PLM Industry Summary Editor: Christine Bennett Vol. 10 No. 21 Friday 23 May 2008 Contents Company News _____________________________________________________________________ 3 Dassault Systèmes Inaugurates Global Virtual Campus for Students and Educators ____________________3 Former SAP, MatrixOne Executive Janet Heppner-Jones Tapped to Head Cordys in the US _____________3 Just OnePlace Selects Holt Consulting for Apparel Industr _______________________________________4 LMS North America Opens New Headquarters and Expanded Technical Center ______________________5 New Video from Flomerics and Matchstick Productions Explains Human Flight in Wingsuits ___________6 Open Text and Eduserv Sign Preferential Pricing Agreement for New Exceed Freedom™ Product from Hummingbird®, the Open Text Connectivity _________________________________________________7 Open Text Wins SAP® Pinnacle Award in the Category Software Solutions: Field Engagement _________9 PTC Announces Winners in 2008 CoCreate® Explicit Modeling Design Competition ________________ 10 PTC Appoints Software Industry Veteran, James Heppelmann, to PTC’s Board of Directors ___________ 11 SAP Fosters Collaboration and Education Among Its Growing Business Process Expert Community _____ 12 Siemens PLM Software and Satyam Sign Alliance to Enhance PLM Solutions Value Delivery _________ 13 Think3 and EXTECH Join Forces to Lead Chinese Market ______________________________________ 14 Worksoft®Appoints Shoeb Javed Vice President of Engineering _________________________________ 16 Events News ______________________________________________________________________ 17 ESPRIT at PTC User World Event 2008, Long Beach, Calif., June 1-4, 2008 _______________________ 17 Flomerics Announces Workshops on Optimizing Data Center Cooling ____________________________ 17 45th Design Automation Conference Offers Diverse Line-up of 14 Workshops ______________________ 18 45th Design Automation Conference to Host Six Collocated Events ______________________________ 19 Magma Highlights Expanded Product Portfolio At DAC 2008 ___________________________________ 20 The COE 2008 Fall Industry Workshops Call for Speakers is Open _______________________________ 22 Webinar, May 28, 2008: Efficient Collaborative Engineering Change Management __________________ 22 Webinar on Engineering Analysis, Simulation and Virtual Test Software in the Design of Heavy Machinery ____________________________________________________________________________________ 23 Financial News ___________________________________________________________________ 24 Ansoft Announces Fourth Quarter and Year-End Financial Results Release Date ____________________ 24 Cimatron Reports Record Revenues of $10.3 Million in Q1 2008 on a Non-GAAP Basis ______________ 24 Mentor Graphics Reports Fiscal First Quarter Results __________________________________________ 25 Synopsys Posts Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal Year 2008 ____________________________ 29 Implementation Investments _________________________________________________________ 31 Altair HyperWorks Now in Use by the Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research (CU-ICAR) ___________________________________________________________________________ 31 ANSYS Fluid Flow Modeling Software Improves Vehicle Design at Honda ________________________ 32 Bank of Ireland Selects Business Objects as Its Enterprise Business Intelligence Standard _____________ 33 Bayer MaterialScience Selects SAP to Improve Chemistry With Customers ________________________ 35 Bell Helicopter Textron Selects MSC.Software's SimManager to Drive Innovation and Accelerate New Product Development ___________________________________________________________________ 36 Capgemini Standardizes on CollabNet for Global Collaboration __________________________________ 38 Dedini, a Leading Capital Goods Manufacturer in Brazil, Selects Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter __ 39 Delcam’s PowerINSPECT Enables More Complex 3D Inspection ________________________________ 40 Erling-Klinger Selects Digital Lifecycle Simulation from Siemens PLM Software ___________________ 41 Kabel BW Selects SAP to Strengthen Connection to Customers __________________________________ 42 Mentor Graphics Calibre LFD Selected by STMicroelectronics for Litho Variability Analysis at 65 and 45 Copyright © 2008 by CIMdata, Inc. 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Expands Scope of Assets Managed; Supports Application Consolidation ____________________________________________________________________________________ 68 Informative Graphics Announces Automated Redaction for EMC Documentum _____________________ 69 LEDAS Releases New Version of its Variational Geometric Solver LGS 3D ________________________ 70 Lenovo Establishes New Simulation Center with Solutions from Dassault Systèmes’ SIMULIA ________ 72 Mentor Graphics Supports Altera’s Stratix IV FPGA Device Family for 40 Nanometer Design Applications ____________________________________________________________________________________ 73 MSC Software Announces the 2008 Releases of its Engineering Analysis and Next Generation MD Technologies __________________________________________________________________________ 74 Planview Introduces Planview Enterprise Insight Analytics _____________________________________ 75 PTC Announces CoCreate® 2008 _________________________________________________________ 77 RedEye RPM and Alibre Partner to Offer Instant Rapid Prototyping Quotes From Alibre Design________ 78 SAP Empowers Midsize Companies to Deliver Superior Customer Value __________________________ 79 SAP Unveils Comprehensive SOA Service and Support Offering _________________________________ 80 Siemens PLM Software Delivers Four Millionth Teamcenter License _____________________________ 83 Siemens PLM Software Launches New Velocity Series Products _________________________________ 84 Siemens PLM Software Launches NX 6 Software _____________________________________________ 87 Siemens PLM Software Launches Solid Edge Synchronous Technology ___________________________ 90 SMW Autoblok Gets Grip on Streamlined Product Design with SolidWorks 3D CAD Software ________ 92 Synchronous Technology Added to Product Lifecycle Management Software _______________________ 93 Page 2 CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Synopsys Announces Immediate Support for Altera Stratix IV FPGAs ____________________________ 94 Tacton and MP Engineering Enter Into Reseller Agreement for TactonWorks _______________________ 95 Zuken