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The menswear brand True Classic 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 and beverage, and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Founded in 2019 by Ryan Barlett, Nick Ventura and Matt Winnick, True Classic has already made its mark in the world. The company was born of the desire to serve and bring awareness and aid to the homeless veteran community while making essential, high quality and affordable clothing for men. True Classic sells direct to consumer via its website. As the company experiences rapid growth, integrating a system that facilitates the best in product development and customer care has been vital to its success. “Rather than letting this growth turn into a problem, we wanted to be proactive and integrate a PLM

Bridgit, the leader in construction workforce intelligence technology, announced an integration with Unanet CRM by Cosential that will allow customers to overlay their project pursuits and workforce planning. This integration gives general contractors full visibility into their people allocation and the impact that will have on staffing upcoming projects. By leveraging project pursuit data from Unanet CRM inside Bridgit Bench, forecasting staffing needs for upcoming projects becomes easy. By taking the pursuits, upcoming as well as active, customers get more granular scenario planning. GCs get a single, detailed view into which people will be available and when, up to five years in advance. This enables business development teams to bid on projects that are best suited to the availability of their workers. It also empowers HR teams to proactively identify staffing gaps for future projects and have sufficient time to fill them. The integration is through Unanet Connect, an open ecosystem of tools

Hexagon’s Mining division announced that it has introduced HxGN MinePlan GeoSlate, a mobile, geological drillhole logging application that simplifies the field data collection process. Quick and easy to use, GeoSlate collects field drillhole data via a recommended field-ready mobile tablet. It integrates with MinePlan 3D, completing the geology workflow from exploration through resource estimation. Built for optimal performance and designed for the field geologist’s workflow, GeoSlate saves time by eliminating the hassle of configuring logging templates from scratch. GeoSlate solves many of the challenges facing geologists who are tasked with geological, exploration, production, sampling, geotechnical, hydrogeological and other field data collection and data management needs.  Data can be instantly published over Wi-Fi using Hexagon’s microservice architecture, syncing directly to connected MinePlan drillhole databases for subsequent geologic analysis and workflow execution. Instead of spending time exporting/importing, collating, and transmitting data, customers can use Hexagon technology to securely store and transfer data from the

Propel, creator of the Product 360 cloud solution, announced platform enhancements that streamline product value chain productivity - both inside and outside the organization. The new Supplier Community is a secure solution for role-based collaboration with worldwide suppliers and contract manufacturing partners at every level. Other features in the Spring ‘22 release enhance and accelerate productivity by extending workflows and approvals to business processes, ensuring competency and compliance across all stakeholders. “Many of today’s product companies are struggling with challenges they’ve never had to face – hybrid workforces, supply shortages, demand for personalization, and hyper-volatile material costs – to name just a few,” said Ray Hein, CEO of Propel. “By creating secure, virtual connections between internal departments and supply chain partners, our Supplier Community provides faster visibility into these issues, helping avoid costly delays and ensuring customer delight with quality products and on-time deliveries.”  Built on Salesforce, Propel delivers data access and role-based collaboration

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced the availability of its TCS Intelligent Urban Exchange™ (IUX) and TCS Customer Intelligence & Insights™ (CI&I) software in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace.  CI&I customer analytics helps banks, retailers, insurers, and other businesses take advantage of AI, machine learning, and customer data platform capabilities to deliver hyper-personalized consumer and citizen experiences, while protecting privacy and ensuring consent. Organizations can use CI&I to surface insights, predictions, and recommended actions and offers in real time to improve customer satisfaction.  IUX helps enterprises and cities meet sustainability goals and elevate citizen and employee experiences by optimizing services and enabling infrastructure to respond to predicted and dynamic events in real time. Harnessing data across operational silos, IUX applies AI and machine learning to simulate evolving scenarios, enabling services and IoT infrastructure to take appropriate actions. IUX modules include intelligent building energy, streetlights, transportation, water management, energy and resources operations, command center, and

Uptake, a leader in industrial intelligence software-as-a-service (SaaS), announced that Uptake Fusion will support Microsoft Azure Data Explorer. Uptake Fusion, which automates the extraction of industrial data from historians, IoT sensors, and operational technology (OT) systems for storage and curation in Microsoft Azure, accelerates the knowledge transfer from the minds of site engineers to the enterprise where corporate engineers, data scientists, and leaders can rapidly make decisions. Uptake Fusion greatly reduces data wrangling and data science feature engineering by harnessing the events, alarms, work order, and asset management data necessary to unlock target use cases in industrial intelligence. “Azure Data Explorer expands the range of data available to strengthen sustainability initiatives, optimize costs, manage risks, and increase revenue,” said Dr. Dave Shook, Chief Data Officer, Uptake. “With the addition of Azure Data Explorer to Uptake Fusion, asset-intensive industries improve their time to value for data lakes, data estates, digital twins, asset monitoring, and automated

Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting, and business process services company, announced the launch of its “Cloud Car” platform, which will be unveiled during the Engineering the Cloud Car Ecosystem panel at MWC Barcelona. Wipro’s Cloud Car platform will bring together its Wipro FullStride Cloud Services and engineering capabilities with a best-in-class partner ecosystem as well as consortiums. A first in the industry, the platform will deliver auto makers an integrated, cloud-native software solution—equipped with an end-to-end cybersecurity system—to help them innovate faster at a lower cost and keep software-defined vehicles (SDVs) digitally relevant for years. “Today, most SDVs come with pre-set features that are difficult and time-consuming to upgrade, rendering them outdated as new technologies come to market,” said Thomas Mueller, CTO, Engineering and R&D Services, Wipro Limited. “Our goal is to make it possible for automobile manufacturers to deliver vehicles that get better every day, so both they and generations of owners can drive

 PDF Key takeaways: Known as a regional ERP provider, IFS is in fact a global leader in Enterprise Asset Management and Field Service Management. Their business platform, IFS Cloud, is architected to support both extensive customization that supports ready migration to new versions and the introduction of new technologies. Their new branding around the “Moment of Service” has taken hold in their customers and is deeply engrained within the company as well. CIMdata had the pleasure of attending the IFS Virtual Analyst Forum on February 16 and 17, 2022. Over the two days, the IFS team provided updates on their business, go-to-market (GTM) strategy, products, and efforts on the cloud. Many think of IFS as mainly a regional enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution provider. ERP is an important segment of the enterprise software market but it is not part of CIMdata’s product lifecycle management (PLM) market definition. CIMdata follows the company because they are a global

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 2 March 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the release of a new whitepaper, Accelerated Product Development—Faster Decisions while Reducing Physical Prototypes. The whitepaper describes Siemens Digital Industries Software’s integrated and cross-discipline approach enabling accelerated product development within automakers, including the benefits automakers are realizing by using trusted simulations to make key product decisions earlier. Furthermore, the time consumed to build prototypes can be reduced once simulations are good enough to support the next set of product development decisions. With new drive lines and battery technology, not to mention the explosive growth in electronics and software, these capabilities allow automakers to remain fast to market. Siemens Digital Industries Software (Siemens), a proven provider to the automotive industry, is enabling this acceleration by connecting engineering disciplines, providing capabilities that improve requirements traceability and techniques to conduct continuous verification and validation. Using

The Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC), The Authority in Digital Twin™, announced it had appointed Ron Zahavi as Executive Director. Ron is Chief Strategist for IoT Standards, Microsoft Azure IoT, and former DTC Steering Committee Secretary. Today, Digital Twin Consortium also announced Dr. Said Tabet as Steering Committee Secretary. Said is Chief Architect, Office of the CTO, Dell Technologies, and DTC Steering Committee Member. "We're seeing a rapid adoption of digital twins across many industries," said Bill Hoffman, Chairman, and CEO, Object Management Group® (OMG®). "Ron and Said are right in the middle of the revolution and I'm excited to be working with them to bring digital twin solutions to market." The DTC's mission includes: Building and establishing an extensive multi-faceted ecosystem Identifying and filling gaps in technology development Driving interoperability through frameworks and open-source code Developing and advocating consistent best-practice methodologies Working to influence policy and standards requirements Publishing and amplifying architectures, statements, and viewpoints Advancing scientific and technical research to