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CareAR, a Xerox company, announced that it has been selected by Cyxtera, a global leader in data center colocation and interconnection services, to deliver a smarter data center service experience through CareAR’s augmented reality (AR) Service Experience Management (SXM) platform and Cyxtera’s Remote Hands with Visual Assist on-site support. Cyxtera’s Remote Hands with Visual Assist provides scheduled or on-demand support for its customer environments within Cyxtera’s data centers. CareAR’s SXM platform consists of its CareAR® Assist, Instruct and Insight applications that provide real-time visual guidance and self-guided interactive instructions through desktop, mobile, and smart glasses. The combination of Cyxtera Remote Hands with Visual Assist, CareAR and ServiceNow will extend the capabilities of customer support experience with enterprise AR. Together, the companies are delivering an improved service and customer experience during Remote Hands with Visual Assist engagements, enabling real-time, in session audio/visual and augmented reality communication capabilities between Cyxtera and customers, and driving down the

Eros Investments, a leading Global Media, Entertainment & Technology portfolio of ventures - Eros Media World, Eros Now, Xfinite’s Mzaalo and others, announced that it has signed an alliance agreement with Wipro Limited, a leading technology services and consulting company, to evolve and scale the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) based content localization solution. The solution will automate the time-consuming manual content localization process of subtitling and dubbing with near human-level accuracy, driving significant cost and time savings for global media organizations, post-production, and direct-to-consumer over-the-top (OTT) streaming platforms. Eros Investments’ data science experts, in collaboration with Wipro's technology team, will leverage latter’s Vantage solution, an AI/ML-powered content intelligence platform which uses Google Cloud’s Translation AI suite of services to develop both 'Speech to Text models' and ‘computer-generated voice from Text to speech', including voice cloning, emotion tagging, and speed syncing in various languages. The first phase of automated translation (Subtitling) will be available

Infor, the industry cloud company, announced that Megafrio, a food distribution company in Chile, is gaining benefits with Infor WMS for warehouse management. The solution was sold and implemented by Cerca Technology, an Infor channel partner in Latin America. Megafrio selected Infor WMS to help meet needs and achieve goals, including sustain business growth, increase service to customers, reduce operative costs and maximize capacity of distribution centers. Most relevant challenges are related to the reorganization of operation processes and information management for the company and its customers. All of these were done without interrupting customers´ operations. Many operations take place at Megafrio’s distribution centers, and the company has achieved superior product tracking and process agility with the implementation of the Infor solution. Change management was important, and it was achieved through the quick learning process of the team and the ease of use of the new platform. “Since the project started, we have

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that Datarewind, a Swedish IT service provider, has selected HPE Alletra cloud-native data infrastructure and high-performing, versatile HPE ProLiant servers to host virtual machines on behalf of its clients. The new compute and data services solution allows Datarewind to offer higher performance and quicker access to the work environment for its clients, meeting the hybrid office demands of today while providing a strong foundation to easily adapt to future requirements. Datarewind offers its services to clients across Sweden, allowing users to run VDI solutions during work hours and automate backup during the night. Due to the pandemic, demand for VDI solutions increased, and HPE Alletra was chosen to meet these increased demands thanks to its performance, scalability – and HPE’s existing track record as a supplier to Datarewind. “The timing was right for an upgrade, with the added remote work demands that the pandemic created,” says Rickard Johansson, CEO of

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that Taeknizon, a private cloud service provider focused on Asia and the Middle East, has selected the HPE GreenLake edge-to-cloud platform to further expand its operations in the UAE. This partnership with HPE will enable Taeknizon to meet growing demand from end customers and elastically scale up services in line with demand. Headquartered in Singapore, service provider Taeknizon is seeking to expand their regional availability in the fast-growing Middle East market. With this expansion, Taeknizon’s mission is to become a specialized provider in a range of technology services, including multi-cloud solutions, data management, data security, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotics, cyber security, and colocation services across Middle East. Taeknizon is further expanding its operations with these new services with a reduced upfront capital investment and with additional scale-up capacity, which gives them the agility and flexibility to improve ROI by aligning infrastructure spend with end-customer demand. Taeknizon

Trimble announced the first deployment of its map-based localization system for land-based autonomous vehicle applications. IHICorporation, a heavy industry manufacturer based in Japan, will retrofit its existing container and haulage trucks with a customized Applanix POS LVⓇ system as part of its broader autonomy capabilities for the transport of goods around industrial facilities. Map-based localization provides precise positioning and orientation estimation, augmenting GNSS/inertial data, which is critical for safe and efficient autonomous vehicle operations. The ability to provide IHI Corporation a full workflow and real-time data ensures seamless integration into IHI’s truck design. The custom-built, locally supported system leverages Trimble’s innovative engineering capabilities and technology to provide reliable performance across a variety of challenging environments. Using this system, IHI Corporation can provider obust positioning for their autonomous fleet without additional site infrastructure, lowering capital expenditure (CAPEX) costs and improving scalability. Tailoring POS LV to work within IHI’s unique specifications and existing autonomous platform,

The UPSCALE project received EUR 4 million from the Horizon 2020 programme (grant agreement no. 824306) with the aim of improving electric vehicle development and increasing performance. The consortium has been working for the past four years on the application of artificial intelligence methods to reduce development time and increase the performance of electric vehicles required by the automotive industry to reduce global emission levels. Barcelona, 30 April 2022. The UPSCALE Project (Upscaling Product development Simulation Capabilities exploiting Artificial intelligence for Electrified vehicles) was born, under the framework of Horizon 2020 (grant agreement no. 824306), with the aim of replacing the most expensive automotive simulation cases with data-driven computational methods. To this end, the most difficult simulation load cases were identified, and alternative methodologies based on machine learning techniques were designed and fully implemented. The project has been developed by a consortium of 11 European companies and organisations from the automotive, software, engineering

Altair, a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced that AmdoSoft has joined Altair’s growing channel partner network. AmdoSoft will offer all of Altair’s data analytics solutions to its customers in the U.K. and Germany. AmdoSoft is an independent software vendor (ISV) that develops robotic process automation (RPA) solutions. Its product, AmdoSoft/b4, is available through the Altair Partner Alliance (APA). “We’re pleased to welcome AmdoSoft to our global channel partner community, covering the English and German markets,” said Jérémie Bourdoncle, senior director of strategic partnerships, Altair. “AmdoSoft’s deep expertise in the data analytics and RPA space is a natural complement to Altair and will bring a lot of benefits for prospects and customers alike.”  “AmdoSoft believes in the enormous value digital transformation brings through low-code, self-service technologies. Our RPA technology ‘b4’ has been achieving this value and has been part of the APA for over a year,” said David

Autodesk, Inc. announced the appointment of Ruth Ann Keene as chief legal officer. Based in the company’s San Francisco headquarters, Keene leads Autodesk’s global legal matters, provides counsel to the CEO and Board of Directors, and oversees Autodesk’s government affairs and public policy practice. Keene has nearly three decades of experience in the technology industry and legal field, including an 11-year tenure at Autodesk, and returns to the company after serving as chief legal officer at Unity Technologies. In these roles, Ruth Ann advised on critical legal and regulatory issues, intellectual property, data privacy, and mergers and acquisitions related to business transformation. Before that, Keene advised a variety of companies in the technology transactions practice at Morrison & Foerster, LLP. "I’m thrilled to welcome Ruth Ann back to Autodesk and look forward to her valuable guidance and expertise as chief legal officer for the company," said Andrew Anagnost, CEO and president of

Taulia, a leading provider of working capital management solutions and part of the SAP Group has announced the appointment of Danielle Weinblatt as Chief Product Officer. In this role, Danielle will oversee Taulia’s product organization and execute its ambitious product vision, strategy, and development roadmap. She will focus on building innovative offerings, expanding product suites to new geographic markets, and will work closely with SAP to provide customers with the best working capital tools needed to thrive in the networked economy. Danielle will report directly to Taulia’s CEO, Cedric Bru, and will work closely with Taulia’s Sales, Marketing and Technology leads. Danielle joins Taulia with over 10 years of experience in the SaaS industry. She most recently served as Executive Vice President of Product at 24/7 Software. Prior to this, she was the Founder and CEO of ConveyIQ, which was acquired by Entelo. Danielle holds a Bachelors’ Degree from Cornell University and an