{"id":1602,"date":"2008-05-20T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Strong-start-to-Siemens-PLM-Software-Analyst-and-Media-forum\/ba-p\/333556"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:10:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:10:12","slug":"strong-start-to-siemens-plm-software-analyst-and-media-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/strong-start-to-siemens-plm-software-analyst-and-media-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong start to Siemens PLM Software Analyst and Media forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><\/P><P>Anton Huber, CEO of the Industry Automation division of Siemens started off the 2008 Siemens media and analyst forum after an introduction by Bill Carrelli.&nbsp; He started with a little perspective from his first appearance at the event last year and pointed out that this year:<\/P>  <BLOCKQUOTE>   <P>We will show that it was more than just talk &#8211; this year we will show real hardware working with real software<\/P> <\/BLOCKQUOTE>  <P>A quick review of the organizational structure was followed by an re-introduction of the project Archimedes use cases.&nbsp; Project Archimedes was introduced at the analyst and media forum last year and details the goals of integrating the software from the Industry Sector within Siemens to provide a complete flow from virtual to physical.&nbsp; Dr. Huber then described where Siemens fits in the overall software\/hardware ecosystem, placing us in the stack above infrastructure providers, along side business support providers like SAP and under desktop productivity providers like Microsoft in a category called industrial operations.&nbsp; It&#8217;s clear that Siemens is starting to practice what it preaches based on the separation of its commercial transaction platform from it&#8217;s technological data platform, which is Teamcenter&nbsp; This change is expected to help Siemens innovate more quickly and keep its commercial transaction running smoothly.<\/P>  <P>Tony Affuso was up next and started with a quick historical view of what has changed from this event last year.&nbsp; Key highlights:<\/P>  <UL>   <LI>No change in executive team<\/LI>    <LI>Up over 700 employees &#8211; &#8220;we continue to grow and invest in the business&#8221;<\/LI>    <LI>Up to 51,000 customers (+5,000 new) with over 5.5 Million seats of software deployed<\/LI> <\/UL>  <P>Tony made special mention of the customer presenters we will be hearing from throughout the event.&nbsp; Some of the worlds best brands are here and will be telling use what they are doing with our tools:<\/P>  <UL>   <LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.unilever.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Unliver<\/A><\/LI>    <LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.nissanusa.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Nissan<\/A><\/LI>    <LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.audi.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Audi<\/A>\/<A href=\"http:\/\/www.vw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">VW<\/A><\/LI>    <LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.steelcar.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">National Steel Car<\/A><\/LI>    <LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.parirobotics.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Pari Robotics<\/A><\/LI>    <LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.index-werke.de\/de\/deutsch\/index_DEU_HTML.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Index<\/A><\/LI>    <LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.renishaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Renishaw<\/A><\/LI>    <LI><A href=\"http:\/\/www.waltonen.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Waltonen<\/A><\/LI> <\/UL>  <P>It seems our customers continue to be really happy with us.&nbsp; As evidence of this, last year we talked about a few supplier awards we won from our customers.&nbsp; This year we added two more: one from Fiat and another from Visteon.<\/P>  <BLOCKQUOTE>   <P>These awards demonstrate that we are delivering above expectations and that PLM has become the strategic software platform for leading manufacturers.<\/P> <\/BLOCKQUOTE>  <P>I would expect these type of awards to increase over the next few years as products that result from Project Archimedes start coming to market.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anton Huber, CEO of the Industry Automation division of Siemens started off the 2008 Siemens media and analyst forum after an introduction by Bill Carrelli.&nbsp; He started with a little perspective&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1602\/revisions\/1603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1602"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}