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CEO Spotlight features Aras, PTC and Siemens at PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2022. CIMdata’s president & CEO, Peter Bilello, recently moderated a Spotlight session at the recent PLM Road Map & PDT North America 2022. The session featured CEOs of Aras, PTC and Siemens Digital Industries Software. This CEO Spotlight opened with questions about PLM’s place in the expanding organizational architectures and end-to-end connectivity seen in today’s businesses. Read full article at https://www.engineering.com/story/the-future-of-plm-cimdata-spotlights-leading-ceos

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), has helped Aadhar Housing Finance Ltd. digitally enhance its business operations using the TCS Lending and Securitization platform. Aadhar Housing Finance Ltd., the largest affordable housing finance company focusing on the low-income housing segment in India (by AUM as of FY21), aims to make the process of buying a house seamless using digital technologies. Towards this vision, it partnered with TCS for its end-to-end business process transformation powered by the TCS Lending and Securitization platform. The integrated, collaborative, connected, blockchain-based cloud platform transforms the end-to-end lending and securitization value chain. TCS consultants leveraged their deep contextual knowledge and industry expertise to help Aadhar reimagine its end-to-end business processes, taking a digital-first, customer-centric approach. The TCS platform's flexible design enabled an easy and quick adoption of the digitally transformed process flows. It offers seamless customer relationship management features using AI and ML. It has made sales operations more convenient

IFS, the global cloud enterprise software company, announced that global energy services company, Interwell, has chosen to upgrade its existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and enterprise asset management (EAM) software to the latest IFS Cloud™ solution to drive efficiencies across its global operations. At the same time, the Norway-based product and service company has selected IFS Customer Success Services, an engagement framework designed to streamline day-to-day support for customers using IFS solutions.  The implementation will support the digitalisation of operations at Interwell and enable the company to bring technological innovations to market faster. By providing greater transparency and traceability across enterprise operations, it will help the operator achieve enhanced control of equipment rental costs and, at a higher level, of group consolidation. The solution covers functionality used by more than 500 in all Interwell regions across the enterprise, including a wide range of business functions, from finance to supply chain management; maintenance;

Matterport, Inc., the leading spatial data company driving the digital transformation of the built world, announced that GUESS?, Inc. (“GUESS”), the global fashion brand and retailer, has adopted Matterport digital twins to ensure brand consistency across its stores and create immersive, virtual experiences for its employees, external buyers and wholesale partners. Since 2017, GUESS has used Matterport digital twins, or photorealistic digital replicas of stores, to realize a 200 percent increase in productivity, a 30 percent decrease in travel costs, and a 95 percent reduction in departmental paper and printer ink costs. Additionally, by equipping employees with iPad® and the Bigtincan sales enablement solution, GUESS trained and collaborated remotely with staff, engaged partners and wholesale customers, replacing in person store and showroom visits with virtual experiences. “Brick-and-mortar retailers still face a lot of uncertainty, but digital twins have enabled us to streamline our operations worldwide and build exciting, virtual experiences that

IRO, an iconic brand of ready-to-wear, high-end accessories for women and men, 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. IRO was founded in 2005 by two brothers, Arik and Laurent Bitton, who were initiated into the world of fashion throughout their childhood, as their parents managed a line of women’s clothing for more than 20 years. The brand was initially designed for women, but quickly diversified into a men’s collection in 2010. Now, IRO has 90 boutiques and operates 600 points of sale worldwide. The chic brand has continued to grow in recent years and has become extremely popular in the fashion sphere. Offering 4 seasonal collections each year, with an increasingly varied and

Rockwell Automation has just announced an unprecedented partnership with Bravo Motor Company, a company from California that offers applied innovation around decarbonization with a focus on the production of batteries, vehicles and energy storage systems. With the new alliance, Rockwell Automation will contribute to the provision of cutting-edge solutions for the manufacture of batteries and electric vehicles in the Brazilian market, based on the concept of the circular economy. The partnership announcement ceremony took place at Fundação Dom Cabral - Aloysio Faria Campus in Minas Gerais. According to John Miles, Rockwell Automation's Global Head of Future Mobility, the initiative will include technological support from Rockwell Automation to ramp up the project of the first Giga Factory in Latin America, based on digitalization, including integrated management, production optimization and sustainability. All this is done using tools that measure efficiency, operational quality, and productivity. In addition, Rockwell Automation will also provide modern digital solutions for maximizing results

Infor®, the industry cloud company, announced that Starboard Hotels, one of the UK’s leading independent hotel operators, owners, and developers of franchised and own brand hotels, has successfully extended its use of Infor EzRMS, incorporating in-depth competitor information analysis to help deliver an intelligent, responsive revenue management system across nine hotels in the group. Starboard has opted to take advantage of the full functionality of Infor EzRMS, with new capabilities enabling the business to obtain an automated, comprehensive insight into competitive pricing throughout all online channels. Starboard’s revenue team can now track online distribution channels consistently and systematically, checking positioning against regional competing offers to be able to match these, whilst taking into account changing demand and factoring in events as soon as they are announced. This extra functionality will build on the excellent work of the team, increasing revenue throughout the hotels and improving competitiveness by enabling a data-based, total revenue

Simulations Plus, Inc., a leading provider of modeling and simulation software and services for pharmaceutical safety and efficacy, today announced that its Cognigen division worked with a major pharmaceutical company to implement modeling and simulation activities to support the development of a candidate COVID-19 therapy. This modeling and simulation work provided significant contributions towards regulatory submissions for the compound. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, the pharmaceutical company initiated a collaboration to support the accelerated development of their compound. Together with scientists from the company, Sébastien Bihorel , Pharm.D., Ph.D., Senior Director of Pharmacometrics and Workflow Automation, led this cooperative team effort on behalf of Simulations Plus. Cognigen scientists provided real-time data processing and analysis, allowing for rapid knowledge updates about pharmacokinetics and efficacy in patients with COVID‑19 as the clinical trials proceeded. “We are extremely proud of this collaboration, which further underscores the importance and critical role of modeling and simulation in informing development-related decisions and

Atos and Trinseo, a global materials solutions provider and manufacturer of plastics and latex binders, today announce that Trinseo has started using Atos’ recently launched digital solution to identify and monitor the carbon footprint of its entire portfolio. This will enable Trinseo to deliver superior product data on the carbon footprint of its products to its customers and accelerates Trinseo’s net-zero ambitions and carbon transparency commitments. From June 2022 until the end of this year, Trinseo works with Atos using this digital solution that calculates product carbon footprints (PCF) for the chemical industry to gather key insights for enterprise-wide deployment of the solution in line with its existing SAP ERP and data landscape. After scaling up the tool across business units, Trinseo is expected to ultimately achieve the capability of providing automated PCF information in-house to its customers for all its products. The PCF calculation tool (SCOTT) and methodology developed by BASF is based on Life Cycle Assessment

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that Turk Nippon Insurance has future-proofed its IT infrastructure with the HPE GreenLake edge to cloud platform. After delivering insurance services for over 20 years, the company turned to HPE GreenLake to initiate a data-first modernization strategy to accelerate innovation and deliver superior customer experiences. Turk Nippon Insurance was established in 1991 under the partnership of the Development Bank of Turkey and Nippon Fire & Marine Insurance and in 2008, it merged with the Harel Group, the largest insurance group in Israel. It became increasingly clear to the company that maintaining their aging legacy system was taking up a significant proportion of their IT budget. Additionally, the old IT environment no longer supported the company’s modern applications, and over time, it became more vulnerable to failures and therefore they needed to embark on an upgrade and modernization of their technology environment.  “It is simply impossible to compete in the market