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PARIS, France, June 6, 2006 - 01consulting studies the French PLM market, under a new report released today.

Second largest European region for the PLM solutions, France (and the French speaking regions) count for 11% of the global PLM market, with an 8% annual growth, exceeding €1.1B; a particularly dynamic, innovative and competitive market.

PLM tools are studied in 4 categories:

• MCAD (Mechanical Design tools): The oldest and the biggest segment, still growing slightly.
• PDM (Collaborative tools and Product Data Management): Growing fast, but mainly for MCAD vendors offering full PLM.
• MCAE (Simulation, analysis and engineering tools): Growing fast but silently.
• CAM (Manufacturing tools): Needs expressed for new technology.

One of the findings of this report is that the growth of the PDM market is mainly due to the growth of PDM revenue generated by the top MCAD vendors. Dassault Systèmes, PTC and UGS are performing particularly well while SAP, MatrixOne, Agile and Lascom don’t meet the same level of success. This tendency confirms what we had already forecasted in our previous reports: Buying decisions regarding PLM, within the customers, get influenced more often from Engineering departments rather than the IT group. In this context, and given the financial consequences of this tendency, the acquisition of MatrixOne by Dassault Systèmes is not a surprise.

PLM tools – France

With a dozen of charts and graphs, in a 20 pages document, this report provides a quantitative and qualitative picture of the market : market size, trend and vendors positions in each of the four segments; MCAD, PDM, MCAE, CAM.

To read the executive summary of the report, see:

http://www.01consulting.net/02_services_h_research_PLMFR06_ES.html 

To read a PDF copy of this PR, see:

http://www.01consulting.net/PR_PLMFrance2006_en.pdf 

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01consulting is an independent provider of operational and management services in Europe. Founded by Darius Lahoutifard, a senior executive in the Enterprise software markets, the company employs its expertise in operations, sales, marketing, business development, human resources, finance and equity to a wide variety of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including established companies as well as advanced technology start-ups.

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