CGI, one of the world’s largest independent technology and business consulting services firms, announced it has achieved Elite Partner status with both Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, and ServiceNow, the AI platform for business transformation. CGI has also been recognized as a Diamond Partner with UiPath, a global leader in agentic automation, the highest tier in the UiPath partner program. These achievements place CGI among the leading partners in each program, underscoring the company’s Global Alliances strategy and capabilities. ServiceNow and Snowflake Elite Partner statuses reflect the company’s extensive certified expertise, strong client references, and proven success in delivering industry-focused outcomes globally on the respective platforms. CGI is also named as a Snowflake Industry-Certified Provider for the public sector and automotive industries. “Attaining Elite Partner status with Snowflake and ServiceNow demonstrates CGI’s commitment to helping clients achieve AI-driven business outcomes that enhance operational efficiency, visibility, and decision-making,” said Vijay Srinivasan, President, U.S. Commercial & State

Graphisoft, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) software solution developer for architecture and multidisciplinary design, announced that its 2025 conversion terms will be extended until March 31, 2026. Other key dates in its multi-year subscription transition program, such as the availability of Archicad perpetual licenses, remain unchanged. Graphisoft also clarified its intentions regarding developing long-term conversion subscription pricing. As announced in April 2024 and further detailed in September 2024, existing customers holding Archicad perpetual license(s) can purchase additional Archicad perpetual and SSA/FWD licenses and upgrade earlier versions of Archicad through December 31, 2025. Customers are encouraged to contact their local Archicad provider for end-of-sale perpetual purchase options. Graphisoft has now extended the terms of the 2025 subscription conversion program conditions until March 31, 2026. Customers with SSA/Forward contract terms in Q1 2026 can also choose to renew their contracts for one last cycle (subject to local terms and conditions). “We understand that price stability and long-term predictability

Qualtrics, the leader and creator of the experience management category, announced the company is accelerating AI investments with a series of senior appointments that will enable businesses to drive greater and faster returns on their investments in Qualtrics’ purpose-built AI capabilities. Mark Hammond joins as SVP, Core AI, and Jeff Gelfuso is promoted to SVP, Chief Product Experience Officer. The moves come as adoption of Qualtrics’ specialized AI capabilities for experience management accelerates and delivers measurable performance and value. More than a third of customers—including adidas, Stanford Health Care, Autodesk, Dollar Shave Club, and Stripe—have upgraded to Qualtrics AI innovations, including Qualtrics Conversational Feedback and Experience Agents™; 90% of the company's top 50 customers use at least one AI capability; and the company's purpose-built synthetic model Qualtrics Edge Audiences™ produces results nearly identical to human responses, outperforming generic LLMs. "Early AI innovations focused only on efficiency, but we're moving beyond that to AI that

Centric Software® is thrilled to introduce new innovations with the launch of its AI-powered end-to-end price management capabilities, empowering brands and retailers to optimize pricing strategies, protect margins and stay competitive amid rising tariffs, cost pressures and market volatility. Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization. Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Price management from Centric Software is a complete, end-to-end pricing workflow—spanning pre-season initial price setting, in-season adjustments and promotions and end-of-season markdown optimization—all within one connected platform. It empowers brands and retailers to centralize pricing strategies and streamline cross-functional collaboration, ensuring consistent execution across regions, channels and product hierarchies. The result is increased operational efficiency, accelerated pricing decisions and

OpenText™, a global leader in secure information management for AI, announced that its OpenText Core Content Management for SAP solutions is officially certified for SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition. This certification makes OpenText an SAP Solution Extensions partner with a document management platform qualified to support SAP Cloud ERP, offering customers a new level of cloud-first control, compliance, and agility to accelerate work and scale transformation. As enterprises across industries modernize their business processes with SAP Cloud ERP, content management has become a critical success factor. To unlock real business value from AI, organizations must connect structured data with unstructured content in governed, intelligent ways. SAP’s structured process expertise, combined with OpenText’s leadership in intelligent content management, provides a unified foundation that reduces complexity, embeds compliance by design, and ensures every decision is backed by trusted, AI-ready information. “SAP and OpenText are a catalyst for high-performance in the cloud ERP era,” said Darryl

Cyncly, the world’s leading global provider of software and content solutions that help make amazing spaces for living, is proud to announce that Italian furniture manufacturer Archeda has launched a new online product configurator powered by 3CAD Next, Cyncly’s advanced 3D visualization and configuration platform. Built on Cyncly’s 3CAD Next technology, the configurator enables showroom consultants to configure furniture with the customer in real time, on any device. Users can visualize Archeda’s product range in real time, experiment with finishes and compositions, and generate accurate bathroom design and pricing outputs — all within a unified, intuitive, cloud-based interface. “3CAD Next is designed to help manufacturers provide the best possible experience for customers shopping for configurable products,” said Andrea Gnoato, General Manager of Cyncly Kitchen, Bath and Furniture Manufacturing Solutions. “For our manufacturing partners, this turns a website into a virtual showroom, enabling them to showcase endless layout and finish variations. The immersive

Centric Software® is pleased to announce that Shanghai Bolex Food Technology Co., Ltd. has selected Centric PLM™ to drive R&D agility, streamline product development and bring innovations to shelf faster. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to design, develop, formulate, source, comply, buy, make, package, market and sell consumer goods products in food & beverage, grocery and multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Since 2001, Bolex has specialized in developing and manufacturing food seasonings, compound flavorings, light cooking solutions and beverage dessert ingredients. The Chinese food & beverage manufacturer’s strong R&D capabilities drive a steady pipeline of tailored products for major restaurant chains including KFC, Pizza Hut, McDonald’s, Burger King, Domino’s, as well as global food producers like Tyson China and Cargill. Alongside its B2B partnerships, Bolex owns consumer brands Baolikezi and Kongke and is guided by a mission to enhance quality of life through service

Centric Software® is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, Stio, a leading outdoor lifestyle and technical apparel brand located in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care products as well as multi-category retail, to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Stio was founded in 2011 to inspire connection with the outdoors through beautiful, functional products infused with mountain soul. Headquartered at the base of the Grand Teton mountain range, Stio’s collection of men’s, women’s and children’s apparel and gear can be found online and at one of its 13 owned retail stores or select distributors. Technical performance, quality and versatility are hallmarks of its products and sustainability is at the heart of the Stio brand promise. Faced with the challenges

As a leading service provider, Zeltwanger Maschinenbau GmbH specializes in complex high-quality component machining from the semiconductor, automotive, medical technology and micro-automation sectors. Utilizing CAD/CAM technologies hyperMILL® MAXX Machining, hyperMILL® TURNING Solutions and hyperMILL® VIRTUAL Machining, the company exploits the full potential of OPEN MIND software and also acts as a beta tester. Zeltwanger's customers are demanding. For a company in the semiconductor industry that specializes in laser technology, the contract manufacturer supplies various components that all require the highest precision - from pin-sized stainless-steel parts to 250 kg workpieces machined from three-ton aluminum blocks. “µm tolerances are the order of the day for us,” says Wolfgang Pfeiffer, Head of CAM Programming at Zeltwanger Maschinenbau. “As the batch sizes range from one to series runs of around 500 units, we have to generate between 20 and 60 executable, reliable NC programs each week. To handle this workload, we program in two shifts and need CAM

We officially announce the 1st Hot Fix of 2025.1 for ANSA, EPILYSIS, META, KOMVOS, SPDRM, ANSERS, FATIQ and RETOMO with critical bug fixes and selected implementations. Known issues resolved in ANSA CAD Import / Export ANSA would cease operating during the input of STEP files, output by Polyworks. GUI Unexpected termination would occur, when the Presentation Parameters toolbar - docked at the Bottom Area - was expanded to display “Draw Shell as Solid” option. Database Browser ANSA would cease operating after drag ‘n’ drop of non-empty Sets/Includes from a list in “Tree View” mode onto other models inside the Models window. Geometry Software abortion would occur, when using the API functions base.PlaneCut() & base.FacesPlaneCut() with the argument entities='all'. Shell Meshing Applying the Fix Quality on 2nd order solid elements could lead to an abnormal termination of ANSA. Also, in case CONS were not aligned, ANSA would terminate upon hovering on CONS, when trying to select Source CONS. Volume Meshing Focusing on Volume Mesh/ Octree,