Cyon Research White Paper Clarifies the MCAE Market for Customers, Vendors

Bethesda, MD July 9, 2008 – Cyon Research Corporation, a leading provider of analysis and consulting for engineering technology markets, announced the release of its new white paper titled Classes of MCAE Software: Clarifying the market.

“This is the first comprehensive view of the MCAE market,” said Joe Walsh, VP Business Development, Simmetrix. “The Cyon Research white paper reveals the dynamics of this important engineering software segment in entirely new ways.”

According to the white paper, MCAE (Mechanical Computer-Aided Engineering) products are at an upward inflection point in both capability and revenue-generating growth for both developers and customers. With rapid improvement of the products, previous market segmentations are no longer valid, and need to be redefined for better understanding of the roles, values and abilities that MCAE supports.

To address these issues, this paper clarifies what classes of MCAE software already exist, and delivers a better understanding of the challenges that face the developers and customers of this software.

Already at an estimated $2 billion, the MCAE software market is, according to Cyon Research, often misunderstood, with ‘substantial variances in the ways the market is viewed by different vendors, consultants and customers.’ In response, Cyon Research has applied its process for defining both ‘mainstream’ and ‘specialized’ demands and products in the market as a way of better understanding what role specific MCAE products fulfill.

"Cyon Research's methodology used in this paper is a great way to define what role specific MCAE applications fulfill, and what a user needs to do to implement such tools in their operation," said Andrew Anagnost, Vice President of Manufacturing CAD/CAE Products, Autodesk. "New solver technologies, modern software design methods, intelligent systems, and raw desktop computing power are making simulation results consistently reliable for a broad class of problems without complex set up or specialized knowledge."

“The MCAE market is still nascent compared to what it will be able to do in the future,” said Rainer Gawlick, VP, Worldwide Marketing and Strategy, SolidWorks Corporation. “Attention should now be paid to this critical element of engineering so that developers and customers alike can understand what they need—and what they can afford.”

The white paper, Classes of MCAE Software: Clarifying the market is available at no charge at cyonresearch.com/whitepapers.

About Cyon Research

Cyon Research Corporation is a provider of analysis and consulting for engineering technology markets worldwide. COFES: The Congress on the Future of Engineering Software is Cyon Research’s primary event, and is the engineering software industry’s only annual think-tank gathering, bringing executives from design, engineering, architectural, development, and technology companies together to understand the role engineering technology will play in the future survival and success of your business.

Cyon Research is a trademark of Cyon Research Corporation.

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