IFS, the leading technology provider of enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software, has announced the winners of its 2024 Partner of the Year Awards during the IFS 2025 Sales Kickoff in London. The awards recognize the outstanding contributions of IFS’s global partner community, acknowledging their critical role in driving innovation, growth, and success for customers across industries. Reflecting on the achievements of the past year, Max Roberts, Chief Operating Officer at IFS, shared: “This past year has been truly remarkable, marked by significant accomplishments, solid growth, and stronger relationships within our partner community. Thanks to the dedication and hard work of our partners, we’ve seen a 40% year-on-year increase in license revenue driven by partners and 34% growth in partner revenue in 2024 compared to the previous year. The commitment to innovation, excellence, and collaboration shown by our partners has been key to our success. Together, we are demonstrating the power of our partner-first strategy,

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting and business solutions, has inaugurated a new delivery center in Toulouse, France. In the new state-of-the-art facility, TCS will harness next-generation technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), generative AI, machine learning, and data analytics to help customers in aerospace and related industries such as manufacturing and defence. The delivery centre will facilitate AI-driven transformation and foster innovation to improve aircraft design, manufacturing, and maintenance processes for European clients. This includes enhancing fuel efficiency, developing advanced materials for lighter aircraft structures, and implementing predictive maintenance to minimize downtime, improve safety, and redefine the passenger experience of the future. This delivery centre is strategically located in Blagnac near Toulouse Airport to be closer to customers in the aerospace industry. This is TCS’ fourth delivery center in France after Lille, Poitiers, and Paris-Suresnes. Anupam Singhal, President - Manufacturing, TCS, said, “This new center embodies TCS' commitment to

EON Reality, the world leader in AI-assisted Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality-based knowledge transfer for industry and education, proudly announces EON TeachMentor™, a cutting-edge solution that amplifies teachers’ capabilities by extending their presence and providing immersive, round-the-clock learning experiences. This next-generation platform, detailed in the white paper “EON TeachMentor™: Empowering Educators Beyond the Classroom,” enables educators to digitally replicate their expertise and teaching style into an AI-powered avatar, ensuring students benefit from personalized mentorship anytime and anywhere. A Game-Changer for Educators WorldwideUnlike traditional e-learning tools, EON TeachMentor leverages extensive personal data, academic content, and video recordings to create a lifelike avatar mirroring each educator’s unique methodology, voice, and approach. By providing 24/7 availability, this AI mentor enhances face-to-face interactions by handling routine questions and on-demand practice sessions, freeing the human educator to focus on deeper, more personalized engagements with students who need them most. “Our mission is to support teachers in delivering high-quality instruction without time

MariaDB plc announced the general availability of MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2025, the latest major release of its enterprise database solution. With this release, MariaDB customers have a single, complete database solution that supports a full range of transactional, analytical, semi-structured and now, artificial intelligence (AI) applications. The MariaDB database has been downloaded over a billion times and is used extensively across both small and large organizations across the globe for endless use cases including banking, flight operations, 5G, prescription management and the public sector. By extending the MariaDB database with native open source vector search capabilities, organizations adopting MariaDB can leverage the same database solution and skill set to advance their AI initiatives. “MariaDB is known for its versatility, and that’s a core part of our focus for MariaDB Enterprise Platform 2025,” said Vikas Mathur, chief product officer, MariaDB plc. “Bringing vector search natively to the database server lets customers extend the

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced today the latest update to its Simcenter™ portfolio, delivering advancements in aerostructure analysis, electric motor design, gear optimization, and smart virtual sensing. These enhancements are designed to streamline workflows, accelerate certification, and provide deeper insights into system performance. “These updates empower engineers to meet the evolving challenges of electrification and advanced air mobility,” said Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, senior vice president, Simulation and Test Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “We’re delivering tools that drive innovation, improve efficiency and support a more sustainable and connected future. Our Simcenter portfolio is transforming engineering simulation.” Key updates and benefits: Integrated Aerostructure Analysis: Simcenter automates the creation of free-body diagrams and margin of safety (MoS) calculations, accelerating certification schedules by 20 percent. Engineers can now evaluate load paths across aircraft models and perform full-envelope MoS analysis without the need for costly in-house tools. Axial flux motor simulation: Simcenter enables faster design and simulation of compact, high-power-density motors.

The new VOLTA and modeFRONTIER 2025R1 release is now available. VOLTA redesigned Data Manager for a cleaner and more intuitive user experience, with new features that simplify data interaction. modeFRONTIER introduces a multi-fidelity modeling tool that integrates metamodels of varying complexity. Release highlights New multi-fidelity RSM tool in modeFRONTIER: bridge the gap between rapid computation and high accuracy The multi-fidelity response surface models (RSM) tool allows you to combine data from different sources, sizes, and fidelity into a single metamodel training. You can now create more accurate RSM by integrating knowledge extracted from high-fidelity simulations with low-fidelity data which are quick to generate but may lack precision. This approach minimizes computational costs by not relying on high-fidelity simulations exclusively, yet still benefit from their precision. Redesigned Data Manager in VOLTA The VOLTA Data Manager comes with a more intuitive and user-friendly interface. These enhancements not only improve the overall user experience but also establish a

alwaysAI, a leader in computer vision solutions, announces a strategic partnership with Blaize Holdings, Inc. ("Blaize"), a provider of purpose-built, artificial intelligence ("AI")-enabled edge computing solutions. This collaboration integrates alwaysAI's advanced computer vision technology and remote deployment capabilities with Blaize's cutting-edge chipsets and edge devices, making seamless edge deployments more accessible for enterprises worldwide. As businesses demand real-time insights and greater operational efficiency, the partnership addresses this need with innovative physical AI solutions. alwaysAI's computer vision applications excel in the real-time detection of people, objects, and events for diverse sectors like automotive, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, and more. Blaize's customers can now achieve unparalleled operational efficiency and productivity in real-time through this collaboration. Deploying computer vision applications at the edge provides enhanced security and data protection by processing data locally on Blaize's edge devices, mitigating data breach risks and safeguarding sensitive information. This localized processing accelerates decision-making, reduces latency, and delivers real-time insights

Doxel, an industry leader in AI-driven construction progress tracking, and MOCA Systems, Inc. (MSI), the provider of the leading production planning platform, Touchplan, are excited to announce a new partnership. This collaboration marks a significant step forward in Lean Construction, merging Doxel’s cutting-edge progress tracking technology with Touchplan’s proven production planning capabilities to enable an optimized construction workflow that bridges the gap between planning and execution. With construction project costs rising and schedules shrinking, forward-thinking owners and contractors alike look to advanced technologies to help ensure on-time, on-budget project completion. But they struggle to effectively integrate diverse, individual technologies into their project workflows. Doxel and Touchplan working together offer a powerful solution that helps construction teams achieve project deadlines with greater predictability, efficiency, and profitability. The Touchplan Lean planning platform enables easy, accurate sequencing and scheduling of all construction workflow tasks, enhancing trade coordination and eliminating waste on the jobsite, while Doxel’s

OpenSpace, a global leader in 360° reality capture and AI-powered analytics for the construction industry, is excited to announce that Kevin Halter has joined the company as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Kevin brings deep industry expertise, customer-centric leadership, and a proven track record of driving transformative growth in construction technology.  Kevin’s career spans over 15 years in ConTech, including key leadership roles at PlanGrid and Autodesk. As VP of Sales at PlanGrid, Kevin helped scale the company beyond $100 million in revenue, leading to its acquisition by Autodesk. At Autodesk, Kevin was instrumental in integrating acquired companies to form the Construction Division and launching the Autodesk Construction Cloud platform. Under his leadership, the Americas Sales team achieved significant growth, driving hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue by focusing the global enterprise, mid-market, and territory sales teams. Known for his ability to build collaborative, high-performing teams, Kevin combines strategic vision with hands-on leadership to

Join us at the 20th Life Cycle Management in NATO Conference and Exhibition, taking place 21–22 January 2025 at the Holiday Inn Brussels Airport. This milestone event, marking 20 years of NATO Life Cycle Management, is themed “Looking back, moving forward, facing new challenges.” Visit our booth Come by our booth to discover how Eurostep’s software and services—powered by our ShareAspace platform – enable secure, standards-based product data supply chain collaboration across defence projects. Our experts will share insights on PLM, ILS/IPS, and how to ensure access to the product data your business needs. Don’t miss our presentation On Wednesday, 22 January (09:30 – 10:00), attend our session: “How to Enable Product Definition Lifecycle Continuity in Collaborative Environments” by Mattias Larsson, Principal Consultant, Eurostep AB Simon Pettersson, Director Defence Industry, Eurostep AB In this briefing, Mattias and Simon will discuss: The impact of common product data representations throughout the lifecycle The importance of contracting and product data supply chain processes How assured product data will improve LCM