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Sage announcement from Steve Hare, CEO : I am really pleased to confirm that Aziz Benmalek has been appointed as the President of our North America region on a permanent basis. In this role, he will continue to be part of the Executive Leadership Team and report to me. Not only has the region shown strong commercial and strategic performance under Aziz’s leadership, but I have really appreciated and valued the role he has played as a member of the Executive Leadership Team. His experience, from senior roles at organizations like Microsoft and Splunk will be hugely beneficial to our continued success in North America. Aziz will maintain accountability for Partners, Alliances, and Accountants globally, and further announcements will be made by Aziz about the leadership of this group separately. Please join me in congratulating Aziz as he takes on this critical role for Sage. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Sage

Global leader in metal cutting, Sandvik Coromant has appointed two new members to its management group. Michael Eneberg will begin his new role of Vice President and Head of Global Sales on May 1, 2022, while Nicolas Dellachiesa joins as Head of Merger & Acquisitions (M&A) in June. Reporting to Sandvik Coromant President, Helen Blomqvist, both Eneberg and Dellachiesa will play vital roles in driving forward the company’s global growth. Eneberg has a longstanding history with Sandvik Coromant, having worked in roles across the Sandvik Group for 16 years. Starting his career at Sandvik in Sandviken, Sweden in 2003, he then went on to work at Sandvik Tooling and Sandvik Coromant Japan, later becoming Head of Sandvik Coromant Indonesia and Managing Director for Sandvik Indonesia. Prior to his most recent position as CEO for Diamond Tools Group, Eneberg was the General Manager for Sandvik Coromant’s Sales Area South Asia, where he

Centric Software® is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, Guess. Guess is an iconic fashion brand created over 40 years ago by the Marciano brothers. Since then, Guess has grown from a denim pioneer into a global brand with over 1,600 retail stores worldwide and offers collections for men, women and children, as well as a wide range of accessories, from jewelry, fragrances, eyewear, to watches, shoes and bags. Guess was on a path to replace Excel spreadsheets for buying and merchandising with an end-to-end digital solution to manage their 8,000-SKU-collections, with 4 collections released per year. Then, the pandemic hit, bringing with it uncertainty. Capital spending came to a halt. Guess faced the same issues as the rest of the fashion industry, however in a bold move, the company decided to invest in technology during a time of market disruption, to bolster planning with Centric Planning. Says

Stratasys Ltd., a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, announced that it has been named a NASCAR Competition Partner and has teamed with NASCAR to produce the first-ever 3D printed production parts to be featured across all NASCAR Next Gen cars. NASCAR teamed with Stratasys Direct Manufacturing to print a windshield air cockpit ventilation unit for the Next Gen car. The windshield air ducts were printed at Stratasys Direct Manufacturing in Belton, Texas on the SAF™-powered Stratasys H350™ 3D printer which is specifically designed for production consistency, a competitive and predictable cost per part, and complete production control for volumes up to thousands of parts. The parts were printed using Stratasys High Yield PA11, which is derived from sustainable castor oil. The parts were cleaned, finished, dyed and shot-blasted using DyeMansion post-processing equipment. Additionally, the team at NASCAR designed and 3D printed an underside NACA duct for engine cooling at their research and development

Los Angeles’ Better Buildings Challenge, a community of building owners representing 150 million ft² of commercial real estate space committed to ‘going green’, has partnered with Urban Digital Twin pioneer Cityzenith. The partners will implement the company’s SmartWorld Digital Twin product in LA’s Bunker Hill area to explore the use of this advanced technology to enable owners of buildings of any size, anywhere, to simulate their optimum financial paths to net zero emissions. Urban Digital Twins are virtual replicas of real buildings, infrastructure, networks, etc. in cities connected to the data in and around them, and they are used to simulate and improve operational behavior in cities – including traffic, crowd movement, and emissions reduction. Los Angeles now joins many other major US cities in Cityzenith's ‘Clean Cities – Clean Future’ initiative, including New York, Phoenix, and Las Vegas, and LABBC Director David Hodgins said: “We look forward to working with Cityzenith to demonstrate

Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced that it has selected RISE with SAP S/4HANA® private edition, as the next step to drive innovation across its business operations. The selection of the RISE with SAP solution underscores Wipro’s commitment to digital transformation under the company’s ambitious growth agenda. The move will simplify Wipro’s processes and consolidate them into a unified platform. The platform’s scalability, stability and enhanced automation will enable streamlined operations and reduced total cost of ownership. Further, as a global strategic SAP partner, Wipro will leverage its experience with RISE with SAP S/4HANA Cloud, while using its proprietary transformation framework, Wipro eSymphony, and its US$1 billion investment in Wipro FullStride Cloud Services to help its customers become more intelligent enterprises. “We are continuing to invest in scalable internal systems that drive productivity, agility, and efficiency, both for our company and our clients,” said Thierry Delaporte, CEO and

AVEVA, a global leader in industrial software driving digital transformation and sustainability, has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Kent, the leading international integrated energy services partner, to mutually explore and design new frameworks for applying digital solutions across the energy industry. The partnership will allow energy customers around the world to leverage both companies’ strengths to drive their digital transformation and sustainability objectives in innovative ways. Kent will utilize AVEVA’s platform to reinforce its position as a top global energy services firm with enhanced digital offerings. AVEVA will support Kent’s digital design and service offerings so its customers can tap into the power of advanced technologies to fuel their transformation journeys. The collaboration unlocks new opportunities for innovation in digital asset delivery and unleashes the potential of EPC4.0 and digital twin solutions based on AI, big data, cloud, and immersive technologies. Customers can now tap into the combined strengths of AVEVA and Kent to implement

Aras, which provides the most powerful low-code platform with applications to design, build, and operate complex products, and Bureau Veritas, one of the world’s leading ship classification societies and offshore safety and verification bodies, announced they are deploying digital twin pilots across different markets to provide accurate and detailed information in real time and further advance classification processes. Bureau Veritas has embarked on a major revamping of its digital tools supporting its Marine & Offshore services. As part of this global program, the deployment of digital twin technology will enable Bureau Veritas to create a single source of truth for each ship and asset, ensure end-to-end traceability of ship data, anticipate the evolution of regulatory requirements, continuously update data from design to operations, and increase collaboration with real time access to ship data. As a result, Bureau Veritas will enhance its customer experience through solid and reliable data collection and updates

IFS, the global cloud enterprise software company, announced that BW Energy, a global oil and gas Exploration and Production (E&P) company has selected IFS Applications enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise asset management (EAM) software to support its global oilfield production and development strategy. The implementation will allow BW Energy to drive global enterprise-wide efficiencies across multiple business functions, from asset management and supply chain to human capital management (HCM) and finance. In addition, the operator will use the software to replicate data between offshore units and onshore offices. The IFS solution will also help BW Energy manage carbon emissions as it develops new oilfields and enhance the maintenance of its offshore production assets. The software will help BW Energy to plan, schedule and resource maintenance activities in advance, enabling the company to make changes quickly and easily.  Knut R. Sæthre, CFO, BW Energy, said: “We are focused on unlocking proven worldwide offshore

Christian Moreau, leading French gymnastics apparel brand, has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. 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 1984 in Saint-Michel-sur-Rhône, Christian Moreau is the official apparel supplier of the French gymnastics team. The Made-in-France brand is known for its creativity and technical expertise in design and manufacturing and is strong at patternmaking, cutting, sublimation, screen printing and rhinestone application. Christian Moreau was acquired in 2020 by Benoît Deves, Philippe Frescaline and Amélie Rivoire, who now runs the company. One of Rivoire’s first priorities was to implement a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution to streamline business processes and modernize the company’s branding and product portfolio. “Our product catalog is enormous as each customer can intricately customize