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CIMdata Reports PLM Market Continues Growth
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, April 4, 2002—According to figures released today from consulting and
research firm CIMdata, Inc., the worldwide collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm) portion
of the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market grew 25% to reach $ billion during 2001.
Investments in software (including software maintenance) increased to more than $ billion, while
services revenues exceeded $ billion.
PLM is a strategic business approach that applies a consistent set of business solutions in support of the
collaborative creation, management, dissemination, and use of product definition information across the
extended enterprise from concept to end of life – integrating people, processes, and information. PLM
forms the product information backbone for pany and its extended enterprise. It posed of
multiple elements including: foundation technologies and standards (., XML, visualization,
collaboration, and enterprise application integration), information authoring tools (.