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PLM Industry Summary Editor: Christine Bennett Vol. 10 No. 33 Friday 15 August 2008 Contents Acquisitions _______________________________________________________________________ 2 Autodesk Announces Intent to Acquire 3D Geo, Leader in Geospatial Infrastructure and Urban Modeling Solutions ______________________________________________________________________________2 CIMdata News _____________________________________________________________________ 3 CIMdata Publishes a New Review of the Dassault Systèmes’ V6 Program; A Focus on a “PLM 2.0” Vision for Enterprises __________________________________________________________________________3 Reminder: Only Ten Business Days Remain to Participate in our Latest Opinion Poll _________________3 Company News _____________________________________________________________________ 4 Magma Names Kevin Moynihan General Manager and Vice President of Design Implementation Business Unit __________________________________________________________________________________4 Events News _______________________________________________________________________ 4 AVEVA to Showcase Unique Global Engineering Capabilities at the Seatrade Middle East Maritime 2008 _4 COADE Discovery Tour in India Featuring CADWorx Plant Design Suite Sets Attendance Records ______5 Delcam China to Show Complete New CAM Range at CIMES ___________________________________6 Delcam to Show Latest PowerINSPECT Release at IMTS _______________________________________7 OPEN MIND at AMB 2008 in Stuttgart: hyperMILL®: The Comprehensive CAM Solution for Flexible Production _____________________________________________________________________________7 SAP Expands Scope of Annual SAP(R) TechEd Events to Address Unprecedented Ecosystem Growth ____9 Synopsys Showcases DesignWare IP Solutions for PCI Express, USB and SATA at Intel Developer Forum 2008 ________________________________________________________________________________ 11 2009 Abaqus Users' Conference Call for Papers; Abstracts Due by November 6, 2008 ________________ 12 Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 13 Autodesk Reports Record Revenue of $620 Million in its Second Quarter of Fiscal 2009 ______________ 13 Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 15 Alchip Adopts Synopsys' Eclypse Low Power Solution ________________________________________ 15 Aspen Technology Selected by Cabot Corp. to Enhance Its Global Supply Chain Systems _____________ 15 Beceem Uses Magma's RTL-To-GDSII and Sign-Off System to Tape Out 65-nm Mobile WiMAX Wave 2 Solution ______________________________________________________________________________ 16 Computer Gaming, Desktop Software and Retail Applications Developers Turn to 3DVIA Virtools for 3D 17 Delcam’s ArtCAM Helps Royal Mint to Commemorate End of First World War ____________________ 18 Delcam’s PowerMILL Aids Growth at Toolmakers ___________________________________________ 19 Dyadem Helps Moll Industries Design Out Defects Before Manufacturing _________________________ 20 Infor Automotive Essentials Fuels Growth for Grupo Aunde ____________________________________ 21 Kirloskar Brothers Utilize PTC’s Pro/Engineer® to Design Pump Engineering Solution for Turnkey Indian Irrigation Project _______________________________________________________________________ 22 Mentor Graphics Eldo Adopted by TSMC for Cell Library Characterization of 40 Nanometer Technology Node ________________________________________________________________________________ 23 PEAK Surgical Uses SolidWorks Software to Develop Low-Temperature Surgical Cutting and Coagulation Tools ________________________________________________________________________________ 24 PTC® Retail Solution Launches at JCPenney ________________________________________________ 25 RTI Biologics Selects Pilgrim Software for Compliance & Quality Management Solutions ____________ 26 Wison Heavy Industry Selects AVEVA for Use on Offshore Projects _____________________________ 27 Copyright © 2008 by CIMdata, Inc. All rights reserved. CIMdata, Inc. 3909 Research Park Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 Tel: +1 (734) 668–9922 Fax: +1 (734) 668–1957 E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.CIMdata.com CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Product News _____________________________________________________________________ 27 ArtCAM, a Creative Yet Simple Way to Making Authentic Furniture _____________________________ 27 Autodesk Announces Stitcher Unlimited 2009 and ImageModeler 2009 Software Products ____________ 28 Autodesk Announces 10-Year Anniversary Release of Maya Software ____________________________ 30 Autodesk Revolutionizes Plastic Part Design With Technology Preview of New Inventor Plastic Features 31 Bentley’s Forthcoming MicroStation Release to Incorporate Luxology’s Photorealistic Rendering Engine 32 BlueCielo Launches InnoCielo Global Collaboration Framework 2008 ____________________________ 33 Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corp. Licenses Luxology’s Nexus Rendering Technology _____________ 34 Geometric Releases NestLib® Version 21.5 _________________________________________________ 35 InterSpec Named an Autodesk Preferred Industry Partner _______________________________________ 36 New Versions of Autodesk NavisWorks Product Line Now Available _____________________________ 37 Pilgrim Software Introduces SmartDesigner™ – A Tailoring Solution for SmartSolve® Applications and Beyond ______________________________________________________________________________ 38 Powerway Suite Targets Highly Audited Industries ____________________________________________ 39 RuleStream to Extend AutoCAD Integration with Autodesk’s RealDWG Platform ___________________ 40 SpaceClaim Standardizes on HyperShot for Photographic Rendering of 3D Designs; Relationship Unveiled at SIGGRAPH 2008 ____________________________________________________________________ 40 Sparx Systems Partners With Siemens PLM Software to Integrate Advanced UML Modeling with Product Lifecycle Management __________________________________________________________________ 41 Synopsys DesignWare IP for PCI Express Used as the Gold Standard in Intel Lab at Intel Developer Forum ____________________________________________________________________________________ 42 Synopsys Launches Full Range of Silicon-Proven DDR3 and DDR2 IP Solutions for SoC Designs ______ 43 Trubiquity Expands Sales Partnership Program to Japan ________________________________________ 44 Trubiquity Introduces TRUfusion to Automate Data Exchange __________________________________ 45 Acquisitions Autodesk Announces Intent to Acquire 3D Geo, Leader in Geospatial Infrastructure and Urban Modeling Solutions 11 August 2008 Autodesk, Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire substantially all the assets of 3D Geo GmbH, a privately held maker of intelligent 3D urban models software, based in Potsdam, Germany. 3D Geo offers software and services for geo-visualization: solutions for effectively creating, analyzing, managing, and distributing large-scale geo information. This acquisition would augment Autodesk's offerings for utilities, telecommunication firms, and state and local governments. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. For additional information about Autodesk, visit http://www.autodesk.com/. For additional information about 3D Geo, please visit http://www.3dgeo.de/ or http://www.landxplorer.com/ Click here to return to Contents Page 2 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary CIMdata News CIMdata Publishes a New Review of the Dassault Systèmes’ V6 Program; A Focus on a “PLM 2.0” Vision for Enterprises 14 August 2008 CIMdata announces that they have published a review of Dassault Systèmes’ V6 Program. The review identifies the challenges facing businesses today that are driving development and deployment of PLM solutions, Dassault Systèmes’ history and position in the PLM market, and a review of their new V6 program. Mr. Ed Miller, President of CIMdata, explained that businesses around the world are continuously seeking new and better ways of addressing their markets with innovative products that capture the imagination of their customers. “As companies focus on improving their business operations to ensure that they cost-effectively produce high-quality products, they have increasingly turned to PLM strategies and solutions as critical initiatives for their business success.” He added, “At the same time, PLM solutions have evolved over the past several years as the suppliers of those solutions have diligently worked to provide PLM offerings that satisfy the growing needs of industry.” Responding to these industry challenges, Dassault Systèmes recently announced their new V6 platform, which they position as enabling a “PLM 2.0” vision. Commenting on this, Mr. Miller said, “The V6 platform is a major announcement for Dassault Systèmes. With V6, Dassault Systèmes is incorporating and leveraging the best aspects of its MatrixOne, SmarTeam, and VPLM suites on one platform and adding the capabilities of 3DLive to unify user interaction and access to all of Dassault Systèmes’ PLM solutions, including CATIA, DELMIA, and SIMULIA”. Mr. Miller noted that “Dassault Systèmes’ concept of PLM 2.0 is interesting, and does address phenomena that are gaining attention across the enterprise software world, i.e., online access, innovative UIs, synthesizing IP from multiple sources— including existing systems and communities of subject matter experts, business users, consumers, etc.” For more