IDC Manufacturing Insights is offering a new MaturityScape platform to aid companies in developing effective "next-generation" product-lifecycle management (PLM) strategies.

Dassault Systèmes, a vendor of product design and lifecycle-management software, has launched Perfect Production.

Analyst Insight: The past few years have seen IT systems moving away from advances in individual functionality to interoperability with complementary systems. Also, there's been a greater emphasis on "democratization" of applications - improving accessibility through cloud-based architectures, mobile computing, lower pricing models and improved user interfaces. We have also seen end products themselves becoming ever smarter through embedded software, making them able to react to their environment and transmit information back to supporting systems. -- Tony Christian, Director, Cambashi

Perception Software has released AgileXPLORER as part of Oracle Corp.'s Agile PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) Engineering Collaboration Module.

Manual collection of needed data on the condition and availability of equipment that the warfighter needs gives way to a life cycle management operational support tool.

While vast "smart products" opportunities are allowing many high-tech companies to grow and lower their cost of goods sold, 57 percent do not have access to reliable product genealogy information, and 72 percent believe their product data is less than 80 percent accurate.

Aras and T-Systems have jointly launched the T-Systems PLM (product lifecycle management) Cloud Platform powered by Aras Innovator.

Arena Solutions, a vendor of cloud-based software for product lifecycle management, has announced the Fall 2015 release of Arena PLM.

Arena PLM, the cloud-based product-lifecycle management application of Arena Solutions, now integrates with Kenandy Cloud ERP, an enterprise resource planning system for midmarket and large global companies built on the Salesforce Platform.