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Saadia Group, a family-owned holding group with a diverse portfolio of leading consumer brands including Lord & Taylor, Le Tote, and S3 Holding, has selected Oracle NetSuite to help it change the retail and brand landscape for current and future generations. With NetSuite, Saadia Group will be able to increase its return on investment across its portfolio by taking advantage of an integrated business system to improve operational efficiency and productivity. Headquartered in New York City, Saadia Group is a leader in online sales and owns and operates 15 brands in multicategory product manufacturing, wholesaling, and retailing. To centralize its financial and operational systems across its portfolio and help the brands it has acquired accelerate time to market and increase visibility into their business, Saadia Group selected NetSuite over Acumatica. “As we evaluated new business opportunities, we realized that we were being held back by inefficient processes and needed to reconsider how we operated,” said Yossi Kbabieh,

Lockheed Martin Corporation and SAP SE announced an expansion of their strategic relationship to transform the mission-critical business systems that power Lockheed Martin’s OneLM Transformation Program (1LMX). Lockheed Martin Chooses RISE with SAP as the Secure Solution to Fuel 1LMX Transformation 1LMX is the industry-leading business and digital transformation effort that is enhancing the speed, agility, insights and competitiveness of Lockheed Martin. By leveraging data as a strategic asset, enabling a model-based enterprise that spans the full product value chain, and streamlining systems and processes to both grow and run the business, Lockheed Martin is taking the lead in forging a more resilient, secure and modernized supply chain for the nation’s defense industrial base. Building on the decades-old relationship between the companies, Lockheed Martin is leveraging the RISE with SAP solution to expand its enterprise cloud capabilities and introduce the tools needed to implement core business processes in managed FedRAMP-compliant cloud environments through the 1LMX

Cadmatic and CONTACT Software have entered a strategic OEM partnership whereby Cadmatic will utilize the CONTACT Elements platform and its apps to deliver a broader scope of shipbuilding-specific digitalization solutions. Cadmatic’s enhanced scope will cover the entire lifecycle of shipbuilding projects from design and engineering to prefabrication and production and even to maintenance, and operation.  CONTACT Elements apps will be integrated with Cadmatic's design, engineering, and information management solutions portfolio to comprehensively address shipbuilding-specific digitalization needs and to optimize future shipbuilding-dedicated business, engineering, and development processes in this challenging domain. Via the strategic partnership with CONTACT Software, Cadmatic will now extend its offering by bringing the first shipbuilding-specific PLM solution to the market, thereby delivering tangible quality and time efficiency gains throughout the full shipbuilding project life cycle. “Shipbuilding is a unique industry with unique needs and levels of complexity. Our PLM and digitalization solution will come with in-built shipbuilding intelligence with the facilitation of

LTIMindtree, a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, announced that it has partnered with Duck Creek Technologies (NASDAQ: DCT), the intelligent solutions provider defining the future of property and casualty (P&C) insurance, and Microsoft to build a solution that will enable insurers to migrate their on-premises core systems to the cloud in a quick and efficient manner. The solution brings together LTIMindtree’s core modernization expertise, migration tools, and accelerators, Duck Creek’s industry-leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform ‘Duck Creek OnDemand’, and Microsoft’s comprehensive and secure Azure cloud platform. It will help insurers gain competitive advantage by delivering superior customer experience, innovation, cost-efficiency, and revenue growth. LTIMindtree’s comprehensive end-to-end cloud migration framework and remediation bots empower insurers to fully harness the agility and power of Duck Creek OnDemand to achieve predictable outcomes and transform their businesses. “Insurers of all sizes are increasingly looking to tap into SaaS-based core systems to boost their ability to

Autodesk’s Jadie Fanganello published a blog post on January 24 disucssing the updates and enhancements that have been release for Autodesk Construction Cloud. Jadie says “The start of the new year brings new and enhanced functionality across Autodesk Construction Cloud. This month, we’re excited to release feature additions and enhancements to Autodesk Build across cost, project management, data, and more.” Read the full post here: https://constructionblog.autodesk.com/new-in-autodesk-build-product-release-new-year/ To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Autodesk on CIMdata.com

ProWood, a leading manufacturer and supplier of pressure-treated lumber and ProWood FR fire-retardant plywood, lumber, and wall assemblies, has announced a partnership with BIMsmith, the leading product research platform for building professionals, for the development of new Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools for architects, engineers, and other construction professionals.  The partnership includes a suite of new Building Information Modeling (BIM) product models for ProWood products. These data-rich digital models contain key data representing both geometric and aesthetic properties of each product, allowing for highly accurate early-stage design. Each model integrates seamlessly with Autodesk Revit, the leading BIM design software used by building professionals globally. The partnership also places ProWood products and solutions, such as their ProWood FR V343 2-hour fire-retardant wall assembly, in front of a global audience of building design professionals on BIMsmith Market, the leading cloud platform used by architects and engineers to conduct building product research.  “ProWood is committed to

DXC Technology has been awarded a multi-year contract by global industrial company Georg Fischer (GF). Through the five-year agreement, DXC will help GF to digitalize the work experience of its thousands of employees around the world. Headquartered in Switzerland, GF is a leader in sustainable solutions enabling the safe transport of water and other liquids, lightweight casting components and high-precision manufacturing technologies. GF is on a journey to create a centralized digital hub for its employees, providing a real-time view of business operations and enabling data-driven decision making. GF will utilise DXC’s Modern Workplace solutions to build a digital workplace environment based on Microsoft and ServiceNow technologies. The modernized infrastructure will increase flexibility and enable designs, workstreams and files to be shared virtually through a centralized network, enhancing productivity and connectivity between colleagues. “With 15,000 employees spread across 34 countries and 139 companies, including 61 production facilities, efficient global employee collaboration is pivotal to

Siemens Digital Industries Software announced that the latest release of Simcenter™ software for mechanical simulation helps streamline electrification engineering projects, assists new aircraft meet margins of safety, simplifies durability testing across many industries and much more. “Addressing complex engineering challenges such as developing products that are more powerful, yet greener, lighter yet stronger requires a fully-integrated CAE solution,” said Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, Senior Vice President, Simulation and Test Solutions, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “The latest release of Simcenter offers a host of powerful enhancements to help engineers meet those challenges efficiently and significantly faster than ever before, whether that is getting tire contact simulations solved 45% quicker or reducing airframe structure preprocessing by up to 80%. The highlights in this release are applicable across all industries and workflows and bring new functionality to the Simcenter family of products. Highlights include: For those exploring Additive Manufacturing (AM), build process simulation is a must, particularly when dealing

Agiloft, the global standard in agile contract lifecycle management (CLM), introduces a new era of usability to the CLM industry with the launch of ConvoAI, which lets ALL users, not just contract professionals, have an interactive conversation with their contracts by asking questions in natural language to easily and intuitively find details in their contracts. In partnership with Cognizer AI and leveraging Cognizer’s Genius™ contract intelligence platform, Agiloft’s ConvoAI delivers the most advanced natural language information discovery experience in the CLM market today. The company made the announcement at its yearly global contract management industry conference, The Agiloft Summit, which draws customers, prospects, partners, and contract thought leaders worldwide from the worlds of legal, procurement, and sales. Agiloft ConvoAI will be enabled for all new and existing cloud-hosted CLM customers in the US and Europe and is accessible from the Agiloft CLM user interface and Agiloft for Microsoft Teams. This makes it possible

The software and service improvements in Ansys 2023 R1 concentrate and amplify the incredible advantages that engineering simulation provides to multidisciplinary engineering and R&D teams. Ansys 2023 R1 enables organizations to accelerate past complexity and integration challenges to design the next generation of world-changing products by taking advantage of performance improvements, cross-discipline workflow integrations, and innovative capabilities. “Simulation enables design teams to advance in the right direction by quickly and confidently making decisions that define market leaders,” said Shane Emswiler, senior vice president of products at Ansys. “Our latest advancements help engineers magnify their success through greater precision, streamlined workflows, and cloud scalability.” Enhance Simulation Performance The Structures product collection delivers new features and capabilities that allow users to perform more predictively accurate, efficient, and customizable simulation analyses. For example, a new capability within Ansys® Mechanical™ enables users to leverage AI/ML to determine the computational spend and time required to run a simulation. Ansys 2023 R1 also empowers users to run