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Qualtrics, the leader in experience management (XM), and SAP announced a new partnership helping organizations bring together the power of SAP SuccessFactors and Qualtrics® XM for Employee Experience™ to improve employee experience, reduce unwanted employee attrition, retain and develop top performers, improve employee engagement, and increase productivity. Under the new SAP Endorsed Apps agreement, organizations using SAP SuccessFactors will be able to contract Qualtrics XM for Employee Experience to access the latest innovations including People Engage, People Lifecycle, and Employee Technology Experience – equipping them with capabilities to engage teams, improve manager effectiveness, and make informed people decisions. Organizations will also gain access to new Qualtrics AI capabilities, including: Qualtrics Assist for Employee Experience: Rapidly analyze employee feedback to obtain clear and actionable insights for improving employee experience using AI-powered natural language understanding. Qualtrics Comment Summaries: Automatically aggregate and summarize employee feedback into clear themes, allowing managers to quickly identify patterns while ensuring employee anonymity. Qualtrics

Sage, the trusted software provider for small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) in the construction industry, and Tractics, the provider of the leading cloud-native construction management platform for heavy civil contractors, announce a partnership that delivers a powerful integration between Sage Intacct Construction and Tractics.  “This partnership brings together Sage’s industry-leading construction financial management solution and decades of innovation in construction technology with Tractics’ expertise in field, fleet, and project operations to deliver the best in accounting and operations software,” said Julie Adams, Senior Vice President, Construction and Real Estate, Sage. “Together, we provide the heavy civil market with a powerful and data-rich platform to seamlessly manage their entire business from the field to the office.”  Integration highlights: Sage Intacct Construction provides the horsepower and dependable accounting backbone U.S. businesses need to remain competitive, while Tractics delivers a robust solution for office, field, fleet, and project operations. This powerhouse integration includes: Centralized, wide visibility into

Volpi Capital, a pan-European B2B technology investor, is delighted to announce its partnership with Bluestar PLM, a leading SaaS provider headquartered in Denmark. Bluestar PLM offers a cloud-based Product Lifecycle Management (“PLM”) solution, which is embedded within the Microsoft Dynamics ERP platform (i.e. Finance and Supply Chain Management). Discrete manufacturing firms use the solution to help manage their product information, customisations, and traceability requirements. The company has c.60 employees across Europe and North America, and a global customer base of small and large enterprises. The Volpi and Bluestar PLM teams first met in 2022, and have built a trusted relationship since then, based on a mutual enthusiasm for growth opportunities in the global PLM market. As part of the strategic partnership, there is a joint plan to expand the leadership and go-to-market teams globally, develop a channel program for Bluestar resellers and integrators, and continue to invest in an ambitious roadmap, notably

Siemens Enterprise BOM—Driving Business Value ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA, 22 January 2025—Today, CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, published a new eBook focused on Siemens Digital Industries Software’s (Siemens) Enterprise Bill of Material (BOM) solution. The eBook describes manufacturers’ need to manage better the many BOMs used throughout their extended enterprise and the benefits of an enterprise BOM approach. It also describes Siemens’ enterprise BOM solution. Developing, producing, and servicing today’s complex products requires maintaining consistent integration of requirements, structures, and BOMs across multiple technological and functional domains. An enterprise BOM contains all the data, relationships, and product variant definitions needed to support the perspectives of multiple communities, such as product design, engineering, test and validation, manufacturing engineering, manufacturing operations, suppliers, and service. Siemens has developed a comprehensive enterprise BOM solution that enables manufacturers to engineer, produce, and service complex configured products while effectively managing change and

ABB is acquiring Sensorfact BV, a fast-growing energy management company headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands. The acquisition further expands ABB’s digital energy management offering and is expected to close in Q1 2025. Financial terms were not disclosed. Established in 2017, Sensorfact offers a scalable software as a service (SaaS) solution that helps small and medium sized enterprises use AI in their operations and energy management to lower costs and increase efficiency. The company has more than 250 full-time employees in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Berlin and serves more than 1,900 customers across Europe. Massimiliano Cifalitti, President of ABB’s Smart Power division, said: “ABB and Sensorfact are on a mission to help companies improve their energy efficiency, reduce maintenance costs and boost production. ABB is expanding its portfolio of energy management solutions that use big data and AI to make electrical distribution and energy management both efficient and intelligent. This acquisition advances our digital strategy

Hexagon's Asset Lifecycle Intelligence (ALI) division announced the acquisition of CAD Service. CAD Service is a developer of advanced visualisation tools used to integrate computer-aided design (CAD) drawings, BIM models, and Reality Capture data into HxGN EAM, Hexagon's industry-leading asset management solution designed to extend asset lifecycles and improve productivity. CAD Service has maintained a longstanding relationship with Hexagon, having signed a partnership agreement in 2013. The flagship solution, OpenCAD, is already an essential tool for around half of Hexagon's EAM Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) customers. The acquisition enables Hexagon to fully integrate CAD Service's visualisation capabilities into the broader solution set and accelerate the development roadmap. By leveraging CAD Service's expertise in-house, the ALI division will be able to offer more robust and comprehensive EAM solutions, addressing the evolving needs of complex industries, including manufacturing, energy, and transportation as they move to visualise and manage their assets in an increasingly 3D environment. "Acquiring CAD

IBM announced its intent to acquire Applications Software Technology LLC1, a global Oracle consultancy. Applications Software Technology brings deep expertise driving business transformations with Oracle Cloud Applications, including for clients in the public sector such as local government and K-12 education. Public sector cloud transformations frequently face issues that include difficulty transitioning legacy systems, scarce skills or high security and compliance requirements. This acquisition will further enhance IBM's Oracle solutions to help clients across North America, the UK and Ireland address those complexities and drive lasting results in their digital transformations with Oracle Cloud Applications. It will build on IBM's 2024 acquisition of Accelalpha, expanding IBM's ability to help clients deploy, manage and drive value from their Oracle cloud solutions. "Public sector clients' cloud transformations often require a consulting partner with industry, domain and technology expertise," said Kelly Chambliss, Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting, Americas. "The acquisition of Applications Software Technology will boost IBM's public sector and

Tata Technologies Limited, a leading global engineering services company, announced financial results for the quarter ended December 31, 2024. Key highlights for the quarter that ended 31st December 2024: • Total operating revenue at ₹13,174 million, up 2.2% YoY and 1.6% QoQ • Services segment revenue of ₹10,127 million, an increase of 1.2% YoY and 0.8% QoQ • Services segment revenue in constant currency up by 1.1% QoQ • Operating EBITDA at ₹2,340 million; EBITDA margin at 17.8% • EBIT up 3.1% QoQ to ₹2,119 million; EBIT Margin up 20 bps QoQ to 16.1% • Net income at ₹1,686 million; up 7.1% QoQ • Net margin at 12.8%, an increase of 70 bps QoQ • 20 bps sequential improvement in [LTM] attrition to 12.9% • Workforce strength of 12,659 Warren Harris, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, said: “I am encouraged by the resilience our business has demonstrated in uncertain economic conditions with revenue growth across both our business segments. We secured

Atos announces the successful integration of Espressive Barista, a GenAI-based Conversational agent into its Digital Workplace Experience Engagement platform. This new feature enables employees to receive instant, personalized, and seamless IT support through consumer-like engagement channels, accessible anywhere, anytime, and from any device. In today’s workplace, the expectations from IT support have heightened. Hyper-personalization, accessibility, immediate request fulfillment, and issue resolution, all in a conversational experience, have become standard requirements. Thanks to Atos and Espressive, employees can engage in natural conversation interactions with a GenAI-powered digital assistant. Espressive Barista Conversational AI helps first-line support agents by providing 24/7 support and decreasing mean time to resolution (MTTR) through automation. This enables agents to allocate more time to higher level issues. Atos and Espressive signed a partnership agreement a year ago. Since then, over 200,000+ Barista licenses have been enabled across various Atos’ Digital Workplace customers, resulting in up to 50% of IT support cases solved at

Centric Software® is thrilled to unveil new innovations to Centric Pricing & Inventory™ that deliver increased value-add including faster performance, greater forecasting accuracy and an elevated user experience. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and related goods like cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Centric Software is regularly featured by leading industry analysts, including Gartner Forrester and IDC. Centric Pricing & Inventory addresses the unique challenges faced by the retail sector focusing on margin maximization through optimal pricing and inventory optimization. The AI-powered solution integrates with Centric PLM™, Centric Planning™ and Centric Market Intelligence™. Centric Pricing & Inventory is an AI-powered solution that manages pricing, inventory allocation, replenishment and stock rebalancing, while providing advanced analytics and market insights for