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Cranfield University’s Advanced Motorsport Engineering course has chosen Altair as a strategic software partner for teaching progressive simulation techniques to students who are aspiring to lead the next generation of motorsport teams at companies such as Mercedes AMG, Red Bull Technology, Lotus F1, McLaren F1, Sauber F1, Williams F1, Caterham F1, Marussia F1, and Sahara Force India. With an overall trend in the automotive industry towards eco-friendly technology, implementing CAE tools such as HyperWorks enables motorsport engineering design teams to stay competitive in the face of increasingly strict FIA regulations about fuel efficiency.  In Bedfordshire, England, Cranfield University is located near the Silverstone Circuit as well as several Formula One team headquarters and automotive supplier sites. The Advanced Motorsport Engineering MSc is led by programme director Clive Temple, while many Motorsport practitioners such as Pat Symonds, Adrian Reynard, Andrew McFarlan, Stefan Strahnz, Mike Pilbeam and Daniele Casanova contribute valuable sessions on

PTC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Atego, a developer of model-based systems and software engineering applications based in Cheltenham, UK, for approximately $50 million in cash. Subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions, the transaction is expected to be completed in PTC’s fiscal Q4 2014. “For customers in our focused markets, there is increasing importance for multifunctional teams to work in concert while modeling the interdependencies of mechanical, electrical, and software engineering components. The acquisition of Atego extends our existing ALM and PLM technologies, and directly supports customers’ needs to integrate multiple systems engineering disciplines.” The acquisition enhances PTC’s portfolio of product lifecycle management (PLM) and application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions, and strengthens PTC’s commitment to supporting its customers’ systems engineering initiatives with powerful modeling capabilities. Atego’s market-leading Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) solution connects requirements engineering, architecture modeling, physical product definition, and system verification functions. In doing so, it drives efficiencies and process standardization,

ETRAGE LLC, The Systems Integration and Design Process Automation Company, announced the release of several key solutions that target the PTC User Community – just in time for the PTC Live Global event, PTC’s prestigious yearly user event that attracts thousands of customers. ETRAGE over the years has been building solutions for PTC customers that are designed to help customer’s automate viewable file creation and management, integrate PTC Windchill with ERP, MRP, CRM & SharePoint systems and clean and migrate data for PTC Windchill. Bojan Rapaic, President of ETRAGE comments, “over the years we’ve gotten to know the customer community well. We understand their engineering requirements and can help them in solving complex problems with product and services at a very competitive price.” ETRAGE offerings: Windchill EasySearch application for PTC® Windchill® PDMLink® for CAD files and documents Offers a customizable Windchill search mechanism providing various options by: name, number, context, and object type, from a

Free TurboViewer v3.5 now includes lightning-fast viewing of 2D/3D PDF and DWG, powerful 2D/3D markup, and a robust contact manager that helps anyone stay in touch with their entire design and building teams with the simple touch of a button. "TurboViewer just got turbo-charged," stated Royal Farros, CEO of IMSI/Design. "TurboViewer is now the fastest, easiest viewing markup app in the mobile world. And its ability to share drawings and documents is second-to-none." Highlights of free TurboSite v3.5 include: Lightning-fast 2D & 3D environment 2D & 3D PDF, DWG (AutoCAD® and AutoCAD LT®), TCW, DXF and DWF Easy Contact Management (communicate with your team at the touch of a button) Powerful 2D and 3D markup tools New viewing modes New File Manager And more Availability and Pricing TurboViewer v3.5 is free and available for iPad and iPhone through the Apple App Store now and will be available for Android shortly.

Solid Licenses installed base Buoyant New Licenses Business  Strategic refocusing of the Services activity Negative currency effect Alain de Rouvray, ESI Group’s Chairman and CEO, comments: “The revenue recorded over the first quarter, traditionally a period of relatively low business volume, confirms the vitality of the Licenses activity, with sustained activity in the installed base and dynamic New Licenses Business; giving a significant increase at constant currency. At the same time, our activity supporting the transition towards virtual prototyping is being strengthened through projects demanding a high level of expertise and delivering high added value. Nevertheless, the volume of Services remains affected by the strategic refocusing to exclude low-value-added standard studies. The multi-year and multi-sector strategic agreements signed at the end of 2013, together with the positive prospects of our recent acquisitions and notably in the field of Virtual Reality, are expected to bear fruit in the second half of 2014. The Group’s fundamentals

Dassault Systèmes unveils its 2019 non-IFRS EPS objective of about €7.00 at its 2014 Capital Market Day which is being held today, Friday, June 13, 2014, as previously disclosed. The Capital Market Day, dedicated to analysts and investors, is hosted at the Company’s headquarters in Vélizy-Villacoublay, France, and includes presentations by the senior executive management team. The sessions are being recorded and will be available for replay in the afternoon of June 13, 2014 by accessing http://www.3ds.com/investors/ “Over the last twenty-four months, Dassault Systèmes has put together a unique set of assets to address our expanded mission to harmonize product, nature and life,” commented Bernard Charlès, President and CEO. “In addition, we have made significant, transformational changes to align our business on our Industry Solutions Experience strategy, and further reinforced our organization to address a much broader market opportunity. With these critical components now in place, I believe we are well positioned

Booth 530 at this year’s PTC® Live Global in Boston will be the venue for the first US public display of Virtalis’ Visionary Render software.  Being held June 15-18, PTC Live Global is the premier networking and training event for product development professionals using PTC solutions. Virtalis was proud to be awarded 'Best in Show' at PTC Live Global 2013 in Anaheim, CA and is a Gold Sponsor of this year’s show. Visionary Render, which was launched at the end of 2013, renders huge and complex Virtual Reality (VR) models in real-time, stereoscopic 3D with high update rates and negligible latency. Virtalis’ ActiveDesk system will also be new on the booth, bringing stereoscopic, interactive 3D visualisation to the desktop courtesy of a link to zSpace from Virtalis’ Visionary Render software. “We’ve put all our VR know-how into Visionary Render”, explained Andrew Connell, technical director at Virtalis.  “It’s a system that can cope with the most complex data and

AVEVA will be showcasing its software solutions for engineering, design and information management at the 21st World Petroleum Congress (WPC) 2014, 15 – 19 June at the Crocus Expo Center in Moscow, Russia.  The full suite of AVEVA solutions for project and asset life cycle efficiency will be on display with a special focus on two of its latest software applications: AVEVA E3D Insight and AVEVA Activity Visualisation Platform (AVEVA AVP). “WPC is considered one of the biggest and most influential events in the oil & gas industry calendar. This gives us an exceptional opportunity to showcase our position as the leading provider of engineering, design and information management software solutions for the entire lifecycle of CAPEX projects and OPEX activities,” said Helmut Schuller, Executive Vice President, Global Sales, AVEVA. “Our tightly integrated, yet flexibly open solutions for Integrated Project Execution and Operations Integrity Management offer both EPCs and Owner Operators

Tata Consultancy Services today announced the expansion of its goIT student technology awareness program, initially launched in 2009 in Cincinnati, OH and now planned for 10 cities across the North America in 2014. For the past six years, TCS has aimed to inspire students to pursue education and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematic (STEM) fields, with goIT featuring skilled TCS employee volunteers teaching computer science courses in high schools and middle schools, conducting 'Train the Teacher' workshops, and holding three-day summer camps. There will be eight million STEM jobs in the U.S. by 2018, with 71 percent of such roles representing the field of Computing. Furthermore, 80 percent of the fastest growing U.S. occupations require STEM skills. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), between 2013 and 2023, there will be two jobs available for every graduate with a Computer Science (CS) degree, and more than 1.4 million jobs created by 2020

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, today announced its final call for submissions to the 2014 Be Inspired Awards program. The deadline for entries is July 10, 2014. The awards, which are selected by an independent jury of industry experts, recognize the extraordinary and innovative work of organizations that help sustain the world’s infrastructure by designing, engineering, constructing, delivering, and/or operating better-performing, safer, and more resilient roads, buildings, plants, utility networks, and more. The 18 award categories cover every aspect of the built environment in this uniquely comprehensive, global program. All Bentley users are invited to enter their projects in the Be Inspired Awards program, no matter what phase the project is in – preconstruction/conceptual, design, construction, or built. The three finalists chosen for each Be Inspired Awards category will win a trip to London to attend, as a guest of Bentley Systems, The Year in Infrastructure 2014 Conference, being held Nov. 4-6 at the Hilton London Metropole in the U.K. The finalists