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 nearly six million licensed seats and 56,000 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:

• CIMdata’s 2008 PLM Market Analysis report recognized Siemens PLM Software as a PLM leader and vendor with the top market presence in the Digital Manufacturing market segment.
• Siemens PLM Software was recognized by the readers of Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology magazine as a 2008 Best Diversity Company.
• Siemens PLM Software has the highest customer maintenance renewal rate in the industry – 96 percent; overall software industry – 83 percent; overall PLM industry – 92 percent.
• In 2008 Siemens PLM Software attained leading positions in key PLM vendor analyses published by Forrester Research and Gartner, Inc.
• Since 2002, Siemens PLM Software has held the lead position in CIMdata’s collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) study of PLM market revenues. CIMdata also ranks Siemens PLM Software as the leader in cPDm, both in terms of revenue and market presence, with direct revenues more than double the closest competitor. The PLM industry considers this the most critical and fastest growing segment.
• Siemens PLM Software was named a finalist in the 2008 Automotive News Premier Automotive Suppliers’ Contribution to Excellence (PACE) Awards competition.
• Siemens PLM Software’s Teamcenter® 2007 PLM portfolio was honored as one of 2007’s Top 50 Technologies by the editors of START-IT magazine.
• Siemens PLM Software’s NX™ 5 solution was honored with the “Product Innovation Award“ by Manufacture Information Engineering magazine of China and Teamcenter 2007 was honored with the “Golden Software” award by Software World magazine, also of China.
• Siemens PLM Software is listed among the top 10 percent in Software magazine’s 2007 Software 500.
• Siemens PLM Software was recognized by VARBusiness magazine as one of North America’s top vendors in terms of partnership programs offerings to solution providers selling its products and services.

Size and Scope:

• Customers in 62 countries.
• Workforce of more than 7,600.
• 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.
• 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 (GM).
• Siemens PLM Software's Parasolid® software accounts for 25 percent of all 3D product data.
• Siemens PLM Software's GO PLM initiative provides $4 billion of in-kind PLM technolgy grants to more than 1,000,000 students anually at nearly 10,200 global institutions, where it is used at every academic level - from middle schools to graduate engineering research programs.
• 60 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.

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 | Full Story
• Siemens PLM Software reported 2005 year-end revenue of US $1.15 billion | Full Story
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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.