CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
16 May 2007
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CIMdata in the News: Oracle to Buy PLM Provider Agile
In the article "Oracle to Buy PLM Provider Agile", Managing Automation's Jeff Moad, offers his insight into the Oracle acquisition of Agile Software:
The Agile acquisition continues Oracle's aggressive, three-year growth-through-acquisition run, during which the company has bought large enterprise application suite providers such as PeopleSoft and JD Edwards, as well as fill-in best-of-breed vendors such as transportation management software provider GLog.
The deal also marks a continuation of a consolidation trend in the PLM software arena, which, according to CIMdata, grew by 10.4% last year to $20.1 billion. Dassault Systemes last year acquired PLM vendor MatrixOne. And recently, Siemens announced plans to acquire PLM and CAD leader UGS. That consolidation trend had left just five leading PLM providers: Dassault, UGS, PTC, SAP, and Agile. After Agile's acquisition by Oracle, CIMdata's Miller noted, two of the five leading PLM providers - SAP and Oracle - will be large ERP vendors. Unlike their PLM counterparts Dassault, PTC, and UGS, neither Oracle nor SAP provides CAD software for product design.
To read more of his analysis, please access Oracle to Buy PLM Provider Agile , (Managing Automation, May 16, 2007).
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