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SAP SE announced a strategic partnership with Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, a leading science and technology company, to jointly drive sustainable business practice innovation. The partnership will further accelerate the migration of the systems of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany to the cloud with RISE with SAP, a core element of which is SAP S/4HANA Cloud. The pace of digitalization is accelerating. Disruptions in recent months have shown that to be successful, companies need to respond quickly to changes by adapting their business models and processes. For this reason, Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany and SAP SE announced a new strategic partnership. The aim is to further accelerate the digital transformation of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany drive sustainable innovation together, and comply with security as well as compliance standards. “Our partnership with SAP is set to help us accelerate our innovation journey and bring us to the next level of digitalization. We are continuing to

Taulia, a leading provider of working capital management solutions, today announces it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Aramco, one of the world’s leading integrated energy and chemicals companies, to discuss Taulia providing supplier financing solutions. As part of its In-Kingdom Total Value Add (iktva) program, which strives to accelerate digital transformation efforts domestically, Aramco recently signed over 100 agreements to help advance a diverse, sustainable and globally competitive industrial ecosystem. Taulia is undertaking the program in collaboration with J.P. Morgan and Manafa Capital. Cedric Bru, CEO of Taulia, comments: “Through this program, we are paving the way for thousands of businesses worldwide to access affordable financing options and manage their liquidity as they continue to navigate through uncertain economic times.” Ziad T. Murshed, Executive VP & CFO of Aramco, comments: “This is a great step towards enabling local suppliers to access funding options to support the industrial ecosystem and strengthen our local supply

Trimble announced that Nissan Motor Co. Ltd. will use Trimble RTXⓇ technology as its high-accuracy positioning source, enabling the hands-off and guided freeway driving capabilities of the ProPILOT Assist 2.0* driver assistance system, available initially on the 2023 Nissan Ariya.  While positioning with standard Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals may drift up to 10 meters (25 feet), Trimble RTX provides higher accuracy and enables consistent lane determination for driving applications. This makes Trimble RTX a key component for many of the latest driver assistance systems like the ProPILOT Assist 2.0. Increasingly being used on freeways, lane-level accuracy via advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), where the driver is still the ultimate decision maker, is a key enabler in the journey to fully autonomous solutions.  "Trimble has been at the forefront of precise positioning for decades and has served the automotive segment for nearly as long,” said Patricia Boothe, general manager, On-Road Autonomy at

IBM is announcing the acquisition of StepZen Inc, which developed a GraphQL server with a unique architecture that helps developers build GraphQL APIs quickly and with less code. Today’s news marks IBM’s first acquisition of 2023. Since Arvind Krishna became CEO in April 2020, IBM has acquired 30 companies to bolster its hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. The rising adoption of hybrid cloud has resulted in data stored everywhere – in different types of data stores likes data warehouses, lakes, and lakehouses as well as across different clouds and on-premises environments. APIs serve as the essential connector between different data sources and applications, which means that businesses are relying on and creating more APIs than ever before to get the data they need to power their applications and experiences. GraphQL has rapidly become a go-to query language for companies to interact with their data and is emerging as a new standard

Bechtle is set to move into a new location in Unterschleißheim, just north of Munich. The new Koryfeum office campus will offer some 150 employees from five Bechtle companies a home across two stories of highly modern offices. 4,200 m² of rented space have been turned into a state-of-the-art, collaborative work and meeting environment. Bechtle IT System House Munich and Solidpro will be moving there from Garching and Bechtle Network & Security Solutions GmbH from Olching respectively. Additionally, teams from Bechtle Managed Services GmbH and Bechtle Logistik & Service GmbH will also take up office at the shared site. With this change in scenery, Bechtle is creating a modern work space that will spark creativity while also featuring interior design to encourage collaboration between the subsidiaries. Bringing together these different teams will on the one hand create economically beneficial synergies, and on the other hand enable a more comprehensive customer service

Global provider of design and collaboration solutions, Bricsys®, part of Hexagon, announced its partnership with MechWorks, part of ITI Technegroup, a WIPRO Company, to deliver an integration between Siemens’ Teamcenter® software and BricsCAD®. The solution offers industry-best features to connect BricsCAD’s processes faster and allow designers to focus on product development. Manufacturers need new ways to stay efficient and profitable to maintain and grow their market share as products become increasingly complex. As a result of this partnership, the new Siemens’ Teamcenter® interface, named TCBB (Teamcenter Interface for Bricsys’ BricsCAD), permits users to search and load parts, assemblies, and drawings in the correct version from Teamcenter’s managed environment, introduce improvements and exchange information about a product with minimal effort. Following this partnership, manufacturing, procurement, and production teams can now directly access design data. This improves the product quality and gives users a holistic view, accelerating time to revenue. Cliff Brown, Executive Product Manager

With the partnership between CONTACT Software and Cadmatic, the global shipbuilding industry benefits from digitization solutions tailored to its specific requirements. Cadmatic is using CONTACT's low-code technology platform CONTACT Elements to provide shipyards with optimal support for digitization along the entire lifecycle of shipbuilding projects - from design and engineering, through prefabrication and production, to maintenance and operation. The composable CONTACT Elements platform is based on open software technologies and offers a broad portfolio of future-proof industrial applications that are in use at thousands of customers in various industries worldwide. The platform provides the agility needed to flexibly adapt Cadmatic solutions to new requirements and significantly reduce the complexity of shipbuilding processes. “CONTACT and Cadmatic are two leading experts whose products and industry experience complement each other perfectly. With this partnership, shipbuilding companies worldwide will benefit from future-proof solutions to drive their digital transformation, meet growing market and customer demands, and integrate

HCLTech, a leading global technology company, was named a Titanium member, the highest level of recognition, at the Intel® Network Builders Winners’ Circle Awards for the second consecutive year. HCLTech is among other top companies in the Intel® Network Builders ecosystem that have demonstrated outstanding technical innovation to accelerate the transformation of networks from core to edge. The program has driven greater technical enablement for businesses in partnership with HCLTech, and the company has been instrumental in developing cutting-edge solutions that transform networks to accelerate business transformation. “We’re honored to be named a Titanium member in the Intel® Network Builders Winners’ Circle for the second time,” said Kalyan Kumar, Chief Technology Officer, HCLTech. “This recognition is the result of countless hours of hard work and dedication from our extensive pool of experienced technologists. We look forward to our continued partnership with Intel®to deliver impactful transformation for our current and future enterprise customers.” The

LTIMindtree, a global technology consulting and digital solutions company, announced that it has achieved the Guidewire PartnerConnect Testing Standards specialization. LTIMindtree is a Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partner at the Select level and works with Guidewire in North America and India. By recognizing its enterprise test solutions through the specialization, LTIMindtree will offer a winning edge to global insurance companies in their transformation journey using the Guidewire platform. Specializations are regionally based and require partners to demonstrate skills, knowledge, and competency in a particular Guidewire product or solution area. The achievement of specializations enables insurers to have more clarity and insight into which partners have proven capabilities in a region or globally in the case of the Testing Standards specialization. In addition, partners with specializations can better promote their capabilities across Guidewire products and solutions. “We congratulate LTIMindtree on achieving their most recent Testing Standards specialization within our PartnerConnect Consulting program. We are pleased

Rockwell Automation, Inc., the world’s largest company dedicated to industrial automation and digital transformation, announced that Alice L. Jolla was elected to its board of directors effective Feb. 8, 2023. Jolla is the Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Vice President for Microsoft Corp. “Alice’s proven track record serving as the management liaison to the Microsoft Audit Committee makes her an excellent addition to Rockwell’s Board of Directors,” said Blake Moret, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rockwell. “Her financial experience with SaaS business models, her leadership, and her commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion will further strengthen our governance capacity and the evolution of our culture.” Jolla has more than 30 years of business and finance experience, with particular focus on accounting, compliance, strategic planning, financial analysis, and overall risk management. She joined Microsoft, a $198 billion technology company, in 2007 and now leads a global team responsible for accounting and financial