CIMdata Blog

Oracle today announced the opening of a second Oracle Cloud Region in Chile, making it the first hyperscaler to have two regions in the country. With the new Oracle Cloud Valparaíso Region and the existing region in Santiago, Oracle will help organizations across all industries in Chile strengthen business continuity while addressing data residency and sovereignty requirements.

“The arrival of the second Oracle Cloud Region in Chile is a significant milestone as it allows our customers to gain the benefits of OCI’s services, while leveraging best practices for business continuity and disaster recovery,” said Joaquin Ma-Shichoy, managing director, Oracle Chile. “With...

Kubotek Kosmos, a leader in engineering and manufacturing geometric software technology, today announced a partnership with Mastercam CAD/CAM software of Tolland, Connecticut. An outcome of cooperation between these companies is the new capability for Kubotek Kosmos software products to directly read part data in Mastercam native files. Partnering to create this compatibility reflects both companies' commitment to serving build-to-print parts suppliers, helping them manage complex 3D CAD data from customers with the assurance of no data lost to file format translation, and improved understanding of revised datasets.

Native Mastercam File Support

Direct read of precise 3D solids and surfaces from the Mastercam...

Hexagon’s Asset Lifecycle Intelligence division announced today that its j5 SAP® PM connector has achieved SAP^® certification as integrated with RISE with SAP S/4HANA^® Cloud. The integration helps organizations to view relevant information from SAP within the j5 application, allocate familiar SAP Equipment to j5 records and to push j5 Work Notifications to SAP.

The certification covers SAP S/4 HANA (On Premise), SAP S/4HANA Cloud, private edition and RISE with SAP.

“For Hexagon strategic customers and markets, with our market-leading Operations Management solution j5 to have certification for its connector from SAP, a globally recognized Maintenance Management solution, we are providing our...

Altair a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence (AI), announced that Do IT Now has joined Altair’s growing channel partner network and will resell Altair’s high-performance computing (HPC) middleware solutions throughout the EMEA region.

“Do IT Now is a market leader in HPC services, and we have strong ties with its parent companies. Its work related to the integration of Altair® HPCWorks™ – our HPC and cloud platform – in complex on-premises and hybrid HPC environments makes them a trusted partner that will accelerate Altair’s growth in EMEA,” said Fabrizio Sara, country manager, Altair Italy. “We look forward to...

CIMdata’s 2024 education offerings kick off in March.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, December 13th, 2023—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global strategic consulting and research firm focused on PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) and the digital transformation it enables, announces that it will offer its industry-standard PLM Certificate Program in Ann Arbor, MI, USA, from March 4th to March 8th, 2024.

This unique program equips PLM professionals with the knowledge and skills to tackle the common challenges of PLM strategy formulation and execution. This assessment-based program delivers a personalized classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and comprehensive evaluations of achievement. CIMdata experts with decades of...

 PDF

Managing relevant product lifecycle aspects of sustainability

Key Takeaways

• Companies are struggling to define, measure, and meet their sustainability goals. The Aras platform provides the ability to reduce sustainability challenges, enabling flexible transformation to meet business objectives and the needs of a circular economy.
• The Aras platform can help companies manage the processes for reducing their product carbon footprint from raw material extraction, design, manufacturing, transport, and through end-of-life to meet the needs of a circular economy and UN Sustainability Goals both now and in the future.
• The Aras platform enables companies to transform from document-centric to...

Wipro Limited, a leading technology services and consulting company, has supported Marelli Electronic Systems, a leading mobility technology supplier to the automotive sector, in the development of its Cabin Digital Twin, that enables Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to introduce connected vehicle services to the market quickly.

The growing complexity of software and data requires the automotive industry to build deep software competence in the cloud while also maintaining cost efficiencies, reducing deployment time, and enabling frequent updates throughout a vehicle’s lifetime.

To better address these industry concerns, Marelli leveraged Wipro Cloud car to develop the first cabin digital twin viable product. Wipro’s...

Infor^®, the industry cloud company, today announced that Smaken av Grimstad AS, Norway’s leading provider of canned and preserved fresh produce, has gone live with Infor CloudSuite Food & Beverage in eight weeks. Infor’s powerful, cloud-native, industry-focused enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution will deliver insights from across the supply chain, underpinning future business growth. The project was managed by Infor alliance partner Columbus.

Smaken av Grimstad had last upgraded its on-premises ERP system in 2018 and was using the incumbent solution across the business to manage everything from purchasing raw materials, inventory and production planning to sales, invoicing and accounting. The...

Centric Software^®, the Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) market leader, proudly announces its partnership with Gudrun Sjödén, a design-focused Scandinavian clothing and home décor brand. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, price and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, consumer electronics, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Gudrun Sjödén opened her first store in 1976 in Stockholm, and for more than 45 years has been designing and creating striking, colorful clothes with a Nordic flair, crafted from natural fabrics. This unique brand...

Eviden, an atos business, and expert in SAP, and Ayesa today announce that they have been selected as part of a joint venture by Canal de Isabel II (CYII), Madrid’s water supplies management company, for the implementation of its new “YARA” Commercial System in SaaS (Software-as-a-service) mode, as well as the associated support and maintenance. The four-year deal, which is extendable for one year, is valued at €51.2 million euros. Canal de Isabel II manages water distribution for the 6.5 million people which live in the Community of Madrid.

Pioneering with cloud in the water sector

The YARA implementation, which is entirely...