Industry analysts in the Product Lifecycle Management market provide valuable insights for businesses looking to maximize their ability to be more innovative, speed their time to market, increase shareholder value and reduce costs. The analyst reports and quotes below will help you learn more about PLM as well as how Siemens PLM Software can support your PLM needs.

Analyst Evaluation of Siemens PLM Software

ARC's Dick Slansky on bringing the virtual and physical worlds together...

"Siemens has made significant progress on project Archimedes since they first announced it."
Source: ARC podcast

"The technology is the first-ever design solution that simultaneously synchronizes geometry and rules through a new decision-making inference engine."
Source: ARCweb.com

TechniCom's Ray Kurland on Synchronous Technology...

"As reported in earlier newsletter, I remain convinced that this modeling technology is a paradigm shift."
Source: TechniCom Client Newsletter, 22 May 2008, Issue 08-08

AberdeenGroup's Chad Jackson on Synchronous Technology

"Synchronous Technology appears to offer all the benefits of working in 3D while solving many of the inherent challenges."
Source: Synchronous Technology: The Best of Both Worlds for Engineering Organizations?

Gartner's Marc Halpern on Synchronous Technology and Siemens' CAD prowess

"Siemens will grab mind share and significantly more mechanical CAD market share if the technology proves itself among early adopters."
"Manufacturers seeking mechanical design software should consider Siemens, given its broad functionality and strong references."
Gartner report: Siemens Reaffirms Its CAD Future With Synchronous Technology 28 April, 2008. ID Number: G00157571

Related: Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Product Life Cycle Management, 4Q07

Forrester's Roy Wildeman on Siemens

"Siemens PLM continues to build on its legacy of innovation in the PLM space by constantly raising the bar with the depth and breadth of their product offerings."
Source: The Forrester Wave™: Product Life-Cycle Management Applications, Q2 2008, April 29, 2008

Evan Yares, CAD Industry Analyst

“Siemens' synchronous solver overcomes the order dependencies that have plagued history-based CAD programs by solving for the explicit and inferred constraints at the same time. The synchronous solver doesn't use a history tree, but rather holds user-defined constraints in groups associated with the surfaces to which they apply…Ultimately, though, I believe this to be a transformative technology -- one that represents an important inflection point in the CAD industry. If you hear someone say ‘that's nothing new,’ don't believe them. Synchronous Technology is a big deal.”

CPDA's Ken Versprille on Synchronous Technology

"Synchronous Technology is a groundbreaking maturity leadp in interactive 3D solids modeling. The new technology delivers a major advancement about parametric, history-based modeling, yet coexists in synergy with it."
CPDA paper: Synchronous Technology April 2008

Siemens PLM Software positioned in Leaders Quadrant in Magic Quadrant for Manufacturing Product Life Cycle Management, 4Q07

Press Release

UGS Honored with Frost & Sullivan's Product Lifecycle Management Company of the Year Award

Award recognizes UGS' operational excellence including business development and competitive strategy as well as "outstanding management, consistent growth and positive social and economic impact on local and national communities and customers"

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