James Iversen
Industry Analyst
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Topics Covered
Industrial & Manufacturing Technologies
Insights
Can Manufacturing Software Providers Keep the Ship from Sinking Under U.S. Tariffs?
Insight | 2Q 2025 | IN-7801
Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE World 2025: The Groundwork Is Laid, but the House Needs to Be Built
Insight | 1Q 2025 | IN-7749
Acquisitions of AI Vendors Bolstering Supply Chain Functionality in the PLM Market Is the New Norm
Insight | 1Q 2025 | IN-7698
Agentic AI Is Coming to Manufacturers but Not in 2025
Insight | 1Q 2025 | IN-7689
Seeq AI Assistant and Seeq Vantage Reveal Bold Innovational Steps into New Markets and Technologies
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7449
Customer Centric Development Dictates Siemens’ Current and Future Generative AI Roadmap
Insight | 3Q 2024 | IN-7377
The 2024 Dassault Systèmes Analyst Event Highlighted Strong Financial Growth, Despite an Uncertain Future
Insight | 2Q 2024 | IN-7375
SME Manufacturers Are Purchasing PLM Solutions at Increasing Rates Due to Vendors Lowering the Barrier to Adopt
Insight | 2Q 2024 | IN-7222
NVIDIA Will Corner the Industrial Software Market With New GPU Architecture and API Offerings
Insight | 2Q 2024 | IN-7309
Inefficiencies in Formula 1 Expose the Importance of Adopting Comprehensive PLM Solutions for SMEs
Insight | 2Q 2024 | IN-7284
Altair HyperWorks 2023: Answering the Call of Large-Scale Manufacturers to Bolster Market Share
Insight | 4Q 2023 | IN-7133
Generative AI Installed in the Cloud Yields Advantages That Edge Deployment Cannot Provide for Manufacturers
Insight | 3Q 2023 | IN-7021
Microsoft 1Q 2023: Moving All-in on Cloud-Based Manufacturing Software
Insight | 2Q 2023 | IN-6943
AWS Industrial Data Fabric: Ins and Outs of the New Offering from the Hannover Messe Trade Fair
Insight | 2Q 2023 | IN-6924
Research
Up-and-Comers: Data Analytics for OEE
Competitive Ranking | 1Q 2025 | CA-1548
Manufacturing Data Analytics: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE)
Market Data | 4Q 2024 | MD-OEE-24
Manufacturing Data Analytics Market Trends: Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Market Data Overview: 4Q 2024
Presentation | 4Q 2024 | PT-3340
Manufacturing Data Analytics for OEE Improvements
Report | 4Q 2024 | AN-6270
Factory Simulation Software
Market Data | 3Q 2024 | MD-FSIM-24
Product Simulation Software
Market Data | 3Q 2024 | MD-PSIM-24
Product Simulation Software Market Data Overview 3Q 2024
Presentation | 3Q 2024 | PT-2908
Factory Simulation Software Market Data Overview: 3Q 2024
Presentation | 3Q 2024 | PT-3300
Generative AI Solutions for Discrete Manufacturing
Presentation | 2Q 2024 | PT-3233
Generative AI Use Cases from Hannover Messe 2024
Presentation | 2Q 2024 | PT-2911
PLM for Large Manufacturers
Competitive Ranking | 1Q 2024 | CA-1403
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software
Market Data | 1Q 2024 | MD-PLM-102
Industrial Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software Market Data Overview: 1Q 2024
Presentation | 1Q 2024 | PT-3135
How to Target Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) Manufacturers: Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions
Report | 1Q 2024 | AN-5888
Configuration versus Custom PLM Solutions: OOTB PLM Solutions are Not the Path Forward for Manufacturers
Presentation | 1Q 2024 | PT-2881
Product Design Software Market: On-Premises and SaaS
Market Data | 4Q 2023 | MD-PD-22
MCAD SaaS for Large Enterprises & Manufacturing at Scale
Competitive Ranking | 4Q 2023 | CA-1391
Digital Transformation in Product Design and Engineering Innovation
Report | 4Q 2023 | AN-5741
Generative AI Use Cases in Manufacturing
Presentation | 3Q 2023 | PT-2763
The Industrial Cloud: Data, Applications, and the Horsepower for the Modern Industrial Factory
Report | 3Q 2023 | AN-5742
James Iversen In The News
Inside the world of Gen AI and copilots in manufacturing
Design Engineering (2024-09-10)
According to a recent report from ABI Research, the added revenue from Gen AI use cases in manufacturing will be US$10.5 billion by 2034. As well, ABI found that the overall sentiment toward deploying Gen AI solutions in manufacturing is to take a slow-and-steady approach. To achieve this goal of...
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PLM FOR LARGE MANUFACTURERS: PTC and Siemens Top Rated by Analyst – Dassault Finished Third
PLM & ERP News (2024-05-23)
”Overall, the PLM software market is a well-defined ecosystem with clear industry leaders for both process and discrete manufacturing industries. PLM vendors are benefiting from the emerging trends of SaaS deployment along with low or no code customization, enabling more fluid and personalized...
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How Generative AI Could Revolutionize Manufacturing
Manufacturing.net (2023-12-19)
Generative AI is everywhere and it is predicted that the technology will boost industry revenues by enabling faster, more precise innovation, as well as automating processes. ABI Research predicts that generative AI will unlock $10.5 billion in new revenues for the manufacturing industry by 2033....
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Manufacturers are waking up to data as a resource
Future CIO (2023-08-23)
ABI Research forecasts that total industrial cloud platform revenue in manufacturing will surpass US$300 billion by 2033 with a CAGR of 22.57%, driven by solution providers enhancing platform operability while expanding partner ecosystems for application development. ABI attributes the growth in...
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Growth forecast for industrial cloud platforms
Control Engineering Europe (2023-08-22)
“Historically, manufacturers have built out their infrastructure to include expensive data housing in the form of on-premises servers,” explained James Iversen, Industrial & Manufacturing Technologies Industry Analyst at ABI Research. “The large initial upfront cost of purchasing, setting up, and...
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