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Arena Solutions, today announced a strategic partnership with Q Point Technology to offer Q Point's Green Data Exchange (GDX) to Arena PLM users. GDX is the largest online exchange for compliance data, allowing companies to obtain RoHS, REACH, substance disclosure, and Conflict Minerals information from more than 10,000 suppliers worldwide. "Compliance is a complex challenge that is only becoming more difficult for tech and medical device companies, as national and international governments alike, continue to add more regulations to adhere to," said Steve Chalgren, vice president of product management and strategy for Arena. "We're excited about this partnership with Q Point Technology, which gives our PLM community deep access to their rich compliance analysis solution." Q Point's Green Data Exchange enables customers to: Evaluate the compliance status of a product or sub-assembly to a regulation Know, at-a-glance, if a part is compliant and view all supporting supplier declaration data Communicate with suppliers to request information for

 Arena Solutions, today announced that Q1 2015 broke company records again for total subscriptions, an achievement fueled in part by the largest number of new customer subscriptions in the company's history. New customer subscriptions grew 33% in Q1 2015 over the same period in 2014. Total subscription growth also continues to be strong, increasing at a double digit pace. Nearly one-third of Arena's existing customer base added new products, new seats – or both – during Q1 2015. To accommodate this rapid growth, Arena has increased the size of its sales organization by 85 percent in the past three months. The company also recently moved to new headquarters in Foster City, Calif. "Over the past two years, we've introduced new modules like Demand, Scribe and Quality that have been extremely well received by our customers and, in particular, by the largest enterprise customers," said Craig Livingston, CEO of Arena. "We provide the functionality that global enterprises need in a cloud

Flow International offers FlowXpert 2015, the latest version of its FlowXpert 3D CAD/CAM software featuring faster programming for waterjet applications. The platform expands on the company’s 2D FlowMaster software and includes design functionality powered by SpaceClaim, an integrated 3D modeling tool with flow sequencer. The integrated CAD/CAM capabilities streamlines the pathing process, adding flexibility for users performing waterjet cutting, resulting in faster programming. The company also offers its Mach 3 waterjet system combining motion control, high-pressure components and pump into a single compact machine. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Flow on CIMdata.com

In an effort to help companies foster innovation and rapidly turn product and service ideas into value, SAP SE today announced the global availability of a new innovation management application. Comprising unique products, services, processes, methodologies and governance, the SAP Innovation Management solution helps companies establish a creative culture that overcomes departmental silos and unleashes the power of innovation. The pace of technological advance is constantly increasing and puts pressure on manufacturers to be more effective in innovation. At the same time, most companies do not fully leverage the innovation potential of their employees and partners, due to a lack of communication and ideas that are still kept in organizational silos. To meet these challenges, SAP Innovation Management powered by SAP HANA was developed to manage ideation with innovative technology. It enables customers to find and link similar ideas and subject matter experts inside and outside the organization leveraging Big Data capabilities. SAP Innovation

Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced general availability of Infor Advanced Scheduling (AS) version 11.This latest release of Infor AS provides a major leap forward in product functionality.  Infor AS version 11 includes key enhancements to help planners collaborate efficiently and evaluate production schedule performance using real time decision support metrics.  The results are easier deployment of schedules and improved collaboration between various teams, ensuring that schedules align with key business objectives. Infor Advanced Scheduling is a constraint-based scheduling solution providing components that are aimed at addressing the unique scheduling challenges for process manufacturers managing variables such as the capacity of tanks, vessels and lines as well as the flow between them. This latest version adds collaborative scheduling, quick search and filter functionality and a user-friendly dashboard for managing schedule performance. Key Enhancements for Infor Advanced Scheduling: Collaborative Scheduling – The collaborative scheduling process allows planners to coordinate with other planners schedule

ALTIUM PCBWorks printed circuit board (pcb) design tool created to enhance workflow collaboration between electrical and mechanical designers. Software provides a powerful set of collaboration tools to integrate design data with the industry-leading mechanical design software, SolidWorks. At the core of software is a set of powerful schematic capture and pcb layout tools along with an easy-to-use interface that works in tandem with existing mechanical workflows in SolidWorks. Design data between components and mechanical enclosures are linked seamlessly between electrical and mechanical workflows, with the world’s first-ever managed Engineering Change Orders (ECO) process delivering changes in design data from SolidWorks to PCBWorks using native SolidWorks files. http://www.altium.com To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Altium on CIMdata.com

MOSGIPROMEZ LLC, a top design institute in the Russian iron and steel industry, has implemented AVEVA Everything3D and AVEVA Bocad software. The company recently determined that the functionality of its previous 2D software could not meet a rise in project demand or an increase in design complexity. It needed a solution that could offer tight integration between plant design and structural steel detailing in order to increase efficiency and improve its business process. The client said AVEVA’s technology met all these requirements and offered an easy-to-use interface that enabled a quick implementation. MOSGIPROMEZ’s implementation of this new approach to work and adoption of new technologies represents a long-term investment and will result in maximum efficiency and collaboration, according to the company. Managing director Galina Yaskina said: “AVEVA gave MOSGIPROMEZ a solution to gain higher levels of design efficiency for bigger scale projects that demand much greater complexity. “Explaining its digital asset approach to us, AVEVA demonstrated

SAP and Beiersdorf co-innovated to develop SAP Innovation Management, a solution that helps companies systematically foster ideas and develop innovations with unprecedented efficiency. Every company, whatever its size, is brimming over with innovation potential, which is why today’s enterprises are on the look-out for creative methods to foster idea management. However, too often a lack of basic processes and structures means that some of a company’s innovative power and employee potential is simply going to waste. To ensure successful idea management, companies need a platform that motivates potential users. SAP Innovation Management is the result of a cooperation project between SAP and Beiersdorf, along with other customers. It specifically addresses those challenges that companies struggle with most in their innovation processes. “The product is tailored to what customers need and was developed in close collaboration with them,” says Jochen Mayerle, Chief Solution Expert at SAP. The solution unites all of the key processes in

Altair today announced an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement with Cray Inc. PBS Professional® is now Cray's preferred workload manager and job scheduler. The three-year agreement represents an expansion of Altair's long-standing partnership with Cray, a global leader in supercomputing and high-performance computing (HPC) systems. Under the terms of the agreement, Cray can more easily integrate PBS Professional as the preferred scheduler on Cray systems, with the ability to bundle PBS Professional units with new systems shipped anywhere in the world.   "Our customers will benefit from this relationship as we will be able to more easily and cost-effectively deliver unique, integrated technologies, such as DataWarp I/O acceleration and application power management," said Barry Bolding, Cray's vice president of marketing and business development. "Altair and PBS Professional are established leaders in HPC workload management, and we look forward to leveraging this agreement for growth in commercial and other emerging market segments. Now

IT services major Infosys on Friday  reported a moderate 3.5% growth in its net profit at Rs 3,097 crore for the quarter ended March 31, missing market expectations as business remained challenging for the company. The country's second largest software exporter had recorded a net profit of Rs 2,992 crore in the January-March quarter of 2013-14. Revenue during the quarter under review rose by 4.2% to Rs 13,411 crore from Rs 12,875 crore in the comparable period in the previous fiscal. On a quarter-on-quarter, profit fell 4.7% from Rs 3,250 crore in October-December period. Revenue declined 2.8% from Rs 13,796 crore. Infosys said it expects revenue growth in the range of 10-12% only for 2015-16 fiscal in constant currency terms, whereas the Nasscom estimate for the industry 12-14%. "We are expecting to grow at 10-12%. We are targeting revenues of US $20 billion by 2020. Our average revenue per employee is expected at US $80,000 by 2020,"