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• Global trends like social computing, cloud computing, mobile devices, analytics/artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things (IoT) have dramatically changed our personal and business lives over the last 15 years.
• Smart, connected products are being introduced at an increasing pace across a wide range of industries, retrofit kits make older production equipment smarter and enable new and innovative business opportunities.
• The IoT, and its application to industrial use cases (the Industrial Internet of Things—IIoT), have created new business opportunities and companies need a powerful, flexible IoT platform to best take advantage of them.
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• Autonomous vehicle development is a complex system-of-systems problem to solve but will have large societal impacts on many of our day-to-day activities.
• Competitive pressures and autonomous technology complexity are driving manufacturers to transform their development strategy, processes, and toolsets.
• Technology will play a key role in defining the future of business, customer experiences, and product or service behaviors of the agile automotive enterprise.
• By leveraging its manufacturing and automotive experience as well as its Neural Automotive Framework, TCS has launched Autoscape™—a comprehensive suite of solutions and services to help customers accelerate their autonomous vehicle development.

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This educational webinar will focus on the need for effective data governance.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA March 16, 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management strategic management consulting and research firm, announces a free educational webinar, “Data Governance: Avoiding Detours on your Digital Transformation Roadmap.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, April 22, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

The success of any digital transformation initiative depends on addressing a host of critical issues. Chief among them is the robustness of the enterprise’s data model and the role that Data Governance plays. In today’s digital era, organizations...

The research focuses on how things changed for PLM solution providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 12 March 2021—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, announces new research into how companies offering software and services to companies to support their PLM strategies and implementations adapted their business and technical requirements in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

As part of this research, CIMdata is asking members of the PLM Economy, i.e., those working for independent software vendors (ISVs) or companies that could be considered systems integrators, resellers, and value-added resellers (VARs), to...

This major PLM industry event will take place virtually in May.

CIMdata and Eurostep are pleased to announce the agenda topics for PLM Road Map™ & PDT Spring 2021, which will take place as a virtual-live event in May. The theme for this year’s event is “Disruption—the PLM Professionals’ Exploration of Emerging Technologies that Will Reshape the PLM Value Equation.” The event will take place between 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM (EDT) / 15:00 – 19:00 (CEST) on May 19 & 20.

PLM Road Map & PDT 2021 represents an event customized to the interests of the PLM Professional. With this in...

Aras, the only resilient platform provider for digital industrial applications, today announced that Haulotte, a world leading aerial work platform manufacturer, has selected Aras’ end-to-end PLM platform to enable a true digital thread, ensuring traceability and collaboration across the enterprise. By implementing a digital transformation platform, Haulotte’s six factory locations and twenty-one subsidiaries and offices around the world can now access previously siloed critical information and can cultivate continuous collaboration in a single environment, accelerating digital transformation across the organization.

Haulotte’s legacy system did not have the flexibility required to sustainably adapt to rapidly changing business requirements. It recognized the need...

Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, today announced that it has been recognised at the ASSOCHAM Diversity & Inclusion Excellence Awards, 2020 as the winner for ‘Best Employer for Persons with Disabilities’. Wipro has also been awarded second runner-up for ‘Best Employer for Diversity & Inclusion’ in the category for organizations with more than 5000 employees.

The ASSOCHAM (Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India) Diversity & Inclusion Excellence Awards recognise the efforts of organizations and their leadership to promote Diversity and Inclusivity (D&I) at the workplace. The awards assessed more than 80...

Bordeaux hotel group is expanding deployment of Infor HMS to streamline business processes and benefit from high-performance analytical functionalities in a sector heavily impacted by the global health crisis.

Infor today announced that Aquitaine Hospitality, a brand of the hotel group Aquitaine Promotion, is expanding its deployment of Infor HMS (Hospitality Management Solution), the business solution dedicated specifically to the tourism, hotel and restaurant industries. The project, which began in 2016 with the implementation of Infor HMS at the Apparthotel Ténéo Talence Espeleta, has gradually been extended to other properties, including the group's brand new modern accommodation concept: "Live Hotels."

To learn...

Bioworld, a leading global manufacturer of pop-culture apparel and accessories, has selected Centric Software^®’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) enterprise solution Centric 8 PLM. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury and consumer goods companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Jason Mayes, Director of Marketing and Intellectual Property says, “Bioworld is a pioneer of pop-culture products. We’ve led the way for over two decades because we look at the licensing industry differently — from the fan’s point of view. We go beyond merch, beyond commerce. We cultivate self-expression.”

Bioworld was founded in 1999....

Convergence of simulation, HPC, and AI will lead to more efficiency and better industrial machinery

Altair a global technology company providing solutions in simulation, high-performance computing (HPC), and artificial intelligence (AI) will present its solutions for digital transformation in industrial machinery at Hannover Messe 2021, held virtually April 12-16, 2021.

Altair’s virtual booth will showcase use cases and demonstrations of accurate virtual prototypes propelled by AI-driven decision making, HPC, and cloud enablement. Visitors will be able to hold discussions with Altair experts and attend the company’s digital conference, “ATCx – Digital Transformation for Industrial Machinery,” which will be hosted in parallel with...