PLM Industry Summary Editor: Christine Bennett Vol. 7 No 43, Friday 28 October 2005 CONTENTS CIMdata News_________________________________________________________ 3 CIMdata Commentary: Adobe – UGS Partnership _____________________________________________________ 3 Company News ________________________________________________________ 3 Adobe Joins JT Open Program; Continuing Strong Momentum of Rapidly Growing Global Initiative _____________ 3 Agile 9 Certified as CMII Compliant by the Institute of Configuration Management___________________________ 4 Agile to Participate at Consumer Goods Technology 2005 Fall Conference__________________________________ 5 Aldon Announces 2005 International User Conference; 10th Annual User Conference Aims to Help Companies Maximize their Change Management Initiatives _______________________________________________________ 5 Alias Gets in the Game - Supports Upcoming Game Industry Events_______________________________________ 6 ANSYS Named to Forbes 200 Best Small Companies __________________________________________________ 7 Autodesk Chief Finance Officer Al Castino to Present at the Morgan Stanley Software, Services, Internet & Networking Conference __________________________________________________________________________ 7 AVEVA Congratulates University of Newcastle for Scooping Top Places in Student Ship Design Competition _____ 7 Cimatron Names Dirk Dombert as New General Manager in Germany _____________________________________ 8 Cranes Software Acquires the Worldwide Marketing & Sales Rights of InventX™ ePM; Cranes to Invest in InventX™ ePM Project Portfolio Management Solution, Product Development and Life-Cycle Management ________________ 8 DELMIA Forms Strategic Relationship with AscendBridge Solutions Inc. __________________________________ 9 Embarcadero Technologies Defines New Strategic Data Management Approach to Help Organizations Achieve Critical Business Objectives _____________________________________________________________________________ 9 EMC Outlines Comprehensive Information Archiving Strategy at Momentum 2005. Captiva and Acartus Acquisitions Complement Strategy to Deliver Common Archiving for All Information __________________________________ 11 Geac appoints Eric Rosenfeld to Board of Directors ___________________________________________________ 12 Intergraph, Warfighter Protection Lab Support Emergency Management Efforts_____________________________ 13 Lattice3D and TechniCon Form Reseller Partnership __________________________________________________ 13 Michael D. Marvin Resigns From Geac's Board of Directors ____________________________________________ 14 MSC.Software and Engineous Form Global Strategic Alliance: Customers to Benefit From the Combination of Managed Product Engineering and Multi-Run Design Improvement ______________________________________ 14 MSC.Software Joins the Itanium Solutions Alliance ___________________________________________________ 15 Omnify Software To Present at ASPMFG RoHS/WEEE Seminars In Boston _______________________________ 15 Omnify Software To Present at ASPMFG RoHS/WEEE Seminars In Chicago ______________________________ 16 Opsware Expands Reseller Network With Addition of Millennium Technologies; Italian Systems Management Expert to Resell Opsware IT Automation Software _________________________________________________________ 16 PartMiner to Serve IHS Customers Directly _________________________________________________________ 17 Peter Batty to Join Intergraph Corporation as Chief Technology Officer ___________________________________ 17 PLH arkitekter as Wins 2005 BE Award; SBA Office Building Named Top Project in ''Building: BIM for Simulation and Visualization, Single Subject'' Category _________________________________________________________ 18 With Merkur Group's Expertise in Both PeopleSoft Enterprise and Oracle E-Business Suite Integrations, ReadSoft Has Signed a Valuable Partner for Providing Integrated Document Automation Solutions _________________________ 19 Financial News _______________________________________________________ 19 Authentica Announces Record Results for Q3 2005; Company Signs on New Customers, Expands Product Line, Achieves Over 200% Growth_____________________________________________________________________ 19 Cadence Announces Third Quarter 2005 Financial Results Webcast ______________________________________ 20 Cadence Reports Q3 Revenue up 12% Over Q3 2004__________________________________________________ 20 Cadence to List Solely On NASDAQ Under New Symbol 'CDNS'; Trading to Commence Oct. 31, 2005 _________ 21 CENIT with significant profit in the past 9 months EBIT improved by 67 % and amounted to EUR 6.55 million ___ 21 Dassault 3Q EPS Seen Flat At EUR0.28 ____________________________________________________________ 22 Dassault Systèmes Reports Third Quarter Financial Results with Software Revenue up 17%, Total Revenue up 14% and EPS up 14%_______________________________________________________________________________ 22 Copyright © 2005 by CIMdata, Inc. 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CIMdata, Inc. 3909 Research Park Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 Tel: +1 (734) 668–9922 Fax: +1 (734) 668–1957 E-mail: [email protected] CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Embarcadero Technologies Announces Record Total Revenue for the Third Quarter 2005; GAAP Operating Margin Reaches 21% as Income from Operations grows 252% over Prior Year Quarter _____________________________ 26 Intergraph Reports Third Quarter 2005 Results _______________________________________________________ 27 Magma Reports Record Revenue of $39.9 Million in Second-Quarter Financial Results _______________________ 31 PDSi Reports Results for 2005 Third Quarter; Acquisition Contributes to Record Quarterly Sales and Strong Earnings ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 32 SAP Plans Change to Share Capital—Change to Result in 3 Additional Shares for Each Existing SAP Share Held __ 35 Implementation Investments_____________________________________________ 35 3Dconnexion Implements Agile PLM for Enterprise Collaboration _______________________________________ 35 ABAQUS Software Adopted by Major Automotive OEM for Crash Simulation; Four-Year Technical Collaboration Signals a Major Technology Shift in Automotive Engineering ___________________________________________ 36 Autodesk Technology Goes Prime Time in House, Lost, Nip/Tuck and Other 2005-2006 Television Shows _______ 36 BC Hydro Selects Workstream Recruitment; Workstream's Established Presence in Canadian Market and Ability to Deliver a Rapid Implementation, Functionality and Value Key to Securing Contract__________________________ 37 CoCreate Software Subscription Offer Nets 1,000 Licenses. One Million Euro in Customer Revenue in Just 10 Months ____________________________________________________________________________________________ 38 Florida House of Representatives Streamlines Legislative Publishing with PTC Arbortext® Enterprise Publishing __ 38 gedas USA Wins Major BorgWarner Contract to Handle Information Technology System Upgrade _____________ 39 Laird Security Systems Locks in Cost, Time Savings with SolidWorks 3D Mechanical Design Software; U.K.'s Second Largest Window and Door Hardware Provider Cuts Thousands of Dollars, Weeks out of Prototyping ____________ 40 Lattice3D XVL Technology Selected by MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG—XVL to Become Integral Part of MAN 3D Data Distribution __________________________________________________________________________________ 40 Maya To Serve As Chief Animation Software For Lucasfilm Animation Singapore __________________________ 41 Mechanical, Electrical and Plumbing Engineering Firms Improve Profitability and Coordination With Autodesk Building Systems ______________________________________________________________________________ 42 MSC.Software's Integrated Enterprise Simulation Software is Selected by Valeo Engine Cooling (VEC) to Improve Virtual Product Development Processes ____________________________________________________________ 43 Paxar Selects Wavelink to Centrally Deploy, Manage and Secure Mobile Devices; Retail and Manufacturing Industry to Save Time and Money by Centrally Managing Devices Throughout the Wireless LAN Lifecycle _____________ 43 Seapine Software Gets jProg Developers Back Online Following Hurricane Katrina__________________________ 44 Spirit AeroSystems Increases Real-time Collaboration with PLM Solutions from IBM and Dassault Systèmes _____ 45 The Babcock & Wilcox Company Continues Innovation Leadership with Integration of RuleStream and MatrixOne; RPM and PLM Technologies Work Together to Drive Efficiencies, Shorten Engineering Times ________________ 45 Toyota Manufacturing UK Uses DELMIA to Optimize Design-for-Manufacture Process; Digital Technology Enables Automakers' Strategy for Global Information Sharing across the Extended Enterprise_________________________ 46 UGS Digital Product Development Software Speeds KB Racing and Driver Greg Anderson to Third Straight Championship Season __________________________________________________________________________ 47 UK: PLM Software To Help Bianco Footwear Expansion ______________________________________________ 47 Product News_________________________________________________________ 48 Actify® Releases Actify DesignShare™ for Visual Product Data Collaboration Based on Microsoft's SharePoint Technology___________________________________________________________________________________ 48 Cadence Advances Segmentation Strategy