On November 8th 2012, Siemens PLM Software (Siemens) announced the acquisition of LMS, a leading provider of testing and mechatronic simulation solutions, with approx. 1,200 employees worldwide serving over 5,000 manufacturing companies. This acquisition will enable Siemens to provide its customers with the whole range of virtual design, simulation and physical performance testing applications. This will permit them to make [...]

IT in the manufacturing industry is today, more than ever, required to help save costs, both by cuts and by enhancing business efficiency through IT. These two elements will drive the IT project services market. Almost one third of the total IT project services revenues in Germany are currently realized by the manufacturing industry. IT projects aimed at reducing fixed [...]

 Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES)  2009, and also 2010, were not very good years for MES services providers. The market for MES project services was seriously affected by the financial and economic crisis at that time. For 2011, PAC expects revenues to have grown again, also due to some backlog demand from the economic crisis. This has been confirmed in numerous [...]

Biswajit Banerjee’s main responsibilities include market analysis and strategic consulting for the software and IT services industry in APAC with main focus on India. As a senior analyst he is responsible for hardware maintenance, system infrastructure software and project services product segments. His main focus verticals in this region include Manufacturing, Transport, Telecom, Banking and Insurance industry.

George’s role includes engagement in broad areas of the strategic marketing and market research domains, eg. strategic positioning, portfolio assessment and calibration, partnership strategy, etc. His expertise has been covering both region-specific and industry-wide trends and standings.

Klaus Holzhauser is responsible for the EMEA SAP consulting services research. He also covers Application Management as part of our Outsourcing practice and leads PAC’s Project Services Research Program for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition, he is involved in strategic consulting projects for IT suppliers, and M&A projects.

Mathieu Poujol has been project manager for the several reports such as EAI, Integration Platforms, Portals, SOA, Open Source for France, Germany and Europe. He is also responsible for the customer relationship management in its covered fields. He is addressing all the customer needs, related to those segments: market studies and analysis, custom research, marketing and strategic consulting for end-user and technology providers.

With over 25 years of experience as an industry analyst, software developer and project manager, Philip has become one of the best-known and most respected analysts in the sector. His work has covered business applications, BI, document management and KM, and latterly Philip has focused on Cloud, Software as a Service and application services.

Salim Mesbah contributes to market research of Business applications’ trends and also to consulting assignments such go-to-market strategy, strengthening IT actors’ indirect channels for reaching end-users.

After working a.o. as a Business Analyst with Gartner, Stefanie Naujoks joined the Munich team in January 2008 and is responsible for the manufacturing industry where she covers process manufacturing as well as automotive & discrete manufacturing.