Nov 23, 2009 | Hot Topics
IBM still believes in PLM — but now sees a different way to interact with what it sees as a large, lucrative and diverse market. Its partnership with Dassault Systèmes is still strong, but the change in their business relationship allows IBM to enter a customer...Oct 27, 2009 | Hot Topics
Regardless of whether you like the deal DS struck to buy the IBM PLM business, it does change the dynamics within the PLM sector. From a competitive perspective, DS will now face the same issues of access that PTC and Autodesk face: can their sales reps get in to see...Sep 16, 2009 | Hot Topics
So you’re a CAD company without an analysis capability or a CAE vendor without strong ties to any one 3D modeling engine. How do you compete with the integrated suites offered by vendors such as Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, PTC and Siemens? You partner. Last week,...Jul 14, 2009 | Hot Topics
CAE data management has become a critical topic for many CAE departments — after all, tying together which CAD models were used as the basis for an analysis, the meshing technique and resulting mesh, the loads and constraints and the resulting data and...Jun 23, 2009 | Hot Topics
Too busy to craft anything long or thoughtful — I know I owe you a more detailed analysis of PTC’s investor presentation — but in the meantime:- are companies getting too big? I’ve been talking to people responsible for coordinating PLM...Jun 17, 2009 | Hot Topics
Siemens PLM and IBM yesterday told analysts and media that they have been working together over the last 18 months to closely integrate IBM’s Websphere, DB2 and Rational into Teamcenter 8 to speed implementation and improve performance, security and ease of use....Dec 31, 2008 | Hot Topics
It’s been quite a year — like most, filled with stuff both good and bad. My top 10 happenings, all related to engineering software:1. Hit: The CAE vendor landscape changed dramatically, as ANSYS bought Ansoft andexpanded its applications footprint even...Oct 24, 2008 | Hot Topics
I spent much of the last two days with Siemens Energy and Automation — part of theSiemens division that now houses Siemens PLM. Siemens brought its exiderdome toBoston for the week, inviting customers, prospects and analysts to tour what is, in essence,a barge...
