CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
12 December 2007
CIMdata News
CIMdata Announces its 2008 PLM Vendor Forum Program: "The Emergence of Large Enterprise Suppliers: New Opportunities for All"
Consulting and research firm CIMdata, Inc. announces its 2008 PLM Vendor Forum schedule and program. These international one-day events will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA on March 27th, in Stuttgart, Germany on April 17th, and in Tokyo, Japan on April 23rd, 2008. The CIMdata Vendor Forum provides a one-of-a-kind opportunity for PLM solution providers to come together to examine the industry's performance, gauge its progress and set the vision for its future.
CIMdata's 2008 PLM Vendor Forum, whose theme is "The Emergence of Large Enterprise Suppliers: New Opportunities for All", will provide a focused review of the impact of the emergence of large-scale PLM suppliers and the challenges and opportunities that this market evolution creates for all PLM suppliers, along with a discussion of effective strategies to address these challenges. As always, CIMdata's perspective on the state of the PLM market and trends will be reviewed in detail, as well as the first public exposure to CIMdata's 2007 PLM Market Analysis; including statistics regarding market growth across PLM domains, industries, and regions, and the performance (revenue and market share analysis) of leading PLM providers. CIMdata's 2008 PLM Vendor Forum will provide a solid background for suppliers who want to better understand the market trends and benefit from them. For detailed agenda and registration information, go to CIMdata 2008 Vendor Forum.
The PLM vision is focused on managing and supporting the full scope of the extended enterprise's overall product lifecycle. The emergence of large enterprise PLM suppliers supports this vision, creating challenges and opportunities for suppliers of all sizes and types that compete in this market. The large suppliers have a diverse range of focus and are having varying impacts on different sectors and domains of the PLM market.
Ken Amann, CIMdata Director of Research explained that large enterprise PLM suppliers are driving change in the PLM market, and creating pressure on all PLM competitors and market participants. Mr. Amann said, "The increasing importance and visibility of PLM is attracting additional competition from a variety of sources, resulting in accelerated market growth and business opportunities for all suppliers participating in the PLM market."
Mr. Amann noted that, "The emergence of large enterprise PLM suppliers is also having an impact on companies that are deploying or planning to adopt PLM." This impact encompasses buying decisions, platform deployments, required organizational and operational structures, and the adoption of PLM as a true enterprise solution. Mr. Amann continues, "As PLM becomes a more fundamental component of the enterprise, industrial companies are being forced to rationalize their PLM investments with other business investments."
CIMdata's views on these trends and the impact that they have on suppliers competing in this increasingly challenging market will be presented and discussed. Additionally, the future of PLM will be discussed, including new or expanded business opportunities in a market that appears to be increasingly driven by a handful of large enterprise suppliers.
What is PLM?
PLM is a strategic approach that applies a consistent set of business solutions in support of the collaborative creation, management, dissemination, and use of product definition information. It spans the extended enterprise from product concept to end-of-life-integrating people, processes, business systems, and information. Leading solution providers recognize the importance of PLM to business, and major industrial firms are already reaping significant benefits from their PLM implementations, in sectors ranging from aerospace and automotive to consumer packaged goods and petrochemical.
PLM ties together design, manufacturing, field service, purchasing, marketing, suppliers, customers, and other organizations and disciplines throughout extended intercompany supply chains. PLM allows companies to maximize their investment in resources, supply chain participants, and current and future IT technologies. It enables companies to unleash their past investments in multiple IT solutions, while maximizing their return-on-investment.
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