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Wipro Limited, a leading technology services and consulting company, announced that Badri Srinivasan will lead the India and Southeast Asia businesses under the company’s APMEA (Asia Pacific, Middle East, India and Africa) Strategic Market Unit. Badri will be taking over the leadership of these two regions to drive deeper synergies, facilitate sharing of best practices, deliver consistent and exceptional client experiences across the client journey, and scale Wipro’s ability to capitalize on the emerging growth opportunities. Badri joined Wipro in January 2022 as the Managing Director for Southeast Asia, where he led the consolidation of strategic transformational engagements with clients while strengthening Wipro’s talent base and brand presence. The initiatives under his leadership helped accelerate Wipro’s business growth and revenue expansion across key markets in the region. Badri is a Member of the Board of Wipro’s strategic subsidiaries and acquired entities in Asia (Capco, Rizing and Designit), and a member of Wipro’s Global

Two of HP Inc.’s inaugural Amplify Impact awards go to the Bechtle Group. The prizes are recognition of the sustainable impact achievements of HP’s partners across six categories—winners were honoured at HP’s Amplify Partner Conference in Chicago. The Global Business Excellence Award went to Bechtle and the Climate Action Award for Southern Europe went to Bechtle subsidiary Inmac Wstore in France. With Bechtle running in a field of all global partners, HP honours Germany’s largest IT system house for its efforts in doing sustainable business, highlighting in particular Bechtle’s extensive sustainable action and objectives on an international scale. HP Amplify Impact is an extension of the HP partner programme that provides training and resources based on HP’s own sustainable impact initiatives. All partners enrolled in the HP Amplify Impact programme have developed sustainability strategies for their organisations. As part of the HP Amplify Impact sustainability programme, Bechtle successfully participated in assessments and

Essig, a leading provider of high-tech engineering, manufacturing and PLM services and solutions, announced that it is celebrating thirty years in business. Established in 1993, Essig’s roots were in engineering design and analysis with the development of complex 3D finite element models and providing thermal and structural analysis of turbine airfoils. Today, Essig’s companies include Essig Research, Essig MFG and Essig PLM. Essig Research, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, provides a variety of technical services specialized in areas that include R&D, product definition engineering (PDE), test facility engineering (TFE), new product introduction (NPI), maintenance repair and overhaul (MRO) and advanced manufacturing techniques to customers worldwide. Essig MFG, headquartered in Moberly, Missouri, adds manufacturing capabilities to Essig’s offerings, allowing it to provide “design-build” services, from initial design to production. This product lifecycle capability allows Essig to control the entire process and quality of the end product and has long been sought after by Essig’s

The Business Intelligence Group announced Fiix by Rockwell Automation as a winner in the Artificial Intelligence Excellence Awards program. Fiix Foresight, Fiix’s suite of AI-powered tools, quickly analyzes maintenance data and makes recommendations based on trends in this data, enabling teams to predict and prevent breakdowns, delays and stockouts. “It is an honor to be named a winner in the AI Excellence Awards program. There are an exponential number of use cases for AI, so to be singled out for how we use it to empower maintenance teams is incredibly rewarding,” said Sandy D’Souza, director of product marketing at Fiix by Rockwell Automation. Fiix by Rockwell Automation is the first and only AI-powered computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) with Fiix Foresight embedded in the platform. Fiix Foresight generates reports and analyzes trends from the data that maintenance teams are already logging in Fiix. This enables maintenance teams to make decisions without having to

L&T Technology Services Limited, a leading global pure-play engineering services company, and Ansys, a global leader and pioneer of Multiphysics engineering simulation software have signed an MOU to establish the LTTS-Ansys Center of Excellence (CoE) for Digital Twin. The center will support LTTS in demonstrating industry use cases, develop future facing solutions, and enable its customers to optimize design, manufacturing, and supply chain processes. Ansys' Twin Builder solution will allow LTTS to further expand its market share in digital twin areas. The digital twin market is valued at $6.5 billion and is expected to reach $125.7 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 39.48%. The CoE will help LTTS showcase digital twin proofs of concept to its customers and speed up their adoption. The collaboration will enable LTTS to meet the growing demand for digital twin solutions and provide access to emerging talent in the technology market. The joint efforts of Ansys and

Lantek, a multinational company specializing in digital transformation for the sheet metal and metal cutting and processing sector, has signed a membership agreement with the Basque Artificial Intelligence Center (BAIC) to become part of the Basque ecosystem in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Along with five other companies, Lantek will be an active participant in the promotion of AI and data strategy implementation in the industry, with a focus on international positioning. Lantek’s membership in BAIC reinforces its commitment to the implementation of AI and data strategy in industry in the Basque Country. This includes the development of talent and incorporation of ethical and regulatory aspects. The membership also provides a framework for Lantek to be an important player at national and European levels in the field of AI. For Alberto López de Biñaspre, CEO of Lantek, this partnership presents an opportunity for the company to reinforce its strategy regarding the implementation of AI in

Finding the right cables, planning, designing and plotting their routing for assembly? Until now, this has been a very laborious process for electrical design engineers in machine building. Solutions provider EPLAN has now expanded its 3D software EPLAN Harness proD to cover the practical requirements for machine field cabling. What’s long been standard in the mechanical environment is now moving into electrical engineering – the digital twin of the cabling. Depicted in EPLAN Harness proD, this unique product data source is usable in manufacturing, assembly and even service and maintenance – by combing electrical and mechanical engineering. The common device database for the EPLAN systems ensures an unambiguous source for all the data. One clear advantage in practice is that every designer can work in their own way, each with their own view of the machine in question: mechanical engineering continues working with assemblies and electrical engineering with functions. System-supported designing

NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, communications, networking, and biometric solutions, announced Chris Jackson as its new President and CEO effective April 1, 2023. Previously, he served as President and CEO of NEC Europe, a role he will continue to hold. Chris will be named Senior Vice President for NEC Corporation with dual responsibility for NEC Europe and NEC Corporation of America. Since joining NEC in 2008, Jackson has held management positions in sales, business development and operations before being named President and CEO of NEC Europe in April 2020. This new alignment of NEC America and NEC Europe under a single President will enable a closer working relationship between the two important and growing regions. “I look forward to leading the fantastic teams both in America and in Europe and helping create social value by leveraging our leading technologies such as biometrics, AI, 5G

MariaDB plc announced the immediate availability of a new release of MariaDB SkySQL, a second generation cloud database service. SkySQL offers fully managed databases including its flagship distributed SQL product MariaDB Xpand for maximum resilience and scalability.  The release brings new innovation that lets organizations better manage their cloud database costs. SkySQL now enables autoscaling, which scales resources when demand surges and back down when demand normalizes to save costs. SkySQL also introduces serverless analytics to uncover insights on all current data without the need for ETL and all while paying for only what is used. Cloud database services offered by public cloud vendors were the first to bring open source databases, such as MariaDB, MySQL and PostgreSQL, to the cloud over a decade ago. These first generation cloud databases emphasized convenience and price, however, today’s world requires extraordinary resilience, elasticity and performance. Accelerated by the pandemic, at an unprecedented level, people have come to expect

It’s no secret that the creative bar continues to rise for VFX and animation studios. Global audiences expect amazing visual effects every time they watch TV, play a game, or explore the metaverse. As the need for truly immersive content grows, we’re committed to unlocking new levels of collaboration, creativity, and efficiency for artists and studios. We have our eyes on streamlining post–production and games pipelines. Updates to our media and entertainment portfolio, including Autodesk Maya, 3ds Max, Bifrost, and Arnold, further open standards and bolster artist-driven animation, modeling, and simulation workflows. They also boost performance with support for Apple Silicon. On top of that, we’re collaborating with Adobe to build a material standard, and with Microsoft to unveil a beta version of AI-powered Maya Assist. “Whether they’re working on the next big blockbuster, streaming content, or games, our customers use a lot of different tools to get productions out the door. It’s a top priority for us at Autodesk to help connect their workflows, so they can work nimbly and efficiently across teams and projects,” said Diana Colella, senior vice president, Autodesk Media & Entertainment. “That’s why we’ve