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OpenText™ announced it is providing Close Brothers Asset Finance and Leasing, a leading UK asset funder, with strategic content and customer communications management to support their Transformation initiative. The solutions will be delivered and managed in the OpenText Cloud, enabling Close Brothers Asset Finance and Leasing to implement strategic, group-wide document management, and provide its customers with secure, modern interactions. Close Brothers Asset Finance and Leasing is a division of Close Brothers, which was established in 1878 and provides lending, deposit taking, wealth management services, and securities trading. The banking group is a FTSE250 company, employing over 3,700 people, principally in the UK. “Within Close Brothers Asset Finance and Leasing, we focus on developing our digital strategy and adopting cloud technology to meet customers' evolving expectations,” said Peter Millard, Commercial Director. “The cloud-based OpenText content management platform will span our enterprise and deliver critical capabilities that will help improve experiences for our

Infor, the industry cloud company, announced that EPS Tech, a leading Israeli provider of advanced embedded electronic systems to the defence and industrial markets, has chosen Infor CloudSuite High Tech & Electronics and Infor PLM to improve process efficiencies across the business. The multitenant cloud, enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution — powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) — and delivered by Infor’s partner, Intentia Israel, will span all business processes at the firm’s Tzur-Yigal facility, delivering real-time visibility and increased collaboration across the end-to-end supply chain. EPS Tech went through a thorough assessment of the market and a competitive tender process before choosing Infor CloudSuite High Tech & Electronics for its industry-specific functionality. An integral part of the implementation will be its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) capabilities, designed specifically for discrete manufacturers, which will be fully integrated into EPS Tech’s production and assembly processes, providing full transparency across the product lifecycle. “Our highly-skilled electronic hardware,

The market for nanosatellites has gained momentum in recent years. Large satellites use a variety of methods for generating thrust, from the familiar chemical rocket thruster to more recent advances such as the Hall-effect thruster. But as satellites have become miniaturized, these methods have proven to be less practical, clearing the way for scientists to develop new kinds of thrust technology. The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, or DLR) is Germany's national center for aerospace, energy, and transportation research. At the Institute of Technical Physics (ITP), an institute within DLR, scientists, engineers, and technicians design and conceive optical systems that help to advance scientific knowledge within the aerospace industry. In 2020, they prototyped a new technology for maneuvering miniature satellites. The project's goal was to show how it's possible to propel nanosatellites with laser ablative propulsion, which generates thrust by evaporating material with a focused laser beam. Using Zemax,

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, has been selected to provide global service desk and on-site support to Novo Nordisk. Through the partnership, HCL will help Novo Nordisk transform its IT operations and create world-class end-user experiences and drive efficiency across its workforce. HCL will implement a multilingual and omnichannel digital workplace solution for Novo Nordisk. Using the knowledge-centred service (KCS) methodology and its next-generation automation and self-service capabilities, HCL will support more than 48,000 end-users in 20 languages, across 58 countries and offer on-site IT services throughout the United States, Asia and Europe. “We’re delighted to be expanding our current application management and modernization services engagement with Novo Nordisk through this new deal,” said Pankaj Tagra, Corporate Vice President and Nordic and DACH Head, HCL Technologies. “The strength of our partnership with Novo Nordisk is testament to HCL’s continued growth and leadership in the Nordics and reinforces our value proposition in

Mark Fairwhale, China’s top fashion menswear brand, has successfully implemented Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution, and Centric is celebrating with the release of a success story. 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. Headed by internationally renowned designer Mark Cheung, Mark Fairwhale is an original Chinese fashion brand founded in 2001. Brands under Mark Fairwhale include DEBRAND, RESHAKE, CAMEL ACTIVE, and 5th SPACE. Mark Fairwhale owns more than 2500 brick-and-mortar boutiques, online flagship stores and online-to-offline new retail stores.  Mark Fairwhale has embraced a total digital transformation strategy, driven by a desire to turn data into assets that create value and realize the potential of in-house R&D and innovation. To achieve this, Mark Fairwhale selected Centric Fashion PLM in March 2021 and completed implementation just three months later.  Mr. Ma Jun, Project Manager at Mark Fairwhale, says, “Implementing Centric PLM has

3D Systems, the leading additive manufacturing solutions partner, and Enhatch Inc, the Hoboken, New Jersey and Tulsa, Oklahoma-based developer of the Intelligent Surgery Ecosystem, announced they have entered a partnership. The technologies which drive Intelligent Surgery streamline and scale the design and delivery of patient-specific medical devices by automating the process. Incorporating these capabilities into 3D Systems’ proven workflow for patient-specific solutions—which includes advanced software, expert treatment planning services, custom implants and instrumentation design, and industry-leading production processes—will help more efficiently meet the growing demand for personalized medical devices. 3D Systems partners with medical device manufacturers to offer its VSP® surgical planning solutions to support craniomaxillofacial and orthopedic medical specialties to help reduce procedure time and improve surgical outcomes. Likewise, Enhatch develops software applications powered by artificial intelligence to streamline every element of the patient-specific digital workflow. Enhatch is the first company to market an ecosystem of surgical technologies driven by artificial intelligence, which helps evaluate and mitigate potential

Accenture has been recognized with four MuleSoft Partner of the Year Awards for 2022. The awards recognize Accenture for scaling its team of MuleSoft experts through training and certification programs, driving growth, and delivering business outcomes for clients. Accenture received the following awards:  MuleSoft 2022 Global Practice Development Partner of the Year: In recognition of having the largest practice across Americas, EMEA, Japan and Asia. MuleSoft 2022 JAPAC Partner of the Year: For the growth of Accenture’s MuleSoft business in Japan and Asia Pacific. MuleSoft 2022 JAPAN Partner of the Year: For the second year in a row, this award honors Accenture for its market impact in Japan. MuleSoft 2022 JAPAC Customer 360 Partner of the Year: In recognition of Accenture’s significant market impact in helping clients build connected experiences even faster by leveraging the combined power of Salesforce and MuleSoft. “I’m incredibly proud of the relationship between Accenture and MuleSoft and the work we do

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced Bentley Education’s Digital Twin Design Challenge—a student contest that provides an opportunity to reimagine a real-world location with a structure designed with the popular Minecraft video game. Digital twin technology is set to be the next powerful tool for future engineers, and this contest is a unique opportunity for students to explore it in a creative way. Through the Digital Twin Design Challenge, students have the chance to combine their imagination and creativity by exploring infrastructure digital twins. Students will use Minecraft to take a real-world location and design a new structure within it. In addition to gaining recognition from Bentley Education, the top 20 finalists will receive USD 500 each. The winner chosen by expert judges will receive a prize of USD 5,000, and the winner from the popular vote category will win a prize of USD 2,000. The challenge is open to

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, and the American Association of State Highway Transportation Officials (AASHTO), a nonprofit and nonpartisan association representing highway and transportation departments in the United States, will present the annual Transportation and Civil Engineering (TRAC) contest for middle and high school students in a virtual setting on March 29. Co-sponsored by Bentley, the AASHTO National Bridge and Structure TRAC Competition includes students from seventh to 12th grade who have designed innovative bridge projects using Bentley applications. Also sponsoring the event are HDR, Headlight, HNTB, Michael Baker International, TopoDOT, and WSP. This year, 84 teams submitted projects, and the nine teams that were selected as finalists will present in the online forum. This platform provides an opportunity to recognize students for their hard work, allowing them to virtually present their projects and demonstrate how they designed the bridges, as well as how they built models of their designs with

The Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC), The Authority in Digital Twin™, announced the Digital Twin Capabilities Periodic Table (CPT). It is a definition framework organizations can use to design, develop, deploy, and operate composable digital twins (CDTs) with faster time to value. CDTs are application-based platforms that deliver service orchestration using packaged business capabilities (PBCs), modular combinations of technical capabilities presented as bundled services.  The Digital Twin CPT clusters capabilities around common characteristics using a period-table approach. The framework focuses on use case requirements versus technology solutions and architectures. Organizations can use the Digital Twin CPT to determine the capabilities they need to deliver successful digital twin solutions. They can also use it to analyze vendor solutions to ensure they align with use case requirements. "The Digital Twin CPT is a 'must-have' framework for any organization who wants to start composing digital twins using a capability-based approach," said Dan Isaacs, CTO, Digital Twin Consortium. "In the