CIMdata Press Release

CIMdata Announces Date and Location of Its Next CIMdata PLM Certificate Program - Next CIMdata PLM Certificate Program Scheduled for Andover, MA, March 8-12, 2010

January 07, 2010

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, January 7, 2009 — CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) consulting and research firm announces that the next CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is to be held in Andover, MA from March 8-12, 2010. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership—the PLM industry’s most comprehensive non-biased education and training offering for today’s PLM professionals.

The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program prepares PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM implementations. This assessment-based certificate program includes an intimate classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. Additionally, the program provides candidates with intensive and extensive exposure to a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, each participant receives a CIMdata PLM Certificate and thereby becomes a member of CIMdata’s global PLM Leadership community.

According to Mr. Peter Bilello, CIMdata’s Vice President, “CIMdata is excited to announce the location of our March 2010 CIMdata PLM Certificate Program. The Andover program represents the second time in less than 12 months that the program has come to Andover. We have consistently found Boston area industries to be receptive to PLM and as a result, we have chosen to schedule the program in a convenient location for them.” PLM Certificate Program participants can register online for either the 3-day or complete 5-day program. This certificate program is available to industrial companies who are considering and/or implementing PLM, and to PLM technology and service suppliers. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is built on CIMdata’s more than 25 years of extensive worldwide experience guiding industrial companies in successfully defining and implementing best-in-class PLM strategies and tactics. Please refer to CIMdata’s website at www.CIMdata.com for detailed information on the CIMdata PLM Certificate Program, and for registering to it.