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PROS®, the CFO’s best-kept secret for profitable growth, will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2022 ended December 31, 2022 after the U.S. financial markets close on Thursday, February 9, 2023. PROS Holdings, Inc. will host a conference call on Thursday, February 9, 2023, at 4:45 p.m. ET to discuss the company’s financial results and business outlook. To access this call, dial 1-877-407-9039 (toll-free) or 1-201-689-8470. The live and archived webcasts of this call can be accessed under the “Investor Relations” section of the Company’s website at www.pros.com. A telephone replay will be available until Thursday, February 16, 2023, 11:59 PM ET at 1-844-512-2921 (toll-free) or 1-412-317-6671 using the pass code 13735564. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for PROS on CIMdata.com

Fourth quarter 2022 REVENUE GROWTH OF 11% AND RECORD PROFIT QUARTER Continuing operations Order intake SEK 30,751 million (26,772) Order intake growth, at fixed exchange rates 3% Revenues SEK 31,094 million (25,311) Revenue growth, at fixed exchange rates 11% Adjusted EBITA SEK 6,413 million (5,043) Adjusted EBITA margin 20.6% (19.9) Adjusted EBIT SEK 5,977 million (4,798) Adjusted EBIT margin 19.2% (19.0) Adjusted profit before tax SEK 5,587 million (4,775) Profit for the period SEK 3,435 million (3,436) Adjusted profit for the period SEK 4,041 million (3,464) Earnings per share, diluted SEK 2.73 (2.73) Adjusted earnings per share, diluted SEK 3.22 (2.75) Free operating cash flow SEK 6,226 million (4,474) Proposed dividend per share 5.00 SEK (4.75) To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Sandvik on CIMdata.com

ESI Group, a global simulation and virtual prototyping software partner for the industry, has signed the United Nations Women's Empowerment Principles (WEP). The Group reaffirms its commitment to an inclusive corporate culture, guaranteeing equality between women and men: diversity at the service of the company's performance. By becoming a signatory to the Women's Empowerment Principles, ESI Group is committed to taking bold steps to advance gender equality in the workplace, marketplace and within the community. The Group will focus on non-discrimination, public reporting of progress toward gender equality, and on providing equal opportunities for education, training, and professional development. Diversity is key to accelerating a company's performance, enriching its culture, and employee well-being. At ESI, the workforce is multicultural, international, and comes from different areas of expertise. Women make up 43% of the Board of Directors and 50% of the management team, yet women are still underrepresented everywhere else. I am

Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management leader, unveiled the recipients of its inaugural Partner Awards program. The awards highlight a diverse cohort of Informatica’s 400-plus partner ecosystem and acknowledge their unique efforts to empower enterprises on their data management, cloud modernization, and digital transformation journeys in 2022. Recipients were recognized across 22 key categories, including specialty categories such as cloud modernization, data governance and privacy, innovation, growth, and rising star. Partners have been nominated and selected based on the quality of their engagement with Informatica and our clients, partnership performance, and level of commitment and investment. The awards, in part, reflect a significant revitalization Informatica made to its partner program, partner enablement and overall ease of doing business. “We’re proud to have such a robust network of trusted, top-tier partners that understand the mission-critical solutions we provide and the mutual benefits we deliver to our community of end users,” said Amit Walia, Chief Executive Officer,

NTT DATA, a global digital business and IT services leader, announced that it has been named a recipient of the Salesforce Partner Innovation Award in 'Net Zero' category for the initiatives aimed at helping companies to reach their sustainability goals, for a project it developed for the BBVA Group. This comprehensive cloud solution will allow the company to simplify the way it sends and validates information, providing it with carbon footprint indicators and emission reduction tracking figures. In short, the platform will enable the BBVA Group to manage its sustainability policies in an active and data-based way. The award recognises NTT DATA's ability to advise its clients on their responsibility to align their business plans with the fulfillment of the Sustainable Development Goals It reinforces its global alliance which both institutions have been associated with for more than 20 years, collaborating on many successful projects in this time. Marv Mouchawar, SVP and Head

RedTeam Software, a leader in construction management software, announced the company has completed its senior leadership team with the recent hiring of Patrick Brien as Vice President of Sales. Brien joins RedTeam on the heels of two other senior level hires: Betsie Hoyt as Vice President of Product Development and Kristine Sheikh as Vice President of Marketing. All three experienced leaders report to RedTeam CEO Jim Atkinson and will be central to driving the company’s continued growth.  Patrick Brien was named Vice President of Sales, effective January 2, 2023, charged with leading all facets of the RedTeam sales function. Brien joins RedTeam from Lytx, a SaaS fleet management solution, where he built and led a high-performing sales team that consistently met or exceeded revenue targets. He has an established track record of developing growth strategies that align business objectives and client solutions and employing both analytical decision-making and creativity to improve the

SEMI announced that its International Board of Directors has elected Mary Puma, president and CEO of Axcelis Technologies, as its new chairperson, effective immediately, in accordance with the association's by-laws. Puma will lead the SEMI International Board of Directors in evolving the association’s operations, programs and services worldwide to support the growth of member companies throughout the electronics manufacturing and design supply chain. “We congratulate Mary on her election and look forward to working with her on behalf of SEMI member companies to accelerate semiconductor industry growth and innovation and encourage greater collaboration on the industry’s most critical challenges,” said SEMI president and CEO Ajit Manocha. “Mary has been an outstanding contributor to the SEMI International Board of Directors and will now chair its work to heighten SEMI’s development and delivery of member value across all of our regions.” Puma has served as Axcelis’ CEO since January 2002 and was instrumental in the company’s

The University of Massachusetts Boston and MathWorks are partnering to establish a new career-readiness initiative that will help launch UMass Boston students—the most diverse student body in New England—into successful careers. Creating a cohort-based pathway of scholarships, curricular support, and paid internships, the program is designed to expand early-career opportunities for UMass Boston students, build a diverse and highly trained pipeline of job candidates, and increase the number of people with underrepresented identities working in the region’s technology sector. The MathWorks Scholars Program is being underwritten by a $1 million grant from the Natick-based company.  “We are deeply grateful to MathWorks for their partnership and their vision in developing this important program,” said UMass Boston Chancellor Marcelo Suárez-Orozco. “As Boston’s only public research university, our guiding lights are ‘access’ and ‘opportunity,’ and the MathWorks Scholars Program is an exemplar of how we can collaborate with like-minded organizations to provide students with both.” Over the next

Velo3D, Inc., a leading metal additive manufacturing technology company for mission-critical parts, announced it has appointed Dr. Robin Stamp as Director of Solutions Engineering to help grow the adoption of Velo3D’s metal additive manufacturing technology with new customers and in new industries. In his role, Dr. Stamp will oversee the development of new standards with regulatory agencies, qualification of new metal alloys for use in the Sapphire family of printers, and the collaboration with partners and agencies. Dr. Stamp has extensive experience leading teams in the research and development of additive manufacturing technology, which includes operating Velo3D’s fully integrated solution in production environments. He was previously a principal engineer at SpaceX, where he worked on developing technology for space applications. Dr. Stamp also spent more than a decade at Stryker, a medical technology company with more than $17 billion in sales, leading the research and development team responsible for creating new additive manufacturing

Configit, the global leader in Configuration Lifecycle Management (CLM), announces the immediate availability of Configit Ace® as a cloud-based platform for product configuration. Designed specifically for the cloud, the Configit Ace® Cloud deployment option provides the same market-leading CLM capabilities and interfaces as the current Configit Ace® on-premises offering. This enables customers to choose the Configit Ace® deployment option that best suits their needs with the comfort of knowing that migration is possible if required. “We are proud to announce that all the capabilities and powerful features that Configit Ace® delivers are available as a cloud service. While the cloud service is designed and architected specifically for the cloud, it provides exactly the same features as our on-premises offering, which means that customers can now choose the best deployment option for their CLM journey”, stated Johan Salenstedt, CEO, Configit. Configit Ace® provides a single-source-of-truth for product configuration information that enables providers of complex products and services to manage, query