Siemens PLM Software, a business unit of the Siemens Industry Automation Division, is a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services with 7 million licensed seats and more than 71,000 customers worldwide. Headquartered in Plano, Texas, Siemens PLM Software works collaboratively with companies to deliver open solutions that help them turn more ideas into successful products.

Awards and designations:

• In 2011, IDC reported that Siemens PLM Software rated highest among PLM vendors and is a clear market leader in the Discrete Market Segment of the PLM Software Industry.
• CIMdata’s 2010 PLM Market Analysis report recognized Siemens PLM Software as the vendor with the top revenue in the Digital Manufacturing market segment.
• For the eighth year in 2010, Siemens PLM Software was ranked among Fortune 500 corporations and United States government agencies in support of Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) Engineering Schools in the U.S.
• Siemens PLM Software continues to have the highest customer maintenance renewal rate in the industry – 96 percent; overall software industry – 83 percent; overall PLM industry – 92 percent.
• In 2010, Siemens PLM Software was named China’s top PLM solution provider by CIMdata’s China PLM Report.
• Siemens PLM Software Received Frost & Sullivan's 2010 Customer Value Enhancement for the Automotive Industry Award
• For the tenth year in a row, Siemens PLM Software has been recognized by leading PLM management consulting and research firm CIMdata, Inc. as the market presence leader in the industry’s collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) category.
• CIMdata also ranked Siemens PLM Software the revenue leader in the Digital Manufacturing market segment for the sixth straight year.
• In 2010, Siemens PLM Software received the top ranking in every major category of new simulation data & process management scorecard by Collaborative Product Development Associates (CPDA).

Size and Scope:

• Customers in 80 countries.
• Workforce of more than 8.000.
• In Siemens’ target markets, 68 percent of the Global 500 use Siemens PLM Software technology; and among Fortune 100 companies, half are using Siemens PLM Software’s technology.
• Among Industry Week’s list of 1,000 manufacturing companies, more than half use Siemens PLM Software technology; in the key markets of Automotive, Aerospace, Machinery and High Tech, the total approaches 80 percent.
• Siemens PLM Software’s top 100 customers have used our technology for an average of 18 years.
• Siemens PLM Software creates and manages more than 48 percent of the world's 3D data.
• Siemens PLM Software is the CAD market leader in China and emerging Asian markets.
• Siemens PLM Software implemented the world’s largest global product development solution. (GM)
• Siemens PLM Software's GO PLM initiative provides its technology to more than 1,000,000 students annually at nearly 10,200 global institutions, where it is used at every academic level - from middle schools to graduate engineering research programs.
• 63 percent of Siemens PLM Software's installed seats manage multi-CAD data, meaning that Siemens PLM Software manages more of its competitors’ data than its own.
• The top 20 auto suppliers all use Siemens PLM Software's CAD/CAM/CAE solutions.
• Siemens PLM Software has received CRN Magazine’s 5-Star Partner rating for five consecutive years. 5-Star Partner rating recognizes an elite subset of vendors who give solution providers the best partnering elements in their channel programs.

Financial Strength:

As of Sept. 30, 2008, Siemens PLM Software celebrated 20 consecutive quarters of year-over-year growth

• Siemens PLM Software reported 2006 year-end revenue of US $1.2 billion
• Siemens PLM Software reported 2005 year-end revenue of US $1.15 billion
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Earnings Slides

• 2006 4th Quarter and Year-end
• 2006 3rd Quarter
• 2006 2nd Quarter
• 2006 1st Quarter
• 2005 4th Quarter and Year-end
• 2005 3rd Quarter

Proof Points:

• A leading engineering services company, based in India and serving the global automotive industry, utilized Siemens PLM Software’s technology to help its clients increase space utilization by more than 30 percent, reduce material flow by more than 20 percent and, through effective plant simulation, saved one customer $1 million.
• A leading international computer company worked with Siemens PLM Software to adopt product lifecycle management (PLM) and reduced its workload by 50 percent.
• Siemens PLM Software helped one of the biggest manufacturers in aeronautics and renewable energy products to deploy the company’s software solutions to cut the manufacturer’s design errors by 88 percent.
• Only a few years ago, an international builder of customer machines needed 52 weeks to go from purchase order to machine delivery. Now that the company uses Siemens PLM Software software, its lead time is 16 weeks.
• One of China’s leading manufacturing companies uses Siemens PLM Software’s solutions to design large assemblies comprised of up to 10,000 parts; Siemens PLM Software has reduced its engineering changes by 70 percent.
• A leading women’s fashion chain is using Siemens PLM Software software to compress its "time-to-profits" by linking buyers, designers and supply chain partners in a web-based environment that will reduce the time needed to take a design from initial sketch to finished item (excluding shipping times) by up to 30 percent.