SAP to acquire Right Hemisphere for design visualization

Sep. 7 | The two have been technology partners for years; what took SAP so long to bring 3D to the enterprise? Business software powerhouse SAP has agreed to acquired Right Hemisphere, a boutique provider of visualization software for product development. Right...

Energizer Bunny dumps Teamcenter for Autodesk Vault

Aug. 30 | Without using the acronym “PLM” Autodesk announces its first competitive displacement since it decided to stop persecuting Product Lifecycle Management. Energizer Bunny, spokestoy for Energizer Batteries. Autodesk today announced that Energizer...

Aras PLM joins Autodesk Partner Program

Aug. 24 | In enterprise PLM only Aras is built on a 100% Microsoft stack, matching the IT of Autodesk Inventor users. Autodesk would be wise to avoid buy-or-build for a while, and let Aras prove the case for PLM in the Autodesk marketplace. Open source enterprise...

2008: Northwest small manufactures plan to invest in PLM

Aug. 2 | A new survey of SMB manufactures in Washington State and Oregon reveals a positive outlook about regional and national economic conditions and a perceived need to more completely implement PLM and ERP systems. If SMB manufactures in other regions have...

2007: Oracle acquires Agile in $495 million bid to become PLM leader

Jul. 29 | In hindsight, this acquisition was just one of many; Oracle assimilated Agile and moved on. Here’s what it looked like in 2007, from the archives of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie Research. By Randall S. Newton Engineering...

2007: ‘We push the vision’: An interview with Dassault Systèmes CEO Bernard Charlès

Jul. 26 | Charlès makes a strong case for Dassault as the innovation leader in PLM in this interview, which includes jabs at his competition. From the July 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie Research. By Randall S. Newton Engineering...

Mercury Marine pushes PLM first, ERP second

Jul. 21 | “Our lifeline is product innovation,” so Mercury Marine uses PLM to invest in four key components: people, process, technology, and integration. A hostile army lies in wait for Mercury Marine. Every time the company introduces a new engine or powerboat,...

Actify set to release SpinFire CAD viewer update

Jul. 21 | More than 50 updates or features including new measure and calculate tools. Actify has announced the next release of SpinFire, its design visualization software popular in companies that manage their product information data with a solution from a non-CAD...

2007: Major acquisitions consolidate PLM industry

Jul. 19 | Two major acquisitions dominated the PLM scene in 2007: Siemens buying UGS and Oracle buying Agile. An analysis by CIMdata’s John MacKrell, originally published in the June 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie...

2007: Blurring and bridging the boundaries between PLM and factory automation

Jul. 14 | Increasing the communication between engineering and the factory floor has developed significantly, but still has a long way to go. From the April 2007 edition of Engineering Automation Report, acquired in 2010 by Jon Peddie Research. By Nick Ballard...