AVEVA announced additional speaker, sponsor and agenda details for this year’s AVEVA World Summit. The global event is being held in Berlin, Germany, from 14-16 October. AVEVA customers from across the world’s process, plant, power and marine industries are invited to the Summit to share their experiences and business challenges. Industry giants AMEC and RasGas will open the customer presentations, describing how AVEVA technologies are enabling them to lead the way in the creation and management of complex digital assets.  These will be followed by 16 additional case study presentations from leading EPCs, OOs and shipbuilders, including Jacobs, Worley Parsons, Foster Wheeler, Toyo, AREVA, ADMA OPCO, Atkins, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering and Namura.  Customer speakers will share real-life scenarios that cover a wide variety of projects and asset operations from around the world. A key theme of the event is advances in visualisation technology and how these are changing the way

Accenture will host a live audiocast of its Investor & Analyst Conference on Tuesday, Oct. 7 in New York City. The audiocast will feature remarks by Chairman and CEO Pierre Nanterme, Chief Financial Officer David Rowland and other members of the executive leadership team, and will include a review of Accenture’s fiscal 2014 performance and fiscal 2015 business outlook, which were discussed on the company’s recent fourth-quarter fiscal year 2014 earnings conference call.  The conference will begin at approximately 8:30 a.m. EDT and will run until approximately 12 noon EDT. Accenture invites investors to listen to the live audiocast and to view slides from the event via the Investor Relations section of the Accenture website at www.accenture.com. A replay of the audiocast and slides will be available on the company's website later in the day.

Simpleware are pleased to announce the appointment of Theo Verbruggen as Director of Global Sales, where he will be responsible for providing leadership for the overall strategy of the company's commercial activities. He will be reporting directly to Simpleware Managing Director and CEO Dr. Philippe Young. Verbruggen comes to Simpleware from twelve years at Dassault Systèmes, where he most recently acted as Director of Technical Sales for Simulia Benelux and GEO Leader for Dassault Systèmes Benelux. At Dassault Systèmes, Verbruggen was responsible for leading the company's Benelux operations, including the SIMULIA Benelux Centre of Simulation Excellence. He managed sales of Simulia software products, the sale of engineering consulting and training services, and customer advocacy. He has over twenty years of B2B sales and marketing experience, and is an expert in developing business solutions for software. Dr. Philippe Young commented on the appointment: "I am very pleased that Theo has joined our team. This

GRAITEC Romania expands its distribution network in Bulgaria by signing a strategic partnership with KANISCO Ltd, one of the most acknowledged Autodesk resellers in the region. KANISCO will promote, distribute and provide technical support for all software products distributed by GRAITEC, such as GRAITEC Advance Design, Autodesk Advance Steel or Autodesk Advance Concrete. Established in 1991, KANISCO is one of the most acknowledged partners and distributors of Autodesk software, providing software solutions and services for the CAD / AEC / GIS / CAM / FEM field. For further details, visit their official website. By signing this partnership, they aim to expand their market share in the region by creating a network of distributors, through which they will be able to sell software directly and, at the same time, to be closer to customers and provide full support in localizing their products. The common objective of GRAITEC and KANISCO is to provide their customers with integrated advanced solutions, designed to increase

Autodesk, Inc. announced R. Scott Herren will join the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer, effective November 1, 2014. Herren, who is currently serving as senior vice president of finance at Citrix, will bring 30 years of financial, strategic and operational experience to Autodesk. He will be based in San Francisco and report to Autodesk President and Chief Executive Officer Carl Bass. “I am excited Scott has agreed to join Autodesk and look forward to having him on the team,” said Bass. “Scott’s broad mix of financial, sales and product management experience will be a fantastic addition to Autodesk. His leadership at Citrix, which like us, is tapping into cloud and mobile computing to help customers work better, will benefit Autodesk in our transition to a more recurring, subscription-based business model over the coming years.” Herren has spent the past 14 years at Citrix, a leader in mobile workspaces, virtualization,

AKKA Technologies and Dassault Systèmes, two international companies that are pioneers and trailblazers in their respective markets, today announced a long-term partnership aimed at promoting innovation in the self-driving connected vehicle market. Aware that two leading organizations together, such as AKKA and Dassault Systèmes, can be a powerful driver for industry innovation and growth, Maurice Ricci, CEO of the AKKA Technologies Group and Bernard Charlès, President and CEO of Dassault Systèmes, have decided to join together to address the challenges of the quickly advancing connected mobility market. With this partnership, AKKA and Dassault Systèmes will offer high-end engineering services and solutions to help the global automotive industry. The topic of driverless and connected vehicles is critical and one of the 34 projects of the “New Face of the Industry” promoted by the French government. Both companies share the same drive to answer the market’s demand for ever more connectivity, the challenge of

Infosys, a global leader in consulting, technology and outsourcing solutions, announced the launch of the Infosys Transaction Reconciliation Solution (ITRS). ITRS is a unified solution that helps banks automate and centralize their reconciliation across multiple channels, reduces costs by offering simple, easy-to-use tool for bank employees to perform reconciliation tasks and functions. With automation and optimization, the solution helps reduce the need for manual interaction and increases performance through auto-matching & straight through processing. In a dynamically changing regulatory environment, with acts such as Dodd Frank, EMIR and Basel III, the need for a simple solution to meet changing reconciliation and reporting needs is accelerating. With global spend on reconciliation expected to reach $1.27 billion by 20171, banks are increasingly looking for automated solutions. A unified reconciliation solution such as ITRS helps banks efficiently while meeting the regulatory needs. Solution highlights: Easy to operate and supports 14 different types of data-feed formats including

Delcam has launched the 2015 version of its Delcam for SolidWorks integrated CAM system.  The new release includes a range of enhancements in three-axis milling, drilling, turning and wire EDM to make the software even more valuable to SolidWorks users that need to manufacture their designs.  Programming of three-axis toolpaths for complex parts has been made easier and more reliable in Delcam for SolidWorks 2015 with the addition of automatic collision checking of the tool shank and holder, as well as the cutter, for both roughing and finishing operations.  If a gouge is detected the toolpath can be recalculated with any segments that will cause a gouge clipped away. Removing these segments of the toolpath leaves an area of unmachined stock that will need to be removed with a longer tool.  This extra toolpath is able to be calculated using a stock model of material remaining after the shorter tool has been

Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2 October 2014—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the successful start of its PLM Road Map™ 2014 conference in Plymouth, Michigan. The theme of the conference is PLM-enabled Continuous Product Development and Delivery for the Automotive & Transportation Industry and Supply Chain. 142 people, from a variety of industries, attended the event. Sponsorships sold out. Driven by comments from speakers at previous PLM Road Map events concerned with the large number of gray-haired attendees, CIMdata initiated a program to encourage young engineers to attend. The “You give them the Time, we give them the Ticket™” program was highly successful and popular with the industrial companies in attendance. The format of this year’s PLM Road Map was a series of presentations by industrial PLM users interleaved with short vignettes about topics of interest presented by the sponsors. Highlights of this year’s event are the keynote

 PDF Key takeaways: Wipro held their 2014 Analyst and Advisor Day in Boston, MA, an event bringing together over 200 Wipro staff and key influencers from across a range of industries TK Kurien, Wipro’s CEO, updated the crowd on the big changes afoot in IT that lead to changes in his business Leading customers are facing those same trends; using Wipro for some IT services allows them to focus on delivering applications that provide differentiating value Wipro Ltd (NYSE:WIT) held their 2014 Analyst and Advisor Day in Boston, MA on September 24, 2014. The event drew analysts from a range of firms covering the wide variety of industry segments that Wipro supports. Wipro is a global information technology, consulting, and outsourcing company with over 147,000 employees serving clients in 175+ cities across 6 continents. The company posted revenues of $7.3 billion for the financial year ended March 31, 2014. Their PLM business fits within their