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SAP SE announced a global collaboration with Ducati Motor Holding S.p.A., the Italian motorcycle manufacturer, which chose the RISE with SAP solution to enable an important business transformation covering key business processes. The collaboration is underpinned by a shared desire to improve and enrich the experiences of passionate Ducati customers through innovation excellence and cutting-edge products and services. Technology and innovation are essential elements in Ducati’s DNA. With SAP, the Italian company aims to be at the forefront. Its intent is to create an intelligent business network with suppliers and partners, extending the digitalization of processes and enhancing the accuracy and timeliness of information. These are necessary steps as Ducati puts passionate customers at the center of its business to respond effectively and efficiently to an increasingly complex global supply system. To achieve these goals, Ducati will adopt the SAP Commerce Cloud solution for Ducati’s online business management. It will also deploy the SAP

Configit A/S, the global leader in Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM), announced Geely Auto, a leading automobile manufacturer based in Hangzhou, China, has chosen Configit’s Enterprise Configuration Platform to support the digital transformation journey of its latest global automotive brand Zeekr. Configit’s enterprise-grade configuration platform will be the foundation of their new Vehicle Configurator Platform. Founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, Geely Auto Group sells vehicles under the Geely Auto brand and holds a 50% stake in the Zeekr brand. Zeekr’s vision is to change mobility and through their partnerships with Baidu, Foxconn and Tencent, Geely is already driving significant change in the automotive industry. Working with Configit, Geely is building a Vehicle Configurator Platform that supports their commitment to world-class research and development in the auto industry. With the Vehicle Configurator Platform, Zeekr plans to turn the end-to-end configuration processes into a competitive advantage by mastering the challenges of getting their configurable products to market faster and

Accenture has agreed to acquire Allgemeines Rechenzentrum GmbH (ARZ), a technology service provider focused on the banking sector in Austria. The acquisition will expand Accenture’s cloud-based banking platform-as-a-service offerings, ranging from core banking services to online banking as well as regulatory services for banking clients across Europe. ARZ is majority-owned by Volksbanken Group and Hypobanken Group as well as other private banks. With locations in Vienna and Innsbruck, ARZ operates a technology competence center for innovation and technology services in the banking sector in Austria. ARZ’s approximately 600 employees will join Accenture and will continue to work in their existing locations in Vienna and Innsbruck. "Our vision is to develop an innovative cloud-based banking platform-as-a-service offering for new and existing clients across Europe," said Roland Smertnig, senior managing director in Accenture’s financial services practice in Europe. “By acquiring ARZ, we are expanding our digital transformation capabilities to help banks of the future as they

Tango, a leading provider of cloud-based store lifecycle management and integrated workplace management software, announced it has acquired billie, a mobile-first workplace application that uses gamification to engage employees and modernize workspace solutions. The transaction further extends Tango’s position as the global leader in real estate and facilities management. Most organizations have focused on the management of “Place” – the planning, building, and operating of real estate locations and the assets within them. With the acquisition of AgilQuest, and now billie, Tango has expanded to the equally important “People” side of real estate, ensuring employees are engaged and productive at the workplace. In addition to core functionality enabling employees to book workspaces and submitting requests, billie’s “My Contributions” functionality encourages employees to create positive and lasting change by gamifying an organization’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals and initiatives. “The accelerated shift to hybrid work means organizations need to better understand the

Atos and UCL announce having successfully run the virus sequencing tool, Viridian, which is used to detect mutation of the SARS-Cov-2 strain of the coronavirus, using an Arm®-based Ampere® Altra® processor in a cloud native environment with Atos’ integration expertise. This proof of concept (PoC) was coordinated by Atos' Life Sciences Center of Excellence which aims to foster a culture of exploration, discovery and co-creation to harness the power of digital technologies in order to advance precision health and accelerate the discovery and development of drugs. With data growing exponentially and becoming more difficult to process for life sciences applications, data, scientists rely on high-performance computing and parallel computing to quickly process and analyse massive amounts of data. The Arm Neoverse™-based platform, the Ampere Altra, is dedicated to cloud native workloads, meaning the simulation and the results can be achieved not only on-premises but directly on the cloud, on any type of HPC platforms

Digital Twin Consortium® (DTC) celebrated its second anniversary. With more than 200 member organizations representing 36 countries, the consortium continues to drive the awareness, adoption, interoperability, and development of digital twin technology. "We are creating a market for digital twins, which we believe is one of the most critical technologies for the next decade," said Bill Ruh, Chief Executive Officer, LendLease Digital, and Chair of the Digital Twin Consortium Steering Committee. "Consortium members are working on everything from early research to practical things businesses can implement today. Business leaders will adopt digital twins based on that practicality to improve efficiency and grow their capabilities." "We are guiding outcomes for end-users of digital twin technology throughout their global operations and supply chains," said Ron Zahavi, Executive Director, Digital Twin Consortium. "For example, we've created the governance and ecosystem that promotes the creation and distribution of open-source technologies in a meaningful way, and our Digital Twin Capabilities

Tacton, industrial manufacturing’s Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) SaaS provider for design to sales automation, announced their extended partnership with Scandinavian Digital, a business consulting company that assists engineering companies. Adding to its business services, Scandinavian Digital will now sell and deliver Tacton’s best-of-breed Design Automation solutions in the Nordics and DACH regions for the full range of computer-aided design (CAD) systems (SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor and PTC Creo). The partnership will enable more design and manufacturing companies to optimize their engineering and design processes through software, training, and full-service manufacturing business solutions. Scandinavian Digital has already delivered more than 200 Design Automation models to major clients in these regions, and has plans to further expand Tacton’s presence as an official reseller. Engineers today are under incredible pressure to generate 2D and 3D CAD drawings on time due to custom designs. They must constantly update or create new drawings as needs change, resulting

Atos announces that it has been selected by the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), the government agency responsible for gathering and reporting weather data and forecasts in Finland, in a seven-year multi-million-euro deal, to supply, deliver, install and operate a supercomputing system, based on its BullSequana XH2000 architecture. Compared to FMI’s current solution the new system will increase its computing power by a factor of 4 and will enable it to provide its clients with enhanced and more precise and reliable forecasting information. The new supercomputer will be used in different areas of numerical weather prediction (NWP) including short-range weather forecasting and nowcasting (forecasting on a period of up to 9 hours). It will also enable meteorologists to more accurately predict and determine the intensity of severe weather events long before they occur. It will be used to run atmospheric and oceanic computing models such as the HARMONIE-Arome NWP model developed by ACCORD consortium

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA & Stockholm, Sweden 1 June 2022—CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the successful completion of PLM Road Map & PDT North America. The theme for the event was Digital Transformation and PLM–a call for PLM Professionals to re-define and re-position the benefits and value of PLM. The event took place at the Tysons Corner Marriott, near Washington D.C. 2022 marks the 29th year the event has been in operation. The event comprised presentations made by PLM users representing several industry verticals interleaved with short vignettes about critical topics of interest presented by the event's sponsors. Speakers and their presentation topics included: Digital Skills Transformation—Often Forgotten Critical Element of Digital Transformation - Peter Bilello, CIMdata The Link from PLM to 'Enterprise' Lifecycle Management (ELM) Realization - Roger Hobley, BAE The Digital Transformation of PLM: Where are the Humans? - Dr. Thomas Hedberg, University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory A&D PLM Action Group

 PDF Key takeaways: In response to regulatory requirements, customer demand, and investor demand sustainability is becoming a strategic objective at companies. While sustainability goals and targets get the headlines, achieving them in practice is difficult. Although operational issues tend to get the focus, depending on the product, up to 80% of the sustainability impact relates to engineering design decisions. While current regulations are strict, as climate change concerns grow, C02 output will get increasing scrutiny from consumers, investors, regulatory bodies, and employees. Solutions that capture requirements, define features to satisfy requirements, verify the features are implemented, and systematically track achievement of goals and targets are required to ensure sustainability principals are core to product ideation and realization. Accenture has put deep thought into their sustainability approach and is enabling it within their Industry X - Engineering and R&D Digitization practice to ensure customers have solutions to meet current requirements and adapt to future needs. Introduction Sustainability, and especially