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by Jeff Moad, MA Editorial Staff
Posted on Sunday, May 25, 2008 4:00:00 AM Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox    | Abstract: | Dassault CEO Joel Lemke foresees a further shakeout among product lifecycle management vendors, with large ERP providers playing a significantly bigger role in the market. |
| Keywords: | PLM market, PLM acquisitions |
The number of tier-one vendors of product lifecycle management software will boil down to three over the next three to four years - Dassault Systemes, Oracle, and SAP - with large ERP providers playing a significantly bigger role in the market, predicted Joel Lemke, CEO of Dassault Systemes Americas Corp.
Other major PLM/3D design software providers, such as Parametric Technology Corp. (PTC) and Autodesk Inc., are likely to be acquired, much like Dassault purchased PLM provider MatrixOne two years ago and Siemens bought UGS last year, Lemke predicted in an interview with Managing Automation. Chances are good, he said, that PTC or Autodesk could get acquired by SAP as a way to accelerate that company's position in the market and counter Oracle's acquisition last year of Agile Corp.
"SAP has been ambivalent about this market, but they're getting more focused," Lemke said at a recent Dassault user conference in Orlando, FL. "Ultimately the market will boil down to SAP, Oracle, and Dassault."
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