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Donnerstag, September 18, 2025

UiPath Goes Live with SAP Cloud ERP Private

SAP SE announced that UiPath Inc., a global leader in agentic automation, has successfully gone live with an SAP Cloud ERP Private solution as part of its strategic digital transformation initiative. The company achieved 93% clean core in solution design and 88% clean core across the overall implementation, advancing its goals to modernize ERP, a component of its ongoing journey toward operational excellence. As part of UiPath’s growth strategy, the company targeted ERP as a critical area of transformation, taking an automation-first approach to streamline and standardize its operations. As a global company, UiPath needs to comply with multi-GAAP reporting across different geographies. By moving to the cloud, UiPath is now able to connect fragmented systems, cut time and resources spent on billing cycles, and simplify complex multi-GAAP reporting processes—including order to cash, lead to cash, finance, procurement and human resources. “Our transformation efforts are centered around two key goals—how can we leverage automation to
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At Autodesk University, award-winning software maker and AI pioneer Chaos announces a host of new AI-powered tools designed to enhance creativity and enable architects, designers and visualization specialists to work faster and smarter. Leading the launch is Veras 3.0’s new image-to-video generator, an AI-powered visualization tool that transforms static renderings into dynamic animations through simple prompts, adding motion, atmosphere and storytelling directly within everyday design workflows. “As AI continues to transform the AEC industry, Chaos is paving the way with responsible AI tools designed to serve as creative companions for architects, designers and visualization artists, while ensuring that they retain control and ownership of their work,” said Iveta Cabajova, recently appointed Chaos CEO. “We’re leveraging AI to help AEC professionals address everyday design challenges, amplify their capabilities, boost efficiency and unlock new ways to explore and create faster than ever before.” Unlike general-purpose AI video tools, the Veras image-to-video generator is designed specifically for AEC workflows, integrating natively with Revit,
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EarthCam, the leader in live camera technology, content and services, announced its ninth-generation integration with Autodesk Construction Cloud®. Unveiled during Autodesk University 2025, the updated integration is EarthCam’s most comprehensive to date, designed to deliver intelligent visual data and automation that enhances safety, compliance, and productivity for project teams using Autodesk Build and Autodesk Docs. This milestone builds on years of partnership between EarthCam and Autodesk, aligning with the shared goal of connected construction. With the launch of Control Center 9, EarthCam brings together live imagery, 3D model alignment, and AI-powered analytics in a deeply embedded experience within Autodesk’s platform. Project managers, VDC teams, and safety professionals now have unprecedented access to real-time, searchable visual data, ensuring that critical insights are always within reach. A key enhancement of this ninth-generation release is universal EarthCam 3D model alignment, which makes EarthCam’s “camera-infused” BIM model views available to all Autodesk-focused projects, regardless of scale. Compatible with every
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Elysium, a global leader in interoperability solutions, proudly announces the release of 3D-SUITE EX11.0, a major upgrade that strengthens foundational model-based capabilities and introduces key innovations across the 3D engineering workflow. In this release, the product name has also been updated from “3DxSUITE” to “3D-SUITE”. The change aligns the written form with the way the name is actually pronounced, making it more intuitive and approachable for global users. This update reflects Elysium’s commitment to accessibility, clarity, and user adoption worldwide. Enhanced PMI Handling — The Lifeblood of the Model-Based Enterprise Product Manufacturing Information (PMI) is central to enabling a connected MBE. However, PMI only provides value when accurate, complete, and compliant with standards. EX11.0 introduces new and enhanced functions to elevate PMI quality, traceability, and usability. PMI Checker — Raising the Standard for Model-Based Definition Accuracy The headline enhancement of EX11.0 is the introduction of PMI Checker, a powerful new automated validation tool that brings unprecedented reliability
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Emerson, an industrial technology leader delivering advanced automation solutions, announced the availability of AspenTech Subsurface Intelligence™ (ASI), an open, cloud-native agentic environment that incorporates AI to transform the user experience and accelerate subsurface-related decision making while leveraging existing investments in legacy applications. ASI’s AI-powered guidance capabilities and library of domain-specific agents operate with the industry-standard OSDU® Data Platform to automate workflows and develop insights that improve the speed from data to results and decisions. ASI fulfills a critical industry need to work in an agile, multi-disciplinary manner, optimize production and improve access to information trapped throughout various parts of the organization. “Silos between disciplines, software and geographies are impacting the upstream industry’s ability to make fast, effective decisions about how to maximize returns for subsurface projects,” said Dr. Vikas Dhole, senior vice president of modeling and optimization at Emerson’s Aspen Technology business. “ASI is transforming subsurface workflows by improving multi-disciplinary collaboration across the hydrocarbon extraction project
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Jama Software, the industry-leading requirements management and traceability solution provider, announced that Jama Connect, and its add-ons, Jama Connect Interchange™, and Jama Connect Advisor™ are now available in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Designed for teams that value precision and collaboration, Jama Connect enables you to gather, manage, and validate requirements with unmatched efficiency. By fostering clear communication and providing real-time traceability across tools and teams, this software empowers businesses to reduce risks, improve quality, and accelerate time to market. AWS customers will now have access to Jama Software’s suite of requirements management and traceability tools directly within AWS Marketplace. AWS customers now have the ability to streamline the purchase and management of Jama Connect, Jama Connect Interchange, and Jama Connect Advisor within their AWS Marketplace account. “Jama Software’s partnership
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MOCA Systems, Inc. (MSI), provider of Touchplan, the leading construction planning software platform, announced the upcoming release of Precision Time Planning, a new capability that gives contractors the flexibility to plan, sequence, and coordinate work with time intervals of weeks, days, hours, or minutes, and to organize shift work as needed. This new capability will be on display for the first time at the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA) Show taking place September 12–15 at McCormick Place in Chicago. Touchplan is exhibiting at Booth #1615. “The volatility, complexity, and urgency of today’s construction environment demands accurate and flexible digital workforce planning” said Brett Adamczyk, President of the Software Division at MSI “Touchplan’s Precision Time Planning delivers that capability by enabling teams to schedule work down to the minute, manage crews across shifts, and plan at the right level of detail, all while preserving the platform’s signature ease of use.” Empowering Crews and Trade Partners With Precision
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OpenBOM, a leading provider of cloud-native PDM and PLM software, announced the private beta release of its AI BOM Agent with MCP (Model Context Protocol) support. This milestone advances OpenBOM’s mission to deliver intelligence, connectivity, and automation for engineers and manufacturers. OpenBOM AI Vision OpenBOM is building a new generation of intelligent, invisible engineering workflows. Instead of forcing engineers to change how they work, OpenBOM introduces AI agents that understand existing tools, files, and data formats. These agents connect to multiple data sources, structure information, automate routine tasks, and enable conversational access to product data. This vision is anchored in the concept of product memory—a persistent, connected knowledge model that spans design, engineering, manufacturing, and procurement. With MCP support, OpenBOM agents can ingest, structure, and link data into the digital thread, enabling reasoning, plain-language queries, and smarter decision-making. Looking ahead, OpenBOM sees AI agents playing a vital role in BOM quality and validation—helping companies
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Trimble® announced the availability of the 2025i version of Tekla® PowerFab®, a comprehensive software suite for managing steel fabrication. The new version offers improved production planning and forecasting, as well as a new integration with Trimble ProjectSight® software to help optimize construction project management workflows. Tekla PowerFab now also offers an improved integration with Trimble Viewpoint® VistaTM construction financial management software for real-time and highly-accurate job cost tracking.  These updates support the Trimble Connect & Scale strategy by enabling an interconnected ecosystem of industry solutions. Enhanced Production Planning, Scheduling and Forecasting  The new production planner functionality in the 2025i version of Tekla PowerFab builds on the improvements introduced in March of 2025 and incorporates additional features. Users can now plan fabrication with a higher degree of accuracy thanks to the new capability to split the execution of work packages across multiple weeks and locations. Additionally, longer-term forecasting is now possible with the addition of future work packages. This allows
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Essential Education to Navigate Complexity and Drive Digital Transformation with Measurable Business Impact Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 18 September 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and its digital transformation, announces the offering of its industry-standard PLM Certificate Program in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, from December 8-12, 2025. This unique program equips PLM professionals with the knowledge and skills to address common challenges in PLM strategy formulation and implementation. It is assessment-based and provides a personalized classroom experience, including individual and team exercises, as well as thorough achievement evaluations. CIMdata experts with decades of practical experience guide participants through the program collaboratively. Upon completing the program and assessments, participants will earn a Certificate of PLM Leadership. CIMdata’s Edge in PLM Education With over forty years of industry leadership, CIMdata has a proven record of guiding industrial companies in developing and executing top-tier PLM strategies and
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