CIMdata 2008 PLM Vendor Forum to Examine Industry Trends, Performance, Future
December 29, 2007 // Published as a news service by IHS
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CIMdata Inc. announced the schedule and program for its 2008 PLM Vendor Forum slated for March 27 in Ann Arbor, Mich.; April 17 in Stuttgart, Germany; and April 23 in Tokyo.
According to CIMdata, the forum enables product lifecycle management (PLM) tool providers to meet and examine industry performance, gauge its progress and set the vision for its future.
The forum, titled The Emergence of Large Enterprise Suppliers: New Opportunities for All, will review the impact of the emergence of large-scale PLM suppliers and discuss the challenges and opportunities that this market evolution creates for PLM providers.
The event also will feature the first public look at the CIMdata 2007 PLM market analysis, including statistics regarding market growth across PLM domains, industries and regions and the performance (revenue and market share analysis) of PLM providers.
Ken Amann, CIMdata director of research, said that large enterprise PLM suppliers are driving change in the PLM market and creating pressure on all PLM competitors and market participants.
"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," Amann said."The emergence of large enterprise PLM suppliers is also having an impact on companies that are deploying or planning to adopt PLM," he said.
This impact encompasses buying decisions, platform deployments, required organizational and operational structures and the adoption of PLM as an enterprise tool. "As PLM becomes a more fundamental component of the enterprise, industrial companies are being forced to rationalize their PLM investments with other business investments," Amann said.
Source: CIMdata Inc.