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Trimble and the Nemetschek Group announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance to expand the deployment of Building Information Modeling (BIM) across the entire Design-Build-Operate (DBO) lifecycle of buildings. The alliance will emphasize collaborative approaches to design modeling and 5D construction management through data integration between a variety of the companies' products.   The announcement was made today at the Lake Constance 5D-Conference 2015held this week in Constance, Germany.  Trimble and Nemetschek will share their extensive global market and technology expertise and collaborate on initiatives to drive a paradigm change in the development and adoption of technologies for the AEC industry and building owners. The companies intend to: Transparently share data formats to support new solutions and promote workflow interoperability between selected products across the DBO lifecycle; Tighten the connection of Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) solutions to real data from the field and real objects in the physical world; Support interoperability and the longevity

As the emergence of social media, Cloud, and Big Data continues to fuel the digital evolution, today's digital workplace must drive new levels of employee engagement, operational efficiency and service excellence. To help deliver on this digital transformation, EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced new enhancements across its Documentum portfolio of enterprise content management (ECM) applications, enabling customers to further address next-generation ECM by optimizing current investments as the backbone for new business models. Latest Enhancements: Productivity, Efficiency, and Agility The portfolio of products provide best-in-class offerings to solve customer business and content problems: The latest Documentum 7.2 platform is the fastest and most secure Documentum release ever, including Top Secret-level encryption (AES-256) for content in transit and at rest, and new storage certifications enabling storage management optimization within the software-defined data center Documentum D2 4.5 and Documentum xCP 2.2 deliver more agility and drive productivity for developers and administrators in deploying new solutions across

3D Systems announced today that it has received a Gold 2015 Edison Award in the Science/Medical/Dental category for its innovative 3DS Healthcare solutions. The Edison Awards honor is one the highest accolades a company can receive in the name of innovation and business success, and recognizes excellence in new product and service development, marketing and human-centered design and innovation. 3DS was recognized for its end-to-end digital healthcare solutions, including 3D surgical simulation and training, virtual surgical planning, dental 3D printers, and delivery of 3D printed procedures, implants and patient-specific devices. From the training room to the operating room, 3DS allows medical professionals to utilize a complete digital thread—a seamless ecosystem connecting specific patient imaging data to virtual simulation, virtual planning and surgical guides, and personalized 3D printed models. Named after famed American inventor Thomas Edison, the Edison Awards recognize companies and products that best contribute to the cause and purpose of innovation

Agilent Technologies Inc. and Cartagenia announced that they have signed a definitive agreement under which Agilent will acquire Cartagenia, a leading provider of software and services for clinical genetics and molecular pathology labs. Cartagenia, which has offices in Leuven, Belgium, and Boston, Massachusetts, provides software solutions for variant assessment and reporting of clinical genomics data from next-generation sequencing and microarrays. Uniquely geared to routine clinical labs, Cartagenia’s solutions are FDA-registered as exempt Class I Medical Devices in the U.S. and as Class I Medical Devices in Europe. The Cartagenia Bench platform enables technicians, lab directors and clinicians to visualize, assess and report clinical genetics data in the context of patient information. With Cartagenia Bench, labs can build an internal knowledge base, build variant assessment SOPs, automate report drafting, and access a wide range of community-validated, private and premium content resources, whether for oncology or inherited disease. Cartagenia’s platform also provides deep support for

Autodesk, Inc. today announced that it will broadcast its first quarter fiscal 2016 financial results conference call live via its website Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time. Autodesk will host a live webcast call atwww.autodesk.com/investors. An audio replay webcast and podcast will also be available after 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on our website atwww.autodesk.com/investors . For more information, please call Autodesk Investor Relations at 415-507-6705 To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Autodesk on CIMdata.com

ModuleWorks announced the latest release of its CAM components, ModuleWorks 2015.04, the first major update of 2015.  Each ModuleWorks release contains many new and enhanced features across the product range. This latest version includes new features for 5-Axis, 3-Axis, Port Machining and Simulation. ModuleWorks is at the forefront of 5-Axis machining and simulation technology, providing the toolpath and simulation technology that powers many of the leading CAM systems available around the world today. Highlights of the new release are shown below: 5-Axis ModuleWorks SWARF now offers a new stripe milling feature which allows the user to create multiple intermediate slices following the part shape. This allows SWARF strategies to be used for machining convex type shapes such as gear flanks and the pressure sides from impellers. A best fit option ensures optimum tool axis tilt during machining. More flexibility is provided when machining surfaces. The machining area can be extended past the drive surfaces to

In two separate but related efforts to advance the future of digital and physical creation, Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) announced it is working with Microsoft Corp. to embed its 3D printing platform in Windows 10, and that it intends to make its 3D modeling software interoperable with Microsoft's mixed reality environment, Microsoft HoloLens. In the first initiative, Autodesk will embed its Spark 3D printing software platform in Windows 10. This effort will provide Windows users with direct access to optimized and more reliable 3D printing experiences that streamline the additive manufacturing process for a variety of software, material, and printer choices. Autodesk will make the Spark APIs available for free* to the Microsoft developer community to build upon, extending the reach and growth of the 3D printing industry. Further, to their combined goal of making 3D printing more accessible, Autodesk will also join Microsoft as a founding member of a 3D Manufacturing Format (3MF) Consortium to create and support a standard 3D interchange and printing format. "We're approaching a tipping point

Aras®, the next leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, today announced that Hitachi, Ltd. Power Systems Company, a leading supplier of equipment and services for the power generation market, has selected the Aras Innovator suite for enterprise PLM to serve as the backbone for the company’s new global engineering data IT framework. The move to Aras PLM underscores the drive at Hitachi Power Systems to optimize manufacturing efficiency and product quality. After evaluating several PLM solution suites, Hitachi Power Systems selected Aras for its native Web platform technology, overall system flexibility and extensive customization capabilities. Hitachi Power Systems plans to integrate numerous critical processes across multiple business units and departments, worldwide, using the Aras Innovator platform. “With Aras, we can manage in a single system the multitude of business processes and product data sources needed to unify our global product design and production,” said Kyu Kabata, Senior Engineer, Business Process

Agilent Technologies Inc. will release second-quarter fiscal 2015 financial results after the stock market closes on May 18. The company will host a live webcast of its investor conference call in listen-only mode. Date: Monday, May 18 Time: 1:30 p.m. PDT Web access: www.investor.agilent.com Listeners may log on and select “Q2 2015 Agilent Technologies Inc. Earnings Conference Call” in the “News & Events – Calendar of Events” section. The webcast will remain on the company site for 90 days. In addition, a telephone replay of the conference call will be available at approximately 5:30 p.m. PDT on May 18 through May 25 by dialing +1 855 859 2056 (or +1 404 537 3406 from outside the United States) and entering pass code 22310408. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Agilent on CIMdata.com

French IT services company Capgemini is to acquire iGate in the U.S. for US$4.0 billion, in a bid to expand its presence in the North American market. The deal will boost Capgemini’s revenue from North America by 33 percent to $4 billion, making the region the first to account for 30 percent of its revenue. The iGate acquisition also brings to Capgemini additional expertise in application and infrastructure services, business process outsourcing and engineering services. Capgemini also gets iGate’s clients, including key customers such as General Electric and Royal Bank of Canada, to whom it can now cross-sell its own services. After the acquisition, the merged entity will have an estimated combined revenue of €12.5 billion ($13.6 billion) in 2015, an operating margin above 10 percent and around 190,000 employees. About 50,000 of these employees will be focused on North American clients. iGate had revenue of $1.3 billion in 2014, of which 79 percent