel-PI enables accurate and predictable package selection, as well as power pad and package decoupling capacitance optimizations. Later in the design flow, Sentinel-PI allows package and PCB designers to accurately run power integrity analysis of the package and the PCB with the power delivery network behaviors of the IC, diagnose potential chip-package LC resonance issues, and validate package/board dynamic voltage noise margin. “Power is a system-level concern that spans the chip, package and PCB. Semiconductor and system companies are looking to chip-package-system co-design to help mitigate risk, optimize cost, and improve productivity. However, traditional co-design solutions have fallen short on integration, accuracy, and interoperability,” said Dave DeMaria, senior vice president of chip-package-system at Apache. “Sentinel-PI is the company’s first product that addresses the system-wide power and noise challenges from IC, to package, to PCB by leveraging our core competencies in SoC power and noise, as well as package/PCB extraction and modeling.” Apache will showcase Sentinel-PI, along with the Apache’s entire power, noise, and reliability solutions for chip-package-system at the upcoming Design Automation Conference in Anaheim, Ca.

Page 57 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Pricing and Availability Pricing for the Sentinel-PI starts at $35,000 USD for a 1 year TBL (time-based license) and will be available in Q3 of this year. Click here to return to Contents

Brocade and EMC Collaborate to Further Simplify Enterprise Data Security and the Management of Information Risk May 21, 2008 Brocade®, the leader in data center networking solutions that help enterprises connect and manage their information, and EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced a collaborative development effort that extends the scope of their longstanding relationship and will help enable data center customers to more quickly and reliably encrypt data for security and compliance purposes. As part of this expanded alliance, the two companies plan to integrate technologies from RSA, The Security Division of EMC—including the RSA® Key Manager for the Datacenter solution—with the planned fabric-based encryption technology that Brocade is currently developing. EMC and Brocade have worked together for many years to provide customers with the latest Storage Area Network (SAN) technology. EMC currently has an OEM relationship with Brocade for its SAN switches and directors and offers them as part of its EMC® Connectrix® family. Together, the solutions from Brocade and EMC will help provide mutual customers with an easy-to-use, highly scalable way to reduce information risk and further simplify enterprise data security. The forthcoming encryption capability from Brocade will be an integral part of the Brocade Data Center Fabric (DCF) architecture and is designed to help IT organizations protect more data with less management time and resource. The technology is designed to run significantly faster than many of today's solutions, allowing backup applications to perform at full speed and without compromise to application or user performance. Additionally, the heterogeneous nature of fabric-based encryption will allow a single encryption solution to work with backup and storage solutions from different vendors. Under the terms of the agreement, the two companies will work closely to allow this new encryption capability to interoperate with proven RSA Key Manager for the Datacenter technology. RSA Key Manager for the Datacenter is engineered as an easy-to-use, centrally administered encryption key management system that can manage encryption keys at the database, file server, and storage layer. It is designed to simplify the deployment and ongoing use of encryption throughout the enterprise and to help ensure that information is properly secured and fully accessible when needed at any point in its lifecycle. "Fabric-based encryption can help reduce the complexity of storage encryption," said Enterprise Strategy Group Senior Analyst Jon Oltsik. "Today, administrators may manage different encryption for tape, appliances, applications, disk and more. Fabric-based encryption allows for a single, common method of encrypting of all types of data. Fabric-based encryption can also help users overcome performance issues associated with other approaches to data encryption and reduce the risk that some storage-resident data may be left exposed." Security is an important function of the Brocade DCF architecture, which is an open framework that allows customers to adapt to the dynamics of virtualized servers and storage, while accommodating

Page 58 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary expanding application workloads and the relentless growth of corporate data. By leveraging the performance and intelligence enabled by the Brocade DCF architecture along with industry-leading security solutions from EMC, customers will be able to effectively encrypt critical corporate information to more easily achieve their security and corporate governance objectives. "Internal policy and external regulations continue to motivate our customers to develop and adopt a holistic encryption and enterprise key management strategy to secure their sensitive data," said Dennis Hoffman, Vice President and General Manager for Data Security and Chief Strategy Officer at RSA. "We are pleased to partner with Brocade to further meet our customers' requirements for security solutions that are directly embedded into the infrastructure." "Brocade recognizes that scalable, tightly integrated key management is an integral component of a solid enterprise-class data encryption solution," said Ian Whiting, Vice President and General Manager of the Brocade Data Center Infrastructure Division. "We believe that teaming with EMC and its RSA Security Division demonstrates our continued commitment to partnering with industry leaders to provide interoperable solutions that make customers' environments more secure and manageable." About Brocade Brocade is a leading provider of data center networking solutions that help organizations connect, share, and manage their information in the most efficient manner. Organizations that use Brocade products and services are better able to optimize their IT infrastructures and ensure compliant data management. For more information, visit the Brocade Web site at www.brocade.com or contact the company at [email protected] About EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at www.EMC.com About RSA RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information throughout its lifecycle—no matter where it moves, who accesses it, or how it is used. RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance & access control, data loss prevention & encryption, compliance & security information management and fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that is generated. For more information, please visit http://www.RSA.comand www.EMC.com. Click here to return to Contents

Capgemini Announces Enhanced Data Conversion Offerings to Financial Services Firms May 21, 2008 Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, announced today an asset purchase agreement with Advantage Consulting Group, Inc., a specialist in

Page 59 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary data conversion for the insurance industry. Capgemini is now able to offer to financial services’ clients, a more robust suite of flexible, low-risk and cost-effective conversion solutions for consolidating and implementing new information technology (IT) systems. “The deal with Advantage demonstrates Capgemini’s continued commitment to its financial services business,” said Raymond Spencer, CEO of Capgemini’s Financial Services Strategic Business Unit. “The addition of Advantage’s tools, senior staff and depth of experience will give us a clear differentiator in the sector that not only enhances our ability to service existing insurance clients, but also enables us to expand into other industries, including banking, capital markets and cards.” “With a toolset specifically designed for insurance data conversion, Advantage has become a leader in consolidating and migrating insurance policy data from legacy to new systems,” said John Barr, vice president and leader of the Life, Health, and Annuity Portfolio at Capgemini. “This niche service will be delivered, building on the 25 member team joining us along with this transaction, through Capgemini’s Rightshore® capabilities—a global network of onsite, onshore, nearshore and offshore resources— giving our clients the tools and services needed to effectively convert data.” “Consolidating and implementing new IT systems can be one of the most expensive and risky projects for any type of business,” said Richard Knutson of Advantage Consulting Group, Inc. “Our conversion method, customized for each project, verifies that the correct data is properly loaded into new systems, enabling our clients to focus on their core business, without worrying about data loss.” Founded in 1995, Advantage Consulting Group, Inc. has provided professional consulting services primarily to Life and Health Insurance companies dealing with software data conversions, software installations, and enhancements. About Capgemini Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working - the Collaborative Business Experience - and through a global delivery model called Rightshore®, which aims to offer the right resources in the right location at competitive cost. Present in 36 countries, Capgemini reported 2007 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion (approximately US$12 billion) and employs over 83,000 people worldwide. The Financial Services Strategic Business Unit (FS SBU) brings deep industry experience, enhanced service offerings and next generation global delivery to serve the financial services industry. With a network of 15,000 professionals serving over 900 clients worldwide, the FS SBU moves businesses forward with leading services and best practices in banking, insurance, capital markets and investments. For more information please visit www.capgemini.com/financialservices. Click here to return to Contents

Dassault Systèmes Announces Major Advancements in New Abaqus Release from SIMULIA May 20, 2008 Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced the availability of Abaqus 6.8, its technology-leading unified finite element analysis (FEA) software suite from SIMULIA. Engineers, designers, researchers, and scientists use Abaqus to lower costs and reduce cycle times through the realistic simulation of stress, impact, crush, fluid-

Page 60 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary structure interaction, thermal dynamics, and other complex behaviors of products, materials, and processes. With a focus on solving specific engineering challenges in automotive, aerospace, electronics, energy, packaged goods, and other industry segments, Abaqus 6.8 provides new and improved capabilities in core areas, including modeling and results visualization, structural analysis, composites failure, general contact, computing performance, and multiphysics. “Abaqus FEA software provides the robust contact capabilities that we need to study complex loading and structural interactions while designing our large, two-stroke diesel engines,” stated Per Rønnedal, senior manager, R&D new design, MAN Diesel. “With the new capabilities in Abaqus 6.8, we have seen memory usage significantly reduced when running linear static analyses with multiple load cases. These improvements will allow us to test a number of design alternatives to optimize our diesel engine performance during early product development.” “This latest release of Abaqus Unified FEA software is another milestone in our long history of developing simulation technology that accelerates our customers’ evaluation of real-world behavior of their products and processes,” stated Steve Crowley, director of product management, SIMULIA, Dassault Systèmes. “With literally hundreds of new features and customer-requested enhancements, Abaqus 6.8 demonstrates SIMULIA’s commitment to technical excellence, industry-focused solutions, and customer satisfaction.” Designers and engineers in all industries are able to leverage Abaqus 6.8 to deepen their knowledge of real-world structural behavior and accelerate the development of innovative products. Among the latest advancements are: • Fully built-in and improved composites analysis capabilities that enable aerospace engineers to efficiently simulate the behavior of composite crack propagation, delamination, and possible failure. • Industry-unique capabilities that allow automotive engineers to capture full-vehicle noise and vibration response due to tire rolling effects and viscoelastic material effects from tires, bushings, isolators, and laminated steel. • A low-cycle fatigue method that assists electronics engineers in assessing the lifecycle of solder joints. This method is also useful for evaluating powertrain durability and bone degradation in biomechanical applications. • A new anisotropic hyperelastic material model that enables medical device developers to simulate soft tissue interaction with stents and orthopedic implants. This model can also be used to analyze materials such as reinforced rubber and wood. • A new Coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian (CEL) multiphysics capability that allows industrial equipment manufacturers to predict loads on earth-moving equipment during soil excavation. The capability can also be used to predict the behavior of fluid-filled containers, hydroplaning tires, and bird-strike on aircraft. For associated images, animations, and additional features in Abaqus Unified FEA, visit www.simulia.com/news/editors.html. About Simulia SIMULIA is the Dassault Systèmes brand that delivers a scalable portfolio of Realistic Simulation solutions including the Abaqus product suite for Unified Finite Element Analysis, multiphysics solutions

Page 61 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary for insight into challenging engineering problems, and lifecycle management solutions for managing simulation data, processes, and intellectual property. By building on established technology, respected quality, and superior customer service, SIMULIA makes realistic simulation an integral business practice that improves product performance, reduces physical prototypes, and drives innovation. Headquartered in Providence, RI, USA, with R&D centers in Providence and in Suresnes, France, SIMULIA provides sales, services, and support through a global network of over 30 regional offices and distributors. www.simulia.com About Dassault Systèmes As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. Dassault Systèmes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com Click here to return to Contents

Delcam and Doosan Agree Strategic Partnership 21 May 2008 CADCAM developer Delcam has entered into a strategic partnership with Korean machine tool manufacturer Doosan to encourage the use of the company’s FeatureCAM and PowerMILL CAM software by Doosan customers. Both organisations will encourage their respective resellers to work together at a global level to increase the level of promotion and market awareness of each other’s products. The partners will collaborate on the development and testing of post-processors for Doosan’s most popular machines to be embedded in the Delcam software. The companies will also work together to create accurate virtual models of the Doosan machines for use in Delcam’s machining simulation modules. Going forward, Delcam will work with Doosan’s development staff so that new post- processors and machine tool models can be added to the Delcam programs simultaneous with the launch of new Doosan machine tools. Delcam will provide software and training to Doosan staff for the preparation of demonstrations for exhibitions and other promotional events. Staff from the two companies will work together to develop demonstrations that show the higher quality and increased productivity that is possible by using Delcam software to program Doosan machine tools. Doosan, one of Korea’s largest conglomerates, began producing machine tools in 1976. Since then, the company has expanded its business to include turning centres, machining centres, CNC boring machines, electric discharge machines, laser-cutting machines and automation systems. This expansion has helped the company to become the largest machine tool manufacturer in Korea and one of the five largest in the world. Commenting on the agreement, Tim Mitchell, Delcam’s Asian Business Development Director, said, "I

Page 62 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary am very pleased to announce this partnership with Doosan. It is a great honour for our software to be selected as Doosan’s preferred CAM system.” Chan-Oong Jeong, President of Delcam’s Joint Venture in Korea, Hankook Delcam, added, "We have worked closely with Doosan in Korea for many years so it is very rewarding to see our national agreement extended into a global partnership.” Click here to return to Contents

EMC Extends the Power of Application Discovery and Best Practices for VMware® Enabled Data Centers May 20, 2008 EMC, the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today unveiled the newest version of its application discovery and dependency mapping solution—EMC Smarts Application Discovery Manager (ADM) 6.0. Core to Version 6.0 is the solution's full support for VMware virtualized environments— dramatically extending IT operations' visibility and control across physical, virtual and mixed data centers. Smarts ADM 6.0's comprehensive insight into business applications and the supporting IT infrastructure in VMware environments helps IT support its service levels to the business. New to Smarts ADM 6.0 is the Smarts ADM "Virtual Listener," which introduces breakthrough virtual management capabilities eliminating the need to deploy agents with every virtual machine. Passively "listening" to application traffic across the VMware Virtual Switch (vSwitch), data center managers benefit from dynamic, real- time visibility into virtual relationships. The end result establishes dependencies of virtual machines to one another in the delivery of business application services and for the construction of data protection and disaster recovery plans for VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware Consolidated Backup. When used in conjunction with EMC IT Compliance Analyzer—Application Edition 1.1, also announced today—Smarts ADM dramatically increases user control over virtual environments to help facilitate IT compliance within VMware implementation strategies, VMware operational best practices, and regulatory requirements such as PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) and HIPAA. "VMware has the potential to bring a new level of speed and efficiency to businesses today, enabling companies to deploy new systems and applications faster. It can also enable superior business continuity for critical services by providing a resilient and dynamic set of resources to draw from to support desired levels of application service performance," said Dennis Drogseth, Vice President, EMA. "But transforming the data center doesn't come without critical changes in management tools, which need to adapt." "VMware virtualization has streamlined IT management for data centers of all sizes that often have a mix of both virtual and physical environments," said Parag Patel, Vice President, Alliances at VMware. "EMC's new Application Discovery Manager combined with VMware virtualization helps customers to effectively manage these mixed environments. The solution provides our customers with the visibility to monitor the application infrastructure while benefiting from the business advantages of VMware virtualization, including reduced capital and operating expenses, high levels of business continuity, strengthened security and improved energy efficiencies." Smarts Application Discovery Manager complements VMware VirtualCenter by enabling IT operations to automatically track and manage configuration changes and understand virtual-to-physical relationships in the application infrastructure. The solution continuously provides full visibility into the

Page 63 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary application services dependencies across a VMware-enabled infrastructure. The solution also enables IT organizations to: • Comply with Best Practices for Planning and OptimizingVMware®-enabled Data Centers, such as: Viewing application dependencies to enhance configuration planning Improving resource utilization by automatically identifying virtual machines no longer in use Identifying VMware ESX hosts that are not currently managed by VMware VirtualCenter Applying policies that check VMware VMotion activity for optimal configurations Understanding application dependencies and usage to optimally configure VMware ESX hosts • Build Data Protection Plans for VMware environments, Including VMware Site Recovery Manager and VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) • Populate CMDBs to Leverage and Maintain VMware and Physical Infrastructure Information "EMC's view is that virtualization in general, and VMware specifically, are redefining the data center. Today's announcement demonstrates our commitment to leading the way in VMware integrated management tools," said Chris Gahagan, EMC's Senior Vice President, Resource Management Software. "The announcements complement existing VMware management solutions, such as EMC ControlCenter 6.0—effectively bridging the management gap between physical and virtual data centers and across the full stack, including applications, network and storage." About EMC EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions that enable organizations of all sizes to transform the way they compete and create value from their information. Information about EMC's products and services can be found at http://www.emc.com/. Click here to return to Contents

Geometric to Unveil DFMPro for Pro/E at PTC World 2008 May 19, 2008 Geometric Limited, a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions and technologies, today announced that a new offering for Pro/ENGINEER users, ‘DFMPro for Pro/ENGINEER’, will be showcased during the PTC User World 2008 in Long Beach, CA. Geometric will be at Booth # 301 from June 1-4, 2008. Registration for the beta program for the product will also commence at the event. DFMPro is a revolutionary Design for Manufacturability (DFM) tool which facilitates upstream manufacturability validation and identification of design areas that are difficult, expensive or impossible to manufacture. Used at the designing stage, this tool allows quick and in-depth examination of product manufacturability and potentially, product manufacturing costs. DFMPro performs rule based checks which can predict manufacturing problems early in the designing stage. It considerably reduces the design review steps, thereby pushing new products into the manufacturing stage swiftly. For more

Page 64 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary information, visit www.dfmpro.com. Other products that will be showcased at the event are GeomCaliper for Pro/ENGINEER and eDrawings for Pro/ENGINEER. GeomCaliper is a wall thickness analysis tool for designers in injection molding and castings, whereas, eDrawings is a light weight visualization tool to communicate designs through email. About Geometric Geometric is a specialist in the domain of engineering solutions, services and technologies. Its portfolio of Global Engineering services and Digital Technology solutions for Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enables companies to formulate, implement, and execute global engineering and manufacturing strategies aimed at achieving greater efficiencies in the product realization lifecycle. Headquartered in Mumbai, India, Geometric was incorporated in 1994 and is listed on the Bombay and National Stock Exchanges. The company recorded consolidated revenues of 4.86 Billion Rupees (121.6 Million US Dollars) for the year ended March 2008. It employs close to 3000 people across 10 global delivery locations in the US, France, Romania, India, and China. Geometric is assessed at SEI CMMI Level 5 for its software services and ISO 9001:2000 certified for engineering operations. Geometric’s Desktop Products and Technologies (DPT) business unit develops cutting-edge point productivity solutions that enhance design and improve manufacturing operations. The end-user products from Geometric include CAMWorks, eDrawings Publisher, DFMPro and GeomCaliper. The key technologies from Geometric are NestLib, Feature Recognition (FR), GeomDiff and 3DSearchIT. Geometric licenses these technologies to OEM partners and also designs and implements customized process solutions using these technologies for industrial customers. For further details about Geometric’s DPT business unit, please visit www.geometricglobal.com. Click here to return to Contents

GibbsCAM Certified by Autodesk for Inventor 2009 21 May 2008 Gibbs and Associates, a Cimatron company, announced that GibbsCAM has been certified for Autodesk Inventor® 2009 under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Applications Program. Certification is granted only after a product has been thoroughly tested by internal staff at Autodesk. Certified applications meet certain implementation guidelines and have demonstrated the highest levels of robustness, quality, and interoperability with Autodesk Inventor software. “We are extremely pleased to once again be certified under the Autodesk Inventor Certified Applications Program. This clearly demonstrates the two companies’ joint dedication to providing effective solutions for our customers,” says Bill Gibbs, founder and president of Gibbs and Associates. “GibbsCAM’s powerful, yet easy to use, capabilities can take Autodesk Inventor designs and put them into production quickly and easily. The Autodesk Inventor/GibbsCAM combination continues to offer Autodesk Inventor users incredible value and performance.” “The ever expanding capabilities of GibbsCAM offer Inventor users a broad range of functionality, covering 2-axis turning, 2 & 2.5D milling, 3-axis multi-surface machining with high-speed machining support, 5-axis simultaneous machining through complex multi-task machining,” comments Robb Weinstein, Gibbs’ Senior Vice President of Sales and Strategic Planning. “In addition, to its industry

Page 65 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary leading ease-of-use, the number of languages which GibbsCAM supports continues to expand keeping pace with Autodesk’s broad distribution. Of course, our worldwide organization of professional CAM resellers continues to be key in the success of our customers and in our working relationships with our strategic partners.” GibbsCAM is able to directly read in native Autodesk Inventor model files for process planning and toolpath generation. The Inventor-to-GibbsCAM add-in also allows Autodesk Inventor models to be directly transferred from within Autodesk Inventor to GibbsCAM. Updates to either part geometry or process parameters are easily accommodated by GibbsCAM’s full associativity across geometry, process and toolpath. GibbsCAM’s industry leading ease-of-use allows users to take advantage of its capabilities – from minimizing how long it takes to learn how to use the software, to efficiently addressing day-to-day manufacturing engineering tasks with extremely intuitive capabilities. For more information about GibbsCAM and Gibbs’ programming solutions, or to locate your local GibbsCAM Reseller, go to http://www.GibbsCAM.com, call 1-800-654-9399, or email [email protected]. Click here to return to Contents

HiQube Delivers an Integrated, On-Demand Business Intelligence Solution to Altair’s HyperWorks Customers 21 May 2008 HiQube, a leader in high-performance business intelligence (BI) software, announced that the company has joined Altair’s innovative HyperWorks Partner Solutions Program. The new program provides HyperWorks’ customers with on-demand access to a wide-range of applications that complement Altair’s suite of applications. HyperWorks’ customers will use their existing licenses to tap into partner applications without any additional costs to them. Within this program, HiQube will provide BI capabilities that HyperWorks’ customers can begin using without risk. Altair’s partnership program includes best-of-breed applications and makes complementary enterprise software readily available to customers without the cost of separate enterprise licenses. The program features an accelerated deployment process that enables customers to obtain and utilize partner software, without requiring a new purchase order or extra licensing agreement. This reduces administrative and acquisitions costs for customers. By using the HiQube BI solutions in conjunction with HyperWorks, joint customers will realize significant benefits in terms of understanding their design processes and tracking product innovation status throughout the full product development lifecycle. HiQube is integrated with the performance and compliance databases within HyperWorks applications. Based on this information, HiQube provides a dashboard of key performance indicators that allows customers to see what processes are working, where there are delays and why, what tests have been run and their results, as well as countless other business queries. In addition to providing high-level project status, all data can be drilled into further to determine the root causes of business outcomes. HiQube’s technology combines hierarchical, relational and multidimensional BI technologies. HiQube’s technology gives customers the tools they need to perform in-depth business analytics and view data within a superior reporting environment. “HyperWorks’ customers are some of the biggest names in product innovation, and we’re excited to

Page 66 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary have the opportunity to expose them to our powerful BI solution,” said Bob Lewis, vice president of global sales for HiQube. “There’s tremendous value in inserting intelligence into manufacturing processes – keeping product development on track is too critical not to watch it closely. The HyperWorks partner program provides the ideal platform from which organizations can access HiQube to drill down on analytics to improve their business processes and implement changes to impact their bottom lines.” Altair’s partner program is a fundamentally new approach to how businesses purchase their applications. It delivers services that were previously only available to larger companies due to licensing, procurement and administrative costs. Altair customers will be able to select best-of-breed technologies from multiple vendors. “Our HyperWorks Partner Solutions program helps customers maximize the investment they have already made with Altair and provides an opportunity to quickly and easily deploy innovative technologies without risk,” said James Scapa, president of Altair. “HiQube’s BI solutions will help our customers meet their needs to track performance indicators as well as help them visualize their product innovation status. Combining HyperWorks with HiQube will help customers improve workflows and performance, manage processes, increase revenues and ultimately advance their businesses – all from one source that they trust.” Click here to return to Contents

IBM Announces Enhancements to Telelogic Change that Support Global Application Lifecycle Management 20 May 2008 IBM today announced the latest version of Telelogic Change™, an integrated, Web-based workflow and change control management solution. With Telelogic Change 5.0, organizations will, for the first time, be able to bring together multiple development repositories and stakeholders within the organization into a single, global approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). Addressing the needs of large, growing, global organizations, Change 5.0 breaks new ground for change management. Change 5.0 facilitates global ALM by bringing together developers from around the world that are using change management solutions from multiple vendors. It further extends ALM to others throughout the business—including developers, enterprise architects and product managers. Development teams building advanced systems and software, moving to SOA, or developing their SaaS portfolio, need to deliver innovations as quickly as possible with limited resources and without sacrificing quality. By bringing business decision-makers into the process and adopting common and repeatable change management processes and best practices across the development lifecycle, Change 5.0 empowers organizations to quickly identify the highest value changes and move rapidly to product development. In addition, the new release supports CMMI levels 2, 3 and 4, providing metrics and reports for predicting fault levels and pinpointing weak process areas, as well as tracking faults across the software development lifecycle. These capabilities give Quality Assurance (QA) mangers the insight needed to predict fault levels, testing and budgets. New Integrations Manage Complexity and Support Governance Telelogic Change 5.0 offers a range of new integrations that help organizations improve business

Page 67 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary processes, become more competitive, manage complexity and comply with regulations without the potential risk and burden of migrating all stakeholders to a single solution. With this release Change now integrates with: • Telelogic System Architect, a solution to provide enterprise architecture and business process analysis with a common change governance platform that connects to the development organization; • Telelogic Focal Point, a solution for product management and product portfolio management. With this integration, organizations can assess the impact that changes have on their business strategies and product portfolios, and focus on high value initiatives; • Telelogic Synergy configuration management software, IBM Rational ClearCase configuration management software and Subversion version control software; • Eclipse, the open source IDE, and in particular with Mylyn, Eclipse’s task-focused interface, to provide full visibility and traceability from change requests to code for Eclipse users Telelogic Change 5.0 also supports the Enterprise Change Process (ECP) 1.1, a new version of the Telelogic out-of-the-box process solution, co-developed with Philips Applied Technologies, that provides a low-risk, high-ROI process package for consistent change requests and problem report management. “Telelogic Change has been deployed and field tested at some of the world’s largest, most dynamic organizations, where thousands of employees participate in the software development process,” said Jesper Christensen, Executive Vice President, Change and Configuration Management Product Division, Telelogic, An IBM Company. “Telelogic Change 5.0 will help organizations unite more business decision-makers and developers in a global ALM collaboration, ensuring they manage change effectively, while supporting compliance, innovation and enterprise agility.” Availability Telelogic Change 5.0 will be available in the third quarter 2008. For more information about Telelogic, An IBM Company, visit http://www- 306.ibm.com/software/rational/welcome/telelogic/. For more information about the products announced today, visit www.telelogic.com/spring2008enhancements. Click here to return to Contents

IBM Maximo Drives Cost Savings; Expands Scope of Assets Managed; Supports Application Consolidation 21 May 2008 IBM announced its latest commitment to the Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) market with the release of the next version of its asset management solution, Maximo Asset Management 7.1. IBM Maximo Asset Management 7.1 provides support for linear assets in addition to the improved ability to manage asset life cycle and maintenance management for a wider range of assets types including production, facilities and transportation assets (This combination of management activities is known as EAM). These improvements help customers to automate the management and control of a greater array of critical assets from a single, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) platform. Known as

Page 68 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary application consolidation, this trend allows a more holistic approach to managing critical assets across the enterprise and reduces the costs associated with separate asset management systems. The addition of Maximo 7.1 to its existing asset and service management capabilities improves IBM's unique ability to deliver on the vision of application consolidation. Maximo Asset Management 7.1 offers linear management functionality that is particularly relevant for industries that need to manage the unique attributes of linear assets. These industries include: railroads, to manage railways and signals, municipalities and state governments to manage highways and roads, utilities to manage power lines and public water pipelines, oil & gas to manage pipelines and telecommunications companies to manage cables and communications infrastructure. These industries all deal with the requirement to manage critical assets that are part of a distributed system. In addition to the ability to manage linear assets, IBM Maximo 7.1 also offers enhanced capabilities for work management, job plans, work order tracking, service requests and reporting. These additions provide deeper asset management capabilities across the enterprise and eliminate the need for smaller systems that manage only one or two asset types. Maximo 7.1 also provides benefits to the IT organizations that deploy the solution. Because Maximo 7.1 can reduce the number of systems required to manage enterprise assets, it can free up IT department resources for other projects. The improved user interface and system flexibility makes 7.1 configurable with no special training. The efficient data migration capabilities mean a quicker and less costly implementation process to go from development through test and into production. Lastly, advancements in managing access control provides better regulatory compliance and risk management. These combine to offer a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for Maximo 7.1 compared with separate stand-alone asset management systems. IBM's Maximo Asset Management portfolio includes industry solutions for the Oil & Gas, Nuclear Power, Transportation, Life Sciences, Utilities, and Government markets. In the coming quarters, these industry-specific offerings will be made available on the new Maximo 7.1 platform. A basic version, IBM Maximo Asset Management Essentials, is available for smaller implementations that require only a subset of the asset management features included in IBM Maximo Asset Management. This version supports IBM's offerings in the Small and Medium Business (SMB) markets. "Maximo 7.1 is the latest in Maximo's long record of industry-leading asset management solutions. The first Maximo solution was introduced more than 20 years ago, and it's been helping customers manage critical assets ever since," said Bill Sawyer, VP Maximo Operations, IBM Tivoli Software. "The additional IBM resources, in the form of developers, software engineers and industry experts, which we were able to add to the Maximo 7.1 development effort, meant delivering to our customers a more- comprehensive offering, sooner. As part of the Tivoli family of products, Maximo is part of a larger set of solutions including service management, green data centers and mobile solutions, which deliver additional business improvements. With this latest release of Maximo 7.1, IBM is building on the legacy of Maximo and its commitment to the EAM market." Click here to return to Contents

Informative Graphics Announces Automated Redaction for EMC Documentum May 20, 2008 Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), a leader in viewing, collaboration and redaction technology

Page 69 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary and member of the EMC Velocity2 program, announced today the release of its Redact-It™ Enterprise Server software for EMC® Documentum®. Redact-It intelligently removes privacy information like Social Security numbers, names and phone numbers before making documents available to a wider audience. The integration solution is being debuted this week at EMC World 2008 at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada. Redact-It Enterprise offers integrators the ability to perform batch redaction of document, imaging and PDF files. It automatically removes all instances of specified privacy information from files or directories, including Social Security numbers, a person’s name, birth dates, email addresses and monetary amounts. For example, Redact-It can be used to cleanse privacy information from personal records, including healthcare and immunization records, loan applications and public records. End users can also use Redact-It’s simple interface directly from the EMC Documentum to select from a list of pre-defined privacy information macros, search for a particular word or phrase (or a list of words/phrases), or apply a redaction template for standard forms. Redact-It is the only solution of its kind that can intelligently detect and remove privacy information. It completely removes the information and creates a new PDF or TIFF rendition, so the redacted content is completely irretrievable and the source file is left untouched in the repository. No metadata or hidden content is transferred to the rendition. “EMC is pleased that IGC continues to demonstrate its commitment to excellence in enterprise content management – this time with its Redact-IT solution,” said Barry Ruditsky, Vice President of OEM Sales and ISV Business Development, Content Management & Archiving, EMC Corporation. “We look forward continuing to work with IGC to ensure that our mutual customers have the highest level of support possible for their information infrastructure initiatives.” “The demand for intelligent redaction is growing rapidly as government and enterprises struggle to find ways to publish electronic documents without exposing privacy information,” said Gary Heath, president and CEO of IGC. “We are proud not only to be the first enterprise-class redaction offering integrated to EMC Documentum, but to offer a product that can be part of the workflow and be used interactively by the end user.” For more information, visit www.brava4emc.com. About Informative Graphics Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC), founded in 1990, is a leading developer of commercial software products for content visualization, secure publishing and collaboration. IGC products are renowned for their cost-saving value, ease-of-use, features and scalability. Its products are deployed by hundreds of corporations, OEM partners and service providers worldwide. IGC maintains offices in the United States and partners with key distribution partners worldwide. The company maintains a Web site at www.infograph.com. Click here to return to Contents

LEDAS Releases New Version of its Variational Geometric Solver LGS 3D 23 May 2008 LEDAS Ltd. (http://www.ledas.com), an independent software provider of computational components

Page 70 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary and software development services for PLM and ERP, releases next version of its 3D geometric solver software. The new 1.4 release is much more rapid than previous versions of LGS 3D. Due to efficient optimization of the core computational techniques, many API functions are executed faster, measured on a large industrial test base of more than three thousand cases. *The main advantage of the new 1.4 release is performance of the Move Under Constraint functionality, which is accelerated up to 7 times due to the new heuristics implementation. *New LGS 3D API functions that enable storing and restoring LGS 3D context to/from a file or a binary data array are provided. API functions for tolerance management are introduced also. *The Lege’n’d 3D demo application is moved to OpenCASCADE 6.2 version and can now export models to IGES/STEP formats. *The new set of Samples of parameterized kinematic assemblies is added to the demo installation set to simplify LGS 3D evaluation. *All these advantages coupled with affordable pricing make LGS 3D the best deal for CAD/CAM/CAE parameterization. About LGS 3D LGS 3D is a cross-platform computational engine aimed at implementation of variational design functionality for 3D modeling, assembly, and kinematics simulation end-user software. It consists of a set of libraries that runs under all Windows, Linux, *BSD, AIX and other OS. Being written in C++, LGS has a C-based API that allows integrating it into a broad range of software applications (even written not in C/C++). A sample test application for LGS 3D called Lege’n’d 3D is also available within the Evaluation version of LGS 3D. It is created with the Open CASCADE open-source framework. The Lege’n’d 3D application can be used to test the entire functionality of the LGS 3D without integrating the solver into other software packages. A set of representative examples for Lege’n’d 3D is also supplied. All advantages of the new LGS 3D version are accompanied by improvement of usability of Lege’n’d, by providing more useful information in case of incorrect usage of LGS 3D API functions, and a number of minor enhancements. LGS 3D supports creation and modification of the geometric models by means of (explicit or implicit) constraints. Typical geometric objects are points, lines, circles, planes, cylinders, spheres, arbitrary curves, surfaces and swept surfaces. Objects can be fixed in an absolute coordinate system or with respect to each other (last feature is provided by so-called rigid sets of objects). Set of geometric constraints includes logical constraints between geometric entities (like coincidence, parallelism, tangency, etc.), dimensional constraints (that specify the required values for given distances, angles or radii). LGS 3D moves and rotates objects to positions where all constraints are satisfied trying to perform minimal possible transformations of initial configuration. Other functions support both traditional assembly design functionality like diagnostics of over- and under-defined parts of a model, and quite advanced features like engineering equations and help points support. LGS 3D is based on the LEDAS’ state-of-the-art computational engine and provides affordable solution for those who need a strong variational and constraint-based functionality in CAD, modeling, or engineering software. Through the scalable architecture of LGS, variational and parametric techniques

Page 71 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary have become available in a wide range of the products including desktop CAD, and general 3D modeling tools. High-end CAD and CAM systems will also benefit from integration with LGS since it provides a solid foundation for variational modeling, knowledge-based engineering, constraint-based geometry, and mechanical optimizations. LEDAS Ltd. is an independent software company founded in 1999; it is based in Novosibirsk Scientific Centre (Akademgorodok), Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science. A leader in constraint- based technologies, LEDAS is a provider of PLM components: geometric constraint solvers for CAD/CAM/CAE, optimization engines for Project Management, Work Scheduling and Meeting Planning as well as interval technologies for Knowledge-Based Engineering and Collaborative Design. The company also provides services for PLM and ERP markets: software development, consulting, reselling as well as education and training. Detailed information about LEDAS is available at http://www.ledas.com. Click here to return to Contents

Lenovo Establishes New Simulation Center with Solutions from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA May 21, 2008 Dassault Systèmes (DS), a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, today announced that Lenovo, a world-leading IT and Personal Computing (PC) company, will deploy SIMULIA’s software to establish a simulation technology center within Lenovo’s award-winning Innovation Design Center (IDC). The new center will use Abaqus unified finite element analysis (FEA) software from SIMULIA to evaluate realistic product performance during the design of Lenovo’s innovative PC and portable electronics products. “Reliability and quality are major challenges for information technology and personal electronic products,” says Zhifeng Xin, manager of Lenovo IDC. “We are using Abaqus to perform design analysis on all of our products, including personal computers, notebooks, cell phones and servers. By partnering with SIMULIA to establish our new simulation center, we will deploy efficient analysis methods to accelerate the development of high-quality, market-winning products.” “At SIMULIA our goal is to work closely with our customers to help them make better, more reliable products in less time,” states KC Jen, General Manager Asia Pacific, SIMULIA. “We are extremely pleased that Lenovo has chosen SIMULIA’s technology for their Innovation Design Center. Our realistic simulation solutions are playing an increasingly important role in the fast-paced and innovative electronics industry.” Lenovo uses Abaqus during the design process to simulate dynamic impact, heat transfer, vibration, fatigue, and other realistic performance characteristics of their products. To evaluate and reduce noise and vibration in their desktop computers, Abaqus is used to compute the natural frequencies of the assembled computer. This enables design engineers to determine what parts to modify and where to add damping materials in order to make the computer quieter and more durable. For virtual drop testing of cell phones, Lenovo uses Abaqus to simulate the stress and strain on the cell phone design as it is dropped from various directions. Such virtual tests help to identify appropriate design changes—if necessary and to determine if the product will meet performance requirements. Realistic simulation solutions from SIMULIA are enabling companies, such as Lenovo, to lower costs, reduce time-to- market, and improve product quality—resulting in higher levels of customer satisfaction. About Lenovo:

Page 72 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is dedicated to building the world’s best engineered personal computers. Lenovo’s business model is built on innovation, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction as well as a focus on investment in emerging markets. Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services worldwide. Lenovo has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information, see www.lenovo.com. About Dassault Systèmes: As a world leader in 3D and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, Dassault Systèmes brings value to more than 100,000 customers in 80 countries. A pioneer in the 3D software market since 1981, Dassault Systèmes develops and markets PLM application software and services that support industrial processes and provide a 3D vision of the entire lifecycle of products from conception to maintenance to recycling. The Dassault Systèmes portfolio consists of CATIA for designing the virtual product - SolidWorks for 3D mechanical design - DELMIA for virtual production - SIMULIA for virtual testing - ENOVIA for global collaborative lifecycle management, and 3DVIA for online 3D lifelike experiences. Dassault Systèmes is listed on the Nasdaq (DASTY) and Euronext Paris (#13065, DSY.PA) stock exchanges. For more information, visit http://www.3ds.com. Click here to return to Contents

Mentor Graphics Supports Altera’s Stratix IV FPGA Device Family for 40 Nanometer Design Applications May 19, 2008 Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that its Precision® Synthesis family of products and its leading ANSI C++ high-level synthesis product, Catapult® C Synthesis, support Altera Corporation’s 40 nanometer (nm) Stratix® IV field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The Stratix IV FPGAs meet the diverse needs of high-end applications in a large number of markets. Customers leveraging the Precision Synthesis technology in their Stratix IV FPGA designs will achieve fast timing closure and increased performance improvements, while lowering overall FPGA design development costs. “Our relationship with Mentor Graphics ensures their synthesis solutions offer timely support for our latest devices,” said Danny Biran, senior vice president of product and corporate marketing at Altera. “Precision Synthesis delivers advanced synthesis capabilities that enable designers to fully maximize the performance, functionality and density advantage of our 40nm Stratix IV FPGAs.” Altera® Stratix IV FPGAs provide high-data rates, increased data processing and best-in-class transceiver bandwidths, all in a power-efficient manner. These capabilities enable Stratix IV FPGAs to address the needs of applications such as network infrastructure, base stations and advanced imaging equipment. Altera and Mentor Graphics have worked closely together to ensure increased productivity and comprehensive design synthesis support for customers using the Precision Synthesis product for Altera Stratix IV FPGAs. Mentor’s Precision support of the Stratix IV devices is now available to customers in beta, with full production at the end of June. Stratix IV FPGA libraries for Mentor’s Precision synthesis tool can be used to develop characterized libraries for Catapult C Synthesis. This benefits the Altera customer two-fold: the use of standard ANSI C++ to safely create high performance hardware found in wireless and image devices, and the custom accelerated libraries allow these customers to exploit the DSP blocks in the Stratix IV FPGA, enabling a

Page 73 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary much higher Fmax and improved performance. “Leveraging 40nm technology, Altera’s new Stratix IV device family delivers a high-density, high- performance solution that should allow FPGAs to make greater penetration in many key markets,” stated Simon Bloch, vice president and general manager, Mentor Graphics design and synthesis division. “We are pleased to continue our commitment to high-performance synthesis solutions for Altera devices to benefit our mutual customers.” Precision Synthesis: The Centerpiece of Mentor Graphics FPGA Flow The Precision Synthesis tool forms the centerpiece of the Mentor Graphics FPGA flow — the industry's most comprehensive vendor-independent solution for FPGA design. It’s the only synthesis tool which offers true push-button, multi-vendor physical synthesis for achieving the best quality of results. With comprehensive language support, including SystemVerilog, advanced ASIC prototyping flow and automatic incremental synthesis, the Precision Synthesis tool is uniquely suited to handle today’s high- end FPGAs. The Precision Synthesis tool features award-winning design analysis capability, allowing designers to cross-probe between multiple views as well as perform interactive static timing "what-if" analyses. The Precision Synthesis tool reduces design iterations, and enables faster, more predictable completion of designs, while delivering high quality of results. Click here to return to Contents

MSC Software Announces the 2008 Releases of its Engineering Analysis and Next Generation MD Technologies May 19, 2008 MSC.Software, the leading global provider of enterprise simulation solutions, including simulation software and services, today announced the 2008 release of its complete engineering analysis suite as well as its MD Technologies - a core component of MSC SimEnterprise that includes MD Nastran and MD Adams. The concurrent release highlights the seamless path forward that leverages existing MSC.Software single analysis point tools to MD's multiple discipline analysis. MD complements MSC.Software's engineering foundation technology with enhanced solver integration that enables greater simulation accuracy and improved system level analysis, to reduce the gap between systems simulation and physical testing. The 2008 release of the MSC Engineering Analysis Product Suite provides a common technology foundation for the company's MD Solutions while providing users with the best available technology for single discipline problems. By investing and building upon these MSC.Software technology foundation tools, customers have forward compatible access to the complete SimEnterprise solution set. This integrated solution set ranges from traditional engineering point-solutions to integrated multidiscipline solutions and expands into simulation process management and automation. The 2008 release of the MSC Engineering Analysis Product suite includes enhancements to Nastran, Marc, Dytran, Adams, Patran, and Easy5, providing the broadest range of engineering simulation technologies available today. In the 2008 engineering analysis release direct connectivity to SimEnterprise is enabled to ensure that MSC.Software customers can use today's products with next generation technology in an interoperable way. "MSC.Software's engineering analysis products have long served as the simulation backbone for leading auto, aero and manufacturing industry businesses worldwide," said Bill Weyand, chief executive officer, MSC.Software. "The company is committed to enhancing our core technology to meet customer needs

Page 74 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary and evolving the solution set to help customers increase business value and innovation by taking the path forward to enterprise simulation with SimEnterprise." "MD Solutions 2008 provides customers with a groundbreaking path forward in the ongoing quest to close the gap between testing and simulation," said Dr. Reza Sadeghi, Chief Technology Officer, MSC.Software. "For the first time, many envisioned multidisciplinary advances become reality. The commonality of the framework eliminates time consuming traditional iterative analysis when compared with using multiple point products and by providing a higher degree of integration between MD Adams & MD Nastran, engineers can carry out stress analysis during motion simulation to instantly visualize stresses occurring in moving parts and assemblies at any specific instance in time. Additionally, MD Solutions 2008 unified open solver framework includes integrated partner technology such as LS-Dyna from LSTC for crash and impact analysis and micromechanical composite failure analysis from AlphaStar." MSC.Software's MD helps companies improve the accuracy of simulation and optimize product performance by integrating engineering disciplines like structures, thermal, motion, and mechatronics into a single solver foundation. MD's single environment eliminates data translation and transformations that often lead to inaccuracy and inefficiency. With MD, product manufacturers are able to simulate real world problems more accurately in a fully integrated environment by using chained or coupled analyses with a common data model across multiple engineering disciplines. "MD Solutions 2008 provides a compelling ROI by allowing more reliable and accurate simulation, reduced translation errors, multi-disciplinary optimization and solution completeness that is game- changing," said Glenn Wienkoop, President, MSC.Software. "Coupled with our recent acquisition of thermal analysis technology along with our expanding partnerships, this solidly positions MSC.Software and its foundation technology as the thought leader in simulation software." About MSC.Software Corporation MSC.Software (NASDAQ: MSCS) is the global leader of enterprise simulation solutions, that help companies make money, save time and reduce costs associated with designing and testing manufactured products. MSC.Software works with thousands of companies in hundreds of industries to develop better products faster by utilizing information technology, software, services and systems. MSC.Software employs more than 1200 people in 23 countries. For additional information about MSC.Software's products and services, please visit www.mscsoftware.com. Click here to return to Contents

Planview Introduces Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics May 21, 2008 Planview, the leading independent provider of enterprise-wide portfolio management solutions, today announced Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics, a powerful new analytics platform that allows organizations to perform dynamic business analysis on the broad range of portfolio management data available within the Planview Enterprise application suite. Insight Analytics leverages the power of Microsoft’s market-leading OLAP technology to accelerate and improve the quality of business-critical decisions relating to demand, resource, and financial management within IT and product development organizations. Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics is interactive and easy to use, and enables analysis of complex

Page 75 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary data sets through a familiar, intuitive user interface. With OLAP reporting functionality and a highly interactive drill-down capability, users can easily understand current and trend-based business information. Built upon Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services and Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services, Insight Analytics puts a powerful decision-making capability onto every desktop across the enterprise. Decision makers can access data sets through a variety of interfaces including SharePoint, Outlook, and Excel. This seamless integration increases organizational effectiveness by expanding and enhancing the access to portfolio management metrics and data enterprise-wide. “Many organizations suffer from having too crude or incomplete an understanding of the performance of their projects, services, and other IT investments,” said David Stodder, vice president and research director at Ventana Research. “To manage costs and ensure that precious resources are being applied to the most important initiatives, organizations need tools that get them beyond simple chargeback systems and provide focused views of data and strong analytics. The launch of Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics is an important development that could help organizations more successfully align their portfolio with strategic goals and objectives.” Leveraging Planview’s 19 years of experience in the portfolio management discipline, Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics provides a comprehensive set of pre-built, interactive dashboards out-of- the-box. These guided analytics provide users with interactive views into strategic planning, total cost of ownership of IT services and applications, risk management, resource management, project management, and vendor management. "Portfolio management systems are increasingly critical for executives looking to optimize business strategy in light of constrained human and financial resources,” said Patrick Tickle, executive vice president of products at Planview. “The ability to maximize performance requires access and visibility into key business metrics. Insight Analytics delivers on these requirements by allowing users to analyze complex business data from within Planview Enterprise in a familiar user experience. This unique combination allows our customers to leverage the benefits of portfolio management across the enterprise." Insight Analytics is enabled by Planview Enterprise 9.2, which also supports Planview OpenSuite for Microsoft SharePoint, a customer-driven integration between Planview Enterprise and Microsoft SharePoint. The new integration allows customers to leverage the rich collaboration, content management and community functionality housed within SharePoint. Users can now create, associate and access existing SharePoint sites from within Planview Enterprise, as well as create a SharePoint site or associate existing SharePoint sites to a particular project, work portfolio, request portfolio, or strategic portfolio. Planview Enterprise 9.2 also includes a wide range of customer-driven enhancements covering several functional areas within the application suite. The new release includes enhancements to Planview Enterprise Business Process Manager (BPM). One new feature is the creation of a Process Asset Library (PAL), allowing users to identify events, rules, and links associated with a set of processes, and document and report on the processes, roles, procedures and links maintained within the BPM. Planview offers the broadest set of portfolio management applications, from strategic planning to execution in project and services portfolio management. The introduction of Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics and Planview OpenSuite for Microsoft SharePoint builds upon recent announcements of Planview OpenSuite for BMC Atrium CMDB and OpenSuite for CMDBf. These new products will be available with Planview Enterprise 9.2 in Q2 2008. For more information, please visit www.Planview.com.

Page 76 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary About Planview Since 1989, Planview has been a market leader and trusted partner in providing comprehensive portfolio management solutions. Planview Enterprise®, the company's leading performance management platform, combines project and portfolio management software with adaptive best practices, Planview PRISMS®, to enable better decision making and business accountability. Industry leaders such as Citi, BP, EDF, and the American Red Cross, partner with Planview to achieve their strategic business goals. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices across the U.S., Europe, and Asia-Pacific, Planview supports 550 customers in virtually every industry. Planview is privately held and has been profitable for over a decade. For more information, visit www.planview.com. Click here to return to Contents

PTC Announces CoCreate® 2008 May 19, 2008 PTC, The Product Development Company®, today announced the upcoming general availability of CoCreate 2008 – the latest release of its explicit CAD, PDM & collaboration software. CoCreate 2008 brings new time savings to companies challenged with shrinking design cycles and pressures to quickly create product designs in intensely competitive markets. These capabilities will help users explore more style options quickly and keep product designs aligned with manufacturing processes. Additionally, companies that design complex machinery will benefit from the highly responsive, 3D cross-sectional design environment. CoCreate 2008 will help users increase productivity, speed design iterations and make it easier to make modifications to designs. Highlights of the new CoCreate 2008 enhancements include: Increased Everyday Productivity • Revised pattern capabilities – Creates patterns faster with improved user guidance and new options for irregular patterns and selective suppression of features within a pattern. • More flexible work-in-progress capture – Allows users to save daily work and “what if” scenarios, even with multiple revisions of locked parts and assemblies loaded into a session. • Shaded and rendered drawing views – Communicates 3D designs in 2D with the new option to create shaded and photo-realistic drawing views. Faster Design Iteration • Enhanced surface editing capabilities – Assigns surface properties for fast and easy surface operations, and automatically maintain curvature tangency, coincidence, and continuity during modifications. Streamlined Modification • Fast cross-sectional modification – Reduces the number of repetitive steps when modifying components with cylindrical geometry, often down to a single operation. Additionally, CoCreate Drafting 2008 will now support AutoCAD 2008 compliant DWG & DXF formats. Other capabilities include dimensioning enhancements, such as ANSI-compliant chamfer dimensions, dimension pre and postfixes, inquiries and grouping of dimensions, symbols, and text. CoCreate Model Manager 2008 and CoCreate Drawing Manager 2008 continue to provide CoCreate

Page 77 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Modeling customers with a CAD data management system that is easy to install, easy to use, and easy to add additional value. “The enhancements provided in CoCreate Modeling 2008 will help increase the productivity of our design teams and reduce the risk of misinterpretation of drawings," said Nan Battaglia, CAD specialist, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc. "Now we can explore new designs and make radical changes to the model faster and easier than before. The software is even more intuitive, which lets us focus on the design, versus the modeling technique or constraints. The improvements in the quality of the renderings also greatly enhances the teams' ability to interpret drawings and identify opportunities to improve the product." “Flexibility to respond to unexpected changes and speed of iteration are critical to the success of companies that choose explicit modeling solutions like CoCreate to develop their designs,” said James Heppelmann, executive vice president, software solutions, and chief product officer, PTC. “The release of CoCreate 2008 demonstrates PTC’s ongoing commitment to delivering the capabilities that will help them attain maximum value from their software investment.” CoCreate 2008 is scheduled to be available in May 2008 in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish.* For more information about CoCreate 2008, please visit the CoCreate product pages on www.ptc.com. *The timing of any product release, including any features or functionality, is subject to change at PTC’s discretion. Click here to return to Contents

RedEye RPM and Alibre Partner to Offer Instant Rapid Prototyping Quotes From Alibre Design 16 May 2008 RedEye RPM and Alibre, Inc. announced – from the RAPID show in Orlando – a new partnership that enables users of Alibre Design 3D CAD software to obtain instant quotes for designs using RedEye’s Web-based quoting system. As part of the partnership, RedEye created a software add-on for Alibre Design that generates instant quotes for parts and assemblies directly inside the Alibre Design interface. In addition, designers can securely transmit the design to RedEye to build after receiving a quote. The quotes are based on services offered by RedEye RPM, which houses nearly 100 additive fabrication systems in its facilities worldwide, most of which are fused deposition modeling® systems manufactured by Stratasys. “Designers now have direct access to prototypes and custom manufactured parts that can be made and shipped to them in a matter of days,” says Tim Thellin, RedEye RPM product manager. “This add-on offers a simple, direct connection for designers to get quotes instantly without having to upload files to our Web site.” Alibre Design, part of Alibre’s Personal CAD/CAM™ family of integrated 3D parametric design and manufacturing products, supports the industry standard .STL output for rapid prototyping and manufacturing, which closely integrates with RedEye’s online, instant quoting system. Alibre will create and offer, as a free download, a special version of its 3D parametric design product, Alibre Design Xpress, which will include RedEye’s instant quoting add-on. “Alibre is all about breaking down the barriers to 3D and empowering the individual to innovate,” says Greg Milliken, CEO of Alibre. “RedEye RPM is the perfect partner to help us extend that vision. You

Page 78 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary don’t have to be a big company or have a big budget to take advantage of our complementary technologies,” he continues. “In fact, starting with our free Alibre Design Xpress software and the affordable RPM services from RedEye, anyone with a good idea can be an inventor or an entrepreneur.” RedEye accepts files in .STL format and builds prototypes and parts in 15 different thermoplastic materials ranging from ABS blends to a high heat and chemical resistant PPSF. The partnership between RedEye and Alibre simplifies the product development cycle for designers from creation through purchasing prototypes and parts. Click here to return to Contents

SAP Empowers Midsize Companies to Deliver Superior Customer Value May 19, 2008 SAP AG today announced new CRM functionality in the SAP® Business All-in-One solution addressing the needs of midsize companies to better manage every aspect of their customer relationships. Based on the latest innovations in the SAP® Customer Relationship Management (CRM) 2007 application, CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One will considerably enhance SAP's midsize customers' ability to pursue new customer strategies and manage entire end-to-end business processes with preconfigured best practices. The CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One is simple and powerful —built to solve real business problems at an affordable price and to deliver low total cost of ownership (TCO). The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE® 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19 - 21. With these innovations, SAP Business All-in-One is set to deliver key CRM capabilities for marketing, sales and service with the ability to analyze results across these areas. These processes are designed to enable midsize companies to generate more leads, close more deals and provide better service and support across multiple interaction channels, rendering a 360-degree view of customer activities. The new CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One is based on the state-of-the-art SAP NetWeaver® technology platform. The flexibility of the platform will enable customers to scale their business for growth, as well as quickly react to changing customer requirements. The new CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One illustrates SAP's continuous commitment to delivering innovation and spurring the overall productivity of small businesses and midsize companies. "Midsize companies are looking for affordable, innovative, state-of-the-art business solutions that can be quickly adopted," said John Roberts, research manager, Global SMB Research, IDC. "The new SAP Business All-in-One solution meets all of this criteria by providing cost-effective, end-to-end CRM and ERP processes that can be easily implemented and customized to meet the needs of individual businesses." CRM for Midsize Companies Delivers Immediate Business Value The CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One is multi-channel and includes best practices for marketing, sales and service, with integrated analytics for enhanced decision-making. Integrated end-to- end processes include opportunity management, interaction center telesales and service, service order management, complaints and returns management, and service request management, in addition to supporting CRM real-time transactional reporting and business intelligence analytics. This unique midmarket package, built on SAP best practices, renders a complete view of customer activities to help companies better manage the complete cycle from lead to opportunity to order to cash.

Page 79 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary "As midsize companies look to enhance their competitiveness in a global business environment, they have come to realize that the consistent and strong customer relations are key to success," said Hans- Peter Klaey, president, SME, and corporate officer, SAP AG. "This has resulted in a steadily growing need among midsize companies for generic and industry-specific CRM to become an integral, yet affordable part of their existing business solution landscape. We're committed to empowering them with an end-to-end solution that simply and powerfully manages the totality of customer relationships in all business areas." More than 11,700 midsize companies in a variety of industries and countries have deployed SAP Business All-in-One to streamline operations, gain business insight and unleash growth potential. The new CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One is especially attractive for companies that have already invested in an SAP Business All-in-One solution or plan to concurrently invest in a new midmarket enterprise resource planning (ERP) business solution. The CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One will be available from qualified SAP Business All-in-One channel partners in selected countries starting in the summer or fall of 2008. For more information on the new CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One, please visit http://www.sap.com/solutions/sme/businessallinone The CRM functionality in SAP Business All-in-One will be demonstrated in the SAP Business All-in- One booth in the SME village at SAPPHIRE 2008 Berlin. SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire. Click here to return to Contents

SAP Unveils Comprehensive SOA Service and Support Offering May 20, 2008 SAP AG today announced that it has delivered a complete accompaniment of service-oriented architecture (SOA) technologies, ready-to-run services and comprehensive support offerings to help companies achieve additional business value and increased IT efficiencies. With SOA as the de facto market standard and mass adoption underway, customers can turn to SAP for a simplified, comprehensive option for executing a sound SOA strategy that delivers rapid value. The breadth of offerings from SAP addresses the full lifecycle of SOA projects -- from development to deployment and ongoing management -- making the transition to SOA easy and affordable. By taking advantage of hands-on guidance through SAP's methodology, customers can accelerate business network transformation. The announcement was made at SAPPHIRE(R) 2008, SAP's international customer conference, being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19 - 21. Small, midsize and large enterprises around the world face the need to drive a more global approach to

Page 80 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary business, manage faster transformational changes in market conditions and cope with increased customer power in networked economies. As a result, companies are continually looking for ways to innovate business processes while reducing the amount of expense, time and effort associated with driving the operation of their business. Companies need a comprehensive architecture that is based on an open platform to govern their IT landscape in order to enable change, and are increasingly adopting enterprise SOA to fill those needs. Enterprise SOA, SAP's approach to SOA, focuses on easily linking stand-alone standard processes to quickly compose new end-to-end processes. In addition, the approach selectively redesigns existing processes to make rapid changes and facilitate seamless design across company boundaries to include business partners. "SAP's approach to SOA has enabled Offentliche to improve customer management for further growth, as well as made us more efficient and effective," said Dennis Lidzba, managing director IT, Offentliche Insurance (Versicherung Braunschweig). "Through the use of Web services, we are able to provide our customers with online processes and our partners with an online environment where interfacing with different systems is flexible." End-to-End Professional Services for Scalable Business Solutions The set of innovative professional services and tools offered by SAP ensures customers have the ability to complete their SOA road maps and move forward on projects, maximizing success at every step. The professional service portfolio from SAP covers all phases of a company's transition to SOA—from initial exploration to training end users to take advantage of newly introduced functionality. The portfolio includes: • Starter Kit for Enterprise SOA —Released recently, the starter kit for enterprise SOA provides step- by-step guidance for initial SOA projects with knowledge building blocks including content focused on value and benefits, architecture, governance, composition of services and ongoing operations. In addition, the kit contains a methodology for project managers and hands-on developer guidance. To learn from other user experiences, references and customer cases are included as well. This kit is available at no cost to customers via the SAP Developer Network site (sap.sdn.com— https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/enterprisesoa). • Methodology for Accelerated Transformation to Enterprise SOA—The methodology accelerates the transformation to SOA by helping consultants, partners, and customers implement service-based solutions. The methodology supports and accelerates the transformation of customer IT landscapes into an enterprise service-based architecture, consolidates existing approaches and provides end-to- end guidance throughout the entire transformation process with a single procedural model. • Packaged Composite Implementations—Providing customers with value-add SOA offerings that address specific business problems, each offering comes as a packaged SOA project, including a composite application, relevant productized services and comprehensive documentation. These offerings ensure faster time to value and are ideal to leverage the benefits of SOA. • Value Prototyping—Provides a comprehensive high-speed collaboration platform to create custom- tailored prototypes. This service comprises a one-stop shop, combining business, industry, solution and technology skills into a holistic approach to outline and bring to life customer-specific SOA value. SAP Consulting, Custom Development and Education Maximize Customer Success Customization is a primary characteristic of SOA projects. Through a combination of offerings from the

Page 81 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary SAP Custom Development and SAP Education organizations, customers can leverage existing investments and accelerate value gains in their business as they develop composite solutions that differentiate themselves in the marketplace. SAP's offerings address the full lifecycle of an SOA strategy to best position the project for success. Professional services from SAP Consulting include: • Advisory and Value Services—Demonstrate the benefits of enterprise SOA to customers, identifying potentials for their business and creating an action plan. • Design and Development Governance—Released earlier this year (see May 13, 2008 press release titled, "SAP Accelerates the Path to SOA for Customers"), the enterprise SOA design and development governance offering from SAP ensures process integrity and enables customers to more rapidly experience tangible business benefits as a result of an enterprise SOA strategy. Enterprise SOA governance ensures structure, discipline and control from a generic perspective while addressing the requirements of each company in a specific view according to the customer's situation. • Enabling and Implementation Services—These services educate users and build up skills for the planning and execution of SOA projects. In addition, these services help customers through the implementation of enterprise services bundles and composite applications. • SAP Custom Development—This organization delivers individually tailored enterprise SOA-based composite applications, customer-specific enterprise services and related support offerings. In doing so, the organization helps to shorten concept and design cycles and reduce development time while minimizing technology and execution risks. • SAP Education—With a newly launched certification program in 2007, SAP Education focuses on enterprise SOA governance, design, modelling, composition tools and best practices for critical roles such as enterprise architect. The training builds on existing SAP skills and also brings more SAP- certified professionals to the market to meet the increased demand for talent for SAP customer employees and partners. "Over the last few years, we have seen SOA move from a concept to reality with customers, due in large part to the comprehensive set of offerings from SAP," said Bernd-Michael Rumpf, global head of Field Services, SAP AG. "Complementing the SAP NetWeaver technology platform, SAP's tools, applications, services and a robust ecosystem of partners enable customers to develop a sound SOA strategy and execute on it. With additional ways of enablement like the enterprise SOA starter kit or the methodology for accelerated transformation, as well as comprehensive support offerings that have been developed over the last year, customers can more rapidly and easily derive business benefits like greater flexibility in our rapidly changing global business environments." SAP Provides Ongoing Support With the convergence of enterprise SOA and flexible business process management, ongoing support is crucial to delivering on enterprise SOA business value. A new support offering, SAP Enterprise Support services, is being increasingly adopted by SAP customers because it meets their needs by supporting mission-critical business processes and heterogeneous software environments. SAP Enterprise Support delivers holistic support beyond just single elements of the landscape. This end-to-end approach helps customers operate the solutions vital to their business by providing continuous innovation and investment protection of their software landscape. (See May 6, 2008 press release titled, "SAP

Page 82 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Announces Next-Generation Support Offering") To learn more about delivering business value through enterprise SOA, please visit https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/enterprisesoa.

SAPPHIRE® 2008 Orlando and SAPPHIRE® 2008 Berlin More than 15,000 customers, partners and technical experts are convening at SAPPHIRE 2008 to discover how SAP and its thriving partner ecosystem are delivering IT solutions that create value beyond the four walls of the enterprise, to create "business beyond boundaries." SAP's premier educational and networking event, SAPPHIRE is the one occasion where senior executives, business managers, and decision-makers can come together every year to explore how innovative business solutions foster long-term, profitable growth. SAPPHIRE® 2008 was held in Orlando, Florida, May 4-7, and is being held in Berlin, Germany, May 19-21, 2008. For more information, please visit http://www.sap.com/sapphire. About SAP SAP is the world's leading provider of business software(*), offering applications and services that enable companies of all sizes and in more than 25 industries to become best-run businesses. With more than 47,800 customers (excludes customers from the acquisition of Business Objects) in over 120 countries, the company is listed on several exchanges, including the Frankfurt stock exchange and NYSE, under the symbol "SAP." (For more information, visit http://www.sap.com/). Click here to return to Contents

Siemens PLM Software Delivers Four Millionth Teamcenter License May 19, 2008 Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced delivery of its four millionth license of Teamcenter® software to the market. Teamcenter, Siemens PLM Software’s digital lifecycle management software, is the world’s most widely-used PLM portfolio. “With more than one million new licenses sold in less than 15 months, Teamcenter customers continue to see unmatched value with this PLM industry- leading software,” said Dr. Helmuth Ludwig, president, Siemens PLM Software. “By focusing on the global business and technical issues facing organizations, we have been able to lower the total cost of PLM ownership and thus significantly expand our Teamcenter installed base. As always, we continue to listen to the needs of the industry and add the innovative enhancements that will earn our customers’ business. “That philosophy led us to launch Teamcenter 2007 late last year with a new unified and pervasive service-oriented architecture (SOA) and easy-to-use interface that delivers comprehensive end-to-end PLM through a single source of product and process knowledge. The market reaction has been overwhelmingly positive and is helping to ensure our strong leadership position in the PLM industry.” Broad based growth; industry-leading strategy The growing market penetration for Teamcenter continues to cut across industry and geographic

Page 83 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary boundaries and is driven by a combination of recently announced new customers such as the Volkswagen Group, Leirvik Module Technology AS and Teradyne Inc., as well as existing customers like The Boeing Company, General Motors Corp., The Procter & Gamble Company, The Sandvik Group, Sichuan Changhong Electric Co., Ltd., and many more. About Teamcenter By providing a single source of product and process knowledge along with the ability to enable instant collaboration on a global basis, Teamcenter delivers greater productivity and teamwork. As a result, companies have more time to focus on developing innovative solutions that create real business value. Teamcenter powers end-to-end PLM, giving customers greater control with solutions for: • Supplier Relationship Management • Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul • Engineering Process Management • Simulation Process Management • Mechatronics Process Management • Manufacturing Process Management • Compliance Management • Bill Of Materials Management • Enterprise Knowledge Management • Lifecycle Visualization • Community Collaboration • Reporting & Analytics • Systems Engineering & Requirements Management • Portfolio, Program & Project Management About the Siemens Industry Automation Division The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the Siemens Industry Sector, is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. Click here to return to Contents

Siemens PLM Software Launches New Velocity Series Products May 20, 2008 Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading

Page 84 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced new versions of the complete Velocity Series™ portfolio, including Solid Edge® software with synchronous technology. Siemens PLM Software made the announcement in conjunction with its annual industry analyst event that begins today in Boston. Velocity Series is the PLM industry’s first comprehensive, preconfigured portfolio of digital product design, analysis, manufacturing and data management software for the mid-market. The portfolio was introduced two-and-a-half years ago and since then has achieved consistent and strong growth for Siemens PLM Software. “Two-and-a-half years ago we were the first to introduce a complete PLM portfolio for the mid-market,” said Tony Affuso, chairman and CEO, Siemens PLM Software. “We are extremely proud of its track record and market adoption. Today the portfolio provides one of the highest growth rates in our product line. The commitment to a PLM portfolio that provides SMBs faster deployment, efficient distribution and low total cost of ownership has been critical to our success.” Strong performance Velocity Series revenue growth has continued to grow at almost twice the 14 percent industry rate for the PLM mid-market. In addition to revenue growth, Velocity Series has been instrumental in Siemens PLM Software’s channel expansion, which now has more than 425 channel partners globally and accounts for a third of Siemens PLM Software license revenue. In addition, nearly 90 percent of Velocity Series license revenue now comes from channel partners and more than 80 percent of Velocity Series channel partners now carry multiple Velocity Series portfolio products. “Our growth reaffirms the demand for PLM from mid-market customers,” said Bruce Boes, global vice president, Velocity Series Marketing, Siemens PLM Software. “The Velocity Series portfolio is unique in the industry. A completely scalable portfolio of PLM solutions with a focus on delivering pre- configured best practices has made Velocity Series products easier to implement and use, with one of the lowest total costs of ownership in the industry, while protecting SMB customer investment. We continue to provide advancements for all products while keeping them integrated. Velocity Series provides a completely unified CAD and PDM environment and full associativity between CAM and CAD, as well as embedded CAE in CAD. Most importantly for SMBs, the portfolio provides the ability to start anywhere and expand as needs develop.” “Siemens PLM Software’s Velocity Series has been one of the first to pursue a broad PLM approach for mid-market companies, and their experience in expanding customer implementations across multiple domains validates their standalone yet integrated product portfolio approach,” said Ed Miller, president of CIMdata. “As with larger organizations, mid-market companies don’t typically implement a complete PLM strategy at one time. Rather, they implement PLM through a series of steps that incorporate various processes and technologies at a pace that their organizations can accommodate. This allows them to realize both immediate and long-term value.” Introducing Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology Solid Edge is the CAD component of the Velocity Series. The new release is the first version of Solid Edge to incorporate Siemens PLM Software’s breakthrough digital product development technology announced last month. Solid Edge with synchronous technology is a complete feature-based 2D/3D CAD system that combines the speed and flexibility of direct modeling with precise control of

Page 85 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary dimension-driven design. Solid Edge with synchronous technology will fundamentally change the way engineers design using CAD software. With the increased flexibility of history-free feature-based modeling, designers will be able to generate more options in less time, improving innovation and quality, while reducing time to market. In addition to history-free, feature-based modeling, new features include breakthroughs in “Procedural Features” for parameterized edits without an ordered recompute, a “Synchronous Solve” that allows edits regardless of creation order, new “Live Rules” to infer function from existing geometry, and 3D “Driving Dimensions” that allow dimensional changes to completed models – all of which are enabled by a new flexible user “Grab and Go” interaction paradigm. (See separate press release.) Teamcenter Express cPDM Teamcenter® Express is the preconfigured collaborative product data management (cPDM) component of the Velocity Series. The latest release is Version 4, featuring improved collaboration and control for project managers, lead engineers and shop floor users. Two new modules help SMBs streamline their engineering resources and widen access to their product data. The first is an embedded project and program management option for project managers. The second is a lower cost web client for shop floor users that delivers the same fast access to product data that industry analysts calculate saves designers and engineers 10 to 12 percent of their time. Teamcenter Express now includes targeted support for these key roles and further improves the ability of SMBs to introduce new products to market faster and with best-in-class quality, while optimizing the use of their resources. CAM Express NC Programming CAM Express is the NC programming component of the Velocity Series. It covers a wide variety of programming requirements, including high speed machining, multi-function mill-turning and 5-axis machining. The latest release is Version 6 and features substantial advances in 3-axis machining and feature-based automation. Features include new cutting strategies for curve/edge and 3D profile cutting, optimized corner rounding techniques, smoother finish cuts through specialized point distribution, as well as new toolpath editing/dividing tools. In addition, version 6 includes feature recognition and knowledge editor technology from Tecnomatix®, Siemens PLM Software’s digital manufacturing software portfolio, which can cut as much as 90 percent of programming time for repeatable features. Femap FEA Femap® is the finite element analysis (FEA) component of the Velocity Series. The latest release, Version 10 helps users create FEA models easily and quickly from CAD data through new meshing capabilities. It automates current meshing technology, while adding new interactive meshing and model and element checking functionality. These enhancements combined with new pre-defined and standardized workflow methods make it easier to consistently and accurately produce meshed models for analysis an order of magnitude faster than today. Version 10 also strengthens Femap’s solver integration support to continue its strength as a standalone solver-neutral FEA modeling solution. Availability Solid Edge with synchronous technology, Teamcenter® Express V4 and CAM Express V6 will be available next quarter, with Femap following for the following quarter. For more information, visit www.siemens.com/velocity. About Siemens PLM Software

Page 86 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 5.5 million licensed seats and 51,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software’s open enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products and services. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm. About the Siemens Industry Automation Division The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the Siemens Industry Sector, is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. Click here to return to Contents

Siemens PLM Software Launches NX 6 Software May 20, 2008 Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) products and services, today announced the release of NXTM 6 digital product development software that provides features driven from Siemens PLM Software’s recently announced synchronous technology. Siemens PLM Software made the announcement in conjunction with its annual industry analyst event that begins today in Boston. “NX 6 delivers on the breakthrough in design productivity we announced last month,” said Joan Hirsch, vice president of NX product development, Siemens PLM Software. “We’ve integrated synchronous technology into the NX comprehensive toolset, delivering major enhancements to design, simulation and manufacturing. This release enhances our strong momentum and the market share growth NX is experiencing.” "Our implementation of NX is realizing productivity improvements that have exceeded our targets and overall we’re seeing a 20 percent improvement in the CAD operation efficiency,” said Keigo Fukushi, general manager, Process Information Management Department, R&D Engineering Management Division, Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. “We believe the NX team is committed to helping Nissan achieve our long-term objectives in product development.” Four key NX 6 innovations • Flexibility—NX 6 provides users new flexibility with Design Freedom powered by synchronous technology that leverages the ease of direct editing in the model creation process. Design Freedom now combines the best of constraint-driven techniques with direct modeling in a technology that provides users with up to a 100 times faster design experience than ever before. • Strength—NX 6 handles extremely complex problems through comprehensive CAD/CAM/CAE. NX 6 advanced simulation handles the most demanding CAE challenges, providing a 30 percent

Page 87 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary reduction in physical prototypes. • Coordination—the NX 6 unified process enables collaborative product development that leads to 20 percent faster cycle times through process efficiency improvements such as feature-based machining. • Productivity—NX 6 provides engineers and designers greater productivity through major re-use enhancements such as scrapbook modeling that can improve cycle times by 40 percent. With NX 6 engineers gain greater productivity through their ability to leverage multi-CAD data within their design, analysis and manufacturing processes thereby reducing the need to re-master information for improved analysis and machining times. Design Freedom, powered by synchronous technology for greater flexibility NX 6 expands the capabilities of Design Freedom with the new synchronous technology application layer. NX 6 Design Freedom provides new approaches to creating and editing geometry. These improvements make CAD easier for everyone in the product lifecycle, including designers, engineers, analysts and manufacturing engineers. A new “active selection” technique adds intelligence to designs when needed. These advanced selection methods automatically recognize logical and feature relationships even on non-native data. “The Design Freedom capabilities from NX 6 will improve our engineers’ ability to deal with external non-parametric or very complex models,” said Feng Lianguo, chief engineer, Hisense Air-Conditioner R&D Centre. “We can easily and quickly re-use the model or feature not only from old version, but also from other software. It will definitely become a most powerful tool to assist engineers, and it will also improve our modeling method.” In addition to Design Freedom, NX 6 continues to improve the user experience by providing users with greater flexibility through enhancements to its role-based user interface introduced in NX 5. The NX 6 user interface adds full screen mode for maximum graphics and customizable on-screen pop ups to speed interaction. The result is a system that casual users can leverage along with the most experienced CAD users. “The latest release of NX enables me to be more efficient and productive. The customizable pop-up menus really speed things up,” said Elango Ramanathan, automation specialist, Hughes Christensen. “Now I can put all my favorite commands right under my mouse, there’s no need to go to the menu bar to pick a command. What’s really great is to be able to use all of my screen space for graphics; this makes complex design work so much easier.” Advanced simulation for greater strength NX 6 continues to deliver on Siemens PLM Software’s Lifecycle Simulation vision, which is to make simulation pervasive throughout the product lifecycle in order to design in quality and drive product innovation. The new release includes a complete suite of robust multi-disciplinary simulation solutions that meet the needs of advanced CAE analysis experts as well as designers and design engineers. NX 6 simulation provides extensions to the integrated Advanced Flow and Advanced Thermal solutions. This enables simulation of the complete range of coupled multi-physics, including conduction, forced convection, condensation. In addition, new FE model correlation capabilities enable CAE engineers to validate the accuracy of their simulation results against real-world performance measurements from physical prototypes. This results in better design decisions at increased levels of accuracy

Page 88 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary “We are very interested in NX 6’s new CAE features,” said Mdm. Liu Liping, manager assistant of CAE Dept., Foton Automotive Engineering Research Institute. “Particularly NX’s pre/post capabilities and the solver strengths of NX Nastran®. We noticed the enhanced unified CAD/CAE mode and see its inherent advantage. The method and capability of mid-surface extract is also good. We will also leverage the ‘Virtual Mass’ method when we make response simulations for liquid containers. It is an effective and quick linear contact solution for such analysis. These capabilities left us with a deep impression. We look forward to trying them out in NX 6.” Global access to centrally managed data for greater coordination NX provides greater coordination by integrating CAD/CAM/CAE disciplines across a product’s lifecycle. This unified process accesses centrally managed knowledge to accelerate product development. Product knowledge is leveraged in downstream applications through product and manufacturing information (PMI) data. NX 6 leverages PMI data to significantly improve the flow of information throughout the lifecycle. This connects to the feature-based programming automation in NX CAM and reduces NC programming time by 20 percent. Additionally, CAE product knowledge is coordinated through NX Advanced Simulation, which leverages the new CAE data model and CAE Assembly Product Structure available in Teamcenter® for Simulation. Teamcenter integration enables the global transformation of new product development processes, including the integration of data from both commercial and in-house simulation tools. NX 6 also improves coordination through faster data management capabilities. The new release leverages the latest performance gains offered by the new Teamcenter architecture. This is particularly important to users working at multiple geographically dispersed locations where the need to interact real time with information is critical. With access to Geolus® Search available inside NX, engineers are now able to search for common parts by characteristics such as size and shape. Geolus Search is a 3D search engine which quickly identifies parts based on their geometry characteristics such as size and shape. Geolus search results can include NX parts, JT data or data from other CAD systems. Re-use throughout the lifecycle for greater productivity A differentiating feature of NX over competing systems is its ability to capture and re-use knowledge in CAD/CAM/CAE. NX 6 provides key new features that increase product re-use for reduced design time. Design Freedom preserves multi-CAD design intent by allowing users to add intelligence where necessary. “The new editing capabilities of NX 6, which allow you to easily make fast changes, are really impressive,” said Danila Marco, CAD-CAM Portfolio Manager, Avio S.p.A. “You can simply modify data imported from other CAD systems, without knowing their history. Furthermore, JT format integration is a step forward in large assembly handling and the new interface is particularly intuitive and attractive.” In addition, NX 6 supports a new workflow called “scrapbook modeling” that allows users to cut, copy and paste sections of a model to increase geometry re-use. This can reduce model preparation effort by up to 70 percent. In addition to the re-use of product knowledge in design, NX enables manufacturing to re-use processes,

Page 89 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary which cuts overall manufacturing cycle time. For example, the new NX 6 Machining Knowledge Database stores feature-based machining processes to support programming automation and to share company best practices. Pre-built machine tool kits also speed implementation. Availability NX 6 is expected to be available by June 30. For a complete what’s new guide, visit www.siemens.com/plm/nx6. About Siemens PLM Software Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 5.5 million licensed seats and 51,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software’s open enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products and services. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm. About the Siemens Industry Automation Division The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the Siemens Industry Sector, is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. Click here to return to Contents

Siemens PLM Software Launches Solid Edge Synchronous Technology May 20, 2008 Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, today announced the introduction of Solid Edge® software with synchronous technology, the first version of Solid Edge to incorporate Siemens PLM Software’s new breakthrough history-free, feature-based design technology for digital product development announced last month. Siemens PLM Software made the announcement in conjunction with its annual industry analyst event that begins today in Boston. Solid Edge with synchronous technology is a core component of the Velocity Series™ portfolio and combines the speed and flexibility of direct modeling with the precise control of dimension-driven design, providing a fast, flexible design experience. “I have not seen anything as exciting and innovative as Solid Edge with synchronous technology since the introduction of parametric modeling in the late 80s. Solid Edge has crafted a dramatic breakthrough by combining direct modeling, parametric modeling and a new user interface,” said Ray Kurland, president, Technicom. “Siemens PLM Software has re-thought how users can more easily model in 3D. Users should love the ease of building and editing models – all without any need to pre-plan how models might be used in the future. Solid Edge's competitors will be scrambling for years to catch up."

Page 90 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary “Solid Edge with synchronous technology streamlines communication with our suppliers,” said Cory Goulden, CAD administrator, National Steel Car. “Its new editing tools allow us to edit a supplier’s 3D data directly, which significantly reduces 2D drawing documentation time. Solid Edge with synchronous technology also makes editing parts easy. This eliminates the time and effort previously spent deciphering the feature tree of traditionally created parts. Modifications can be made without having to be concerned over repercussions of pre-existing constraints.” Fast, flexible design speeds innovation Solid Edge with synchronous technology includes new key features that speed innovation, including an interactive design paradigm, faster editing tools, native multi-CAD features and 2D/3D workflow integration. • Create in a new interactive design environment: A new interaction paradigm speeds innovation by enabling users to develop 3D models without any pre-planning. With direct “Grab and Go” tools, users create models with virtually no commands and iterate design scenarios regardless of how the model was constructed. A history-free, feature-based modeling approach captures features in a collection, avoiding time consuming ordered regeneration when changes are made. By eliminating the need to pre-plan designs users can see up to a 100 times faster design experience. • Edit faster: New tools increase the speed and flexibility of design changes. Users add 3D driving dimensions and relationships to any part of a completed model. Operations that come later in the design cycle can drive the size and position of geometry already created. “Live Rules” automatically recognize and maintain strong geometric conditions, while “Procedural Features” allow parameter- based edits to features such as holes and patterns. A new “Synchronous Solve” simultaneously manages all of these concepts eliminating model regeneration during changes, so users can perform engineering change orders (ECOs) in seconds instead of hours. • Edit multi-CAD data as native: All tools in Solid Edge can be used on imported CAD data in the same manner as native models, maintaining critical geometric conditions during modification. Users can edit geometry by direct selection or use automatic element selection, where functional features such as bosses, ribs or cutouts are automatically recognized. For parameterized control, 3D driving dimensions can be added to imported models and even linked to spreadsheets to better leverage engineering knowledge. By editing supplier data as easily as native models, users can make changes faster than their supplier. • Leverage 3D power with 2D simplicity: Familiar 2D workflows within the 3D user interaction paradigm enable users to become experts quickly. Users edit parts or assemblies quickly and easily by selecting a model and “stretching” it into position like they did in 2D. Additionally, the user interface was designed leveraging the power of the new Microsoft Office 2007 platform, where users are only presented with the most common operations during element selection. “I’ve been in the CAD industry for over 20 years and I’ve seen the birth of 2D CAD, 3D wireframe and parametric systems; not since Solid Edge V1 has a technology grabbed my attention like this synchronous technology,” said Allan Blackwell, managing director, Cutting Edge Solutions Ltd. (www.CuttingEdge.co.uk). “The new synchronous technology now embedded in Solid Edge is the biggest technology to hit the CAD industry in the last 20 years,” said Bill McClure, vice president of Velocity Series product development, Siemens PLM Software. “It makes Solid Edge the most complete feature-based 2D/3D CAD tool, combining the speed and flexibility of explicit modeling with parameterized design.”

Page 91 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Availability Solid Edge with synchronous technology is scheduled to ship this summer. For more information, visit www.siemens.com/solidedge. For additional updates on the Velocity Series portfolio, see related release issued today. About Siemens PLM Software Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 5.5 million licensed seats and 51,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software’s open enterprise solutions enable a world where organizations and their partners collaborate through Global Innovation Networks to deliver world-class products and services. For more information on Siemens PLM Software products and services, visit www.siemens.com/plm. About the Siemens Industry Automation Division The Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg), a division of the Siemens Industry Sector, is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, low-voltage switchgear and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industry to solutions for whole industries and systems that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers–from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. Click here to return to Contents

SMW Autoblok Gets Grip on Streamlined Product Design with SolidWorks 3D CAD Software May 19, 2008 Before you can machine a gear, a drive shaft, a downhole drill bit, or anything else, you have to hold it. SMW Autoblok uses SolidWorks® 3D CAD software to design the industrial-strength chucks and other workholding components used by auto plants, pipeline equipment manufacturers, and virtually any other company around the world that machines parts. For more than 60 years, the Autoblok brand has been synonymous with precision workholding, clamping, and tooling solutions for a variety of industries. With plants in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia, SMW AutoBlok has standardized on SolidWorks software for new product design in most of its plants. “Nobody stocks anything anymore. So our lead times have been cut in half,” said Mike Dempsey, managing director of SMW Autoblok’s U.K. plant. “We have as little as 10 days to develop a concept, design it to within five to 10 microns of spec, and troubleshoot any problems. SolidWorks makes that possible by letting us reuse parts and identify and fix problems before cutting begins. I have faith that if I can get the model in during the proposal stage, I’ll get the work.” Right first time Much of what Dempsey and his team design involves chucks that rotate at high speeds while holding a part (such as an oil pipe that needs a groove) to be machined. The slightest imbalance throws the process off and requires two days of on-site work to fix. SolidWorks’ physical simulation, part interference, and mass properties coupled with COSMOSXpress™ load analysis have helped engineers eliminate delays,

Page 92 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary saving about $1,200 for each instance, according to Dempsey. He also credits SolidWorks and eDrawings® e-mail-enabled design communication tool with boosting sales. “Many prospects and customers don’t understand CAD, and therefore the detail that goes into our designs,” said Dempsey. “We couldn’t easily share Autodesk® Inventor® designs, so we couldn’t really communicate with suppliers, customers, and prospects. SolidWorks and eDrawings give us that communication in models that everyone can understand.” SMW Autoblok will soon be able to securely vault, share, and collaborate on designs with PDMWorks® Workgroup product data management software. Companies can accelerate product design using PDMWorks, which enables engineers to work concurrently on product designs without introducing errors. SMW Autoblok has already saved money, time, and headaches by using detailed design process documentation from PDMWorks to achieve ISO 9001 certification. “In a market where lead time is increasingly scarce, SMW Autoblok has distinguished itself by having the agility to deliver right-first-time designs before its competitors,” said SolidWorks Country Manager for U.K. and Ireland Chris McManus. “That is job number one in succeeding in a crowded market. Job number two is to design better products.” SMW Autoblok relies on authorized SolidWorks reseller Innova Systems for ongoing software training, implementation, and support. About SMW Autoblok Since 1942, Autoblok has been at the forefront of engineering and manufacturing state-of-the-art workholding, clamping, and tooling solutions. In 1993, Autoblok acquired SMW of Germany. The combination of these two premier manufacturing entities resulted in the most extensive product line of high quality workholding devices in the world. For more information, visit the Web site (www.smw.autoblok.com). About Innova Systems Innova Systems helps customers develop better products faster and more affordably using SolidWorks software. Based in Cambridge, U.K., Innova provides customers with certified SolidWorks training, support, and consulting services together with a broad range of SolidWorks partner products to address applications such as manufacturing and design automation. For more information, please visit the Web site (www.innova-systems.co.uk). About SolidWorks Corporation SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systèmes S.A. company, develops and markets software for design, analysis, and product data management. It is the leading supplier of 3D CAD technology, giving teams intuitive, high-performing software that helps them design better products. For the latest news, information, or an online demonstration, visit the company’s Web site (www.solidworks.com) Click here to return to Contents

Synchronous Technology Added to Product Lifecycle Management Software May 16, 2008 Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division and a provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, has announced the PLM industry's first-

Page 93 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary ever history-free, feature-based modelling technology, that provides users with up to 100 times faster design experience than ever before. Launched via a global webcast in conjunction with Hannover Fair in Germany, Siemens PLM Software's new patent-pending technology combines the best of constraint-driven techniques with direct modeling, and is being integrated into the company's next versions of NXTM and Solid Edge software. "Siemens recognized the huge potential of synchronous technology during the due diligence process of acquiring UGS," said Anton Huber, CEO, Siemens Industry Automation Division. "Knowing that the digital model is at the heart of our shared vision to unify the product and production lifecycles, we have worked together to accelerate this breakthrough in CAD technology. "The digital model impacts every phase of the PLM process and is key to delivering innovation faster than ever before. This technology will fundamentally change the way manufacturers design products and enable them to accelerate their innovation process, ultimately driving increases in top line revenue." "This new synchronous technology is indeed a breakthrough," said Jack Beeckman, PLM manager, Liebert Corp. "It marks a new era in modeling that allows an engineer the freedom to be an engineer. With an instantaneous modelling experience, this is going to change the way people think about using CAD. More importantly it's going to change the way CAD enables them to think about 'what' they want to model, and not 'how' they want to model." The patent-pending technology was jointly developed between Siemens PLM Software's NX and Solid Edge organizations. Siemens PLM Software's synchronous technology will be implemented in the next versions of both Solid Edge and NX as a proprietary application layer built on its D-Cubed and Parasolid software. The next versions are scheduled for launch on May 21, 2008, at the annual Siemens PLM Software Analyst and Media Conference in Boston, MA. Click here to return to Contents

Synopsys Announces Immediate Support for Altera Stratix IV FPGAs 19 May 2008 Synopsys, Inc. announced that the FPGA synthesis solutions from its Synplicity® Business Group, Synplify Pro® and Synplify Premier, support Altera Corporation’s 40-nanometer (nm) Stratix® IV Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). Synopsys’ Synplicity synthesis solutions deliver exceptional value to customers through efficient mapping technology, tuned specifically to capitalize on the performance features of Stratix IV devices, and timing-driven synthesis technology that produces area optimizations resulting in lower-power consumption in Stratix IV-based designs. “For customers looking to leverage 40-nanometer technology in their next-generation products, Stratix IV FPGAs deliver a significant advantage in the areas of density, performance and low-power,” said Danny Biran, senior vice president of Product and Corporate Marketing at Altera. “Synopsys’ Synplify Pro and Synplify Premier synthesis software offers Stratix IV FPGA users an advanced implementation solution that delivers high quality results.” Altera’s Stratix IV FPGAs leverage an advanced 40-nm technology and the company’s proven transceiver and memory interface technology to provide excellent system bandwidth with a high level of signal integrity. Stratix IV FPGAs, when coupled with HardCopy IV ASICs, deliver the benefits of FPGAs with a seamless transition to ASIC implementation.

Page 94 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary “The Synplicity Business Group’s long-standing partnership with Altera allows us to provide synthesis support for new devices such as Stratix IV FPGAs upon introduction. Early access to new device architecture details lets us optimize our software for these new devices so our mutual customers can start designing to them right away and achieve great performance with low-power consumption,” said George Zafiropoulos, vice president of Solutions Marketing at Synopsys. “The combination of Altera Stratix IV FPGAs and Synopsys’ Synplicity synthesis solutions gives designers more value, more quickly and at less cost.” Availability Software support for Stratix IV devices is available now. Click here to return to Contents

Tacton and MP Engineering Enter Into Reseller Agreement for TactonWorks 22 May 2008 Tacton Systems announced that MP Engineering has signed a reseller agreement for TactonWorks – whereby Tacton Configurator is embedded in SolidWorks as an add-in product. TactonWorks supports manufacturers in generating custom configured quotations for order processing. The agreement covers sales in Sweden. MP Engineering is the largest SolidWorks reseller in the Nordic region, with close to 1,600 customers. MP Engineeering provides industry expertise and solutions for the entire development process, providing leading edge software within CAD, CAM, PDM and analysis. MP Engineering now extends their portfolio by adding Knowledge Based Engineering Solution with TactonWorks. TactonWorks targets manufacturers with a need for order-specific customization of product design, e.g. engineer-to-order, assemble-to-order, or configure-to-order, where rules can define what is a valid design for the customer’s requirements. TactonWorks offers significant advantages in interactivity, validation, and ease of maintenance over competing Knowledge Based Engineering solutions for SolidWorks, in much the same way as 3D CAD offers these advantages over 2D CAD. “This means that our customers' design process can become even more efficient. Tacton Configurator automates parts of the process, and works smoothly and easily with SolidWorks, which is needed for the big-picture thinking that is so important as we help our customers reduce their lead times," said Martin Poulsen, CEO of MP Engineering AB. "We are pleased to have an industry leader like MP Engineering sell our product configurator software. Thanks to this agreement, more companies will be able to design better products by automating routine engineering tasks" said Christer Wallberg, CEO at Tacton Systems. Click here to return to Contents

Zuken Unleashes the Power of the Dragon New Intelligent Autorouting Platform 21 May 2008 Taking the stress out of routing, Zuken introduces a brand new intelligent autorouting solution that puts power into the hands of the designer — the Dragon Routing Platform. This moves away from clumsy ‘settings’ based autorouting to a new standard for the future that combines intelligence and a

Page 95 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary methodology driven approach. This comes in the form of the Routing Strategy Environment (RSE) that applies all the knowledge required for the latest high-speed boards with a guided step-by-step process to deliver right-first-time results in shorter time frames. The easy set-up and control of all the routing tools, unleashes the power of the Dragon to general PCB designers, simplifying and de-mystifying the process of advanced routing. During development, the new Dragon Routing Platform was evaluated by some of Zuken's key customers for testing and verification against real design challenges. During the evaluation, Mr. Huckemann, from Siemens A&D, Erlangen stated: "This is a big step forward to bring autorouting technology into the hands of high-speed PCB designers. It is easy to set up and straight forward to use.” The Routing Strategy Environment (RSE) uses a Routing Consultant to guide users thought the process. The initial stages begin by working with the user to define the strategy, which later empowers the user to create a board that is right-first-time. To make this process slicker, along the way the Routing Consultant will analyse designs for potential routing problems and suggest alternative routing strategies to overcome them, specifically performing automatic expert checks and making suggestions on appropriate actions to fix potential problems. At any point in time the Dragon Router can be called upon to analyze any current strategy and suggest changes or an entirely new strategy, to deliver higher quality results in less time. In addition to implementing this strategic way of routing, the Dragon Routing Platform takes advantage of even more intelligence to meet the demands of the most advanced high-speed boards. Sophisticated routing algorithms for specific routing tasks such as fan-out generation, 45-degree single net routing and differential pair routing are all incorporated. The Dragon Router is available in the next version of CR-5000 Lightning, Zuken’s high-speed module for enterprise-wide design, due for release in the summer of 2008. Read more about the Dragon Router in Zuken’s white paper ‘A New Approach to Autorouting’ by visiting http://www.zuken.com/new-approach-to-autorouting-WP. Click here to return to Contents

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