PLM Industry Summary Jillian Hayes, Editor Vol. 16 No. 45 Friday 7 November 2014 Contents

CIMdata News ______3 CIMdata’s Dr. Suna Polat to Host Workshop in Conjunction with CoDev 2015 ______3 Acquisitions ______4 Advanced Solutions Inc. Acquires North Carolina Based Greenleaf 3D ______4 EPAM Acquires Great Fridays, Expands Product and Service Design Capabilities ______4 exocad® Acquires Sensable® Dental Assets to Provide CAD/CAM Solution for Partial Denture Frameworks ______5 Nemetschek Successfully Concludes Acquisition of Bluebeam Software ______6 Company News ______7 3D Systems Names Ted Hull Incoming Chief Financial Officer ______7 Atheer Selected to Join Dassault Systèmes Technology Partners Program ______7 Bentley and Trimble Advance BIM through Construction Modeling ______8 Bentley Announces Winners of 2014 Be Inspired Awards ______9 CADsoft Consulting Hosted Autodesk InfraWorks 360 Road Show ______11 Delcam forms Quebec office for French-speaking Canada ______11 Espedia and Linx/AS Team Up to Transform R&D across Europe ______12 FARO Appoints Joe Arezone Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa 13 Infosys to Hire Over 2,100 in US, Including 600 Graduates ______13 Kevin McAlea Named Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare at 3D Systems __14 Leading Architectural and Design Practices Credit Bentley AECOsim Building Designer’s BIM Advancement ______14 Mentor Graphics Signs Macnica Americas as a Distributor for EDA Software ______16 Mitsubishi Electric Europe and EPLAN: More Integration for Electrical Engineering and PLC Programming ______17 Mastercam Announces 9th Annual Innovator of the Future Winner ______17 OpenText Named One of Canada's Top 100 Employers for the Fourth Consecutive Year ______18 Prof. Bensow Awarded Pointwise Meshy Award for Best Mesh ______19 Zweave to Expand Offering of PTC Windchill FlexPLM to Mid-Market Retail, Footwear and Apparel Companies ______20 Events News ______20 Delcam Indonesia to Celebrate 15th Anniversary at Manufacturing Indonesia ______20 Design for the Freedom of 3D Printing ______22 ITI TranscenData Sponsors PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 ______22 NAFEMS World Congress 2015 – Abstract Deadline Approaching ______23 Financial News ______24 ITI TranscenData Sponsors PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 ______24 Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Financial Results Conference Call ______25 Cimatron's Third Quarter 2014 Results Release Scheduled for November 13th, 2014 Before US Markets Open ______25 Mentor Graphics Corporation to Release Fiscal Q3 2015 Financial Results November 20, 2014 ______26 PTC Announces Q4 and FY’14 Results; Provides Q1 and FY’15 Outlook, and Updated Long-Range Targets ______26 SPRING Technologies Successfully Raises €5.0M to Reinforce its NCSIMUL SOLUTIONS Offering and Strengthen its International Footprint ______27 Copyright © 2014 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 Stratasys Reports Record Third Quarter Financial Results ______28 Trimble Reports Third Quarter 2014 Results ______29 Implementation Investments ______30 Antigua Group, A Leading Performance Sportswear Designer, Selects NGC’s PLM and Supply Chain Management Solution ______30 Configit joins John Deere Supply Base ______30 Turkey’s largest EPC migrates to AVEVA Everything3D ______31 Product News ______32 3D Object and Model Importer Now Available on AECObjects.com ______32 Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager V8i Automates Extraction and Production of General Arrangement Plant Drawings from 3D Model, Saving Time and Money ______32 Bentley Systems and Highways Agency Announce AssetWise Academy ______33 Bentley Systems and Siemens PLM Software Advance Manufacturing Process Productivity through Reality Modeling of Industrial Facilities ______34 Bentley Unveils the CONNECT Edition’s Common Environment for Comprehensive Project Delivery ___36 C3D Geometric Kernel Transforms Well-known CAD Systems, Helps Birth New Ones ______38 COMSOL Multiphysics® 5.0 and the Application Builder Revolutionize the Simulation Industry ______39 Digi-Key and Mentor Graphics Unveil Innovative & Affordable Tools for the PCB Design Engineer ____41 Ideate, Inc. Announces New Updates for Ideate BIMLink______42 IGC announces Brava! Enterprise 7.2.1 for IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3 ______43 Infinite Skills' “Learning SolidWorks 2015” Teaches Fundamentals of CAD Program for Mechanical Engineers ______43 Innovyze Releases InfoWorks ICM SE Version 5.5 to Power Next Generation of InfoWorks CS ______44 Luxion Releases KeyShot 5.1 ______45 Mentor Graphics Announces Enhanced Flowmaster Tool for Advanced Thermo-Fluid Analysis Simulation ______47 NCAMP and Granta Design Partner to Enable Faster, more Effective Composite Qualification and Design 48 Nemetschek Vectorworks Releases Localized Versions of Vectorworks 2015 in Europe ______49 Perception Software Announces AgileXPLORER Free Edition for Oracle Agile PLM ______49 Syncs Integration of ERP to PLM ______50 Trimble Introduces MEPdesigner for SketchUp—a New Extension to the Popular 3D Modeling Platform SketchUp Pro ______51 Trimble Releases SketchUp 2015 for a Faster, More Intuitive and Flexible Information Modeling Process 52 ZW3D and KeyShot Partner to Bring Fast, Easy & Accurate 3D Visualization Experience ______53 ZWSoft.com Launches Integrated CAD Software Application for to Facilitate Structural Designing _____54

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CIMdata’s Dr. Suna Polat to Host Workshop in Conjunction with CoDev 2015 4 November 2014

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces that Dr. Suna Polat, Director, Collaborative Innovation & Social Product Development Consulting Practice, will be hosting a workshop in conjunction with CoDev 2015, which takes place February 9-11, 2015, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Dr. Polat will host the pre-conference deep-dive workshop: “Strategies, Tools and Technologies to Maximize Connectivity, Collaboration, and Innovation.” In this workshop, Dr. Polat will examine innovation as an inherently social process, requiring collaboration at every stage of bringing a new idea to market. With advances in social, mobile, and cloud technologies there are now better ways to increase connectivity and collaboration in support of an organization's business and innovation goals. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn proven strategies, tools, and technologies to help:  generate better ideas  address problems faster  accelerate time-to-market with new innovations  leverage collective intelligence for better decisions Dr. Polat will review commercial solutions as well as practices being used by industry leaders to achieve these results, and she will answer questions that are posed by workshop attendees. “It is a given that to stay competitive, companies need to increase innovation, improve development efficiency and reduce costs,” says Polat. “Open Innovation, Crowdsourcing, Co-Creation, which all involve ‘collaboration’ as a key element, have now become mainstream. Yet, there are still challenges in achieving the full potential of these approaches. In this workshop, through examples and group dialog, we will explore strategies, tools, and technologies that may help overcome these challenges and open pathways to better and more efficient innovation.” Dr. Polat has nearly 25 years of experience in technology development, product development, innovation management, implementation of strategic innovation capabilities—including modeling and simulation, open innovation, knowledge management, and social technologies—and driving change and adoption, through her career at Procter & Gamble (P&G) and with her own consulting practice thereafter. For the latest CoDev 2015 news, a special registration offer, and more information, visit: http://www.codevpd.org/CoDev2015/CIMdata.htm About CIMdata CIMdata, a leading independent worldwide firm, provides strategic management consulting to maximize an enterprise’s ability to design and deliver innovative products and services through the application of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions. Since its founding in 1983, CIMdata has delivered world-class knowledge, expertise, and best-practice methods on PLM solutions. These solutions incorporate both business processes and a wide-ranging set of PLM-enabling technologies. CIMdata works with both industrial organizations and providers of technologies and services seeking

Page 3 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary competitive advantage in the global economy. In addition to consulting, CIMdata conducts research, provides PLM-focused subscription services, and produces several commercial publications. The company also provides industry education through PLM certificate programs, seminars, and conferences worldwide. CIMdata serves clients around the world from offices in North America, Europe, and Asia- Pacific. To learn more about CIMdata’s services, visit our website at www.CIMdata.com, follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/CIMdataPLMNews, or contact CIMdata at: 3909 Research Park Drive, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA, Tel: +1 734.668.9922. Fax: +1 734.668.1957; or at Oogststraat 20, 6004 CV Weert, The Netherlands, Tel: +31 (0) 495.533.666.

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Advanced Solutions Inc. Acquires North Carolina Based Greenleaf 3D 6 November 2014

Advanced Solutions, an Autodesk Platinum Partner and Authorized Training Center (ATC), announced the recent acquisition of Clayton, North Carolina based Greenleaf 3D. Greenleaf 3D was founded in 2008 as an Autodesk authorized reseller, focused exclusively on selling Autodesk products and services to the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) markets for both public and private sector clients. The acquisition continues to reinforce Advanced Solutions' Autodesk partnership, while building upon their global foot print and the continued ability to serve its customers at large. Greenleaf 3D will join the Advanced Solutions team in providing customers with an award-winning technical team, multiple industry specializations, valuable professional services, and optimal solutions to enhance customer's productivity and profitability. "We are honored to have the Greenleaf 3D family of customers join Advanced Solutions. Susan Sykes is an exceptional leader who built a wonderful company focused on a high level of customer service. The match with Advanced Solutions culture of 'Customer First' was a win-win fit for both organizations," says Michael Golway, Advanced Solutions President and CEO. Greenleaf 3D owner, Susan Hance Sykes says, "Success requires an intentional and purposeful plan." As part of this plan, Susan has combined forces with Advanced Solutions in order to provide extended services and solutions to Greenleaf 3D customers, continuing her philosophy of fueling innovation in the built environment. She shared, "Joining forces with Advanced Solutions is the next step in helping our private and public sector clients improve their businesses and communities through technology."

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EPAM Acquires Great Fridays, Expands Product and Service Design Capabilities 31 October 2014

EPAM, a provider of product development and software engineering solutions, announced its acquisition of Great Fridays Ltd., a product and service design group.

Page 4 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Headquartered in Manchester, UK, with studios in London, San Francisco and New York, Great Fridays focuses on bridging the gap between business and design. Through its design-focused thinking, Great Fridays has helped companies such as Sonos, Pearson, MasterCard and Vodafone create not only beautiful products and services but also smart new business practices that deliver lasting commercial value and business transformation. "In today's world, design and design thinking have become an imperative. Design influences decisions we make, experiences we have, and through that influences business outcomes," said Arkadiy Dobkin, EPAM CEO and President. "We are very excited to have Great Fridays join the EPAM team. Our clients eagerly welcomed the combination of digital skills and strong engineering which we created with our acquisition of Empathy Lab two years ago. Great Fridays' ‘design authority’ approach further expands our capabilities and helps our clients develop their business strategies." “We have championed design as the bridge between business, brand, technology and the consumer for the last six years. Becoming part of the EPAM family places design thinking at the forefront of EPAM's client proposition. We can’t wait to combine our product and service design approach with EPAM’s software engineering excellence and global scale," said Matt Farrar and Rob Noble, Great Fridays Co- Founders.

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exocad® Acquires Sensable® Dental Assets to Provide CAD/CAM Solution for Partial Denture Frameworks 7 November 2014 exocad® announced today that they have acquired the assets of STI Holdings, the provider of the Sensable Dental Lab System (SDLS). SDLS, the powerful and versatile CAD/CAM solution for partial framework design, required a proprietary 3D haptic (touch feedback) device. Exocad has previewed the world's first mouse-driven version of the software at the Dental Lab Owners Association of California (DLOAC), 11th International CAD/CAM Expo & Symposium, October 31, 2014 - November 2, 2014, in Anaheim, CA. "This acquisition underscores our commitment to providing labs and dentists with best available products and extends our design capability to both metal and flexible partial dentures," said Tillmann Steinbrecher, general manager and CEO of exocad. "The advanced voxel-processing technology we have acquired is complementary to our current mesh-based CAD technology, and we look forward to further accelerating the development of our Complete Solution for Digital Dentistry with this new asset." The purchase includes licenses to key patents, as well as pending patents, related to geometric/volumetric processing and digital dentistry. All exocad end-user customers with current update contracts will be able to download the fully- functional, partial denture technology preview from exocad at no charge, along with documentation and video tutorials. The partial denture technology preview will work with any open exocad-supported scanner, and produce industry-standard .STL format output. The technology preview will be made available as soon as the mouse-based controls are finalized. In parallel with the technology preview,

Page 5 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary exocad is working actively to further develop the platform, in order to make it available through its distribution partners as part of the exocad software portfolio. "Today, Sensable Dental is our choice as the most advanced removable software on the market, and we can produce up to 25 digital removable cases per day on one station," said Brian McClone, Partials Manager, Dental Arts Laboratories. "Short term, we can expand our business by leveraging more modern scanners using all our exoscan-based scanners. Longer term, we're excited to see what the exocad team will do to further improve the solution."

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Nemetschek Successfully Concludes Acquisition of Bluebeam Software 31 October 2014

Nemetschek AG has successfully concluded the acquisition of Bluebeam Software, Inc., headquartered in Pasadena/California, USA. In total 100 percent of Bluebeam shares have been transferred to Nemetschek. Bluebeam is a provider of PDF-based workflow solutions for digital work processes and collaboration in the AEC industry. The innovative and strongly growing company, with more than 650,000 users worldwide, already counts more than 74% of the top 50 US companies in the construction industry as its customers. Bluebeam optimally suits their solution portfolio and commitment to open standards. All solutions of the Nemetschek Group can be integrated into the Bluebeam workflow by means of simple PDF conversion. The platform technology “Bluebeam Revu” enables digital and paperless workflows and significantly improves collaboration between all those involved in the building project, which ultimately leads to an increase in efficiency in the building process. At the same time, the acquisition allows us to reinforce our international market presence in North America. Bluebeam, in turn, will profit from the strong position of the Nemetschek Group in Europe and Asia. In the 2013 financial year, Bluebeam achieved a year over year revenue growth rate of 48%, amounting to approx. USD 22.4 million. In the first half of 2014, Bluebeam was able to grow further and generate revenues of USD 16.5 million and an operating result (EBIT) of USD 3.2 million. The purchase price for the acquisition amounted to about USD 100 million (cash-/debt-free) and was settled using the high cash position of the Nemetschek Group and the taking out of a loan. Growth Accelerated, 2014 Revenue Forecast Increased In the course of the acquisition and consolidation as of November 1, 2014, the Nemetschek Group adjusts its forecast for the current financial year 2014 upwards. Revenues in the range of EUR 211 to 216 million are anticipated (formerly: EUR 207 to 212 million). The forecast for the EBITDA margin remains unchanged between 23% and 25%.

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3D Systems Names Ted Hull Incoming Chief Financial Officer 4 November 2014

3D Systems Corporation announced today that it plans to name Ted Hull as its Chief Financial Officer, effective November 11, 2014, succeeding Damon Gregoire, who will transition to the role of Executive Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions. Hull joins 3D Systems in the interim as Executive Vice President, Finance before assuming the role of Chief Financial Officer. "We are privileged to welcome a person of Ted Hull’s impressive financial and business leadership experience to 3D Systems," said Avi Reichental, President and Chief Executive Officer, 3DS. "Ted's proven track record in integrating, scaling and fine-tuning high-growth tech companies is a tremendous asset to our company as we execute the next phase of our profitable growth strategy." Hull's career spans more than three decades of progressing financial leadership roles in high-tech companies and sector leaders including Cisco, Maxtor and IBM. Most recently Ted served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Fusion-io, a provider of advanced flash storage solutions until its purchase by SanDisk Corporation. Before that, Hull spent six years at Cisco as its Vice President, Finance. Amongst his other roles, Hull served as Vice President Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Maxtor and had a distinguished seventeen-year career at IBM. Upon assuming the role of CFO, Hull will succeed 3DS' incumbent CFO, Damon Gregoire, who will immediately transition to the position of Executive Vice-President, Mergers and Acquisitions. "We are deeply grateful to Damon for his eight years of outstanding financial and operations leadership during a period of rapid growth and expansion," continued Reichental. "We are fortunate Damon is able to continue to contribute as a senior executive, while he attends to family healthcare needs."

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Atheer Selected to Join Dassault Systèmes Technology Partners Program 4 November 2014

Atheer announced it has joined Dassault Systèmes’ Technology Partners Program. The initiative will facilitate integration of the Atheer AiR™ platform with Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCES platform for the ultimate next-generation 3D design experience. Through this partnership, Dassault Systèmes customers will now have the ability to view immersive 3D projects with the Atheer AiR Smart Glasses, interact with them, and collaborate with their peers in real time. “Dassault Systèmes offers a world-class suite of 3D solutions, and Atheer is excited to amplify the experience by bringing mobile-immersive 3D viewing and natural interactivity to workers on the move,” said Ketan Joshi, vice president of marketing at Atheer. "This unique partnership delivers on our shared vision of creating innovative solutions to unlock human creativity and productivity.” The Dassault Systèmes Technology Partners Program welcomes leading providers of interaction and perception devices to create rich solutions for ultimate user experiences. As part of this program, Atheer will participate in the upcoming 3DExperience Forum on November 11-12, 2014 and will demonstrate

Page 7 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Dassault Systèmes applications on the Atheer AiR platform. “Dassault Systèmes has a long legacy of working with innovative companies to deliver leading-edge 3D solutions,” said Tom Schorr, director, strategy and market development at Dassault Systèmes. “Atheer is a great fit for our Technology Partners Program due to their groundbreaking technology in 3D- immersive experiences and interactive augmented reality. We are excited to partner with Atheer and leverage their technology to the benefit of our partners and customers.”

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Bentley and Trimble Advance BIM through Construction Modeling 3 November 2014

Bentley Systems and Trimble have committed to leveraging construction modeling for the benefit of capital, industrial, and infrastructure project delivery. Aspects of construction modeling include modeling of temporary works, intelligent positioning, “splitting and sequencing,” detailing for fabrication, workface planning, construction work packaging, and support for distributed construction – referencing and supplementing design modeling deliverables. Today, architects and engineers perform design modeling with BIM toolsets that support optioneering and analytical modeling, and enable owners to make better decisions for better-performing assets, including in respects that would be pertinent and valuable during operations and maintenance. However, some of the most advanced BIM deliverables have simply not been useful for constructors’ requirements. Accordingly, the constructors have been left to create their own discrete 3D models for the limited purposes of construction visualization. As a result, owners have been unable to expect their designers’ BIM work to even survive the construction process let alone provide visibility into the engineering and analytics, which otherwise could have been useful during operations. In practice, therefore, this discontinuity has negated the potential benefits of BIM for either better-performing projects or assets. Construction modeling is the response by Bentley and Trimble to fill this gap and to enable all the potential benefits. In construction modeling the architects’ and engineers’ work is preserved and referenced, with construction modeling overlaid and as-built changes included. Bentley and Trimble will each contribute to construction modeling advances by pooling resources for product development through:  sharing schemas across design and construction applications to ensure that constructible models maintain semantic fidelity;  leveraging i-models for construction deliverables to and from the companies’ respective software and hardware, when used together in project delivery;  joining forces to advance standards, for instance the Open Geospatial Consortium’s “intrinsic geo-context” down to construction levels of detail;  leveraging in certain cases common modeling software for virtual and physical alignment; for instance, Trimble uses Bentley software technology to provide intrinsic 3D geo-context for Trimble® Field Link. Benefits realized thus far from Bentley and Trimble construction modeling advances include:  facilitating accurate information mobility between vertical building, plant design, and the

Page 8 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary construction site by enabling engineers to create intelligent field data in Bentley Navigator, manage those point sets in ProjectWise, and securely deliver them to Trimble Field Solutions via Trimble Field Link, creating high fidelity positioning points between the construction model in the design office and positioning devices in the field.  saving time, reducing rework, preserving design intent, and accelerating project delivery via the seamless transfer of information from concept through construction. This results from the new link between the Trimble Quantm® Alignment Planning System and OpenRoads, which extends the detailed design-to-construction workflow for heavy civil alignment to encompass the corridor planning and value engineering processes, complete with change management and tracking.  providing contractors the greatest flexibility in performing field layout tasks and enabling the construction of higher-quality buildings by accepting Bentley’s i-models in Trimble Field Link to enhance information mobility.  responding to the “Every Day Counts” challenge of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration by enabling terrain and alignment to be taken directly from Bentley’s OpenRoads technology for multi-discipline civil engineering into Trimble’s Business Center – HCE office software and then sent directly to its Site Positioning Systems and Grade Control Systems – information mobility “from BIM to bulldozer.” Andy Kayhanfar, director of Virtual Construction, Kiewit, said, “One of the challenges we face in construction is translating design models into meaningful construction models for survey utilization in the field. Bentley and Trimble have provided a solution that helps drive greater efficiencies and reduces rework and risk when translating the design model to the survey. The Bentley-Trimble integration helps us better deliver the information created during the design process in OpenRoads to the project survey team through Trimble’s Business Center - HCE. With a greater amount of information passing through, the field has more confidence in the model, while the risks that come with multiple translations are significantly reduced.” Bryn Fosburgh, vice president responsible for Trimble’s Construction Technology Divisions, said, “We are now really hitting our stride working with Bentley so that our mutual construction modeling activities help our users, working together on projects, to get the most advantage of constructible models. We see a great many ways to transform workflows so that BIM’s lifecycle benefits can be achieved.” Harry Vitelli, Bentley Systems vice president, construction and field, said, “Bentley’s ongoing collaboration with Trimble is delivering real-world solutions that will transform the design to construction workflow – for example, by enabling greatly enhanced information mobility through Bentley’s recently announced ProjectWise CONNECT Edition and Trimble’s recently announced Trimble Connect platform. Both of our companies share the belief that construction modeling will offer new levels of construction data visibility. We also share a commitment to the provision of advancements in design-to-construction workflows that bring new value to our users in the project delivery space.”

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Bentley Announces Winners of 2014 Be Inspired Awards 6 November 2014

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Bentley Systems announced the winners of the 2014 Be Inspired Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. They were presented last night at a ceremony during The Year in Infrastructure 2014 Conference, held 4-6 November in London, United Kingdom. This global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations featured presentations and interactive sessions exploring the intersection of technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery and investment returns. It was also attended by more than 100 members of the media from leading publications around the globe. Special guest keynoters included:  Professor Andrew McNaughton, FREng, Chief Engineer and Technical Director, HS2 Ltd. Andrew McNaughton has been with HS2 Ltd since 2009, developing the principles, network, and specific route design for high speed rail in Great Britain.  Ed Merrow, Founder and President of Independent Project Analysis, Inc. Ed Merrow is a globally recognized subject matter expert in the execution of large and complex megaprojects and capital projects in general. During the awards ceremony, 18 Be Inspired Awards winners and seven Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners were acknowledged. In addition, this year’s recipient of the Bentley Educator of the Year award, Artur Krawczyk, Ph.D., a lecturer at AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland, was acknowledged. Nine independent panels of jurors, comprising distinguished industry experts, selected the Be Inspired Awards winners from 54 project finalists. These finalists had been previously chosen from submissions by organizations in 49 countries. Candidates for Bentley’s Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards were selected by the jurors from the top finalist projects as well as other exemplary nominations. This selection was based on the projects’ uniquely innovative and visionary achievements that transcend the narrower focus of the standing Be Inspired Awards categories. The nominees were then reviewed by a panel of Bentley executives, who evaluated them based on the criteria established for each award. Bentley Systems CEO Greg Bentley said, “Our conference this year has been filled with insightful presentations and productive dialogue about BIM advancements. The effective strategies behind these advancements are helping infrastructure organizations achieve better performing assets through increased depth of information modeling and better performing projects through increased breadth of information mobility. Last night, during our 2014 Be Inspired Awards ceremony, we celebrated extraordinary examples of these BIM advancements at work in the delivery and operations of inspiring buildings, roads, utilities, and more. I thank and congratulate this year’s Be Inspired Awards winners, along with all of our nominees, for their valuable contributions to sustaining infrastructure and improving quality of life around the world.” The Be Inspired Special Recognition Awards winners and The Be Inspired Awards winners for 2014 are as follows: http://www.bentley.com/en-US/Corporate/News/Quarter+4/be+inspired+winners.htm Bentley Systems has posted highlights of this year’s winning projects and finalists on its website at www.bentley.com/beinspired2014winners. In addition, it will include detailed descriptions of all nominated projects in the print and digital versions of the 2014 Infrastructure Yearbook, which will be published by year’s end. To review the past 10 editions of this publication, which together feature more

Page 10 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary than 2,300 world-class projects recognized in the Be Inspired Awards program since 2004, visit www.bentley.com/yearininfrastructure.

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CADsoft Consulting Hosted Autodesk InfraWorks 360 Road Show 7 November 2014

CADsoft Consulting Inc., hosted an Autodesk InfraWorks 360 road show across the southwestern U.S. with special guest presenters, James Wedding, P.E., Autodesk Sr. Technical Specialist and customer, Keith Warren, Sr. Program Manager, CALTROP The road show took place on November 4th in Tucson, AZ, November 5th in Phoenix, AZ, and ending November 6th in Albuquerque, NM. Infrastructure projects are being impacted by increasing project complexities, competition, and technology innovation. Many companies are addressing these challenges by examining workflow and technology choices to enhance their design process. James showed how Autodesk InfraWorks 360 and Vehicle Tracking are complimenting Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D workflows in order to:  Win more work  Expedite approvals  Quickly and easily explore design alternatives  Improve visualizations and stakeholder communication  Analyze and optimize your designs for best performance In addition, Keith Warren of CALTROP shared the process of CIM (Civil Information Modeling) and how using advance design technology along with scanning they created a foundation for intelligent infrastructure design. Keith shared an example of using scanning into InfraWorks 360 to build accurate digital models of subsurface utilities for the city of Las Vegas.

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Delcam forms Quebec office for French-speaking Canada 5 November 2014

Delcam is pleased to announce the opening of Delcam Quebec. By opening this new office, Delcam looks to accelerate its mission to provide products, solutions and services in CADCAM to meet and facilitate the growth of its customer base in Quebec and the whole of French-speaking Canada. To support this new office, Delcam has brought on board the skilled staff of its former reseller, Technologies C.F.A.O. Inc., and is looking forward to combining the skills that team has generated over the years with the knowledge that a direct relationship with Delcam can bring to the customers in Quebec. The new office joins Delcam Windsor as supporting offices in Canada. The other direct offices in North America are located in Salt Lake City, Utah; Fort Washington, Pennsylvania; Rockford, Illinois; and Pasadena, California.

Page 11 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary "We look forward to providing steady growth in Quebec through the quality of training and technical support offered through this team of young and dynamic experts,” commented Mark Cadogan, Vice President at Delcam North America. "We are pleased to have the team join the rest of the Delcam family and are excited to provide our customers with the highest level of support and service from the whole Delcam organization.” Frederic Nadeau, who has been appointed Account Manager at Delcam Quebec, said, "Our team has been able to build great customer relationships with many companies in the Quebec region that specialize in the design and manufacture of molds, dies and patterns as well as general precision machining, mechanical repair and fabrication through sales and support of Delcam products, including PowerMILL, PowerSHAPE, ArtCAM and FeatureCAM. By joining the world’s largest specialist supplier of machining software, we will now be able to expand far beyond our initial customer base to provide solutions to many of the larger companies in the area, especially those in the aerospace industry. Our goal is to be able to exceed the high levels of quality and consistency that customers demand in the aerospace industry by providing them Delcam’s years of experience in customized solutions for this market.” M. Nadeau continued, "By joining Delcam, we will be able to provide Quebec with outstanding support and expertise. We are excited about the future and what we can offer companies in the region both large and small that are looking for solutions to reduce design and manufacturing times while guaranteeing the highest level of quality."

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Espedia and Linx/AS Team Up to Transform R&D across Europe 5 November 2014

Linx/AS, LLC (www.linxas.com), a US–based consulting firm recognized for its expertise in SAP Product Lifecycle Management (SAP PLM), and Espedia Consulting s.r.l. (www.espediaconsulting.com), an Italian consulting company with complementary strength in SAP PLM and manufacturing, have entered into a strategic alliance to deliver best-practice solutions for SAP customers that transform the business processes from product development through manufacturing. The initial focus of the alliance will be on assisting process manufacturing industries in Europe with packaged solutions for managing formulas, recipes, product packaging, labeling, and product compliance. "Linx/AS has over 14 years of success in process industry PLM and product stewardship," states Dave Wong, senior vice president of SAP solutions at Linx/AS. Wong continues, "What we've been able to do over the years is package our experience into detailed process best practices, key technical enhancements to SAP PLM, and project implementation accelerators. Empowering the Espedia consulting organization with these tools will give customer's in the EU a partner focused on the critical business benefits of streamlining R&D processes." "Espedia understands the current business realities and the unique needs of SAP customers in the EU," adds Gianni Pelizzo, CEO at Espedia. "This is critical to taking a technical solution and making it a business solution." Pelizzo concludes, "When you factor in our expertise of manufacturing and successful delivery model, together with Linx/AS, we offer customers significant value and true ROI with the idea-to-performance solution model of SAP."

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FARO Appoints Joe Arezone Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa 5 November 2014

FARO Technologies, Inc. announced Joe Arezone has been appointed Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Mr. Arezone has previously served and will continue to serve as Senior Vice President, Managing Director, Asia Pacific Region. Mr. Arezone has assumed responsibilities for the Company's Europe, Middle East and Africa region as of November 4, 2014 and will continue to report to Jay Freeland, President and Chief Executive Officer. "We are extremely pleased that Joe has accepted this significant role as we continue to execute on our sales, growth and operational strategies in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region," stated Mr. Freeland. "Joe is a proven leader in achieving sustained sales and financial growth in global markets and mentoring employees at all levels. I believe this expanded role will take full advantage of the full range of Joe's management talent and experience as we continue to drive FARO's next wave of growth."

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Infosys to Hire Over 2,100 in US, Including 600 Graduates 5 November 2014

Infosys today announced a major recruitment drive in the US to support the growth of its business and enhance its capabilities. The company plans to hire 1,500 professionals for consulting, sales and delivery during the current financial year. In addition, it will hire close to 600 Bachelors and Masters graduates from US Universities over the next twelve months. With this program, Infosys will bolster its expertise in client relationship management, consulting and technical delivery. The addition of these employees will help Infosys provide its clients local market insights, industry-leading technology expertise, and timely responsiveness to critical issues. Infosys will recruit up to 300 management and technology graduates from leading US universities. They will work across multiple technology domains including digital, big data, analytics and cloud. Up to 180 graduates will be recruited into the Infosys consulting practice in the US. They will join existing teams advising clients on business and technology transformation strategies. Infosys will also continue its global recruitment program of hiring MBA graduates from leading business schools, and will recruit 100 Masters graduates for its sales teams under this initiative. Speaking on the recruitment drive, Peggy Tayloe, Head of Human Resources in Americas, Infosys said, “We believe in hiring professionals who will help us build a next-generation services company. Technology is truly reshaping the world around us today. At Infosys, we offer the best

Page 13 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary opportunities to learn while working on exciting projects, pioneering the latest technologies for some of the world’s best corporations.” Sandeep Dadlani, Executive Vice President, Head of Infosys Americas, Infosys added, added, “We are particularly looking forward to bringing a large group of graduates into Infosys in the US. This is a terrific time for young, smart and talented leaders to be graduating from the best American schools and choosing a career in the technology industry.” This recruitment drive will leverage the wide range of relationships between Infosys and academic institutions across the US. These relationships have been cultivated through programs such as the global InStep Internship Program and the recently announced collaboration with the Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering at Stanford University. Candidates who wish to apply or learn more about this initiative can visit www.infosys.com/careers/tech-graduates

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Kevin McAlea Named Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer, Healthcare at 3D Systems 7 November 2014

3D Systems Corporation announced today that it named Kevin McAlea Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer for its healthcare business. In this new role, McAlea will be responsible for developing and executing 3DS’ healthcare growth strategy, integrating recent acquisitions into a cohesive and synergistic suite of products and services, and scaling the company’s rapidly developing healthcare category. “I am delighted that Kevin McAlea is at the helm of our healthcare business,” said Avi Reichental, President and Chief Executive Officer, 3DS. “With more than two decades of 3D global business and technology experience, Kevin is uniquely qualified to lead our fast growing healthcare business.” Since joining the company in 2001, as part of the DTM acquisition, McAlea has held several senior leadership roles at 3D Systems. Most recently, he served as 3DS’ Chief Impact Officer and oversaw the successful acquisition, integration and commercialization of 3D Systems’ direct metals printer line, following the company’s acquisition of Phenix Systems and Layerwise. Before that, McAlea led the development and sales of 3DS’ entire portfolio of production printers. “Kevin takes the reins of our healthcare operations at an opportune moment,” continued Reichental. “I have full confidence that he will be able to leverage our recent acquisitions of Medical Modeling, Simbionix and Layerwise, as well as our self-developed medical and dental services, to extend our leadership position and first mover advantage in this open-ended vertical.”

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Leading Architectural and Design Practices Credit Bentley AECOsim Building Designer’s BIM Advancement 5 November 2014

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Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced that its emerging pacesetter AECOsim Building Designer V8i is delivering significant advantages for the world’s leading architectural and design projects. This collaborative BIM advancement for the architectural design and multi-discipline engineering of facilities spans architecture, engineering, and construction in a unified environment. It supports an increased depth of information modeling that affords users the analysis and simulation needed to interactively converge towards better-performing assets through optioneering. At the same time, AECOsim Building Designer supports an increased breadth of information mobility – from design through construction – for better-performing projects, especially through Bentley’s ProjectWise collaboration services for information mobility with integrity. Thirty-nine of the 2014 Be Inspired Awards project nominations credited AECOsim Building Designer’s pacesetting capabilities on projects spanning 17 countries and ranging from office buildings, hospitals, campuses, and underground rail stations to bridges, power generation plants, wind farms, mining facilities, and wastewater treatment plants. Organizations nominated for these projects included Arabtec Construction, Arup, Bechtel India, Byggnadstekniska Byrån i Stockholm AB, CH2M HILL, Guangdong Hydropower Planning & Design Institute, ENERGOPROJEKT-KATOWICE SA, HDR, Ineco, John Wardle Architects, Morphosis Architects, MWM Architekci, PowerChina Hubei Electric Engineering Corporation, and signum+ architects. Huw Roberts, Bentley vice president, platform advantage, said, “Increasingly, AECOsim Building Designer is setting the pace for the unconstrained architectural design and engineering of buildings of any size or scope. Its use among top and rising firms expands with each new release as we continue to bring innovations in support of BIM advancement to the users of this single, integrated application. AECOsim Building Designer provides users with architectural, structural, mechanical, and electrical systems design, simulation, and analysis tools, as well as construction documentation. Among the firms whose projects are benefiting from its use are Foster + Partners, Robin Partington & Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, and Building Studio Architects of Australia.” Foster + Partners is one of the most innovative architectural and integrated design practices in the world. Counted among its many achievements is the sustainable approach to architecture that it pioneered over the past four decades. Last year, Foster + Partners joined Bentley’s Enterprise License Subscription program, giving the firm unrestricted access to Bentley’s comprehensive portfolio of architectural, engineering, construction, geospatial, and operations software and learning offerings. Commenting on the firm’s use of Bentley’s BIM advancement, Foster + Partners CIO Graham Young said, “We’ve been using AECOsim Building Designer for more than two years now to exploit its integrated multi-discipline capabilities and support our ultra-fast-paced, technically innovative projects. We have also been pleased to provide input and feedback into its development, which has been a characteristic of our relationship with Bentley over many years.” John Ball, partner, Robin Partington & Partners, a leading architectural firm that prides itself on combining the benefits of a design-led approach with sound commercial sensibilities, said, “The combination of AECOsim and excellent Bentley support has enabled our Merchant Square project in Paddington, London, to quickly evolve into an integrated BIM workflow.” Merchant Square’s masterplan comprises four new buildings on a 1.6 hectare site: 1 Merchant Square, a 42-storey mixed use tall building, hotel, residential with skybar; 2 Merchant Square, a 17-storey office unit with commercial retail and two further residential buildings; 3 Merchant Square to the east and 6 Merchant Square to the west, with commercial and community facilities at their lower levels. Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is an international architectural practice that for more than three

Page 15 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary decades has attracted critical acclaim and awards with built projects across Europe, North America, and Asia. Its design work includes the iconic Leadenhall Building and Millennium Experience, both in London, U.K. Commenting on the firm’s first integrated BIM project, a GBP 160 million cancer treatment center in London, U.K., Willem Kok, associate, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, said, “Bentley’s AECOsim Building Designer provides an increasingly flexible platform for successful collaborative BIM. It enabled Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners to deliver high quality, integrated design on The King’s Health Partners Cancer Centre for Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals.” The software’s interoperability and consequent information mobility across this project enabled the accurate integration of various models and drawings in different file formats to facilitate successful collaboration with the Cancer Centre project stakeholders using third-party software. Gerard Outram, founding director of Building Studio Architects, a rising Australia-based, innovative practice focused on the design and delivery of complex buildings for corporate, institutional, and government clients, said, “Good design does not occur by chance, nor is it driven by preconceptions. It arises from an iterative process of working with clients, asking questions, listening, targeting research, and applying rigorous problem solving strategies. AECOsim Building Designer is the key creativity tool in our office. It seamlessly integrates iterative design thinking to building production.” The firm recently used AECOsim Building Designer, along with ProjectWise, to facilitate collaborative BIM workflows on the AUD 45 million Lantern Building project at the gateway to the Melbourne Docklands in Victoria, Australia.

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Mentor Graphics Signs Macnica Americas as a Distributor for EDA Software 6 November 2014

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced it has signed Macnica Americas, Inc., a technical component distributor and supplier of intellectual property and design services, as a new distributor for North America. The Mentor Graphics® products offered by Macnica Americas include the ModelSim® simulator, the Questa® functional verification platform, and the HyperLynx® family of high-speed printed circuit board (PCB) simulation and analysis tools. As a technical distributor serving many FPGA and ASIC designers, and developer of IP and design services, Macnica Americas provides expertise in design simulation, unified verification, and PCB analysis for signal integrity. “Mentor provides world-class tools that accelerate FPGA and ASIC design and system verification,” stated John Burton, President of Macnica Americas, Inc. “Our partnership with Mentor enables us to help our mutual customers achieve design success on time and within budget.” “Macnica Americas not only supplies FPGAs and other components, but develops IP and provides design services, so they know about the complete design process and what it requires to be successful,” said Tom Bastian, Americas distribution manager, Mentor Graphics. “Their team has the knowledge and experience to guide designers in selecting the right suite of Mentor products for their needs.”

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Page 16 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Mitsubishi Electric Europe and EPLAN: More Integration for Electrical Engineering and PLC Programming 31 October 2014

The development departments at Mitsubishi Electric and EPLAN are working closely together in order to realise the optimal integration of electrical engineering and PLC programming. The EPLAN Platform and GX Works2 – Mitsubishi Electric’s programming software for their PLCs of the MELSEC Series – are now linked via a new interface. This enables reductions in development costs of more than 50 per cent for joint customers. Here is one specific use scenario: an electrical engineer creates a wiring diagram and, with a click of the mouse, sends the information for the I/O addresses and function texts (as examples) to the PLC programmer, who is programming GX Works2 controls. This automatic data exchange prevents time-consuming and costly inquiries. This, in turn, leads to considerable reductions in development and commissioning times for plants and systems. As part of this platform, EPLAN Electric P8 combines the data for the electrical hardware planning and control technology as well as the associated comprehensive documentation. “The project quality and data consistency increase through the integration with GX Works2 and at the same time, cost and development time of our mutual customer will be reduced.” says Hartmut Pütz, President of Mitsubishi Electric’s Factory Automation – European Business Group.“ Maximilian Brandl, President of EPLAN, adds, “We are pleased to be a member of Mitsubishi Electric’s partner network. Our global customers benefit from the E-CAD and PLC interface, and the high component availability at the EPLAN Data Portal. Furthermore, this cooperation with Mitsubishi Electric Europe will strengthen our new market presence in Japan.” The central EPLAN Platform includes all data from preliminary planning through to detail engineering. This information can be used as the basis for subsequent project phases in the PLC-oriented automation technology. Furthermore, macros (libraries) and CAD product data from Mitsubishi Electric can be integrated in order to accelerate component selection, configuration and schematic designs. Once electrical engineering has been completed, all of the data stored in EPLAN can be directly imported into GX Works2, which enables quick and simple system configuration and programming. Projects saved in libraries can also be used for future applications; a function, programme or system structure that has been designed, tested and approved is then available to be integrated into a new system in just a few minutes, which considerably simplifies the creation of future designs. Engineers benefit from these innovative engineering solutions across disciplines and beyond project phases and development processes.

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Mastercam Announces 9th Annual Innovator of the Future Winner 3 November 2014

CNC Software, developer of Mastercam CAD/CAM software, has announced the winner of its 2013- 2014 Innovator of the Future (IOF) competition: Ryan Jacquemin - Student at the Oliver Wolcott Technical High School, Torrington, CT Mastercam's IOF competition helps introduce students to real-world manufacturing by challenging them

Page 17 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary to put their own creative twist on a specific part to be judged by a special guest from the manufacturing industry. For the 2013-2014 competition, students designed and machined an aerospace mirror similar in design and function to mirrors that are used in industry-leading space-borne and technology projects, and were judged by Optimax, the company that makes the optics behind the latest breakthrough technologies in aerospace, defense, and consumer electronics. The winner receives a $1,000 check for school expenses, Mastercam software, and a trip to Florida to visit the Kennedy Space Center. Rick Plympton, CEO of Optimax says, "All of the candidates did a wonderful job with their parts and every part submitted has winning attributes that resembled the mirrors Optimax has produced for aerospace projects like the Mars Rover." However, the judges at Optimax picked Ryan’s optical mirror because "He went the extra mile and hand polished the part," said Alan Gould, Mechanical Engineer of Optimax. "It was also the most accurate mirror compared to the original specs." Ryan Jacquemin, this year's IOF winner, "I designed the part the way I did because I wanted to challenge myself by making something complicated that could be a learning experience for me, as well as be creative enough to win the competition. I learned many new techniques in Mastercam in the process of making the part, so that is a reward in itself, and is one of the reasons I wanted to enter the competition. Another reason I entered the competition was because I wanted to prove to myself, to my instructor, and to my father that I could complete the part the way I designed it, and maybe even win the competition with it. Winning this competition is the most amazing thing I have ever done up to this point in my life, and it is something I will remember for the rest of my life."

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OpenText Named One of Canada's Top 100 Employers for the Fourth Consecutive Year 6 November 2014

OpenText™ today announced it has been named as one of Canada's top 100 Employers for the fourth consecutive year. The award recognizes companies for implementing innovative and cost-effective initiatives that every employer in the country can adopt. With more than 35,000 companies invited to participate, OpenText was selected after an extensive application process that included a detailed review of its operations and HR practices compared to others in their industry and region. "I am honoured to accept this recognition on behalf of our 8,000 global employees," said Mark J. Barrenechea, President and CEO, OpenText. "What makes software companies great, great software; who makes great software, great people. Our employees are our greatest asset and it is an operating imperative that we maintain an entrepreneurial culture and esprit de corps where they are empowered to take part in its success." "From the small ripples that each employer's initiatives create, we can recognize a wave that represents the evolving values of the Canadian workplace," says Richard Yerema, Managing Editor at Mediacorp Canada Inc., which manages the competition. "Anyone wondering how leading Canadian employers are changing the employment landscape, need look no further than the hundred stories released this morning, chronicling the initiatives of this year's winners."

Page 18 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Now entering its 15th year, the Canada's Top 100 Employers project is a national competition to determine which employers lead their industries in offering exceptional workplaces for their employees. Employers are evaluated by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers using eight criteria, which have remained consistent since the project's inception: (1) Physical Workplace; (2) Work Atmosphere & Social; (3) Health, Financial & Family Benefits; (4) Vacation & Time Off; (5) Employee Communications; (6) Performance Management; (7) Training & Skills Development; and (8) Community Involvement. Employers are compared to other organizations in their field to determine which offers the most progressive and forward-thinking programs. This year's Top 100 winners were announced in a special magazine co-published in the national edition of The Globe and Mail this morning. The full list of Canada's Top 100 Employers for 2015 is attached and the editors' detailed reasons for selection were released this morning at: http://www.CanadasTop100.com/national

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Prof. Bensow Awarded Pointwise Meshy Award for Best Mesh 4 November 2014

Prof. Rickard Bensow of Chalmers University of Technology has been named recipient of the Pointwise Meshy Award for his grids relating to how cavitation on a ship propeller is affected by the installation upstream of energy efficiency improving stator blades that change the propeller inflow. Prof. Bensow was awarded a trophy and his name was added to those of the three previous winners on the trophy kept at Pointwise headquarters. Additionally, his mesh was featured on T-shirts given to attendees at the Pointwise User Group Meeting 2014, where the winning mesh was announced. The Meshy Award recognizes the most outstanding mesh generated using Pointwise. Entries are judged on visual appeal, originality and uniqueness. Entries are showcased in a photo album on Pointwise's Facebook page. “Prof. Bensow has produced a visually and analytically impressive multi-scale representation of a tanker ship stator-propeller blade geometry,” said Dr. John Steinbrenner, vice president of research and development at Pointwise. “He employs a combination of surface mesh types, including structured quad surface meshes arranged in C-H topologies wrapping the rotor and hub, high aspect ratio anisotropic triangle elements on the stator blades, and isotropic Delaunay and advancing front triangles on the remainder of the surfaces. These surfaces used in conjunction with the T-Rex mesher result in a 20 million element volume grid of mixed type (tet, pyramid, prism and hex) that forms a precise and accurate flowfield framework for his LES flow solution. “Prof. Bensow's entry, selected from a number of other qualified offerings, demonstrates a mastery of both Pointwise and CFD (computational fluid dynamics) in general.” Prof. Bensow heads the research in hydrodynamics at the Department of Shipping and Marine Technology at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. He also is director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Computational Hydrodynamics. His main research interest is studying and developing computational methods for transient flow phenomena around marine propulsors, including cavitation and noise.

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Zweave to Expand Offering of PTC Windchill FlexPLM to Mid-Market Retail, Footwear and Apparel Companies 27 October 2014

Zweave announced that it has joined the PTC Channel Advantage™ program at the gold tier and will deliver PTC Windchill FlexPLM Value-Ready Deployments to mid-market Retail, Footwear and Apparel (RFA) companies. PTC Windchill FlexPLM has enabled fortune 500 companies to improve speed to market, reduce product costs, improve product quality, and enable real-time supplier collaboration, resulting in increased revenue, improved market performance, and higher profit margins. PTC Windchill FlexPLM is the solution of choice for 80% of the industry’s largest RFA retailers and wholesalers. “PTC has partnered with its broad range of domestic and international customers to continually improve PTC Windchill FlexPLM technology and formalize the delivery of a solution that embodies a suite of the industry’s best practices,” said Brion Carroll, vice president, Retail & Consumer Global Business Development, PTC. “We look forward to working with Zweave to help mid-market organizations gain true competitive advantage with the implementation of our PTC Windchill FlexPLM solution.” Zweave Uniquely Offers A New – Fast-Forward™ Methodology for Small and Medium Businesses Zweave offers unique, turnkey solutions for mid-market manufacturers and retailers of consumer products. Zweave has developed a new, streamlined PLM implementation methodology called Fast- Forward™, which implements PTC Windchill FlexPLM in mid-market companies in the retail and consumer products manufacturing markets. The Fast-Forward methodology delivers rapid solutions results by focusing on best practices and aligning future state processes with leading PLM software capabilities. Fast-Forward incorporates Zweave and PTC best practices and deliverable templates leveraged from over decade of experience working with the largest retailers and consumer products manufacturers on their PLM initiatives. “For more than a decade, Zweave has developed deep domain expertise by delivering PLM solutions in the Retail, Footwear, and Apparel markets, said David Buck, Zweave President, “We are proud to work with PTC to provide PTC Windchill FlexPLM to mid-market companies in the RFA markets”

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Delcam Indonesia to Celebrate 15th Anniversary at Manufacturing Indonesia 7 November 2014

Delcam Indonesia will continue the celebrations of its fifteenth anniversary at the Manufacturing

Page 20 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Indonesia exhibition to be held in Jakarta from 3rd to 6th December. The company, which was founded formally in 1999, has already marked the anniversary with a successful user meeting earlier this year and a seminar on five-axis machining at the DMG-Mori Seiki showroom in Jakarta in October. As well as joining the celebrations, visitors to the Delcam booth, 228 in Hall A, will also be able to see the latest releases from Delcam’s development team, the largest in the CAM industry. The new releases on show will include the 2015 versions of the PowerMILL CAM system for high-speed and five-axis machining, the FeatureCAM feature-based programming software and the Delcam Electrode software for the design, machining and inspection of electrodes. The new release of PowerMILL includes improvements to the Vortex high-efficiency area-clearance strategy, expanded collision checking to also cover near misses, and more efficient raster finishing. Vortex produces safe toolpaths with a much deeper cut by using a controlled engagement angle that maintains the optimum cutting conditions for the whole toolpath. As a result, higher feed rates and material-removal rates are possible, making the cutting time shorter by as much as 70%. Enhancements in PowerMILL 2015 will give even greater reductions in machining time with Vortex compared to conventional roughing. Companies using four- or five-axis machines with trunnions or similar tilting tables will benefit from new options are now available to distribute PowerMILL’s toolpath points so that the machine’s gimbal- lock position is avoided and a smoother motion results. As well as including the latest developments in the Vortex strategy, the 2015 version of FeatureCAM incorporates a range of enhancements in three-axis milling, two-axis and five-axis drilling, turning and turn-mill, and wire EDM to make the software even more powerful and easier to use. FeatureCAM was the world’s first feature-based programming software when it was launched in 1995. Constant development since then has ensured that the system has retained its leadership in programming speed and ease of use, while an increased range of strategies has been added to provide more efficient toolpaths that give greater productivity on a wider range of machinery, including mill- turn machines, five-axis mills and wire EDM equipment. Delcam Electrode combines the PowerSHAPE CAD software, PowerMILL and the PowerINSPECT inspection software to give a completely integrated solution for the design, machining and inspection of electrodes. At the heart of the Delcam solution is a novel file format – the .Trode file. This contains all the information for each electrode project, including not only the electrode design but also the machining and inspection information, plus the set-up sheets for its manufacture and use. Having all the required information in a single file simplifies data management as well as increasing overall efficiency. In the latest release, Delcam Electrode can provide scripts for Exeron and JDMA EPX equipment as well as the previously supported AgieCharmilles (Agievision and CT Millennium controls), Makino EDM, Mitsubishi Electric, ONA EDM, OPS-Ingersoll, Sodick and Zimmer & Kreim. Scripts are the EDM equivalent of CAM programs for machine tools. They provide an automated process for the programming of the machine, instead of users having to program manually from a set-up sheet. The automated process is much easier and quicker, especially when a number of electrodes are being used on the same component. Furthermore, the direct link removes the human error that could always be possible with manual programming.

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Page 21 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Design for the Freedom of 3D Printing 6 November 2014

Altair announced today that the company will present its latest solutions for virtual product development at EuroMold 2014 in Frankfurt, Germany, from November 25-28. With HyperWorks® 13.0, solidThinking Inspire® 2014, solidThinking Evolve® 2014 and offerings from the Altair Partner Alliance, Altair offers a broad computer-aided engineering (CAE) software portfolio for design and engineering. During EuroMold, Altair will host the Additive Manufacturing Design & Engineering Symposium, part of the show's CAE forum dedicated to simulation methods and approaches, on November 26 in Hall 8/G 161. In addition, Altair and solidThinking will exhibit in Hall 8/G 159. This combined presence supports the message of a profound paradigm shift in product development and will focus on simulation-driven design, design optimization, and design for additive manufacturing. At the booth and during the symposium, Altair and solidThinking will present methods and processes for component design to fully leverage additive manufacturing, or 3D printing. The use of 3D printing makes it possible to produce very complex structures, which were hitherto either impossible to make or required tremendous effort and significant cost using traditional production methods. To fully exploit the potential of 3D printing, it is important to optimize component design using topology optimization in the earliest concept development stages. Such technologies were the exclusive domain of CAE experts historically. Today, intuitive topology optimization tools offer inspiration and solutions to designers and other less-experienced users. Topology optimization and additive manufacturing together form the perfect technology symbiosis, enabling design engineers to exploit the advantages of 3D printing while exploring new paths in product development. It is now possible to create the optimal component with respect to weight, performance, material choice, and stiffness, while taking full advantage of the design freedom afforded by additive manufacturing. "Whether the design goal is lightweight, performance increase or durability, it is always about working within the constraints of the chosen manufacturing method," said Mirko Bromberger, Marketing Director at Altair Germany. "3D printing disrupts this paradigm, and Altair contributes to the shift in approach with its optimization expertise and software solutions. We are honored to present the Additive Manufacturing Design & Engineering Symposium at EuroMold 2014 in conjunction with our customers and partners RUAG Space, EOS, the Institute of Laser and System Technologies of the Technical University Hamburg-Harburg (iLAS TUHH), and Materialise NV. Together, we will showcase innovative development and manufacturing methods as well as an exemplary process for 3D printing using topology optimization." Register for your free pass to EuroMold 2014 today at: www.altair.de and experience the application of these tools live in Hall 8/G 159, the booth of solidThinking and Altair, and during the Altair-hosted Additive Manufacturing Design & Engineering Symposium.

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ITI TranscenData Sponsors PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 4 November 2014

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ITI TranscenData is pleased to announce their sponsorship of the PTC Live Stuttgart event, 18-19 November. As a PlatinumPartner within PTC’s PartnerAdvantage™ Program, ITI TranscenData will be showcasing their multi-CAD interoperability and validation solutions to their European client base at PTC Live. ITI has been a PTC partner for over 15 years, providing complementary solutions and services for PTC customers. Today, ITI TranscenData is actively deploying interoperability solutions to help streamline migration and collaboration processes, and provides customers with effective data validation and verification to support their Model Based Enterprise (MBE) initiatives, ensuring they get optimum value from their PTC investments. “We are delighted to be sponsoring this year’s PTC Live event in Stuttgart. In addition to our Proficiency®, CADfix® and DrawtoPMI® solutions which help customers migrate to Creo®, our CADIQ® product provides a high end validation solution, checking the consistency and accuracy of MBE models for downstream reuse at design release and throughout any format conversion during the product lifecycle. Our partnership with PTC enables CADIQ to undertake comprehensive quality and comparison analysis of 3D annotation (PMI) data, as well as the model geometry” said Cecil Lewis, ITI’s European Business Development Manager. “PTC Live provides a fantastic opportunity for us to meet with customers in an open and engaging environment, where we are able to review migration and MBE projects and offer advice.” Experienced ITI consultants will be available at PTC Live in Stuttgart on stand S04, where customers can learn more about how to migrate and validate their engineering data within their PTC and MBE environment: Migrate with Proficiency and CADfix:  Feature based CAD migration into Creo® from CATIA V5, NX, Inventor, Solid Edge and SolidWorks  Enable effective OEM compliance and collaboration within a multi-CAD supply chain  Effective BREP translation and repair between diverse CAD, CAM and CAE applications Validate with CADIQ:  Ensure the stability of CAD model geometry and PMI data for Model Based Engineering  Identify model-based design issues that adversely impact downstream processes  Validate CAD model translation into Creo® within a multi-CAD supply chain  Validate corporate CAD system migrations to Creo® There is still time to register for the event, by visiting: http://livestuttgart.ptc.com/

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NAFEMS World Congress 2015 – Abstract Deadline Approaching 4 November 2014

NAFEMS will hold its 2015 World Congress in San Diego, USA, incorporating the 2nd International SPDM (Simulation Process and Data Management) Conference, from June 21st–24th 2015.

Page 23 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The open call for abstracts, which closes on November 17th 2014, has already seen papers submitted from across the globe, covering every aspect of simulation technology from multiple industries. The biennial world congress, which welcomes SIMULIA as Platinum Sponsor, will bring together the leading visionaries, developers, and practitioners of CAE-related technologies and business processes to share relevant trends and roadmaps, explore common themes, and to address these issues in an open forum. The aim of the congress is to provide attendees with perceptive content and perspective on the best way to position their organisations to realize the full potential of CAE both now and in the future. One Registration – Two Conferences The World Congress will also host the 2nd International Conference on Simulation Process and Data Management. After an impressive turnout for the first event in Salzburg, Austria in 2013, this ground- breaking conference will bring together industrial users, technology experts, academics and software vendors alike, allowing all those with an interest to take part in the only truly independent, international forum dedicated to SPDM. Attendees, speakers and exhibitors have free access to both events under one registration. Call for Abstracts “We are sure that the 2015 event will be bigger and better than ever”, said Roger Oswald, Congress Manager. “The Congress, and co-located SPDM Conference, will enable NAFEMS to reach as many individuals within the community as possible, which as a non-profit membership association is one of our major goals." The Congress will cover a wide range of topics, addressing every aspect of engineering simulation in a packed three-day programme. Papers are invited on all topics relating to simulation and analysis, FEA, CFD, MBS, SPDM and Multiphysics. NAFEMS invites papers from any area in simulation including, but not limited to, the areas listed on our NWC15 webpage www.nafems.org/congress.

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ITI TranscenData Sponsors PTC Live Stuttgart 2014 4 November 2014

ITI TranscenData is pleased to announce their sponsorship of the PTC Live Stuttgart event, 18-19 November. As a PlatinumPartner within PTC’s PartnerAdvantage™ Program, ITI TranscenData will be showcasing their multi-CAD interoperability and validation solutions to their European client base at PTC Live. ITI has been a PTC partner for over 15 years, providing complementary solutions and services for PTC customers. Today, ITI TranscenData is actively deploying interoperability solutions to help streamline migration and collaboration processes, and provides customers with effective data validation and verification to support their Model Based Enterprise (MBE) initiatives, ensuring they get optimum value from their PTC investments. “We are delighted to be sponsoring this year’s PTC Live event in Stuttgart. In addition to

Page 24 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary our Proficiency®, CADfix® and DrawtoPMI® solutions which help customers migrate to Creo®, our CADIQ® product provides a high end validation solution, checking the consistency and accuracy of MBE models for downstream reuse at design release and throughout any format conversion during the product lifecycle. Our partnership with PTC enables CADIQ to undertake comprehensive quality and comparison analysis of 3D annotation (PMI) data, as well as the model geometry” said Cecil Lewis, ITI’s European Business Development Manager. “PTC Live provides a fantastic opportunity for us to meet with customers in an open and engaging environment, where we are able to review migration and MBE projects and offer advice.” Experienced ITI consultants will be available at PTC Live in Stuttgart on stand S04, where customers can learn more about how to migrate and validate their engineering data within their PTC and MBE environment: Migrate with Proficiency and CADfix:  Feature based CAD migration into Creo® from CATIA V5, NX, Inventor, Solid Edge and SolidWorks  Enable effective OEM compliance and collaboration within a multi-CAD supply chain  Effective BREP translation and repair between diverse CAD, CAM and CAE applications Validate with CADIQ:  Ensure the stability of CAD model geometry and PMI data for Model Based Engineering  Identify model-based design issues that adversely impact downstream processes  Validate CAD model translation into Creo® within a multi-CAD supply chain  Validate corporate CAD system migrations to Creo® There is still time to register for the event, by visiting: http://livestuttgart.ptc.com/

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Autodesk Extends Invitation to Join Financial Results Conference Call 3 November 2014

Autodesk, Inc. today announced that it will broadcast its third quarter fiscal 2015 financial results conference call live via its website Thursday, November 20, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Autodesk will host a live webcast call at www.autodesk.com/investors. An audio replay webcast and podcast will also be available after 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on our website atwww.autodesk.com/investors . For more information, please call Autodesk Investor Relations at 415-507-6705.

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Cimatron's Third Quarter 2014 Results Release Scheduled for November 13th, 2014 Before US Markets Open 3 November 2014

Page 25 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Cimatron Limited announced today that it will be releasing its third quarter financial results on Thursday, November 13th, 2014, before the US markets open. Cimatron's management will host a conference call that same day, at 9:00am EST, 16:00 Israel time. On the call, management will review and discuss the results, and will also be available to answer questions by investors. To participate, please call one of the following teleconferencing numbers. Please begin placing your call at least 5 minutes before the conference call commences. USA: +1-866-860-9642 International: +972-3-9180664 Israel: 03-9180664 For those unable to listen to the live call, a recording of the call will be available from the day after the call under the investor relations section of Cimatron's website, at: http://www.cimatron.com.

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Mentor Graphics Corporation to Release Fiscal Q3 2015 Financial Results November 20, 2014 6 November 2014

Mentor Graphics Corporation announced they will release financial results for the company’s third fiscal quarter, ended October 31, 2014, on Thursday, November 20, 2014, at approximately 1:15 p.m. Pacific.  Live audio webcast at http://www.mentor.com/company/investor_relations. Please register at this website prior to the scheduled call time of 2:00 p.m. Pacific.  Conference call replay: Begins November 20, 2014 (4:00 p.m. Pacific); Ends November 27, 2014 (11:59 p.m. Pacific). USA: 800-475-6701; International: 320-365-3844; Access code: 341473

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PTC Announces Q4 and FY’14 Results; Provides Q1 and FY’15 Outlook, and Updated Long-Range Targets 5 November 2014

PTC reported results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2014. Highlights  Q4 Results:  Non-GAAP revenue of $368 million, up 7% over Q4’13 non-GAAP revenue and up 6% on a constant currency basis  Non-GAAP EPS of $0.67, up 13% year over year and up 12% year over year on a constant currency basis

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 Non-GAAP operating margin of 26.2%, down 120 basis points year over year and down 130 basis points year over year on a constant currency basis  GAAP revenue of $367 million, GAAP operating margin of 9.8% and GAAP EPS of $0.33  Q4 non-GAAP revenue contribution from acquired businesses Enigma (acquired on July 11, 2013), NetIDEAS (acquired on September 5, 2013), ThingWorx (acquired on December 30, 2013), Atego (acquired on June 30, 2014), and Axeda (acquired on August 11, 2014) was $16 million  FY’14 Results:  Non-GAAP revenue of $1,358 million, up 5% on a reported and constant currency basis over FY’13 non-GAAP revenue  Non-GAAP EPS of $2.17, up 20% year over year and up 19% year over year on a constant currency basis  Non-GAAP operating margin of 25.1%, up 300 basis points year over year and up 280 basis points year over year on a constant currency basis  GAAP revenue of $1,357 million, GAAP operating margin of 14.5% and GAAP EPS of $1.34  FY’14 non-GAAP revenue contribution from acquired businesses was $24 million  Guidance:  Please see table for detailed guidance and key assumptions To view an unabridged version of this press release, visit: http://www.ptc.com/about/news-room/press- releases/2014/ptc-annnounces-q4-and-fy14-reults

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SPRING Technologies Successfully Raises €5.0M to Reinforce its NCSIMUL SOLUTIONS Offering and Strengthen its International Footprint 6 November 2014

SPRING Technologies is funding a new growth stage with a new round of capital investment from its historic partner CM-CIC Capital Innovation together with ACE Management’s Aerofund III and CM- CIC Capital Privé, alongside with an Innovation loan from Bpifrance sovereign investment bank. This €5.0M injection will enable CEO Gilles Battier to energize the company’s development on the international scale, and speed up product innovation through disruptive R&D investments. SPRING Technologies is a French software company dedicated to CNC machine-tool users in all industry areas, allowing them to reduce operating costs, optimize machine fleets and increase the robustness of their manufacturing processes for high-precision, high added-value products. SPRING Technologies’ NCSIMUL SOLUTIONS software range provides comprehensive, integrated control of manufacturing processes that include machining metals and composite layup, optimization of cutting and milling conditions, CAM program post-processing, 3D CNC machine simulation, technical content publishing and machine status monitoring across the workshop.

Page 27 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The company generated a consolidated turnover of €10.0M in 2013 through the sales of software and related services, that have now become a standard in the aerospace, defense, shipbuilding, automotive and energy sectors. It employs circa 100 engineers in France and in three offices abroad. SPRING Technologies is recognized as an Innovative French SME, spearheading highly successful collaborative research projects in the Systematic and Astech competitiveness clusters. It has also been selected by Airbus, Safran, Zodiac and Dassault Aviation as an associate member of the “Aerospace Factory of the Future” initiative led by France’s civil aeronautics research council (CORAC). To speed up its development, SPRING Technologies, which already has offices in Germany (Frankfurt), P.R. China (Shanghai) and the USA (Boston), has taken the twofold initiative of deploying internationally and investing in innovation, in close collaboration with its major clients. The company is also well positioned to examine acquisition opportunities in other European countries. “I am delighted to pursue our adventure with our historic partner CM-CIC Capital Innovation, and to welcome ACE Management into our capital structure. Both investors are highly familiar with the market cycles in which we operate and understand the needs and demands from our customers, especially in the aerospace industry. By leveraging on their financial capabilities and excellent knowledge of the industrial environment, they can help us develop ambitious long-term projects, and bring an even bigger contribution to the improvement of our customers’ industrial processes through innovative digital technologies”, adds Gilles Battier.

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Stratasys Reports Record Third Quarter Financial Results 5 November 2014

Stratasys Ltd. today announced record third quarter financial results. Total revenue for the third quarter of 2014 was $204 million, which included a 35% increase organically when compared to the same period last year and a 62% increase when including revenue from acquisitions. Revenue from MakerBot branded products and services increased by over 80% when compared to the pro forma revenue that MakerBot generated during the third quarter of 2013. MakerBot product and service revenue is calculated as organic revenue beginning on August 15, 2014. Non-GAAP net income for the third quarter increased by 50% over the same period last year to $30.1 million, or $0.58 per diluted share. GAAP net loss for the period was $31.3 million, or ($0.62) per basic share. During the third quarter, Stratasys closed the acquisitions of Solid Concepts and Harvest Technologies, creating a leading additive manufacturing services platform that will support the company's expansion into end-use-parts production, and the introduction of applications within targeted vertical markets. The company also announced and closed the acquisition of GrabCAD, a leading cloud-based platform for 3D CAD users that provides tools to facilitate 3D design collaboration, and has the potential to improve access to the company's 3D printing products and services. Additionally, Stratasys established MakerBot Europe by acquiring MakerBot's German distributor, HAFNER'S BÜRO. MakerBot Europe will manage existing resellers as well as expand the company's

Page 28 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary reach and develop additional strategic partnerships in the European market. The company adjusted its financial guidance for fiscal 2014 to account for the recent acquisition of GrabCAD, with the expectation that ongoing development costs, as previously disclosed, are expected to negatively impact the fourth quarter by $0.03 to $0.05 per share. Non-GAAP net income guidance was adjusted to $2.21 - $2.31 per diluted share; versus previous guidance of $2.25 - $2.35 per diluted share. To view an unabridged version of this press release, visit: http://investors.stratasys.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=880545

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Trimble Reports Third Quarter 2014 Results 31 October 2014

Trimble announced financial results for the third quarter of 2014. Third Quarter 2014 Financial Highlights  Third quarter 2014 revenue of $584.8 million was up 5 percent as compared to the third quarter of 2013. Engineering and Construction revenue was $342.3 million, up 10 percent, with growth across all major product categories. Field Solutions revenue was $88.8 million, down 11 percent due to weakness in sales of agriculture products, partially offset by an increase in Geographic Information System (GIS) sales. Mobile Solutions revenue was $121.2 million, up 7 percent due to double-digit growth in sales of transportation and logistics solutions. Advanced Devices revenue was $32.6 million, down 1 percent. Geographic results were mixed in the quarter. North America grew year-over-year in line with the second quarter, but Europe slowed overall, particularly in agriculture. Asia Pacific growth slowed in the quarter, with mixed performance across the region. Rest of World grew in the quarter, also with mixed performance across the geographies.  Both GAAP and non-GAAP profitability were negatively impacted by third quarter acquisitions, including the impact of non-cash write downs on pre-acquisition deferred revenue. The acquisitions are expected to be dilutive to fourth quarter 2014, and accretive to fiscal year 2015. In addition, GAAP results were negatively impacted by a $52 million reserve for legal matters primarily related to a jury verdict in the U.S. which the company plans to appeal. This legal reserve is excluded from non-GAAP results.  GAAP operating income was $11.1 million, down 82 percent as compared to the third quarter of 2013. GAAP operating margin was 1.9 percent of revenue as compared to 11.3 percent of revenue in the third quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP operating income of $118.4 million was up 0.2 percent as compared to the third quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP operating margin was 20.3 percent of revenue as compared to 21.2 percent of revenue in the third quarter of 2013.  GAAP net income was $11.8 million, down 78 percent as compared to the third quarter of 2013. Diluted GAAP earnings per share were $0.04 as compared to diluted GAAP earnings per share of $0.21 in the third quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP net income of $87.1 million was down 15 percent as compared to the third quarter of 2013. Diluted non-GAAP earnings per share were $0.33 as compared to diluted non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.39in the third quarter of 2013.

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 The GAAP effective tax rate for the quarter was a benefit of (66 percent), as compared to a provision of 14 percent in the third quarter of 2013, primarily due to the tax effect of the $52 million reserve for legal matters. Excluding the tax impact of the legal reserve, the non-GAAP tax rate in the quarter was 25 percent, and was higher than expected due to differences in the geographic mix of pre-tax income.  Operating cash flow in the quarter was $95.9 million. Year-to-date operating cash flow was $310.5 million, an increase of 12 percent over fiscal 2013 year-to-date. "While we recorded a year-over-year increase in revenue, the quarter was unimpressive. Our results in agriculture and Europe were both weaker than we originally anticipated," said Steven W. Berglund, Trimble's president and chief executive officer. "Although we expect a challenging fourth quarter compared to last year's performance, we believe we are improving our overall position in key markets." To view an unabridged version of this press release, visit: http://www.trimble.com/news/release.aspx?id=103014a

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Implementation Investments

Antigua Group, A Leading Performance Sportswear Designer, Selects NGC’s PLM and Supply Chain Management Solution 4 November 2014

NGC today announced that the Antigua Group, Inc. has selected NGC Software’s Extended PLM, an integrated, best-of-breed solution for fashion PLM and Supply Chain Management (SCM). The Antigua Group, Inc. is a designer and marketer of men's, women's and children's lifestyle apparel and sportswear and serves the apparel needs of the Golf, Licensed Sports, Corporate and identity Specialty Retail markets. The Antigua Group selected NGC’s PLM and SCM solution as a strategic system to streamline workflows, enhance collaboration and overall design/production efficiency, and ensure on-time delivery of the highest-quality apparel and sportswear. The Antigua Group will deploy NGC’s software for capabilities that include PLM, costing, product testing, production tracking, quality management, packing and shipment tracking – providing an end-to-end solution for the entire product lifecycle. “The Antigua Group has built its business based on an exceptional track record of customer service and product quality, and NGC is proud to be associated with them,” said Mark Burstein, president of sales, marketing and R&D, NGC. “We are looking forward to working with the Antigua Group as they look forward to another 35 years of outstanding performance.”

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Configit joins John Deere Supply Base 5 November 2014

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Configit A/S has been chosen to supply Configit Ace to John Deere. Configit Ace is an enterprise application that manages configuration complexity throughout an entire product lifecycle. Ace delivers advanced functionality, usability and operational performance to optimize the entire product value chain, integrating with PLM, ERP, CRM and other line-of-business systems, providing a single source of truth for all configuration information. Configit is headquartered in Copenhagen with offices in USA, UK, Germany, India and China. “Configit is considered a global thought-leader in configuration technology and we are proud to be working with an industry leader to support John Deere’s continued growth of providing advanced, innovative products and services to their customers.” said Configit founder and CEO Professor Henrik Reif Andersen Configit’s core technology is based on extensive research in formal verification of hardware, software and constraint solving. The patented technology Virtual Tabulation ensures quality assurance and high performance in configuration solves, and has more than 2 million users worldwide. Configit is a global independent software vendor that provides third generation configuration solutions to companies with product configuration needs.

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Turkey’s largest EPC migrates to AVEVA Everything3D 5 November 2014

AVEVA announced today that Tekfen Engineering, Turkey’s largest multidisciplinary Engineering, Procurement and Construction Management contractor (EPCm), has migrated to AVEVA Everything3D (AVEVA E3D), it’s most advanced 3D design software. Tekfen is renowned as an early adopter of innovative technologies and will be using AVEVA’s software solution to further increase their business efficiency through higher quality design deliverables and more effective multidiscipline collaboration. Mr. Alparslan Gure, President of Tekfen Engineering, explained how using AVEVA E3D is increasing the company’s competitive advantage: ‘We have long recognised that AVEVA’s software is the industry standard for engineering and design. We have been impressed with AVEVA PDMS for many years; our migration to AVEVA E3D is a strategic investment to future-proof our business in the face of shortening project deadlines and higher expectations from our clients in terms of design outputs. Increasingly, our projects span continents and time zones, so the collaboration capabilities of AVEVA E3D will also help us to ensure that all stakeholders have the right information at the right time.’ ‘Many of our long-established customers are recognising both the immediate and long-term benefits of migrating to AVEVA E3D,’ said Dave Wheeldon, CTO, AVEVA. ‘The open and flexible nature of our technology, combined with tight integration with existing AVEVA engineering software means that Tekfen will be able to significantly increase efficiencies in their operations. It provides a powerful tool for visualizing their 3D designs and will enable them to eliminate costly project rework.’ Tekfen’s use of laser scanning technology also integrates seamlessly into AVEVA E3D, allowing their designers to quickly and easily understand the existing situation at the fabrication yard and/or construction site, and adjust their design work accordingly. These capabilities are especially valuable in brown-field projects, and help ensure that the required plant modifications can be designed and

Page 31 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary implemented more quickly and with greater accuracy than ever before, reducing both project schedule and plant downtime.

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3D Object and Model Importer Now Available on AECObjects.com 5 November 2014

ModelPort, a new 3D object and model importer for ArchiCAD, is now available on AECObjects.com. A plug-in for ArchiCAD, ModelPort translates 3D model formats such as Alias Wavefront OBJ and Autodesk FBX, into ArchiCAD Library parts. A 3D model or object converted with ModelPort includes a detailed, projected 2D symbol and creates an ArchiCAD material with the original texture maps in place. ModelPort also includes scaling and rotation tools to assist with dialing in the correct size of objects. File management tools allow imported objects to be saved into custom Library folders for future use. “ModelPort will allow ArchiCAD users to access thousands of 3D objects previously unavailable to them,” says Thomas M. Simmons, BIM Consultant. “We are pleased to offer a solution that will make designing in ArchiCAD even better.” There are three versions of ModelPort available: ModelPort OBJ, which converts OBJ and 3DS formats; ModelPort FBX, which converts FBX and DAE (Collada) formats; and a bundled version that translates all four file formats. Three ModelPort Webinars will be held introducing ArchiCAD Users to the product and how best to utilize it to create 3D Building Information Models and Renderings:  How ModelPort Works  Finding Quality Objects on the Web  Editing Objects Imported by ModelPort.

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Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager V8i Automates Extraction and Production of General Arrangement Plant Drawings from 3D Model, Saving Time and Money 31 October 2014

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, announced the immediate availability of Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager V8i for the automatic extraction and production of high-quality general arrangement (GA) plant drawings from a 3D model. This newest addition to the Bentley OpenPlant family of products reduces the time required to output single- and double-line drawings, including all annotations, dimensions, and label placements, from hours to minutes.

Page 32 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary The benefits of Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager V8i to engineering, procurement, and construction contractors, owner-operators, and others – in industries ranging from oil and gas to power generation, manufacturing, and marine – include:  increased productivity, with designers spending less time on manual drawing production and more time on their primary job;  a reduced potential for errors in drawings, speeding review times;  the ability to ensure annotations, dimensioning, and labels are located in a free space, enhancing readability and reducing markups and drawing rework;  integration with Bentley’s ProjectWise collaboration services, enabling designers to easily and securely share drawings and other files across even globally dispersed projects, saving time and overall costs. Ken Adamson, Bentley vice president, plant products, said, “With the addition of Orthographics Manager to OpenPlant – Bentley’s collaborative BIM advancement for the multi-discipline engineering of chemical, petrochemical, food, water and wastewater, and other process plants – we address the ongoing need in many industry sectors to create and deliver drawings for construction, operations and maintenance, and more. The new software automates this typically labor-intensive production process, enhancing the quality and accelerating the delivery of these documents to help keep projects on schedule. At the same time, through OpenPlant’s inherent interoperability, users of Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager V8i have the additional option of managing and distributing drawing files through ProjectWise, making drawing information securely available for everyone to quickly find and share, anytime, anywhere.” John Bender, IT director, Lindab Incorporated, said, “Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager appears to be very conducive to our present practices. Labels require little or no adjustments. The new label options, with in-line leader and side line frame, look promising and will do a great job of stacking labels when required. We believe that Bentley OpenPlant Orthographics Manager will be a valuable tool for automating our drawing process.”

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Bentley Systems and Highways Agency Announce AssetWise Academy 5 November 2014

Bentley Systems announce plans for an AssetWise Academy. Bentley’s AssetWise software is already being rolled out and further extended to serve as the Highways Agency’s Integrated Asset Management Information System (IAM IS). Now Bentley and the Highways Agency announce plans to provide a virtual environment for introducing and propagating best practices for BIM-enabled asset management, through the AssetWise Academy. David Robertson, Bentley Director, BIM academies, said, “Building on the successful academy development with Crossrail, the goal of the Highways Agency’s new AssetWise Academy is to drive industry best practices and standards, evolve solution templates, capture and recycle lessons learned, and advance asset lifecycle information management across the Highways Agency’s business. This will be achieved through onboarding and awareness sessions, forums, and targeted seminars and working

Page 33 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary groups within the AssetWise Academy, all supported by project-specific course content created jointly by Bentley and the Highways Agency.” Robert Greaves, Head of IT at the Highways Agency, said, “As the Highways Agency changes our structural focus to become increasingly dynamic, forward thinking, and commercially driven around asset management, the AssetWise Academy will play a key role in helping us propagate best practices to take full advantage of AssetWise IAM IS capabilities as they grow. Bentley’s work has already included rollout of the solution to a significant proportion of our asset support contracts, and ongoing development will next year include Network Events, and then Structures, followed by Drainage, and Geotechnics implementation in 2016.” In 2012, Bentley’s AssetWise software platform became the Highways Agency’s comprehensive foundation (IAM IS) for asset information management, and will replace 17 disparate systems. AssetWise provides management and visibility of network and asset data using multiple linear referencing methods within a single spatial and temporal-enabled database, furnishing a robust network database model to underpin and integrate network-based applications. It also helps users control information and manage change throughout the asset lifecycle, ensuring the delivery of accurate, trusted information to operations and maintenance teams. The AssetWise platform ensures that the Highways Agency and its supply chain will share a single, integrated system for information management related to roadway assets inventory, condition, defects, and repair works. The Highways Agency is using this common data to support and measure, in an accurate and consistent way, the ability of its service providers to complete roadworks that improve the safety of roads and highways and reduce traffic congestion. Bentley’s MANAGEservices is facilitating the provisioning, expedited deployment, and operation of the Highways Agency’s AssetWise asset information management services in a hybrid cloud-services environment. Alan Kiraly, Bentley Senior Vice President, server products, said, “The AssetWise software platform brings together proven technologies (deriving from Exor, eB, Bentley Map, and InspectTech, among others) that offer new information mobility and comprehensive integration on behalf of owner-operators such as the Highways Agency. With AssetWise, we are advancing our future platform for all owner- operators. Significantly, this is enabling us to deliver IAM IS to the Highways Agency as a commercial off-the-shelf software offering, cloud-service provisioned through our MANAGEservices. Our dedicated team is responsible also for the delivery of learning, operational support, and change management for the Agency and its service providers. We are currently discussing with the Agency how our AssetWise Academy can be deployed to support further innovation, addressed towards people and processes, for fully achieving the benefits of technology advances.”

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Bentley Systems and Siemens PLM Software Advance Manufacturing Process Productivity through Reality Modeling of Industrial Facilities 5 November 2014

Bentley Systems and Siemens PLM Software today announced their latest actions to further enhance the integration of the digital product and process lifecycle with the factory’s digital design. The companies have integrated Bentley’s point-cloud building information modeling (BIM) advancement with the state- of-the art process simulation tools in Siemens’ Tecnomatix® software for 3D digital factory automation.

Page 34 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary This will enable users of Siemens’ product lifecycle management (PLM) software solutions to work from enhanced 3D digital models of existing factories in their “as-operated” conditions – by leveraging the models created from point clouds captured through scanning. The announcement was made at The Year in Infrastructure 2014 Conference, a global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations. As a result of the new integrated solution, manufacturers can benefit from:  an earlier start of production, by avoiding construction or production line interferences;  better quality designs with increased production throughput, reached through accurate simulations of all potential factory layout configurations;  the rapid creation of as-built plant models, reducing the time and costs associated with modeling the digital factory;  the ability of the point-cloud model to serve as the as-built/as-operating record of the line, enabling improvements to operational performance through the factory and product and process lifecycle. To enable these benefits, information mobility, and work process breakthroughs, Bentley and Siemens PLM Software expanded their existing relationship. Bentley’s industrial BIM applications already leverage several of Siemens’ PLM Component software tools including Parasolid® software, D- Cubed™ software, and the JT™ data format. As a result of this agreement Siemens PLM Software will now leverage Bentley’s Vortex point-cloud technology and incorporate it into other appropriate Siemens applications as the opportunities continue to expand. Dick Slansky, Senior Analyst, PLM Research Director, ARC Advisory Group, said, “Since the announcement of their strategic collaboration in November 2012, I have been following the collaboration between Siemens and Bentley closely and have been very excited with what I have been seeing from these two companies working together. They are now delivering a solution for integrating product, process, and production design with the factory infrastructure that significantly benefits manufacturing OEMs and their suppliers. Through the shared knowledge of product and factory/plant lifecycles, EPCs and line builders have access to higher quality information provided by the OEMs. In turn, OEMs and suppliers can expect a reduction in launch time and costs, improved validation of the digital factory, and predictable asset design and installation.” Faraz Ravi, Bentley Fellow, Bentley Platform Solutions, said, “At Bentley we are gratified to be seeing what we call reality modeling yielding such benefits for product and production lifecycles. In industrial plants, occasional surveying can now become almost continuous immersive scanning. Project and asset performance are both improved through information mobility of point clouds by way of Vortex technology. Most significantly, this can now increase industrial agility and quality by enabling shorter product and process design cycles.” Al Hufstetler, Vice President, Siemens PLM Software, said, “We introduced targeted customers to early integrations of our software, which leveraged the Bentley Vortex tools, and the response was overwhelmingly positive. The value added by bringing the as-built digital factory design into our Tecnomatix process simulation and planning products is clearly a great first step in our adoption of the Bentley tools. Process planning and plant floor designers will benefit from our partnership, which not only enables faster and better iterations, but also provides greater visibility into the path of construction and manufacturing performance.”

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Bentley Unveils the CONNECT Edition’s Common Environment for Comprehensive Project Delivery 5 November 2014

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today unveiled its next generation of software for sustaining infrastructure at this gathering of leading AEC executives, infrastructure owner-operators, and 100+ journalists from around the globe. The CONNECT Edition will succeed Bentley’s V8i software generation, supporting a hybrid computing environment for Comprehensive Project Delivery and “completing the reach” to all project participants. MicroStation CONNECT Edition has already been made available to Early Access participants, and many of the ProjectWise CONNECT Edition services, along with the Bentley Navigator CONNECT Edition “app-lication,” will be available for Early Access by year’s end. V8i modeling applications will compatibly intra-operate with both MicroStation CONNECT Edition and ProjectWise CONNECT Edition, as there is no change to the DGN file format. The CONNECT Edition of Bentley’s modeling applications and AssetWise offerings will be released throughout 2015 and 2016. “Software at Your Service” The CONNECT Edition converges Bentley’s platform technology to support a hybrid environment across desktop modeling applications, cloud-services, on-premise servers, and mobile apps. The CONNECT Edition leverages Microsoft’s Azure cloud services to connect all users across projects. Azure also underpins CONNECT SELECTservices, which was successfully introduced earlier this year to extend Bentley’s full portfolio for SELECT Open Access, through Quarterly Term Licensing, to all Bentley subscribers. Azure cloud services provide CONNECT Edition users with instant access to unlimited computational nodes to make feasible unprecedented optioneering, for better design outcomes and ultimately improved asset performance. Also through Azure, Bentley’s MANAGEservices provides instant-on access to all ProjectWise services. For each user, the CONNECT Edition provides a personalized Bentley Playlist™ of applications and apps specific to each participant’s project role, with personalized learning paths and just-in-time recommendations. A Bentley CONNECTIONS Passport provides authenticated access to ProjectWise and AssetWise services and software spanning a user’s hybrid computing environment. For example, the Bentley Navigator CONNECT Edition “app-lication” provides a user with the same immersive “hands- on” interface across Windows, Android, and iOS, from giant touchscreens to handhelds – for information mobility to and from office, jobsite, and the field. For each project, the CONNECT Edition provides a project-specific Bentley Playbook™ to recommend, in keeping with the project’s profile, appropriate applications and apps to fully address the project’s requirements and to support each participant’s role. In addition to benefiting from project-specific workspaces, each project can also be cloud-provisioned with pertinent catalogs of functional components and managed specifications, to be incorporated and referenced throughout comprehensive project delivery and handover. Bhupinder Singh, Bentley’s senior vice president of software, said, “With the CONNECT Edition, we are intrinsically availing cloud-based capabilities throughout the software and services we provide, to advance projects through a new ‘connected user experience.’ The CONNECT Edition’s cloud services span existing and evolving computing environments, enabling Bentley’s innovations to extend benefits comprehensively beyond our traditional modeling users, throughout the supply chain and to

Page 36 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary construction. The CONNECT Edition can uniquely advance information mobility with integrity, to and from the right project contributors, anytime and anywhere. Over the next several years, the CONNECT Edition will empower Bentley software, and our users, to attain the full potential of BIM advancements for project delivery.” The Common Environment for Comprehensive Project Delivery The CONNECT Edition breaks new ground to support Comprehensive Project Delivery, spanning design modeling, analytical modeling, and construction modeling, through a connected project experience. The CONNECT Edition extends Bentley’s market-leading offerings for design integration and work-sharing to now encompass deliverables management and construction execution. To ensure information integrity, unify multi-discipline project teams, and improve project performance, the CONNECT Edition brings together, to an unprecedented extent, these aspects essential to Comprehensive Project Delivery:  Common Project Environment – The CONNECT Edition extends ProjectWise capabilities beyond Design Integration Services to the entire project ecosystem. ProjectWise Connection Services reaches all project participants to support cloud-based collaboration enabled through project profiles, authorizations, project playbooks, and learning paths. ProjectWise Sharing Service allows cooperating organizations to federate their respective distributed ProjectWise environments. ProjectWise Catalog Service supports project-specific catalogs of managed specifications and functional components. New apps empower field-based workflows, based on mobile i-models that deliver not only visualization, but also visibility. A new managed issue resolution service, delivered to field users through Bentley Navigator CONNECT Edition, helps users to resolve clashes and punch lists. ProjectWise WorkSite CONNECT Edition provides managed connectivity to the latest project documentation, with review and redlining capabilities for field workers.  Common Modeling Environment – The CONNECT Edition is unique in its cross-discipline span, with breakthrough capabilities for iterative collaboration on industrial-scale projects, supporting design modeling, analytical modeling, and construction modeling. A new intuitive user experience is introduced in MicroStation CONNECT Edition, Bentley’s flagship modeling application. Its functionality is being incorporated in each forthcoming CONNECT Edition modeling application. All CONNECT Edition modeling applications now support functional components – parametrically defined, intelligent objects with appropriate contextual behavior across schematic, modeling, and deliverable instantiations. To advance computational-intensive analytical modeling for STAAD, SACS, and other applications, cloud-provisioned optioneering is enabled through ProjectWise Scenario Services.  Common Deliverables Environment – Documentation Center, a new capability of the MicroStation CONNECT Edition, allows project participants to aggregate, publish, and share, for the first time, consistent and combined deliverables across multiple disciplines. ProjectWise Deliverables Management provides an “instant-on” cloud service for the management of transmittals, submittals, and RFIs. ProjectWise Transformation Service manages automated publishing and workflow-driven delivery of i-models and standardized content to project and field workers.  Common Data Environment – ProjectWise Engineering Content Management Service embeds Bentley’s eB Information Management technology to provide project delivery organizations with a powerful enterprise environment to capture, manage, index, and leverage their intellectual property across all of their projects and proposals. ProjectWise Engineering Content

Page 37 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Management maintains the relationships and changes to any information it manages, whether incarnated in models, documents, or database records. Additionally, user organizations can support field, site, and other round-trip data capture workflows through user-customizable, managed forms embeddable in Bentley app-lications.  Common Performance Environment – Project Performance Dashboards, a ProjectWise CONNECTIONS Service, will provide insightful analytics, reporting, and accounting to improve visibility into the progress and status of project delivery. What Early Access Users Are Saying MicroStation CONNECT Edition Early Access users laud the new capabilities and intuitive user experience of this new generation of software. Gary Mansager, professional associate at HDR, Inc., said, “I really do like the new interface – it makes a lot of sense. The new capabilities are intuitive, and the introduction of the workflows they enable will cut down the time it takes to get things done!” Robert Cervellione, principal at CERVER Design Studio, said, “What I’m really looking forward to in the MicroStation CONNECT Edition is the new, clean user interface, the improvements in the solids modeling, and the great new constraints and parametric capabilities that can be used to capture design intent and quickly develop reusable model content that is really powerful and versatile.” To apply for participation in Early Access Program II for MicroStation CONNECT Edition, visit www.bentley.com/MicroStationEAP. To apply for participation in the Early Access Program for the Bentley Navigator CONNECT Edition app-lication, visit www.bentley.com/NavigatorEAP.

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C3D Geometric Kernel Transforms Well-known CAD Systems, Helps Birth New Ones 31 October 2014

C3D Labs is pleased to introduce three new design programs from customers of its С3D geometric modeling kernel. New releases from NTP Truboprovod and Center GeoS are benefiting from advanced visualization, higher accuracy, and faster construction speed, while LEDAS has unveiled new technology for comparing three-dimensional models. All of these programs are based on the C3D geometric kernel. PASSAT from NTP Truboprovod performs structural analysis of heat exchange vessels. The software company used the C3D kernel to improve the visualization of 3D models:  Adds the ability to cut holes in elements easily  Ensures accurate construction of coupling rings of pipe connectors, curvatures, flarings, and contact surfaces of flanges  Exports models in ACIS, IGES, Parasolid, and STEP formats K3-Mebel 7.3 from Center GeoS is the newest version of a professional software suite for designing, manufacturing, and selling cabinet furniture. Its new features became possible because of C3D:  Adds the geometric constraint solver from C3D Solver

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 Visualizes the kinematics of different furniture mounting systems, such as lift mechanisms LEDAS is the technology partner of numerous international CAD vendors. LEDAS used the C3D kernel to develop new technology for comparing three-dimensional models. The first version of LEDAS Geometry Comparison (LGC) was released in September, and is now available as a component that can be integrated into existing and future software products. LGC is meant for monitoring changes to the geometry of 3D models. It makes it easy to compare 3D models and assemblies that have been changed, shifted, and/or rotated relative to each other. LGC works by determining the corresponding faces of two similar models, and then restores their associativity. It automatically copies attributes, parameters, constraints, and dimensions from one model to another. Differences are shown in a user-friendly manner as groups of changed faces.

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COMSOL Multiphysics® 5.0 and the Application Builder Revolutionize the Simulation Industry 3 November 2014

COMSOL, Inc. today redefines the engineering simulation market with the release of COMSOL Multiphysics® software version 5.0, featuring extensive product updates, three new add-on products, and the new and revolutionary Application Builder. With the Application Builder, the power and accuracy of COMSOL Multiphysics is now accessible to everyone through the use of applications. COMSOL users can now build applications for use by engineering and manufacturing departments, expanding accessibility to their expertise and to cutting-edge simulation solutions. Introducing the Application Builder The Application Builder empowers the design process by allowing engineers to make available an easy- to-use application based on their COMSOL Multiphysics model. Included with the Windows® operating system version of COMSOL Multiphysics® 5.0, the Application Builder provides all the tools needed to build and run simulation apps. Any COMSOL Multiphysics model can be turned into an application with its own interface using the tools provided with the Application Builder desktop environment. Using the Form Editor, the user interface layout can be designed, while the Methods Editor is used for implementing customized commands. Based on the project at hand, engineering experts can now easily build a specialized application to share with their colleagues and customers that includes only the parameters relevant to the design of a specific device or product. “The Application Builder is our vision for the future of simulation,” says Svante Littmarck, CEO and President of the COMSOL Group. “It brings the expertise of engineering specialists working in research and development to a greater majority of people, revolutionizing the product design process by allowing the power of multiphysics simulation to drive productivity and innovation. This is achieved by supplying those involved in the design and manufacturing process across all engineering disciplines with apps created by simulation experts.” Many COMSOL users have expressed their excitement about the Application Builder. “The Application Builder is the biggest innovation yet to come from COMSOL,” says Massimo Bechis, Modeling and Simulation Specialist at Prysmian. “We estimate that by building applications for our colleagues, we would save 30-40% of the time we currently spend on calculations for them. This will improve both the

Page 39 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary way we work, and the way our colleagues work as well.” COMSOL users currently on subscription can download COMSOL Multiphysics® 5.0, which includes the Application Builder in the Windows® OS version, at: www.comsol.com/product-download. Three New Add-on Products in the Product Suite COMSOL Multiphysics 5.0 also brings three new add-on products to the extensive COMSOL product suite: the Ray Optics Module, the Design Module, and LiveLink™ for Revit®. “The Ray Optics Module offers functionality that has long been anticipated by COMSOL users, and we are excited to offer the module with this release,” says Bjorn Sjodin, VP of Product Management at COMSOL, Inc. For engineers working in application areas including building science, solar energy, and interferometers, the Ray Optics Module is an industry-leading simulation tool for analyzing systems in which the electromagnetic wavelength is much smaller than the smallest geometric detail in the model. “The Ray Optics Module is not like any other simulation software available for modeling ray optics,” says Dan Smith, COMSOL software developer. “For the first time, multiphysics simulations can now be integrated into the modeling of geometrical optics, a truly cutting-edge development for the simulation industry.” Key features of the module include the ability to compute the trajectory of rays in graded and ungraded media, and the modeling of polychromatic, unpolarized and partially coherent light. The Design Module expands the available toolset of CAD functionalities in the COMSOL product suite. The module includes the following 3D CAD operations: loft, fillet, chamfer, midsurface, and thicken, in addition to CAD import and geometry repair functionality. Additionally, COMSOL is proud to offer LiveLink™ for Revit®, which allows COMSOL® users to interface with the building information modeling software from Autodesk®. With LiveLink™ for Revit®, users can seamlessly synchronize a geometry between Autodesk® Revit® Architecture and COMSOL®, allowing multiphysics simulations to be brought into the architectural design workflow. New Features and Functionalities in COMSOL 5.0 Version 5.0 also introduces numerous enhancements to the existing functionalities of COMSOL Multiphysics. New features and updates have been added to the entire product suite, which includes over 25 application-specific modules for simulating any physics in the electrical, mechanical, fluid, and chemical disciplines.  Multiphysics – Predefined multiphysics couplings now include: Joule Heating with Thermal Expansion; Induction, Microwave, and Laser Heating; Thermal Stress; Thermoelectric and Piezoelectric Effect; Non-Isothermal Flow; Optoelectronics; Plasma Heat Source; Acoustic- Structure Interaction; Thermoacoustic-Structure and Aeroacoustic-Structure Interaction; and Acoustic-Porous and Porous-Structure Interaction.  Geometry and Mesh – Create geometry from an imported mesh and call geometry subsequences using a linked subsequence. Additionally, faster handling of large arrays and CAD assemblies is also included.  Optimization and Multipurpose – The Particle Tracing Module now includes accumulation of particles, erosion, and etch features. Multianalysis optimization has also been added.  Studies and Solvers – Updates include a dramatic improvement for the simulation of CAD assemblies, support for extra dimensions, and the ability to sweep over sets of materials and user-defined functions. Improved probe-while-solving, unit support for parametric sweeps, and the ability to search for eigenfrequencies within a given interval have also been added.

Page 40 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary  Materials and Functions – Materials can now be copied, pasted, duplicated, dragged, and dropped. Link to Global Materials using a Material Link when the same material is used in multiple components.  Mechanical – Model geometrically nonlinear beams, nonlinear elastic materials, and elasticity in joints using the products for modeling structural mechanics. In the Heat Transfer Module, thin layer, film, fracture, and rod as well as cryogenic damage and parallelized radiation have been added. The Acoustics Module has two new methods for modeling high frequency or geometrical acoustics: Ray Acoustics and Acoustic Diffusion.  Fluid – Create automatic pipe connections to 3D flow domains in the Pipe Flow Module. The CFD Module is expanded with two new algebraic turbulence models, as well as turbulent fans and grilles.  Electrical – The AC/DC Module, RF Module, and Wave Optics Module now contain a frequency- and material-controlled auto mesh suggestion that offers the easy, one-click meshing of infinite elements and periodic conditions. The Plasma Module now contains interfaces for modeling equilibrium discharges.  Chemical – The Chemical Reaction Engineering Module now contains a new Chemistry interface that can be used as a Material node for chemical reactions.

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Digi-Key and Mentor Graphics Unveil Innovative & Affordable Tools for the PCB Design Engineer 4 November 2014

Digi-Key and Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the availability of new professional-level EDA/CAD tools, starting at under $200 for design starts providing a foundation for long-term product design. The jointly developed Designer Schematic and Designer Layout tools are available today exclusively from Digi-Key. For the first 90 days, Designer Schematic and Designer Layout will be available at a 30-percent discount, starting at $199 and $449, respectively. The product licenses are sold as an annual subscription, exclusively from Digi-Key. Also, for a limited time, the software is available for a 15-day evaluation period, free of charge. “Mentor Graphics’ leadership in design software combined with Digi-Key’s connection to hundreds of thousands of design engineers around the world makes perfect sense,” said Henry Potts, Vice President and General Manager of Mentor Graphics Systems Design Division. "Together we found a way to lower the barrier of entry for engineers seeking better ways to accelerate cycle time from concept to prototype to production.” Mentor Graphics and Digi-Key collaborated to create industry-first EDA software solutions able to address escalating demand from professional engineers for affordable design software linked to Digi- Key’s vast inventory of over four million electronic components. The companies’ objective is to offer design engineers the broadest selection of resources supporting the concept-to-prototype-to-production process. Designer Schematic and Designer Layout come with free access to Mentor Graphics’ PartQuest™, a

Page 41 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary fully integrated website that merges Digi-Key part numbers into symbols and footprints, reducing manual errors and saving time and cost. With these innovative tools, design engineers can easily complete an entire circuit and printed circuit board design themselves or leverage third party PCB layout houses. “The new Designer tools are perfect for the professional engineer who needs a reliable, scalable platform to support current and future design starts,” said Randall Restle, Director, Applications Engineering for Digi-Key. “With Mentor, we have designed an industry-first, collaborative EDA solution that accelerates the design process while enabling the engineer to eliminate steps and reduce errors while establishing a proven, long-term foundation for product design.” As part of the intensive collaboration and product development process, Digi-Key and Mentor Graphics completed thorough beta testing which included more than 300 participants around the globe. As a result, the companies validated the need and market demand for an affordable professional-level tool for the design engineer. Join Mentor Graphics and Digi-Key on November 19th at 9 AM CST for “Next Generation Design Tools” – a live discussion on what’s new in EDA software and why Designer Schematic and Designer Layout are right for you.

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Ideate, Inc. Announces New Updates for Ideate BIMLink 5 November 2014

Ideate, Inc., today announced the availability of Ideate BIMLink 2015.1 and Ideate BIMLink 2014.4. These Ideate Software solutions bring an array of enhanced features customers have requested and are designed to work with Autodesk Revit 2015 and 2014 respectively. Ideate Software is a set of far-reaching Building Information Modeling (BIM) data management tools that help the Revit community clean up models, delete problem items, analyze files quickly, improve speed and accuracy in data flow, increase collaboration and overcome repeated workflow interruptions. This recent Ideate BIMLink update lets BIM and Virtual Design and Construction (VDC) managers, project leaders, facility managers and other users access, analyze, extract and edit BIM data with speed, ease and accuracy. Users can quickly pull volumes of information from a Revit file into user-friendly Microsoft Excel and round-trip the data with equal ease. Ideate Director of Software Development Glynnis Patterson says, “These new releases encompass the performance improvements industry professionals have requested. We make sure our BIM data management solutions are robust and our updates meaningful and frequent.” Bob Palioca, President, Ideate Inc. says of the new Ideate BIMLink release, “As our AEC customers encounter heightened needs for collaboration across disciplines and greater client demands, we respond. This point release is evidence of our ongoing commitment to our customers’ success.” Customers who tested the new features offered comments on the most valuable aspect of Ideate BIMLink to their workflows. Tay Othman, Job Captain for Gensler, noted greatest value in “Automation and extending Revit capabilities.” Erica Spicer, Project Coordinator at PDR said, “Having the model be the central up-to-date single point of truth for all schedule-related information.” And Dan Morrison, VDC Engineer for BPi - BGC POS International acknowledged, “Being able to manipulate data in ways

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IGC announces Brava! Enterprise 7.2.1 for IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3 4 November 2014

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC®) has announced the release of Brava!® Enterprise 7.2.1 for IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3. Brava Enterprise 7.2.1 seamlessly provides users of IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3 with the ability to view and collaborate on content. It includes such enhanced features as document compare, threaded discussions, robust redaction tools and more. Custom dialogs also can be created based on business process needs. At last week’s IBM Insight 2014, IGC demonstrated its integrations into IBM Content Navigator, which can tie in to IBM’s Enterprise Content Management systems such as IBM FileNet P8, Content Manager 8, Case Manager, Maximo and TRIRIGA.

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Infinite Skills' “Learning SolidWorks 2015” Teaches Fundamentals of CAD Program for Mechanical Engineers 5 November 2014

Software training firm Infinite Skills Inc. last week introduced its "Learning SolidWorks 2015," an introductory course teaching the essential tools for creating drawings, sketches, and beginning assembly models in the latest version of the CAD program for mechanical engineers. SolidWorks is a 3D computer aided design (CAD) program used by 2 million engineers and designers worldwide. The program employs a parametric, feature-based assembly system for building mechanical models, allowing users to create and assemble parts into an overall design. Infinite Skills' "Learning SolidWorks 2015" covers basic and intermediate tools, providing a basis in fundamentals and best practices for new SolidWorks users. Author Dean Kerste is a college professor with more than a decade of experience in industrial design and more than twenty years experience as a professor of mechanical design technology. Kerste began his career as a draftsman, detailing large industrial combustion systems for power generation and transitioning them into natural gas distribution systems. Kerste begins with an introduction to SolidWorks, including a guide to the SolidWorks interface and a look at new features in the 2015 version. He then moves into basic sketching, explaining the sketching environment and lessons on basic sketching tools, before moving on to intermediate sketching tools such as fillets and chamfers, working with patterns, adding text, and more.

Page 43 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Kerste then goes in detail with SolidWorks features, demonstrating the tools for performing extrusions, revolved cuts, lofts, mirrors, and more. Next, the course explains in detail how to begin modeling a part, beginning with the very basics of starting a model in the 3D modeling view, and covering essentials such as understanding the design tree, working with parent-child relationships, using measuring tools, and more. Kerste then moves on to creating assemblies, explaining the assembly environment and the key tools for adding components, positioning parts, and working with assembly mates. The course closes with in-depth training on drawing in SolidWorks, beginning with the drawing environment, drawing views and tools, and a chapter on adding annotations such as dimensions, notes, bill of materials, and more. "SolidWorks is a 3D CAD modeling program that allows you to transform new ideas into great products," Kerste explains. "After viewing the lessons in this video, you will be proficient in the fundamentals of using SolidWorks 2015, and have the foundation to expand your knowledge of the SolidWorks software."

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Innovyze Releases InfoWorks ICM SE Version 5.5 to Power Next Generation of InfoWorks CS 4 November 2014

Innovyze today announced the release of the V5.5 Generation of InfoWorks ICM SE (Sewer Edition). Since its initial release in February 2014, InfoWorks ICM SE has rapidly become the solution of choice for collection systems modeling by wastewater utilities and their consultants around the world. InfoWorks ICM SE incorporates all the powerful analysis features and capabilities of InfoWorks ICM for comprehensive sewer collection systems modeling, but without 2D simulation of surface flooding. In response to the specific requests of our vast wastewater user community, the new version gives wastewater utilities an enhanced set of tools and functionalities and an enriched modeling experience for managing and operating sewer networks. The changes reflect the Innovyze commitment to providing users significant value and competitive advantages, and quickly responding to their needs. InfoWorks ICM SE is a fully-dynamic sewer network modeling solution that uses a fast, accurate and unconditionally stable implicit numerical solution scheme — delivering a high degree of confidence in simulation results. It can be effectively used to model any complex sanitary, storm and combined sewer system, offering complete hydrology, hydraulic and water quality simulation and sophisticated real-time control (RTC) modeling capabilities. (As a specialized version of InfoWorks ICM, SE does not model overland flow or 2D flooding.) A significantly more powerful version of InfoWorks CS, InfoWorks ICM SE automates many user-intensive operations, helping engineers minimize time spent creating, calibrating and simulating reliable sewer models and analyzing results. InfoWorks CS users will greatly benefit from an improved interface and enhanced visualization and reporting tools (e.g., undo/redo, recycle bin, no admin program, customized property sheet, dockable Windows and themes). Other significant advantages include substantially faster simulation run times with full 64 bit multi-core processing support; additional modeling capabilities (e.g., SWMM5.1 and modified Horton infiltration method, non-prismatic open channels, H2S, algae, nutrient dynamics); an enhanced database; version control and complete scenario management; multivariable themes and

Page 44 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary mapping; and stunning graphics. These advanced capabilities make it easier for users to set up, visualize and manage simulations and arrive at fast, reliable solutions to support cost-effective drainage design, operation and management. New and improved features and functionality plus unique ease-of-use tools developed in response to customer requests make V5.5 an incredibly powerful and indispensable collection system network modeling solution. With InfoWorks ICM SE, users can now directly export flood contours to Esri ACSII grid (.ASC) and .SHP formats as well as MapInfo .MIF/.TAB format; export SQL expressions and multiple results including max/min summaries; graphically display multiple catchments as well as observed data; import the latest SWMM V5.1 files; export any selection of tables to GIS file format; and manage complete bi-directional master database updates. In addition, the program now supports NIMROD as a forecast data file format when configuring a spatial times series database, and features a new design rainfall generator that produces rainfall profiles suitable for use in Chinese catchments. It also delivers greater usability and performance, including efficiency improvements for simulating networks with banks. “We continue to listen to our customers’ wants and needs and devote extensive resources to delivering an extended product portfolio that not only recognizes their feedback, but protects their investments,” said Paul F. Boulos, Ph.D., BCEEM, NAE, Hon.D.WRE, Dist.D.NE, F.ASCE, President, COO and Chief Technical Officer of Innovyze. “InfoWorks ICM SE represents a quantum leap in the art and science of sewer collection systems modeling. It is poised to dominate this important industry for the next decade and beyond. With InfoWorks ICM SE, users of InfoWorks CS can now fully leverage the increased power, flexibility and usability of InfoWorks ICM, as well as groundbreaking gains in speed, to easily generate optimized solutions as quickly as possible. This is the next generation of InfoWorks CS — one that empowers engineers worldwide with unprecedented levels of sewer collection system modeling and simulation flexibility.”

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Luxion Releases KeyShot 5.1 4 November 2014

Luxion is pleased to release KeyShot 5.1, with new additions and improvements to KeyShot 5. In May 2014, Luxion launched the pivotal release of KeyShot 5, introducing KeyShot Cloud and features to further increase the speed in creating high quality visuals. Users gained a new way to find and share KeyShot assets, more possibilities with instancing and image editing, fade animation, motion blur and many Pro features from NURBS Raytracing to innovations in perspective matching and sun & sky lighting. To this, KeyShot 5.1 brings new procedural textures and options, Sørensen Leather materials and Federal Standard colors, with improvements that add the ability to edit patterns, render all Cameras and Viewsets, and new support for touch-enabled devices, Retina displays and support for PTC Creo 3.0 and Cinema 4D. Overview With focus on workflow through the rendering process, KeyShot 5.1 builds on the release of previous versions to deliver a wider array of options. The user interface receives full multi-touch support to compliment a touch-enabled workflow along with Retina support for all Apple high definition displays. Users have enhancements to improve move and selection of parts with updates to the Pattern feature that

Page 45 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary adds edit capabilities and scattering. New material options include the full line of Sørensen Leather materials exclusive to KeyShot, FED-STD-595 color for camouflage and updates to texturing that include DPI adjustment and a range of six new 2D and 3D procedurals. New rendering options include the ability to select Cameras and Viewsets to add to the render queue with Network Rendering optimized for transfer of multiple jobs. A complete overview of new features in KeyShot 5 can be seen at https://www.keyshot.com/whats-new/ with a detailed breakdown of each feature in the KeyShot What’s New document. Highlights include: Pattern Updates KeyShot 5.0 introduced the ability to Pattern separate instances of models for quick copying and appearance studies. Patterns have been completely updated with KeyShot 5.1 adding the ability to Edit Pattern, set Scattering and automatically Adjust Camera to fit the patterned parts. Any part in a pattern can be used to bring up edit options for the pattern, with all materials and textures maintained after the pattern is edited. Scattering options are unique to the Linear or Circular Pattern type selected, allowing either to be completely randomized in a matter of seconds. Render Camera/Viewsets In KeyShot 5.1 users can now add saved Cameras and Viewsets directly to the Render Queue. This allows complete setup of all views, then quick selection of Cameras and Viewsets to add to the Queue all at once with the Queue listing the Camera or Viewset added while offering prioritization of render jobs. Sørensen Leather Materials KeyShot 5.1 introduces exclusive access to the full line of Sørensen Leather materials through KeyShot Cloud. Sørensen Leather is the world supplier of high quality leather hides across many industries. The new KeyShot materials allow colors and textures to be matched exactly with the hides and viewed under different lighting. New Procedural Textures Six new KeyShot Procedural Textures are available in KeyShot 5.1, including Brushed (3D), Camouflage (3D), Lattice Circular (2D), Lattice Polygon (2D), Spots (3D) and Wood Adv. (3D). These add a total of thirteen unique and highly customizable procedural textures that can be used with any Material Type or in combination with any KeyShot material preset. Multi-touch Support KeyShot now has full support for devices with a multi-touch interface running Windows. Users of small touch-enabled tablets to desktop displays may now compliment their workflow with touch-enabled viewing and editing of KeyShot scenes. Change and save camera views, drag and drop colors and switch to Presentation Mode for uninhibited full screen viewing of your realtime render. Retina Display Support KeyShot runs natively on Mac OS X and now comes with Retina Display support. This apply to all Apple devices, including Macbook Pro and iMac 5k displays. To activate Retina mode, click the Retina mode button located on the ribbon, or View, Retina mode from the menu bar. Creo 3.0 Support KeyShot now has support for PTC Creo 3.0 with direct import as well as a free downloadable plugin. As in previous versions, the plugin maintains all color assignments and assembly structure while allowing users to select simplified representations and refine tessellation quality. Export of mechanisms using

Page 46 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary .FRA files is accepted and through the plugin users may maintain a Live Link to the PTC Creo model to send geometry updates to KeyShot as needed. Cinema 4D Support Also new in KeyShot 5.1 is the support for Cinema 4D via KeyShot’s direct import. Cinema 4D users can now create high quality visuals of their models and animations by importing them directly into KeyShot. KeyShot supports geometry import, color assignments, layer visibility, part and camera animations. KeyShot Cloud KeyShot Cloud has become an instrumental resource for many KeyShot users who need to find specific KeyShot assets or desire to share their own custom materials, lighting, environments, textures and backplates. Over 500 materials have been added by KeyShot users with more being added every day. Updates and improvement continue to be added to KeyShot Cloud with improved search and filtering, account settings and downloading. Watch for more features coming soon.

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Mentor Graphics Announces Enhanced Flowmaster Tool for Advanced Thermo-Fluid Analysis Simulation 3 November 2014

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced several new capabilities including a new Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) and enhancements to secondary air analysis for its Flowmaster® simulation software solution for thermo-fluid systems. The Flowmaster product, renowned for accuracy, is used at every stage of development, from concept through design optimization and validation, providing minimized design effort to accurately simulate complex systems. The latest release contains new functionality addressing the needs of the automotive, aerospace, process/energy and gas turbine industries. The Flowmaster product now features a new FMI which enables usage of Flowmaster models in an open-source environment thereby allowing systems engineers to use models created by different simulation tools in a true collaborative environment. “Mentor Graphics’ new Functional Mock-up Unit (FMU) model export capability is a hugely important development for system integrators who are looking for a standardized, zero-cost solution to tool coupling,” said Hassen Hadj-Amor, product manager at D2T, a 20-year powertrain development engineering company providing services including simulation as well as equipment and software such as xMOD, a heterogeneous model integration environment. “The new Flowmaster tool provides users with a simple solution for the creation and export of network meta-models, ready for use in FMI environments, such as the xMOD simulation platform developed by IFP Energies Nouvelles.” New Functionality Features in the Flowmaster Product The new Flowmaster product provides an enhanced secondary air solver and a natural circulation capability. The secondary air feature provides solver algorithms that improve the stability and accuracy of modeling flow through rotating parts—critical for predicting temperatures and centrifugal pressure rise in the secondary air systems of gas turbines. The natural circulation capability simulates fluid circulation in a closed loop system without a pump through the combination of gravity and heat energy

Page 47 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary changes. Natural circulation occurs in traditional power plant designs and is critical for analysis in the power generation market. Several key new enhancements further improve existing Flowmaster product usability. The parametric studies capability now provides users with greater flexibility in setting up their design study inputs through highly productive and intuitive options. Smart modelling is enabled for effortless creation of new design spaces. The other new major enhancement relates to the Monte Carlo simulation functionality, where unique random value generation for each instance of a parameter as well as individual calculation of mean, sigma, minimum and maximum has been added. Monte Carlo simulation provides the examination of small thermal variation effects in input values – enabling the tool to be used for risk analysis and quality control environments, such as Six Sigma (DFSS). “Our latest release of Flowmaster contains enhanced usability, collaboration, and user experience features requested by our customers from audits we conducted,” stated Roland Feldhinkel, general manager of the Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division. “We are committed to providing our customers with best-in-class technologies and our Flowmaster solution provides the functionality required for a broad range of markets.”

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NCAMP and Granta Design Partner to Enable Faster, more Effective Composite Qualification and Design 7 November 2014

Granta Design today announced an agreement with Wichita State University’s (WSU) National Center for Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP), Wichita, KS, USA, under which NCAMP’s comprehensive resource of composite design and test data will be available to users of the GRANTA MI materials information management system. Granta already provides NCAMP data to the leading engineering enterprises that use its software, particularly in the aerospace and defense sectors. The new agreement will deliver more in-depth data to these user organizations, as well as securing access to future updates and ensuring fast delivery of data updates. These companies will be able to further build up their resources of composite test and design data, enabling comparison and analysis alongside in- house data, and thus faster and more reliable qualification of composite systems. Composite specification and design values developed using the NCAMP process are accepted by the Federal Aviation Administration and the European Aviation Safety Agency per FAA Memorandum AIR100-2010-120-003 and EASA Certification Memorandum CM-S-004. NCAMP stemmed from NASA's 1995 Advanced General Aviation Transport Experiment (AGATE). Instead of qualifying an entire material system, aircraft manufacturers can pull a system from the NCAMP database, prove equivalency and gain certification in a quicker and cheaper manner than a typical qualification approach. Material suppliers can work with NCAMP to qualify material systems without having to be linked to an ongoing aircraft certification program. Granta Design provides GRANTA MI™, a leading system for materials information management in engineering enterprises. GRANTA MI has been optimized for the challenges of managing complex composite data, in collaboration with industrial partners in the Material Data Management Consortium

Page 48 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary (MDMC). NCAMP data can be delivered within GRANTA MI, where it is fully integrated not only with material property reference data on composites, metals and plastics from a wide range of other respected materials data sources, but also with an organization’s own proprietary composite data from testing, QA, research and production. User organizations experience significant productivity benefits, since materials engineers and product designers have just one place to go to find the data that they need. The system also makes it easy to search and compare data from different sources, easing analysis and supporting innovation. For example, your own test data can instantly be compared with NCAMP property values during qualification. “We’re pleased to be working with Granta to provide access to the NCAMP data within the GRANTA MI system, making it even easier to apply this valuable data and use it alongside proprietary results,” said Dr. John Tomblin, NCAMP director and WSU V.P. for research and technology transfer at Wichita State. “NCAMP data is the gold standard source for composite test and design data in aerospace and similar applications,” said Dr. Will Marsden, Director of Industry Relations at Granta. “We’re delighted to have secured enhanced access to current and future versions of this data for our users.”

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Nemetschek Vectorworks Releases Localized Versions of Vectorworks 2015 in Europe 6 November 2014

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., announces the availability of localized versions of Vectorworks 2015 in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Norwegian. The Vectorworks line of award-winning software products includes: Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals and Renderworks®. The Vectorworks 2015 software contains more than 100 updates and new features in the areas of architecture, BIM, urban planning and entertainment design. In previous versions, the power of 64-bit was only available in the platform’s photorealistic rendering engine, Renderworks, but has now been integrated throughout the entire Vectorworks 2015 product line, providing designers with the ability to handle larger projects, as well as better performance and stability. In addition, designers will observe a revolutionary graphical experience from advances made to the Vectorworks Graphics Module (VGM), which was introduced last year. “We’re very excited to provide the new Vectorworks 2015 version to our European markets,” said Stewart Rom, Chief Marketing Officer of Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. “This has been an exciting release for us this year since we’ve equipped Vectorworks with full 64-bit functionality and made other notable enhancements to our 3D modeling and other capabilities. It’s a version we’re eager to share with the world of designers who enhance and transform the world with their visions every day.”

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Perception Software Announces AgileXPLORER Free Edition for Oracle Agile PLM 3 November 2014

Page 49 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Perception Software today released AgileXPLORER Free Edition, an application that offers Amazon- like search results on product data housed inside of Oracle’s Agile Product Lifecycle Management solution. AgileXPLORER Free Edition enables the user to quickly navigate to key product data in order to make better and faster decisions. “This solution has the potential to dramatically improve the value proposition for our Agile PLM customers,” Stephen Porter, chief executive officer of Zero Wait-State said. “Giving companies more control over their data and new ways to use the information is a big differentiator for Agile PLM. We look forward to working with Perception and our clients to develop compelling solutions in data quality, costing, compliance, and analytics while leveraging the enhanced navigation capabilities AgileXPLORER offers.” As Oracle Agile PLM becomes more and more the single source of truth for all things product data inside the Enterprise, AgileXPLORER Free Edition gives the individual user the ability to easily and quickly connect to the system and gain a wide variety of insights from navigating the product data housed there. Users can catalog the product data they care about, as well as achieve high performance and guided navigation, along with faceted search. All the while interacting with the results to enhance their product decisions. “Our customers can now get a first-hand view of the power of AgileXPLORER Free Edition by interacting with data housed in Agile PLM to better design, build and support their products,” Mark Hepburn, co-founder and vice president of product management and services of Perception said. “We’re creating productivity solutions that provide product data insights while also exposing the users to additional valuable options they might not know exist.”

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Syncs Integration of ERP to PLM 6 November 2014

KPIT announced the release of iLinkˢᵐ PLM Adapter for Oracle JD Edwards. KPIT's iLink adapter connects leading PLM Applications to Oracle JD Edwards facilitating to-and-from information flow between the ERP and the PLM applications. KPIT's iLink adapter masters the complex needs for integrating JD Edwards with any Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) system, and has built-in error handling logic that draws on standard Oracle JD Edwards Applications APIs ensuring compatibility with future upgrades. iLink provides a packaged implementation that improves quality and reduces overall costs. Unlike other integration approaches, with iLink an enterprise needs just one integration irrespective of the number of PLM systems it has. Furthermore, iLink integrates with JD Edwards irrespective of its release version and provides equal support for single-site PLM installations with Multi-Branch Oracle installations or multiple PLM environments with a single instance of Oracle JD Edwards. KPIT iLink works with all PLM systems and Oracle EBS and JDE. PLM and Enterprise Resource Planning systems are IT foundation blocks for all manufacturers. Having the two systems out of sync consumes both time and resources, leading to incorrect parts, incorrect versions, and inaccurate inventory and stock. The iLink PLM Adaptor for ERP solves the problem using a proven, economical

Page 50 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary approach. KPIT understands the unique industry issues involved, and has created a solution that allows the ERP to understand and process PLM data, notifying of all issues in real time to streamline operations. Commenting on the launch, Baljeet Chhazal, Global Head, Oracle Business, KPIT, said, "Introducing iLink is in line with KPIT's vision of developing products and solutions that enable our customers to achieve optimal performance and enhance the returns on their technology investments." "With iLink, KPIT offers its customers a bi-directional, PLM agnostic JD Edwards and E-Business Suite adapter with powerful and user-friendly dynamic mapping capability. iLink leverages integration best practices to simplify the integration process between your ERP system and PLM system thereby providing you real-time product data to achieve and ensure accurate product data, product planning, and forecasting." David Bartlett, AVP R&D, Delivery.

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Trimble Introduces MEPdesigner for SketchUp—a New Extension to the Popular 3D Modeling Platform SketchUp Pro 3 November 2014

Trimble introduced today Trimble® MEPdesigner for SketchUp, a new platform extension to SketchUp Pro specifically designed to improve the productivity and ease of use in 3D computer-aided design and Building Information Modeling (BIM) for contractors. The platform extension is designed to enable contractors to quickly and easily migrate from a 2D to a 3D work environment, through SketchUp Pro, a 3D modeling platform used around the world. The announcement was made at Trimble Dimensions. Trimble MEPdesigner was created specifically for Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing (MEP) contractors who are looking for an easy-to-use and cost-efficient 3D CAD platform. Trimble MEPdesigner for SketchUp version 1.0 will initially support electrical systems objects including conduit, cable trays and device boxes, and continually expand to incorporate intelligent object data and other MEP systems specific to today's contractor's needs. The solution also features tools that allow contractors to easily create custom components and route conduit within the SketchUp Pro platform. MEP contractors are able to take advantage of not only the features and components included in Trimble MEPdesigner but also the extensive database of user and manufacturer generated models pre-populated in the SketchUp 3D Warehouse. By implementing 3D modeling with Trimble MEPdesigner, contractors will be able to easily work with other contractors on projects through the IFC export in SketchUp, helping to reduce RFI and rework costs frequently seen on projects without 3D collaboration. Additionally, as a "Trimble Connected" product, Trimble MEPdesigner leverages the new Trimble Connect collaboration environment for design, engineering and construction projects. Based on the recently acquired GTeam™ software from Gehry Technologies, Trimble Connect enables teams to access and manage project data via a cloud platform. By using Trimble MEPdesigner contractors will be able to take advantage of a variety of new and existing solutions for SketchUp Pro including Trimble Field Points for SketchUp. With the extension contractors can place layout points in their model and export them to Trimble Field Link for MEP,

Page 51 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary allowing them to take full advantage of their 3D model in the field for accuracy of MEP systems placement. "With the growth of BIM adoption by MEP contractors, it is essential we provide tools that allow firms to easily adopt BIM, enabling them to stay competitive in the market place," said Pat Bohle, general manager of the MEP Division within Trimble Buildings. "The introduction of Trimble MEPdesigner for SketchUp breaks down barriers to BIM and opens up 3D CAD technology and BIM to more MEP contractors." "SketchUp Pro has introduced 3D modeling to millions of users across the globe through its easy-to-use interface," said Chris Keating, general manager of the Architecture Division within Trimble Buildings. "With the addition of Trimble MEPdesigner for SketchUp to the Extension Warehouse, we are excited to see how the use of SketchUp continues to grow with new uses in the construction industry."

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Trimble Releases SketchUp 2015 for a Faster, More Intuitive and Flexible Information Modeling Process 4 November 2014

Trimble today released SketchUp 2015, the latest version of the world's most widely used 3D modeling software for architects, engineers, design and construction professionals, as well as members of the global maker community. This release marks Trimble's second update to the SketchUp software this year and underscores the company's continued focus on enhancing the platform to make SketchUp faster, more user-friendly and reliable for the thousands of professionals who use it every day. The announcement was made at Trimble Dimensions. With a SketchUp user community expanding by more 30 million unique activations in the past year, enhancements to SketchUp 2015 have been designed to deepen and enrich the user experience, while keeping it intuitive. New features make it easier and faster to create, access, share and collaborate on 2D drawings and 3D models. SketchUp 2015 offers 64-bit support for Windows or Mac, while IFC file import capabilities allows back-and-forth sharing of IFC files between SketchUp Pro and any other application. "For the second release of SketchUp this year, we set out to make enhancements to the platform that might seem simple, but go a long way toward making SketchUp more enjoyable and impactful for our user community," said John Bacus, director of SketchUp product management at Trimble. "For example, as interoperability continues to be the cornerstone of collaboration among architecture, engineering and construction professionals, the IFC file import is an important addition because it opens up the options for professionals to participate in the information modeling process, sharing files with ease, regardless of the software program." Fast, Flexible and Powerful  64-bit Support: In addition to continued support for 32-bit systems, SketchUp Pro 2015 is available in a 64-bit version for Windows and Mac. Trimble also now offers cross-platform support for all licenses, along with cloud-based license management and checkout capabilities for network licenses.

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 IFC Import: In addition to export, SketchUp Pro users can now share models between Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools and apply industry standard types that stay with the model as it travels with SketchUp 2015's new IFC file import.  Ruby API and Extension Warehouse Enhancements: A variety of improvements to SketchUp's Ruby API (application programming interface) and to the Extension Warehouse of SketchUp plug-ins and add-ons makes it easier than ever for developers to build and share great new tools. Developers can now access and modify information modeling classifications via the Ruby API.  Faster Core: Models render faster with core modeling performance improvements including faster explode, intersect and Fast Styles. More Easy-to-Use Tools  Professional Drafting: Using SketchUp's LayOut 2D drawing and documentation tool, users can manage drawings more easily and display more data from their information models, applying object classifications in SketchUp and easily accessing that info in LayOut using an enhanced annotation tool.  Modeling Tools: With the addition of a 3-point Arc tool, users can now draw arced edges four different ways. A new Rotated Rectangle tool allows for drawing precise rectangles unbound by default axes.  Expanded 3D Warehouse: New models of popular brand-name building products are added to 3D Warehouse every day, greatly expanding SketchUp's free content offering. With over 2.5 million models, 3D Warehouse offers SketchUp users a vast array of free models to choose from. A new "Likes" feature lets users tell the world when they’ve found a great model. Collaborate Across Trimble Products SketchUp 2015 also facilitates collaboration with data and files from other Trimble® products.  As a "Trimble Connected" product, SketchUp Pro 2015 leverages the new Trimble Connect collaboration environment for design, engineering and construction projects. Based on recently acquired Gehry Technologies' GTeam™ software, Trimble Connect enables teams to access and manage project data via a cloud platform. A Trimble Connect extension is available in the Extension Warehouse.  SketchUp Pro 2015 also supports 3D CAD and BIM services for mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) contractors through the new Trimble MEPdesigner for SketchUp platform, which enables contractors to quickly and easily migrate from a 2D to 3D work environment.  Calibrated panoramic photos can be loaded directly into SketchUp 2015 from the Trimble V10 Imaging Rover, to quickly model as-built conditions.

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ZW3D and KeyShot Partner to Bring Fast, Easy & Accurate 3D Visualization Experience 4 November 2014

ZWSOFT and Luxion today announced that ZWSOFT has chosen KeyShot as rendering and animation solution for ZW3D CAD/CAM software. This integration supports direct transfer of ZW3D models into

Page 53 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary KeyShot with a single click, providing ZW3D users access to fast, easy and accurate rendering capabilities. Partnering with Luxion, ZWSOFT has developed a plugin to provide seamless integration between modeling and rendering, allowing users to open their designs directly in KeyShot from inside the application. Thus, a streamlined workflow is provided to quickly create photorealistic 3D renderings, animations and interactive visuals for communicating concepts, delivering presentations, and creating sales or marketing visuals. Key Highlights of ZW3D’s KeyShot Integration: Fast Simple push of a button in ZW3D can bring designers into rendering environment. Easy Rendering in KeyShot doesn’t require much expertise. It can be done through dragging and dropping materials, adjusting lighting, and moving the camera. Whether creating 3D renderings or animations, users can see everything happen instantly, saving time to generate 3D visualizations. Accurate All KeyShot materials are scientifically accurate and have physical properties based on real world materials. This makes setting up realistic materials extremely easy, foolproof and faster than ever. “We are very excited about this partnership. It gives our users a powerful toolset for creating amazing images and animations from their designs in minutes,” said Felix Gao, Director of ZW3D Overseas Business. “We’ll bring this further in next year by completely incorporating KeyShot capabilities within the ZW3D interface.” “It has been a pleasure to work with ZWSOFT on this integration,” said Claus Wann Jensen, co-founder and CEO of Luxion. “With the concept to completion workflow in ZW3D, users gain the ability to produce photographic visuals quickly throughout the entire product development cycle while continuing to iterate the design.” In conjunction with Luxion, ZWSOFT is hosting an international 3D modeling contest from October 15 to November 30, 2014. During this design challenge, designers can receive a free trial of both ZW3D and KeyShot.

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ZWSoft.com Launches Integrated CAD Software Application for to Facilitate Structural Designing 3 November 2014

Although CAD software applications have mushroomed in recent times, many of these applications fail to serve the right purpose due to limited compatibility and few other reasons. ZWsoft.com recently launched two of its flagship CAD software products, namely ZWCAD+ and ZW3D All-In-One for facilitating cost-effective architectural designing. The developers representing ZWsoft.com have successfully addressed the incompatibility issues that impede the implementation of structural design applications across industries. Daniel Huang, Product Manager for the integrated CAD solution provider, pointed out that structural designers often fail to evaluate software applications from pragmatic perspectives.

Page 54 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary ZWsoft.com is a turnkey solution provider in the field of architectural designing. As a part of its commitment to its large and ongoing customer base, the software development company assessed the possible contributory factors that impede successful implementation and integration of software-based solutions across diverse industry segments. The DWG CAD software applications that the company recently launched bring to the table a whole lot of features that would prove to be highly beneficial for the structural designers, the company owners believe. Headquartered in Guangzhou, China, ZWsoft.com has its presence in many other regions of China and recently they have set up their R&D Department in Florida, US. Kenyth He, public relations manager for ZWsoft, recently spared a few words on how their CAD software applications outmatch oodles of software applications that are easily available online. “Multiple file compatibility is a prime determinant of industry readiness of any software application of this type. Our flagship products, and all other products developed by us, are compatible with DWG, DWF and other major and widely used formats. Besides, it works even on computers that have low configuration. It is quite easy to use and we believe structural designers and architectural drawing professionals will find these software applications highly useful. These applications also have code-level API compatibility, which is another reason we believe implementation should be a cakewalk”, he said.

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