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Agility Group, a leader in engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning solutions for the offshore oil and gas industry, has renewed its Global Alliance Agreement (GAA) for three years to use Intergraph® SmartPlant® Enterprise as a key design and information management solution. The company seeks to position itself as the go-to provider of engineering solutions in the increasingly competitive international marketplace by expanding the use of Intergraph Smart solutions in all its projects worldwide. Agility Group found in Intergraph Smart solutions the technology capable of ensuring efficient and integrated data management, improved design capability and standardized change management across various locations. The company sought more reliable and optimized project and life-cycle material management and centralized information point access. The Intergraph SmartPlant Enterprise portfolio utilized by Agility Group includes Intergraph Smart™ 3D, SmartPlant Foundation, SmartPlant P&ID, SmartPlant Materials and SmartPlant Reference Data. This portfolio ensures Agility Group’s position as the preferred engineering, procurement,

SAP AG announced that its Annual Report is now available and that SAP’s Annual Report on Form 20-F has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the year ended December 31, 2013. The report can be accessed via SAP’s Web site at www.sap.com/investor and www.sap.de/investor. Hardcopies of both of the SAP Annual Report and its Annual Report on Form 20-F can be ordered free of charge: (i) online at www.sap.com/investor and www.sap.de/investor,  (ii) via phone +49 6227 7-67336, or (iii) by sending an e-mail to  \n Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein! . In the reports, SAP reaffirmed its previously published (January 21, 2014) business outlook. While the Company’s 2014 business outlook disclosed in SAP’s Annual Report and Annual Report on Form 20-F is at constant currency, actual currency reported figures are expected to continue to be negatively impacted by currency exchange rate fluctuations. SAP has disclosed, in

Nemetschek Scia will introduce Scia Design Forms, a new Open Design technology that allows Structural and Civil Engineers to centralize their engineering design tasks into one integrated workflow, at Structures Congress 2014 in Boston, Mass., which will take place April 2-4. Scia Design Forms allows civil and structural engineers to easily write their own checks and engineering calculations, which can then be linked to Scia Engineer, the company’s FEA (finite element analysis) software. With Scia Design Forms, engineering firms can:  Centralize design tasks into one integrated workflow, so there are fewer disparate analysis models that need to be manually coordinated. See exactly what formulas and methods are being used for a check, so designs are completely transparent, eliminating the “black box” aspect of current engineering design software. Easily modify code checks. Checks written with Scia Design Forms are open and can be easily edited. Remove the dependency on any one software vendor. With Scia Design Forms,

Infor announced that registration is officially open for its annual user conference, Inforum 2014, which will take place at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La., September 15-18. More than 7,000 Infor customers, partners, employees, and industry experts will come together to demonstrate how Infor's purpose-built applications and latest innovations, including Infor 10x, Infor Ming.le™, and Infor ION, are transforming the way people work. Inforum 2014 allows attendees to customize their conference experience with education sessions and tracks tailored for 12 specific industries and 22 different products. The four- day event provides an opportunity to test-drive the latest product releases, hear customer success stories and learn about Infor's technology vision for the future. "At Inforum 2014 we plan to demonstrate how Infor's beautiful, innovative applications are helping organizations to work faster and smarter," said Stephan Scholl, president of Infor. "This year's event is designed to deliver an inside look at what's next for

Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has been named as the Top Employer in Europe by the Top Employers Institute for the second consecutive year. TCS was ranked first among the 20 companies that were eligible for the award. The company was recognized as an exceptional performer across six core Human Resources (HR) areas: Primary conditions, secondary benefits, working conditions, training, career development and company culture. Only companies that have been certified as a Top Employer in at least five individual countries in Europe are eligible for the award. TCS was certified in eight separate markets in 2014, including the UK – where the company secured the certification for the fourth year in a row – and Belgium, Netherlands, Germany and Switzerland, where it was certified for the second consecutive year. This year also saw TCS certified in France, Sweden and Denmark for the first time. Ajoy Mukherjee, Executive Vice President and Global Head, Human Resources, TCS,

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LEDAS Ltd. and ASCON today jointly announced the successful integration of ASCON’s C3D kernel into LEDAS Geometry Comparison technology. This is the first third-party component to benefit from the C3D kernel; previously, third parties had only developed CAD/CAM software as applications on top of C3D. LEDAS develops computational components and provides R&D services for the CAD/CAM/PLM market, while ASCON is the leading Russian CAD/AEC/PLM vendor and developer of  KOMPAS-3D modeling software and C3D kernel software. LEDAS established its Geometry Comparison technology to check and locate all of the differences between similar-looking geometric models. These changes can come about through revisions made to a model; from files generated by different CAD systems of the same model; the result of polygon and canonic or NURBS representations of the same geometry; or through data generated by various steps in the processing of 3D geometry. Making comparisons between 3D geometry requires operations performed at the most basic

Altium Limited announces a third party developer partnership with Octopart, a well known provider of an electronic parts search engine used by hundreds of thousands of engineers to find and compare parts across different manufacturers and distributors. Around 70-80% of the life cycle cost for a new product is a direct result of decisions made during the design phase. This is because designers are creating a blueprint for everyone else to follow and is the reason why it is very important to have the right information to make prudent decisions early in the design process. Octopart aggregates and normalizes component data from a growing number of sources providing the most complete and easy-to-use component search for designers covering component search, selection and supply chain needs. "We're excited to find in Altium a partner that shares our vision of opening up electronic part data to the world," said Sam Wurzel, CEO of Octopart. "Finding

The Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of SAP AG recommend that shareholders approve a dividend of €1.00 per share for the fiscal year 2013 at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. This represents a year-over-year increase of €0.15, or 18% compared to last year’s dividend of €0.85. If the shareholders approve this recommendation, the total amount of dividends to be distributed will be approximately €1.2 billion (2012: €1.0 billion), representing a pay-out ratio of 36% (2012: 36%).  “We believe our shareholders should benefit from SAP’s continued profitable growth in 2013,” said Werner Brandt, CFO of SAP. “The pay-out ratio remains stable at 36% leading to a dividend increase by 18% which demonstrates SAP’s commitment to our shareholder base.” The Executive Board and the Supervisory Board also recommend that the shareholders approve the conversion of the legal form of the company into a European Company (Societas Europaea, SE). With the conversion into

The new release of WorkNC from Vero Software is being premiered at the Paris Industrie 2014 Exhibition. WorkNC V23 continues the development of finishing toolpaths, which was completely revised in the previous version. Nicolas Lepetit, CAD/CAM Development Manager says: “This development has continued by focusing on the precision and fluidity of cutter trajectories along with component finish quality of its Remachining toolpaths.” In addition, V23 optimises the machining environment by introducing a toolpath transition feature. This allows transitions between any toolpaths in the same project to be managed in WorkNC, giving the operator full control on the NC machine. Control is further enhanced by a new collision detection management module. Pre-CAM file processing is now five times faster, and memory requirements five times smaller. And for WorkNC CAD, modifications can now be made to the STL file during the preparation phase.  A number of finished products machined with WorkNC will be on display at