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Dassault Systèmes today reports IFRS unaudited financial results for the second quarter and first half ended June 30, 2014. These results were reviewed by the Company’s Board of Directors on July 23, 2014. Summary Highlights (unaudited) On an organic basis, second quarter non-IFRS new licenses and software revenue both up…

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the appointment of Mike Ellow as senior vice president, World Trade, effective August 1, 2014. He replaces Don Maulsby, who is retiring from this role. Ellow joined Mentor Graphics as part of the company's acquisition of Berkeley Design Automation, where he was vice president of Global Sales. Prior to that…

PTC  announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Axeda Corporation, a pioneer in the development of solutions to securely connect machines and sensors to the cloud, for approximately $170 million in cash. Axeda's technology innovation, extensive customer base, and powerful partnerships directly complement the PTC ThingWorx business, and will…

Dassault Systèmes today announced the signing of a definitive share purchase agreement for Dassault Systèmes to acquire Quintiq, a provider of on-premise and on-cloud supply chain and Operations Planning & Optimization software, for approximately €250 million. With 800 employees, Quintiq, whose offerings include production, logistics and workforce planning applications, is rated…

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced its next offering in the new Xpedition® platform, the Xpedition Data Management (xDM) product suite. The xDM Design product suite provides a flow-wide information hub that manages the PCB design data that is created, reused, imported, or released from the Mentor Graphics® Xpedition Enterprise platform.…

Aras® today announced that Singapore-based NuStar Technologies Pte Ltd, an engineering company with innovative solutions to challenging land and offshore engineering projects, has selected the Aras solution suite for both enterprise PLM and quality management. The breadth, depth and flexibility of the Aras Innovator® platform will enable NuStar to re-imagine…

Geometric Ltd. announced its first quarter financial results for FY 2014-2015 at the board meeting held today. Highlights for the quarter ended June 20, 2014 (Q1 FY15) The Company recorded operating revenues of USD 44.96 Mn, as against revenues of USD     44.29 Mn in the previous quarter, and USD 46.45…

EMC Corporation today announced that its second-quarter 2014 financial results and news release are available on the EMC Newsroom athttp://www.emc.com/q2-2014-earnings and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission website athttp://www.sec.gov/. EMC will discuss its second-quarter financial results and business outlook during a conference call and live webcast today at 8:30 a.m. ET. Webcast…

Mazda Motor Corporation has signed ProSTEP iViP’s Code of PLM Openness (CPO). In addition to Isuzu Motors, it is the third Japanese automobile manufacturer to sign the CPO within a week. Toyota’s participation has made one thing very clear: The drive toward increased openness in PLM is becoming stronger. Additional…

CNC Software, Inc., developers of Mastercam CAD/CAM software, is one of the two initial underwriters of Purdue University's MSTEM3 Grant Initiative. This grant is aimed at changing youngsters' perception of manufacturing through eduFACTOR, Edge Factor’s high impact multimedia resource. CNC Software has underwritten $50,000 to help increase the number of…