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* Corporate *
PeopleSoft Inc. announced that it has purchased the intellectual property and certain
assets of Calico Commerce Inc. With this purchase, PeopleSoft will offer a
comprehensive product configuration solution for both the sales and manufacturing
processes. Details
Spescom Software, Inc., formerly Altris Software, Inc., announced that its holding
company, Spescom Ltd., is in the process of facilitating the raising of an additional
$1.6 M loan for working capital requirements enabling the company to effect its
restructuring plans in an effort to return the company to profitability. Details
* Financial *
3D Systems Corp. announced revenues for the first quarter 2002 of $27.2 million. Details
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced first quarter revenue of $345 million. Details
Commerce One announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2002. Revenues
for the current quarter totaled $31.8 million. Details
Documentum, Inc. announced financial results for the first quarter fiscal year 2002.
The company reported total revenue of $50.6 million, a 12 percent increase over the
same period a year ago. Details
FileNET Corporation announced its financial results for first quarter ended March 31,
2002. Revenues for the first quarter of 2002 were $86.2 million compared with revenues
of $84.5 million reported in the same period in 2001. Details
i2 Technologies, Inc. announced final results for the first quarter of 2002. Total
revenues for the first quarter of 2002 were $168 million, compared to $198 million in
the previous quarter. Details
Moldflow Corporation announced the results for its third fiscal quarter ended March 30,
2002. Revenue of $9.4 million was up sequentially from the second fiscal quarter by 3%
and down 15% from the corresponding quarter of fiscal 2001. Details
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PTC reported revenue totaling $185.0 million for the second quarter ended March 30,
2002, compared with $246.5 million for the same period last year. Total Windchill
revenue in the second quarter was $40.0 million, compared to $56.2 million a year ago.
Details
RAND Worldwide announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and year ended
December 31, 2001. Revenue for the fourth quarter of 2001 was $93.5 million, compared
with $88.9 million in the third quarter and $112.5 million for the fourth quarter the
previous year. Details
SAP AG announced its results for the quarter ended March 31, 2002. Total revenue was up
9% to Euro 1.66 billion. Details
* People *
Hibbitt, Karlsson and Sorensen, Inc., makers of the ABAQUS suite of software for
advanced mechanical simulation, announced the appointment of Ken Short to the
position of Vice President of Marketing. Details
i2 Technologies, Inc. announced that Chairman Sanjiv Sidhu has assumed the role of
chief executive officer of i2, and former CEO Greg Brady has resigned. Details
MAPICS, Inc. announced the creation of a new chief marketing executive position to
drive worldwide marketing, strategy and alliances. The company has named Jeff Cashman
to fill the newly created role. Details
MS2, Inc. announced that Thomas Lavey has been appointed as executive vice president of
worldwide field operations. Details
ManufacturingQuote Inc. announced the appointment of Jeremy Bruck as the company's new
Vice President of Technology. Details
QAD announced the appointment of Michael Lodato as chief marketing officer. Details
* Implementation *
Agile Software announced that QUALCOMM Incorporated has placed an order to expand its
use of Agile solutions across QUALCOMM's business units. Details
Autodesk, Inc. announced that Allied Systems Company has migrated from AutoCAD Release
14 to Autodesk Inventor software. Details
Baan announced 128 new deals signed in Q4 2001. Details
Dassault Systemes announced that Dassault Aviation has chosen Dassault Systemes' 3D
Product Lifecycle Management (3D PLM) Solutions to design its new Falcon 7X business
jet. Details
EDS announced two contracts for product lifecycle management (PLM) software and
services with Caterpillar Inc. Details
Formation Systems announced that Rich Products, one of the world's largest family-owned
food companies, has implemented the Optiva PLM platform as a key component to
enhancing its information technology infrastructure. Details
London Underground CAD Service Manager Brian Watt explains how the London Underground
has implemented Bentley's ProjectWise to manage thousands of engineering drawings and
data and manage shared access of CAD data. Details
MS2, Inc. announced that its MS2 Accelerate application has been selected by Netopia,
Inc. Details
MatrixOne, Inc. announced a new contract with Medtronic, Inc. Medtronic is implementing
MatrixOne's core product collaboration platform, eMatrix. Details
Maxim I/T announced Delphi Automotive's selection of FindView as its corporate digital
asset retrieval solution. Details
Maxim I/T announced that Coffing Hoists, a division of Columbus McKinnon, rolled out
FindView as the digital asset retrieval engine powering its corporate portal. Details
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that Ricoh has adopted its logic
built-in-self-test (BIST) solution LBISTArchitect tool. Details
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Moldflow Corporation announced that Japanese manufacturers Yamako Company Ltd., Funai
Electric Company, Ltd., Toyo Roki Manufacturing Company, and Nichias Corporation;
Korean manufacturer Daeha Company, Ltd.; and European manufacturer Upper Austrian
Research have each made investments in the Moldflow Plastics Insight (MPI) suite of
design optimization software. Details
PTC announced significant progress in providing the infrastructure for Lockheed
Martin's Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program, the largest procurement program in
Pentagon history. Details
SolidWorks Corporation announced that PWR Championship Racing has switched to
SolidWorks 3D CAD software. Details
SolidWorks announced that the Babcock & Wilcox Co. is using SolidWorks software to
design fossil-fuel burning equipment used in commercial power generation and
industrial plants. Details
Speed to Market announced that DESI Labeling Systems will be using Concerto Advanced
Project & Resource Scheduling. Details
Tecnomatix Technologies, Ltd. announced that its Tecnomatix Unicam subsidiary has won a
three-year software and services contract from Harris Corporation's RF Communications
Division. Details
think3 announced that G.D, the world's leading manufacturer of packaging equipment for
the tobacco industry, will standardize its CAD design environment on thinkdesign, the
cornerstone of think3's "3D for the Masses" product line. Details
* Developments *
Actify introduced its new SpinFire Enterprise and SpinFire Professional products. Details
Alias|Wavefront announced that it will ship release 10 of StudioTools, the company's
computer-aided industrial design (CAID) software, in June of this year. Details
CADCAM-E announced a new version of its Unigraphics to Mastercam translator CIMMC-UG
that is integrated within the Mastercam environment and has the same look and feel as
Mastercam. Details
Centric Software, Inc. introduced the Innovation Center - a patent-pending 3D virtual
environment for distributed project teams. Details
Centric Software, Inc. introduced Design-to-Order - the second in a
family of new innovation solutions that enables manufacturers and their supplier
network to rapidly converge on accurate responses for custom-configured products. Details
Centric Software, Inc. introduced Functional Prototyping - the third
in a family of innovation solutions that creates a complete cross-functional product
definition and system-level simulation environment to digitally validate total product
functionality during the concept phase. Details
CoCreate Software Inc. announced OneSpace Select, a OneSpace Collaboration consisting
of CoCreate's OneSpace Solution Suite software, offered for a monthly fee over a
secure network. Details
Dassault Systemes, IBM and SMARTEAM announced that SMARTEAM's Product Lifecycle
Collaboration solutions have been enabled to interoperate with IBM's DB2 database
software. Details
Document Control Systems, Inc. announced the release of MASTERControl 7.0 FDA Edition.
Details
E2open announced enhancements to its Sourcing Service, a hosted technology platform
with associated applications that provide buyers with tools to standardize the
negotiation process with suppliers in private, secure events. Details
EDS launched E-vis 4.0, a new standard in digital collaboration designed to enable
enhanced product innovation and efficient supplier participation in new product
development. Details
Eigner announced the availability of eight new solutions designed to help manufacturing
organizations remove the inefficiencies associated with managing engineering projects
throughout the product lifecycle. Details
Eigner announced the integration of Autodesk Inventor. Details
Informative Graphics Corporation announced that DrawingRoom.net, a Web site that gives
users a free document and drawing collaboration experience is available to end-users.
The site can be used by anyone who would like to try Web-based project
collaboration involving a limited set of documents and team participants. The Web site
address is http://www.drawingroom.net Details
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MSC.Software Corp. announced the release of MSC.visualNastran Motion 2002 and
MSC.visualNastran Desktop FEA 2002. Details
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced a newly enhanced version of the LeonardoSpectrum
synthesis tool, LeonardoSpectrum 2002a. Details
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced the 2002.1 release of its HDL Designer Series
tool suite for design creation, analysis and management. Details
Océ showcased its first demonstration of new scan solution with DocSetter, an advanced
tool for scanning and editing hardcopy documents and Document Scanstation, a high
performance scanner using Océ's ImageLogic technology. Details
PTC announced the introduction of a new Quick Start Solution called Windchill PDMLink.
Details
STEP Tools, Inc. announced it is now shipping ST-ACIS v 4.0. Details
Spicer Corporation announced the release of Image a.X 7.0, powerful ActiveX components
of Spicer Imagenation that let systems integrators create their own custom viewing
solutions for the Web, a network, or as a standalone application. Details
Stratasys announced it will begin selling rapid tooling technology in North America.
Details
Surfware, Inc. announced the planned release of SURFCAM 2002, the latest version of
SURFCAM CAD/CAM. Details
Tecnomatix Unicam announced eM-Quality 2.2. Details
Trace Parts S.A. announced the immediate availability of the latest version of Trace
Parts, a standard parts library that integrates with CATIA V5, SolidWorks, Inventor,
Solid Edge, Mechanical Desktop, thinkdesign, TopSolid and AutoCAD. Details
VISTAGY, Inc., announced the release of Version 4.0 of FiberSIM. Details
* Relationships *
Cimmetry Systems Inc. announced that Open Text Corporation has selected Cimmetry's
AutoVue as its recommended viewing and markup package to offer the Livelink customer
base. Details
Commerce One announced spend analysis and post-design document collaboration
capabilities to the Commerce One Source solution through alliances with Analytics Inc.
and Digital Paper. Details
DELMIA Corp. announced that the DSIC (Digital Shipbuilding Innovation Center), Seoul
National University, Seoul, Korea has been awarded research funding by the U.S. Navy's
Office of Naval Research (ONR). Details
Dassault Systemes and Hibbitt, Karlsson & Sorensen, Inc., makers of the ABAQUS suite of
simulation solutions, announced the signing of a development agreement making HKS a
partner within the CAA V5 Software Community Program. Details
Dassault Systemes and Nihon Unisys, Ltd. announced a strategic alliance under which
Nihon Unisys, Ltd. will leverage the Dassault Systemes V5 architecture to develop,
deliver and support its next generation CAD/CAM solutions covering end-to-end die
development processes, initially targeting automotive OEM and Tier 1 suppliers. Details
Dassault Systemes announced the signing of a development agreement making Forming
Technologies Incorporated a partner within the CAA V5 Software Community Program. Details
Dassault Systemes, IBM and RAND Worldwide announced an agreement under which RAND
Worldwide becomes an IBM premier Business Partner and a Dassault Systemes CAA V5
partner for complementary application development. Details
Digital Paper Corporation announced an alliance with Commerce One to enhance the
company's offering for strategic sourcing of highly engineered goods. Details
SolidWorks and GlobalSpec have joined forces to help manufacturers' customers find
technical components and systems more easily and ensure that they fit exactly into
their next generation product designs. This strategic alliance pairs GlobalSpec's
SpecSearch Pro product and SolidWorks 3D PartStream.NET. Details
Spatial Corp. recognized the accomplishments of OEM partner Trace Parts S.A. for the
release of Trace Parts Version 2, a universal standard parts library for CAD/CAM
users. Details
Tecnomatix Technologies, Ltd. announced it has signed a joint product development
partnership agreement with Siemens Automation and Drives Group. Details
Tecnomatix Technologies, Ltd. announced that Autron Corporation Limited has entered
into a strategic agreement with Tecnomatix to resell eMPower solutions to the Asian
electronics manufacturing market. Details
Verity, Inc. announced an expanded alliance with TIBCO Software Inc. Details
Web4 announced winning a contract from eBuild.ca for its Web-based collaboration
management tool, eReview. Details
ebuild (www.ebuild.com) announced it is partnering with Hearst Business Media's
Structured Content Unit (www.structuredcontent.com) to complete the ebuild Guide to
Building Products. Details
* Other *
According to Analysys, a market research firm focused on telecoms, IT and new media,
the streaming market is expected to grow from US$25 million to US$200 million by 2006.
Details
Autodesk, Inc. announced that Autodesk Inventor was presented with Cadalyst Magazine's
Best of Show Award at the National Design Engineering Show. Details
Baan announced the formation of a new Global Solution Services operation. Details
Cadcentre Asia Pacific Sdn Bhd, a wholly owned subsidiary of AVEVA Group plc, announced
it has been awarded 'Multimedia Super Corridor' status by the Malaysian Multimedia
Development Corporation. Details
Documentum announced that it has successfully completed the PDA Pharmaceutical Industry
Software Supplier Quality Audit. Details
E2open announced that Hitachi has started a series of sourcing events using E2open's
Sourcing Service. Details
EDS announced CIMdata has listed it as the leading PLM technology supplier for cPDm
solutions based on revenue and market presence data. Details
Elkay Manufacturing announced that by using CoCreate's OneSpace Solution Suite, it cut
the prototype development time for a new home water cooler 75 percent - from 18 months
to four. Details
Formation Systems announced that Q1 2002 is its most successful quarter to date,
highlighted by new customer wins, a strengthened management team, successful
deployments and upcoming beta availability of the next major release of Optiva, its
flagship Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform. Details
Formation Systems announced that its enterprise software application Optiva won the
Crossroads 2002 A-List Award in the "Product Lifecycle Management for Process
Manufacturers" category. Details
LMS Engineering announced the extension of its offering to its ground vehicle
customers with access to the Ford proving ground in Lommel, Belgium. Details
MSC.Software Corp. and Holden Limited, Australia's leading automotive manufacturer,
announced that Holden has utilized MSC.Nastran to guide design and simulation analysis
for the Monaro Sports Coupe. Details
MSC.Software Corp.announced that Hayes-Lemmerz was able to decrease
design time and materials costs for automotive wheel assemblies by utilizing
MSC.Acumen and MSC.Fatigue to perform durability analysis. Details
MatrixOne, Inc. outlined how it is helping to change the way the life sciences industry
brings products to market, while simultaneously satisfying the technical controls
required to support the Food and Drug Administration's 21 CFR Part 11. Details
Mechanical Dynamics, Inc. and Kettering University announced a new master of
engineering in simulation degree program, with a track focused on the theory and
application of Mechanical Dynamics' ADAMS functional virtual prototyping software. Details
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that the United States District Court for the
Northern District of California Court granted Mentor's motion for summary judgment of
infringement against Cadence Design Systems. Details
NexPrise, Inc. announced that the Company's shareholders have approved an amendment to
the company's certificate of incorporation to effect a reverse split of the Company's
common stock. Details
PTC announced that the Institute of Configuration Management has certified Windchill
PDMLink as CMII-compliant. PTC has received this certification validating Windchill
PDMLink as a solution with out-of-the-box capabilities that promote industry
recognized best practices for configuration management. Details
QUMAS announced that the company has been named to the 2001 Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
European Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology
companies in Europe. Details
SAP AG announced it will accelerate the delivery of open, collaborative application
solutions. The company announced it has created a new business area to focus on the
next generation of collaborative solutions. Details
Workgroup Technology Corporation (WTC) announced that it has recently received a
letter from Joseph P. Mullaney, President and COO of SofTech, Inc. indicating that,
contingent upon successful due diligence, SofTech, Inc. was prepared to offer an
amount in cash and equity that would be significantly in excess of the offer of $1.50
per share previously put forth by Rocket Software. Details
webMethods, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company announced the general availability of the
Open Management Interface (OMI) Specification Version 1.0. OMI is an open
specification, jointly authored by webMethods and HP, which defines a standards-based
(XML/SOAP/HTTP) management interface. Details
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