22 Feb 2005
Autodesk Fiscal 2005 Revenues Increase 30 Percent

Autodesk Inc. announced financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended January 31, 2005. For the fourth quarter, Autodesk reported net revenues of $356 million, a 21 percent increase over $295 million reported in the fourth quarter of the prior year. Fiscal 2005 revenues increased 30 percent over last year to $1.234 billion.

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21 Feb 2005
New Industry Solution from IBM and Dassault Systemes Optimizes Aerospace Suppliers' Productivity and Flexibility

Paris, France – February 21, 2005 - IBM and Dassault Systemes today announced a specialized PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Industry Solution for aerospace suppliers. Aerospace Supplier Collaboration (ASC) is a strategic solution that enables companies to better manage and control the processes common to suppliers in the aerospace industry.

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14 Feb 2005
UGS and Autodesk Form Strategic Alliance to Extend Collaboration Across the Supply Chain for Nearly 10 Million Users

PLANO, Texas and SAN RAFAEL, Calif. - Addressing the growing need for manufacturers to build products faster, more efficiently and with higher quality, UGS and Autodesk today announced a strategic alliance to enable complex product and process information to be widely and quickly shared, without the obstacle of format incompatibility.

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09 Feb 2005
PLM Players log a Healthy 2004

While Product Lifecycle Management vendors make good on delivering solutions that meet customer needs, the promise of PLM is starting to resonate with manufacturers of all sizes. At least, that's the consensus from PLM market watchers, who cite strong year-end earnings announcements from two of this sector's leaders as proof that PLM is finally starting to take root. UGS (Plano, Texas) posted year-end sales of $1.01 billion, with claims that it's the first PLM vendor to break the billion dollar mark. On the other hand, Dassault Systemes (Surenes, France), another top vendor in the PLM space, also benefited from steady demand in 2004. Total revenue (including software and services) hit ?796.6 million in 2004. In response, to UGS' claims of being the first to pass the $1 billion mark, Dassault officials pointed to the company's long-standing agreement with IBM, which resells Dassault's PLM suite. They said combined revenues from PLM products and services had easily sailed beyond the $1 billion mark. No matter which company got there first, analysts said the strong financial results were a positive sign for the PLM category as a whole. Moreover, both UGS and Dassault experienced steady growth outside of the United States and Europe, in Asia/Pacific in particular.

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08 Feb 2005
UGS and HP Form Alliance to Offer Product Lifecycle Management Solutions, Helping Customers Transform Their Process of Innovation

PLANO, Texas and PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 8, 2005 - UGS, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, and HP announced today a strategic alliance intended to provide customers a one-stop shop of enterprise-level PLM solutions designed to offer quicker time to value. UGS and HP will provide total PLM solutions to more efficiently enable companies to integrate individual components, such as hardware, software, services, integration and support.

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31 Jan 2005
PTC Develops New PLM Solution For The Aerospace & Defense Industry

Needham, MA - January 31 2005 - PTC the Product Development Company(TM), today announced the general availability of PTC Windchill(R) Aerospace & Defense Module. The Windchill Aerospace & Defense Module is a software add-on module for Windchill PDMLink(TM) that was developed to meet the unique needs of the global Aerospace & Defense (A&D) industry for traceability of highly complex product and program information across the program lifecycle. With the addition of Windchill Aerospace & Defense Module to Windchill PDMLink, PTC fuses years of experience and best practices development with market leading A&D companies into a single solution.

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20 Jan 2005
UGS' D-Cubed Subsidiary Announces Availability of the Latest Releases of its 2D Dimensional Constraint Manager and Profile Geometry Manager Components

CAMBRIDGE, England – UGS, a leading global provider of product lifecycle management (PLM) software and services, and its D-Cubed subsidiary today announced the immediate availability of new releases of two of D-Cubed's industry-leading component software products. The new releases of 2D Dimensional Constraint Manager (2D DCM) version 47.0 and Profile Geometry Manager (PGM) version 3.0 contain new enhancements to improve function and performance.

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