IDC's Product, Project, and Portfolio Management Solutions service helps buyers, product managers, marketers, and strategy professionals understand the features, benefits, and market movements in the product life-cycle management (PLM), project/portfolio management (PPM), and enterprise asset management (EAM) application arenas. This service analyzes not only business trends around PLM, PPM, and EAM but also the convergence between PLM, PPM, EAM, and engineering applications. Subscribers to this service receive direct access to IDC's top industry experts, who can supply competitive analysis and positioning advice, identify strategic partnering opportunities, assist with speaking to the investment community, provide press quotes, and more.

• PLM applications
• PPM applications
• Engineering applications
• EAM applications

Throughout the year, this service will address the following topics:

• PLM, including information management for new product development and introduction (NPDI)
• Analytic applications for product development, PPM, and EAM
• Project and portfolio management for the architectural/engineering/construction (AEC), NPDI, asset management, and service automation segments
• Engineering applications information management
• Vendor strategies and offerings for market expansion, and channel and market opportunities
• User investment and deployment plans
• Case studies of successful application implementations

Our research addresses the following issues that are critical to your success:

1. How do application vendors extend solutions to the entire product, project, and portfolio management solutions space?
2. How will the convergence between PLM and PPM help users achieve NPDI efficiencies and drive profit?
3. What are the best partnering and distribution strategies?
4. How will portfolio management expand the benefits and thus the demand for project management solutions?
5. What are the end-user expectations for global product, project, and portfolio management solutions?
6. What are the adoption trends for the PLM and PPM analytic applications market?
7. What are the adoption benefits and hurdles for PLM in small and medium-sized business (SMB) market manufacturing, engineering, and EAM?

IDC's Product, Project, and Portfolio Management Solutions service examines how major vendors are positioning themselves to compete in the software applications market. This service reviews the strategies, market positioning, and future direction of several providers in the product, project, and portfolio management solutions market, including:

Algorithmics, Ansys, Aspen Technology, Augeo, Autodesk, Autotask, Avexus, Axeda, Bentley, Black Pearl, CA/Niku, Centric Software, CoCreate, Compuware/Changepoint, Dassault Systèmes, Deltek, Demand Management, Engineous Software, Epicor, eProject, Extensity, Fair Isaac, Geac, Hard Dollar, HP, i2 Technologies, IBM, IDE, IFS, Infor, Innotas, IronCAD, JDA Software, Kewill Systems, Lawson/Intentia, Manugistics,

Meridian Systems, Microsoft, MSC.Software, Netsuite, Oracle, Pacific Edge, PlanView, Primavera, Project Arena, ProSight, PTC, QAD, QuickArrow, Realization Technologies, Risk Management Solutions, Sage, SAP, SAS Institute, Sopheon, SPL, Spotfire, SSA Global, SunGard, Systems Union, think3, Unanet Technologies, Unit 4 Agresso, and Wolverine Decision Technology.

This service focuses on the following core research. In addition to the insight provided in this service, IDC may conduct additional research on specific topics, or emerging market segments, via research offerings that require additional IDC funding and client investment.

These supply side-focused documents provide five-year market forecasts, vendor shares, and market trends for the worldwide product life-cycle management, collaborative product development, project/portfolio management, and enterprise asset management markets.

These documents explore emerging opportunities for PLM and PPM converging in search of leveraging information assets around NPDI activities.

These documents provide focused analysis of the major solution segments within the PPM market with a focus on new product development and professional services automation (PSA).

These documents profile interesting start-up companies that are introducing new applications as well as established players that are offering promising extensions to existing product lines.

These documents profile interesting case studies of results achieved with innovative PLM applications.

IDC offers a complete market intelligence solution customized to meet your business requirements. The array of products and services available to you includes:

• The opportunity to have your specific questions answered through personal interaction with industry experts who cover the topics and markets in your service
• Around-the-clock access to our market intelligence on idc.com, IDC's personalized Web experience
• A view of the market's future with 12 months of continuous intelligence about its direction and the reasons behind it, along with actionable advice for taking advantage of existing and emerging opportunities
• Special client discount pricing on purchases of research from other services
• Complimentary admission to IDC's annual Directions conference, where you'll hear our latest forecasts and network with IDC analysts and other industry professionals
• Complimentary invitations to monthly executive telebriefings, interactive forums designed to provide you with insights about research and strategies directly from IDC analysts

To find out how our flexible packaging options can meet your specific business needs, please contact your IDC sales executive.

As a privately held company, IDC believes that our customers are our primary constituency. A large percentage of every revenue dollar is reinvested back into our products, including more analysts, more geographic coverage, and extensive primary research.

Our steady growth over the past 10-plus years reflects our commitment to investing in our customers.