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Ansys announced that Claire Bramley accepted an appointment to the Ansys Board of Directors, effective December 15, 2022 – bringing deep expertise in leading large-scale fiscal and operational disciplines; driving financial and strategic planning; and managing complex mergers and acquisitions (M&A).  As the Chief Financial Officer at Teradata Corporation, a connected multi-cloud data platform for enterprise analytics company, Bramley is responsible for leading the functions of finance, information technology, analytics and security, enterprise risk, operations, investor relations, and corporate development. She possesses deep experience and understanding of leading finance global shared services with a focus on efficiency and automated processes. Bramley is also an executive sponsor for Teradata’s environmental, social, and governance program. “Beyond leading the simulation industry, Ansys is a tremendous organization that has exhibited exceptional execution and demonstrates extraordinary future growth potential,” said Claire Bramley. “It’s a business that I’ve followed and greatly admire, and I am enthused to join the

Hexagon AB, a global leader in digital reality solutions combining sensor, software and autonomous technologies, announced the acquisition of Qognify, a leading provider of physical security and enterprise incident management software solutions. Serving more than 4,000 customers worldwide in banking, government, logistics, manufacturing, retail, transportation and more, Qognify's solutions link business and operational workflows with video data to minimise the impact of security, safety and operational incidents. End markets include everything from large utility networks and educational campuses to complex industrial facilities - the same customers that also benefit from Hexagon's computer-aided dispatch (CAD) solutions, which play a crucial role in mobilising the people ultimately responsible for incident resolution. Qognify's video management software (VMS) leverages video analytics from camera feeds and cloud technology to provide a single video monitoring solution. The company's enterprise incident management (EIM) software integrates real-time information from video feeds and many other diverse systems into a single dashboard.

MariaDB plc, a new generation cloud database company, announced the completion of its previously announced business combination with Angel Pond Holdings Corporation (“APHC”), a previously publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, resulting in a combined company that is an Irish public limited company renamed MariaDB plc (“MariaDB” or the “Company”). Beginning on December 19, 2022, MariaDB’s ordinary shares and warrants will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbols “MRDB” and “MRDB WS,” respectively. MariaDB delivers the backbone of services used by people every day – when accessing data on their smartphone devices, filling prescriptions, using 5G or making financial transactions. MariaDB’s new generation relational database products are engineered to support any workload, any scale and any cloud enabling customers to do more with their data. MariaDB is focused on delivering cloud data services through MariaDB SkySQL that address a broad customer base. “Today is an exciting day that

Accenture reported financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2023, ended November 30, 2022, with revenues of $15.7 billion, an increase of 5% in U.S. dollars and 15% in local currency over the same period last year. Click to download the Q1 FY23 earnings infographic. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Accenture on CIMdata.com

From now on, you as a manufacturer can see directly in your CRM system who is downloading your 3D models on the CADENAS portals, which is made possible by the cooperation with Brijr.io. Convert the leads from your manufacturer portal and 3Dfindit.com now easily, quickly and conveniently into customers. CADENAS has developed a solution together with Brijr.io to integrate your download statistics directly into your customer relationship management software (CRM system: the CADENAS CRM Connector. The connection to the widely used systems of HubSpot and Salesforce is already possible. In a next step, the programs from Microsoft and further popular solutions are already in planning. How does the CADENAS CRM Connector work? Until now, you could view and export the download statistics data of your manufacturer catalog online via the dashboard. From now on, the CADENAS CRM Connector relieves you of this work step. This is because the middleware regularly accesses the information in the

Chaos releases V-Ray 6 for Houdini, a new update to their production renderer for high-end VFX and animation. With full support for Houdini 19.5 and Solaris, V-Ray 6 can create feature-quality renders at any stage of the process, giving life to gripping procedural creations — from look dev to final pixel. Houdini 19.5 not only completed the hair toolset, but continued to build up Pyro’s smoke and fire simulations, Solaris Render Region capabilities, and more. Today, artists can render them at the height of photorealism, using an Academy Award-winning renderer. V-Ray for Solaris has also been upgraded, moving to a fully featured Hydra delegate to help artists utilize the full power of SideFX’s USD-based tools. Artists can now streamline layout, lighting and look dev in a single workflow that builds real-time feedback directly into the Houdini viewport. In addition, V-Ray 6 introduces support for Houdini’s native ocean tools, giving users more control and faster rendering

The Nemetschek Group brand Solibri has launched a new cloud-based service offering: Solibri Inside. The Software as a Service-based (SaaS) solution provides in-design model checking for users of Allplan, Graphisoft Archicad, and Vectorworks, further improving the quality of digital construction. Integrating this solution into the Nemetschek authoring tools is another step towards a more open, efficient, and sustainable construction lifecycle. Created as a solution for designers, Solibri Inside works as a native feature that can be used within the authoring tool and can run checks within a SaaS-based environment whenever the designer wishes. With the tool, the designer does not need to export the model and open other software to perform model checking. The innovative solution comes inbuilt within Nemetschek authoring tools Allplan, Graphisoft Archicad, and Vectorworks and can be easily accessed directly in the user interface of the authoring tool. The integrated quality checking significantly saves time for the designer,

Performance and UX enhancements ! Approaching v3 Approaching Ganister version 3 means that we need to focus on performances and small UX improvements. All these updates benefit our v3 developments. Any performance enhancement that applies to v3 is added there as well. New client method trigger There is a new trigger fired when your form is fully loaded allowing to add client side javascript methods to play with the data or the ui. Node props as reverse rels If you have a relationship between projects and parts. If this relationship is 1 to N or 1 to 1. Then you can set a property on part to display the project related to the part. It also means for example that you can filter parts by project. Change method selection So far, you had to define on a nodetype basis the type of change management you wanted to apply : ECO or Manual. This can be now altered upon

Jamie Tyler of Siemens posted to the Siemens blog that the December release of NX is now available. Changes have been made to the following: Core Modelling Sketch New Pattern Functionality Sliding relations in the sketch solver Coincident handling enhancements Other core modeling enhancements BIM (Building Information Management) User Interface Customization Elevation and Grid Lines Assemblies MBD (Model Based Definition) Composites To read the full details of this update please visit the Siemens blog: https://blogs.sw.siemens.com/nx-design/nx-december-2022-now-available/ To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Siemens on CIMdata.com

Oracle announced the opening of an Oracle Cloud Region in Chicago, Illinois. Continuing one of the fastest expansions of any major cloud provider, Oracle’s 41st global region and fourth in the U.S. offers customers and partners a new option to locate their infrastructure, applications, and data for optimal performance and latency. The Oracle Cloud Chicago Region gives public and private sector customers and partners based in the U.S. Midwest access to a wide range of cloud services to modernize their applications, innovate with data and analytics, and migrate mission-critical workloads from their data centers to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). “As the home to more than 20 percent of the Fortune 500, 60 percent of all U.S. manufacturing, and the world’s largest financial derivatives exchange, the U.S. Midwest is a global innovation hub across key industries,” said Clay Magouyrk, Executive Vice President, OCI. “These industries are increasingly seeking secure cloud services to support their