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Slingshot Sports, the sport board company, has selected Centric Software®’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, Centric PLM. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Founded in 1999 by brothers Jeff and Tony Logosz, Slingshot Sports is an innovative company that began with kite boards and expanded to wake, windsurf, stand up paddleboard, wing surfing and foils on the various boards. Slingshot’s parent company, 7 Nation, brought in Ride Engine, maker of the revolutionary hard-shell, customizable form-fitting kite boarding harness. Ride Engine also has a line of watersports equipment, wetsuits, bags and accessories. The products from both companies are sold in numerous countries around the globe. Greg Kish, Product Line Manager at Slingshot Sports describes the company’s expansion into different categories. “We started

NTT DATA, a digital business and IT services leader, announced it has acquired Vectorform, a digital transformation and innovation company based in Detroit. Vectorform further builds NTT DATA’s commitment to expanding its global digital engineering and design capabilities and helping to accelerate clients’ current and future digital transformation programs. “Vectorform’s multidisciplinary expertise brings a collaborative, thought-provoking and inspiring fusion of engineering and design that reimagines the end user experience,” said Wayne Busch, Group President of NTT DATA Services’ Consulting and Digital Transformation Services. “As part of the NTT DATA family, this approach will be accelerated by ongoing R&D investments and global scale.” Vectorform adds to NTT DATA’s successful 2021 acquisition of Nexient by strengthening its digital application development and modernization capabilities adding innovation and design, customer experience (CX) and product development services. Vectorform’s 80 team members will join NTT DATA’s consulting and digital transformation business. “As we’ve evaluated growth opportunities to expand our value to clients, NTT

Accenture has joined AI4BetterHearts, a global data collaborative founded by Microsoft and the Novartis Foundation, that aims to help stakeholders —from policy makers to patients — make better decisions about heart health and improve the health of entire populations. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally. Three-quarters of CV deaths occur in low- and middle-income countries, and many are preventable. AI4BetterHearts leverages heart health data from different sources, using artificial intelligence (AI) and advanced analytics to better understand the drivers of CV health, including health inequities, in large populations. Accenture joins the collaboration to further the development of AI insights that can help improve population-wide cardiovascular health outcomes.  "We are joining the AI4BetterHearts collaborative to help further its ambitions to prevent cardiovascular disease. By applying technology, we can develop data-driven insights on the true catalysts of health and equity and help drive informed decisions for policy change," said Stuart Henderson, global Life

At the beginning of March, iPoint-systems launched an internal donation campaign for Ukraine: If iPoint employees donate to aid organizations for the Ukraine, iPoint will double this amount and donate it to respective aid organizations. Many employees showed their solidarity through their financial and social commitment. In total, iPoint's campaign raised almost €5,500 in donations. iPoint founder and CEO Joerg Walden doubled this amount privately and donated it to three aid organizations: Ukraine Humanitarian Fund, The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) und Aktion Deutschland hilft. The financial support goes to the people in Ukraine as well as in the countries of refuge. Many thanks to all of our employees for their support as well as to the aid organizations that are taking care of the people affected. A big thank you also to Joerg Walden for his generous private donation. Especially in such difficult times it is important to stick together and

L&T Technology Services Limited, a leading global pure-play engineering services company has earned recognition as Supplier of the Year and also named Partner-level supplier for 2021 in the John Deere Achieving Excellence (AE) Program. The Partner-level status is Deere & Company’s highest supplier rating. India-based LTTS has been selected for the honor in recognition of its dedication to providing products and services of outstanding quality as well as its commitment to continuous improvement. LTTS is a provider of multiple services to John Deere, including engineering services spanning areas like digital, product simulation, embedded software development & validation, mechanical design, cost management and analysis. Suppliers who participate in the Achieving Excellence program are evaluated annually in several key performance categories, including quality, cost management, delivery, technical support and wavelength, which is a measure of responsiveness. John Deere Supply Management created the program in 1991 to provide a supplier evaluation and feedback process that promotes

Lectra, worldwide leader of Industry 4.0 in the fashion, automotive and furniture markets, expands its commercial and technological relationship with Microsoft. “Along with Kubix Link, which we introduced in 2020, Fashion On Demand by Lectra is now part of our collaboration with Microsoft, marking an expanded relationship between our two companies,” says Maximilien Abadie, Chief Strategy Officer at Lectra. Fashion On Demand by Lectra combines a high-performance single ply fabric cutter with a smart digital cutting software hosted on Microsoft Azure. Designed as a turnkey solution for fashion companies, Fashion On Demand by Lectra automates the on-demand production of garments, from receipt of order to cutting. This gives brands and manufacturers complete control of all the steps in their on-demand process, whether they are producing small series or customized items. This groundbreaking offer also helps them respond to the challenges of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) that fashion industry players must now face.

Simulations Plus, Inc., a leading provider of modeling and simulation software and services for pharmaceutical safety and efficacy, announced that it has received a Phase II SBIR NIH grant for the further development and validation of its novel BIOLOGXsym™ platform, which is quantitative systems toxicology (QST) software focused on complex macromolecule liver safety. The grant provides approximately $1.7 million for both software development and wet lab work, which will be accomplished via a partnership with the University of Pittsburgh Drug Discovery Institute (UPDDI). The UPDDI will utilize its human vascularized Liver Acinus MicroPhysiology System (vLAMPS), a next-generation organ-on-a-chip system that allows for comparison of liver toxicity in liver cells collected from healthy versus liver-diseased donors, to screen for signals related to liver safety mechanisms and provide that as input data for BIOLOGXsym simulations. Principal Investigator (PI) on this project is Dr. Kyunghee Yang . The combined in vitro laboratory data plus software offering will be available

Stratasys Ltd., a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, announced that it is providing the public with baseline material qualification data for Antero 840CN03 filament material in collaboration with Lockheed Martin and Metropolitan State University of Denver. The release of this qualification data allows those in the industry to use the material for additively manufactured aerospace parts, such as those on the Orion spacecraft, using Stratasys production-grade 3D printers. “We want to demonstrate a new model for how industry, manufacturers and academia can collaborate to gather and release material qualification data that helps accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing across the aerospace industry,” said Foster Ferguson, Director of Aerospace for Stratasys. Designed for space-ready performance, Antero 840CN03 is a blended and functionalized PEKK-based high-performance, ESD thermoplastic composite material developed specifically for production-grade Stratasys FDM® 3D printers that meets ESD performance and NASA outgassing requirements while also exceeding the flame, smoke, and toxicity (FST) characteristics required

Trace Software International announces its participation in Solar Solutions International, leading solar energy trade fair in western Europe. The event will be held from April 12 to 14, 2022 at the Expo Haarlemmermeer in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The Dutch solar energy sector is one of the largest in Europe. The market has been growing over the past few years and there is no sign of it stopping. Every year more and more private individuals, companies and institutions are going solar, increasing the demand for innovative solutions to meet this need. With more than 250 exhibitors, over 80 speakers and a hundred conferences, Solar Solutions International covers all areas of photovoltaics and offers professionals an overview of the major trends, innovations and the future of solar energy. Trace Software will showcase archelios™ Suite software solution dedicated to the study and design of photovoltaic installation projects. Trace Software will be welcoming visitors at the stand E23 archelios™ Suite PV software: responding to the new trends of solar energy. With archelios™ Suite, Trace

Tecsys Inc., an industry-leading supply chain management software company, is pleased to introduce to its North American market Omni™ WMS, an agile SaaS-native warehouse management system designed to serve the evolving omnichannel market that straddles the complexities between hybrid e-commerce and traditional fulfillment modalities. From kickoff to go live, Omni™ WMS is configured for rapid implementation, speeding up the time to business value with enterprise-class WMS capabilities. Well-established as a sophisticated and bi-directionally scalable WMS solution in the automation-driven warehouses of Europe, Omni™ WMS is a proven catalyst for digital commerce execution, technology-mediated processes, and centralized visibility across multiple warehouses. Optimized for the midmarket, Omni™ WMS adds to Tecsys’ SaaS WMS portfolio which also includes the visionary Elite™ WMS solution for complex distribution and specialty markets. Omni™ WMS enables midmarket organizations to fast-track fulfillment execution to meet customer commitments, while laying the foundation for sustained warehouse productivity in the face of