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Study Group: CAD Software Evaluators and Purchasers

Council Members in this Study Group: 37

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Paul Massie

Director of Operations
StrataScale, Inc.
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Paul Massie is the Director of Operations at StrataScale, a cloud or managed hosting provider. He is responsible for the customer facing IT infrastructure and applications, as well as customer support. Previously, he was the CIO of Genesis Microchip,...

Ralph Behar

Senior Director IT
OSI SYSTEMS, INC.
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Ralph Behar is the Sr. Director IT of OSI Systems, Inc, a vertically integrated, worldwide provider of security and inspection systems, medical monitoring and anesthesia systems, and optoelectronic devices and value-added subsystems. He is an acknowledged...

Richard Neiman

President
CADD CENTERS OF FLORIDA, INC.
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Richard Neiman is the President and Sales Marketing Manager of CADD Centers of Florida, the largest Autodesk dealer in Florida. CADD Centers was one of the first Autodesk dealers in Florida and has been a top performer for Autodesk for 25 years. Mr. Neiman...

Donald Lemma, Former Vice President and Chief Information Officer, APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS OVERSEAS CORPORATIONDonald Lemma

Former Vice President and Chief Information Officer
APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS OVERSEAS CORPORATION
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Donald Lemma was VP and CIO of Applied Biosystems (ending in April 2009 with the merger with Invitrogen formation of "Life Technologies", NASDAQ: LIFE), the world's leading manufacturer of laboratory instrumentation equipment used for genetic analysis,...

Richard Grenier

Independent Consultant
Independent Consultant - Richard Grenier
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Mr. Grenier is an independent Technology Consultant with over 20 years of engineering design and management experience in Semiconductor, CPU, and Systems design. Previous consulting work includes Qualcomm, Sony, Xelerated, Enigma, and IBM. Former employers...

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Salesforce's Benioff Delivers at Dreamforce. Revenue Builders or Social Fodder?

November 19, 2009

Salesforce.com Announces new Social Applications | www.thestandard.com

Salesforce.com announced major initiatives with Computer Associates,Facebook and Twitter all around their new Chatter feature which Mark Benioff calls the greatest changes since Dreamforce.com began 8 yrs ago. But are these additions social fodder or new streams of revenue for the CRM giant?

Was Autodesk a bubble stock?

November 18, 2009

Autodesk Increases Profitability in Third Quarter Fiscal 2010 | www.businesswire.com

Today Autodesk became the last of the large publicly traded engineering software companies to announce its earnings. Whereas Autodesk had been a sales and profit leader during the run-up to the financial bubble that burst in 2008, its sales have fallen faster than its peers in the past 12 months. What's going on?

Ansys results stronger than other engineering software vendors but risks remain

November 5, 2009

ANSYS, Inc. Reports Solid Revenue Results with Strong Margins and Non-GAAP EPS Outperformance for the Third Quarter 2009 | www.businesswire.com

Revenues and profits at Ansys, Inc. increased year-to-year in the third quarter, a better showing than the larger and more integrated engineering software companies such as Dassault Systèmes and Parametric Technology. So why is management hoarding cash?

IBM and Dassault Systems plan an amiable separation

October 28, 2009

"Dassault Systemes and IBM Announce Intent to Integrate IBM PLM Sales Operation into DS" | www.3ds.com

Late on the evening of October 26, IBM announced its intention to sell its "IBM sales and client support operations encompassing DS's Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software … customer contracts and related assets" to Dassault Systèmes .

Twitter's Problem With the Google Cloud

July 15, 2009

Lessons from Twitter's security breach | news.cnet.com

Regardless of how careful a cloud provider is with security, all it takes is one or two persons with weak passwords to lead critical information.  Although blameless, cloud computing in general and Google in particular are likely to suffer from this incident.

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Members in this Study Group include these company types:

  • Professional or Industry Association*
  • Individual/Small Consultancy
  • CAD/CAM Software
  • Value Added Reseller (VAR)
  • Managed Service Provider
  • Systems Integrator (SI)
  • Desktop Software
  • EDA Software

Members in this Study Group often have these job titles:

  • Director
  • Principal
  • Board Member
  • Owner
  • Strategy Director
  • Design Engineer
  • Chief Information Officer
  • General Manager
  • IT Director
  • Managing Director
  • Consultant
  • Project Manager