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Beck Technology, a leading preconstruction software company, has announced the release of a groundbreaking feature, Alternates, within its flagship DESTINI Estimator software. This powerful update enhances preconstruction workflows, empowering users to create and manage alternates seamlessly, leading to faster, more accurate estimates and greater project success. With this feature, DESTINI Estimator offers unprecedented control over the creation and organization of alternates, enabling users to streamline the presentation of different project options to clients. This capability reduces the effort required to showcase various project alternatives, helping preconstruction teams win more work and deliver the right outcomes in a fraction of the time. Key Features and Value: Presentation Made Easy: The new Alternates feature simplifies the presentation of various project scenarios, driving faster decision-making and improving client satisfaction. Fees Per Alternate: The feature supports the process of accurate cost estimation, enabling teams to apply specific fees to each alternate, increasing the speed of estimates without sacrificing precision. Takeoff

CoreLogic® announced the addition of a new Tax Transcripts solution to its AutomatIQ® Borrower platform, providing mortgage professionals and their clients with efficient, rapid and reliable tax transcripts retrieval options. This enhancement consolidates three offerings into a single solution, allowing lenders to select the most suitable options based on their specific needs and the complexity of the loan. The options include the traditional 4506-C Direct, 4506-C Borrower Assisted form for near-instant transcripts, and the cost-effective Form 8821, ideal for loans with multiple borrowers. On October 1, 2024, the IRS doubled the Income Verification Express Service (IVES) fees for requests for the 4506-C Direct; however, CoreLogic has made the more cost-effective 4506-C Borrower Assisted and Form 8821 easily accessible in AutomatIQ Borrower. By moving to use these solutions jointly, lenders can have options to save money and have more accurate applications – nearly 15 percent of all applications are currently rejected by the IRS

Cyncly, the leading global provider of software and content solutions that help make amazing spaces for living, now enables users of its industry-leading products – Winner Flex, Spaces Flex, Innoplus and SimpliPlan – to quickly map a room using LIDAR and import data directly into project plans. Designers, builders and installers alike can now easily map a room using readily available tools including an iPhone Pro, iPad Pro or a laser rangefinder, creating detailed floor plans with just one click. Cyncly Scan, available on the App Store, is an AI-assisted mobile measuring application. As part of the Cyncly Flex platform, it allows users to scan a room and quickly generate precise measurements for use in Cyncly design tools including Winner Flex, Spaces Flex, and Innoplus. Users of SimpliPlan can use the tool’s built-in Room Survey to similarly create a floor plan with a single click. Cyncly Scan, Room Survey and SimpliPlan

Join, the collaborative project delivery platform for the built environment, announced the launch of Join Insights, its new preconstruction dashboard for general contractor executives. The first product to offer a firm-wide view into preconstruction project health, Insights is built on top of Join’s core project platform, renowned for helping project teams across the nation deliver a premier owner experience.  Introducing next-level portfolio intelligence Join Insights captures a portfolio view of projects in a single dashboard, giving firm executives the ability to simultaneously monitor risk and drive high performance. The new featureshines a light on the highly critical preconstruction phase of projects, providing actionable status reports on preconstruction project health across projects and regions. Insights makes it possible for GC leadership to identify and scale positive preconstruction trends, and to quickly react to potential project risks. “Until now, there has been virtually no way to track actions and outcomes across projects during preconstruction,” says Join’s Head of Industry Strategy Jason Brenner, who, prior

Oleg Shilovitsky published the announcement of the newest release of OpenBOM on the OpenBOM blog. Oleg says, “I’m thrilled to share the latest updates in OpenBOM’s October 2024 release. From advanced data model enhancements to user experience improvements and CAD integrations, this release brings valuable new features that continue to push the boundaries of what OpenBOM can achieve.” Read the full blog post here: https://www.openbom.com/blog/whats-new-in-openbom-october-2024 To view the original press release, please click here. Search for OpenBOM on CIMdata.com

Capgemini announced some key leadership appointments. Anirban Bose succeeds Jim Bailey as CEO of the Americas Strategic Business Unit, effective November 1. Consecutively, Kartik Ramakrishnan is appointed CEO of the Financial Services Strategic Business Unit. Jerome Simeon will become Chief Revenue Officer and Franck Greverie Chief Technology Officer, both from January 1, 2025. Following an outstanding 34-year long career at Capgemini, Olivier Sevillia, Chief Operating Officer, has decided to pursue new endeavors as an individual, and will leave the Group at the end of 2024. With his deep global experience and passion for digital transformation, Olivier will focus on promoting the techno-business ecosystem of European companies to help improve their competitiveness. The whole Capgemini team is looking forward to supporting Olivier in his next chapter. “These appointments strengthen the Group’s growth ambition and reinforce Capgemini’s role as the go to business and technology partner for our clients. Anirban Bose has been at the helm of

HCLTech, a leading global technology company, has announced the launch of its advanced AI Transformation academy in partnership with Multiverse, a technology company delivering high-quality training through applied learning. HCLTech's AI academy aims to upskill its workforce in AI and generative AI (GenAI) to deliver significant business value to clients with AI solutions and boost overall productivity. The partnership will see select HCLTech employees in the UK embark on a 13-month ‘AI for Business Value’ program, with a focus on business benefits and ethical aspects of AI projects. This initiative aligns with HCLTech’s goal of upskilling 50,000 employees in GenAI by 2025, improving productivity and enhancing client and employee satisfaction. Upon completion of their training, employees will be better equipped to analyze their AI-integrated performance metrics, fostering a culture of insightful continuous improvement and maximizing individual and team potential. "This strategic initiative underscores HCLTech's commitment to harnessing AI responsibly to drive business outcomes. By

Hexagon’s Safety, Infrastructure & Geospatial division announced the award of two patents by the United States Patent and Trademark Office for technologies designed to improve incident management and emergency response. The newly patented solutions extend access to security video footage and enable secure data sharing across organizations, empowering public safety agencies, security personnel and other responders to better protect communities. U.S. Patent No.12,010,389 covers Hexagon’s advanced web player technology, which is used within the Qognify VMS video management solution, enabling simultaneous streaming and playback of footage from multiple cameras via a standard web browser. Users can synchronize playback across multiple sources and ensure privacy masking. The player also allows for frame-by-frame analysis, enabling extremely accurate results during incident management, investigation and review processes. U.S. Patent No.11,973,810 covers data-sharing capabilities within Hexagon’s cloud-based collaboration portal, HxGN Connect. Connect allows users from disparate organizations to rapidly and securely share a common operating picture and

Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, unveiled its new and expanded Living Labs, part of a network of over 12 established centres globally, to help clients accelerate innovation and leverage emerging technologies for future-proofing their business. Infosys also announced a collaboration with University of Cambridge to establish a new AI Lab, aimed at harnessing the power of AI to drive positive impact for clients, academia, and students. United Kingdom’s Minister for Digital Government and AI, Feryal Clark, University of Cambridge’s Head of Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Professor Colm-cille Caulfield, and over 100 attendees including clients, and partners marked the opening of the Living Labs with a tour of the facility and a live demonstration of its capabilities. The Infosys Living Labs located in London’s world-renowned banking district of Canary Wharf will enable a confluence of digital technologies, business insights and human experience for clients

Keysight Technologies, Inc. and Siemens EDA have teamed up to accelerate the efficiency of wireless and defense system design. The integration between Keysight’s Advanced Design System (ADS) and the Siemens Xpedition Enterprise suite of EDA tools enables engineers to more efficiently co-design digital systems and radio frequency (RF) circuits by performing layout and manufacturing in Xpedition and RF Circuit and electromagnetic simulation in Keysight ADS. Today’s complex wireless and defense system designs demand unprecedented levels of integration between RF and overall system design. These advanced solutions often combine intricate RF components, high-speed digital circuits, and sophisticated signal processing, all of which must work harmoniously. The collaboration builds on the prior dynamic inter-tool integration from Keysight and Siemens EDA that enabled system design to have bidirectional integration with RF and microwave engineering tools. This initiative integrates complete hierarchical designs bidirectionally between Keysight ADS and Siemens Xpedition Designer and Layout, eliminating the cumbersome and error-prone