For Immediate Release PLM France 2007: 8% market growth Paris, France - July 2nd 2007. 01consulting studies the French PLM market, under a new report released today. PLM tools are studied in 4 categories: • PDM (Collaborative tools and Product Data Management) is growing fast, • MCAE (Simulation, analysis and engineering tools) is the other fast growing segment, • CAM (Manufacturing tools) now growing slowly, • MCAD (Mechanical Design tools): The oldest and the biggest segment, is now almost flat. For this edition, the MCAD market is studied under 3 sub-segments: o High End o Mid Range (see the chart below) o Low End The relatively high growth of the mid range is compensated by the decline of the high end segment. ©2007, by 01consulting Top 5 mid-range MCAD vendors’ relative market-share, France, 2007 Second largest European region for the PLM solutions, the French speaking regions count for 11% of the global PLM market, with an overall 8% annual growth, approaching �1.2B; a dynamic, innovative and competitive market. New findings of this report include: • Autodesk is rising in the general ranking France now above PTC and UGS. • After leading the CAD/CAM segment, Dassault Systèmes is now leading the cPDM segment in France thanks to last year’s acquisition of MatrixOne. But the company is ranked only 4th in the MCAE market, despite efforts including the acquisition of Abaqus. • Missler software has a remarkable performance: 2nd in the CAM segment and 2nd in the mid range CAD segment ahead of Autodesk and Solidworks. Agile Software, Altair Engineering, Ansys, Autodesk, CD-Adapco, Dassault Systèmes, ESI Group, Lascom, LMS International, Missler Software, MSC Software, PTC, Samtech, SAP, Sescoi, SolidWorks, Solid Edge, Spring Technologies, Think3 and UGS are studied in this report with their 2006 numbers in France for most of them. Top studied vendors are ranked considering both their total revenue, as well as their software only revenue. With a dozen of charts and graphs, in a 52 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_PLMFR07_ES.html About 01CONSULTING: 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. To learn More : www.01consulting.net Contact 01CONSULTING: e-mail: Contact2@01consulting.net Phone: +33 (0)8 7525 1479 or +1 (949) 273 0479 *All trademarks mentioned in this document belong to their respective owners. * 01consulting publications are subject to the company’s terms & condition available online.