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Centric Software® will unveil groundbreaking new retail planning, pricing and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) innovations at the National Retail Federation’s annual conference (NRF 2023: Retail’s Big Show), booth #6163, running on January 15-17 in the Javits Center, NYC. 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. NRF attendees will have an opportunity to see Centric’s solutions in action, including Centric PLM®, the new Centric Planning™ retail planning platform and Centric Visual Boards™ for dynamic, visually-driven decision-making. Centric will also unveil Centric Pricing™ (formerly StyleSage), which empowers retailers to maximize product pricing via AI-powered tools for competitive product assortment benchmarking.   Experts from Centric Software will be running a packed schedule of speaking sessions every day on PLM, planning, pricing and more at booth #6163, level 3. Sessions include solution

Éric Feunteun, COO of the Software République and Valérie Pécresse, President of the Région Île-de-France (France), officially launch "AI for Urban Mobility" the sixth challenge of the Software République, from the CES (Consumer Electronics Show), one of the most important exhibitions dedicated to technological innovation. The "AI for Urban Mobility" challenge This Call for Projects is aimed at researchers, innovators, start-ups, and anyone who knows how to process data and wants to improve urban and peri-urban mobility in the Île-de-France region. The objective is to imagine an innovative mobility solution with AI around the light vehicle by proposing: Solutions facilitating intermodality and facilitating passenger travel experience between public transport and light electric vehicles. New car-sharing services. Services to optimise and facilitate the use of charging stations / electric infrastructures. Solutions for organising last-mile logistics. And more generally, any service that will facilitate increased use of cleaner mobility solutions around Mobilize vehicles and public transport. A "powered by Mobilize" initiative The project

Honeywell, along with major retail companies and tech partners like Tractor Supply, Microsoft and BarTender, will take visitors on a first-hand journey through the tech-enabled retail setting at the world’s largest retail event. The company will present its latest fit for purpose technology solutions that will play a key role in advancing future retail growth at NRF 2023: Retail’s Big Show, January 15-17, in New York City. Under the theme “Discover Frictionless Retail,” the Honeywell booth #3339 will demonstrate solutions and technologies empowering the retail associate, helping to create superior customer experiences. “As we end another peak holiday shopping season, smart retailers are developing strategies and incorporating solutions to maintain momentum into 2023,” said Tom Chittenden, president of Honeywell’s Productivity Solutions and Services business. “At NRF this year, we’re going to show retailers how the right tools can empower employees, boost their productivity and help them better serve customers.” Honeywell will offer information and

Honeywell will issue its fourth quarter financial results and 2023 outlook before the opening of the Nasdaq Stock Market on Thursday, February 2. The company will also hold a conference call at 8:30 a.m. EST. Presentation Materials / Webcast Details A real-time audio webcast of the presentation can be accessed at http://www.honeywell.com/investor, where related materials will be posted prior to the presentation and a replay of the webcast will be available for 30 days following the presentation. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Honeywell on CIMdata.com

Sandvik will publish its fourth quarter results on Friday, January 20, 2023 at approximately 08:00 AM CET. A combined webcast and conference call for investors, analysts and financial media will be held at 10:00 AM CET. The report will be presented in a webcast and conference call by Stefan Widing, President and CEO as well as by Cecilia Felton, CFO. The presentation will be broadcasted live on our website home.sandvik Dial-in details for the conference call: SE: +46 (0) 8 505 10 031 UK: +44 (0) 207 107 06 13 US: +1 (1) 631 570 56 13 From about 9:30 AM CET presentation slides will be available on our website home.sandvik To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Sandvik on CIMdata.com

Simulations Plus, Inc., a leading provider of modeling and simulation software and services for pharmaceutical safety and efficacy, reported financial results for its first quarter of fiscal 2023, ended November 30, 2022. Shawn O’Connor, chief executive officer of Simulations Plus, said, “Despite a $0.3 million FX negative impact on our revenue, our first quarter results were in line with the new seasonal expectations we introduced on our last earnings call in November. At the time, we said we were taking deliberate actions to align software renewal timing for diverse groups and products within each customer, which we expected to impact our first quarter revenue seasonality while boosting our second through fourth quarter results. We also said some new sales were expected to push into our second quarter to align with customers’ new calendar year budgets. The renewal patterns are progressing as expected and we signed 15 new customers across our software

Accenture has completed its acquisition of Inspirage, an integrated Oracle Cloud specialist firm with an emphasis in supply chain management, headquartered in Bellevue, Washington. The acquisition further enhances Accenture’s Oracle Cloud capabilities, helping it accelerate innovation for clients through emerging technologies, such as touchless supply chain and digital twins. Financial terms of the transaction, previously announced on September 6, were not disclosed. Approximately 736 Inspirage people join the Accenture Oracle Business Group, further bolstering its Oracle supply chain skills and expanding its capabilities to help product-centric clients create interconnected, intelligent and innovative supply chain networks. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Accenture on CIMdata.com Search for Inspirage on CIMdata.com

PTC announced that it has completed its acquisition of ServiceMax from an entity majority owned by Silver Lake. The acquisition adds important field service management (FSM) capabilities to PTC’s closed-loop product lifecycle management (PLM) and digital thread offerings. ServiceMax provides a comprehensive suite of cloud-native FSM capabilities for servicing complex long-lifecycle products, including managing information about serviced products, creating and managing work orders, and scheduling and dispatching technicians. Product manufacturers increasingly view their product-related service offerings as an important business strategy for maintaining product performance, increasing customer satisfaction, driving revenue growth, and expanding profitability. “Completing the ServiceMax acquisition ushers in the next era of PTC’s closed-loop PLM strategy,” said Jim Heppelmann, President and CEO, PTC. “With the ServiceMax® FSM suite in our portfolio, the solution set we can now offer for the service part of the product lifecycle is one of the broadest in the industry. We look forward to expanding the ServiceMax business

Trimble has acquired Ryvit, an integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) provider for the construction industry. Launched in 2016, Ryvit builds connections between commonly used applications and data sources, enabling information sharing both within and across organizations so that project teams can use the right information to make the right decisions at the right time.  “The construction industry today is stymied by disparate data and technology solutions that don’t connect with one another, making it difficult to share information across departments and amongst project teams,” said Pete Large, senior vice president, Trimble Construction sector. “Ryvit provides a platform for software solution providers and construction stakeholders to rapidly build and deploy workflows, enabling the automatic flow of critical information across organizations and teams in real time. At Trimble, we believe that openness and interoperability are imperative to the future of the construction industry and are excited to extend Ryvit’s capabilities to more customers, applications and partners

CCTech is pleased to announce the addition of HVAC-Twin to Bentley Systems’ powered by iTwin program. HVAC-Twin enables quick turnaround between HVAC design iterations—leading to energy and cost-efficient HVAC designs. Designers and engineers can add sensor data, make connections, and start visualizing data such as temperature, occupancy, and CO2 levels—to diagnose and improve the performance of HVAC systems. HVAC-Twin is a web-based, physics-informed 3D digital twin that is built for easy accessibility and enhanced collaboration, providing quick turnaround between design iterations leading to energy and cost-efficient HVAC designs. HVAC-Twin addresses multiple challenges of stakeholders involved in the HVAC industry, from the design phase to maintenance and operations. These stakeholders include architects, building occupants, general contractors, HVAC system designers, consultants, and building owners. HVAC-Twin is a cloud-based platform that helps stakeholders understand built HVAC systems, which are frequently overdesigned. The solution helps improve the accuracy of HVAC designs provided by CFD for resident homes