CIMdata Blog

The primary focus will be developing and delivering new services to meet solution provider needs.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 24 January 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) strategic management consulting and research firm, has hired Doug Macdonald as Director of PLM Success and Executive Consultant. Doug will be responsible for expanding relationships with PLM solution providers and developing new consulting services to meet their needs.

Peter Bilello, President & CEO of CIMdata, commented, “We’re excited to have Doug join CIMdata. He has a deep understanding of PLM both from...

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Transforming Industry while Addressing Global Sustainability

Key takeaways:

• The industry 4.0 approach is gaining traction across industries. What started as a concept is becoming industrialized, as successful pilots transition to production.
• Pilot successes have been slow to evolve to operate at scale because true transformation requires people, process, technology, data, and profitability dimensions to be addressed across the extended enterprise.
• Wipro's Smart, Digital, Intelligent (SDI) framework helps businesses get the full benefits of Industry 4.0 by bringing together the right business process, organizational change, and technology services and identify what to control (Smart), how to collaborate (Digital),...

This educational webinar will detail how a group of A&D OEMs reached a consensus on this topic.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 18 January 2022—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Building a Consensus Agreement on an A&D Model-Based Design (MBD) Minimum Position.” The webinar will occur on Thursday, 10 February 2022, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour.

The aerospace & defense (A&D) industry is moving towards a product design environment based on 3D Model-Based Definition for product...

Lemongrass, the “SAP in the Cloud” company, announces the completion of a project to migrate Fender Musical Instruments Corporation (FMIC) to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the ongoing management of FMIC’s SAP landscape in the Cloud.

Since 1946, Fender has revolutionized music and culture as one of the world’s leading musical instrument manufacturers, marketers and distributors. FMIC, whose portfolio of owned and licensed brands includes Fender^®, Squier^®, Gretsch^® guitars, Jackson_^®, EVH^®, Charvel^®, Bigsby^® and PreSonus^®, follows a player-centric approach to crafting the highest quality instruments and digital experiences across genres. Since 2015, Fender’s digital arm has introduced a new...

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has been recognized as a Leader, in the Everest Group PEAK Matrix^® for Advanced Analytics and Insights (AA&I) Services.

According to the report, TCS has one of the strongest product strategies among its peers, and has worked extensively in creating a wide portfolio of offerings across horizontals and verticals. The report also highlights TCS’ strong execution capabilities across the AA&I value chain; it takes an agile, cloud-based, AI, and automation-infused delivery approach through its set of solutions to contextualize solutions and engagement models to client’s analytics maturity, industry-specific requirements, and investment appetite.

Key strengths cited in the report...

JDC Group, a Consulting Solutions company, announced today that it has achieved SAP silver partner status in the SAP® PartnerEdge® program. This is a clear indication of the high level of quality that JDC Group provides to businesses using SAP solutions.

“Our SAP silver partner status amplifies our collaborative relationship with SAP, enabling us to deliver even greater value and performance,” said Greg Beyer, president of JDC Group’s SAP Strategic Consulting and Advisory Solutions group. “The recognition further validates our market leadership and supports our proven track record of success in delivering SAP solutions, from strategy through implementation, to our clients...

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, signed a definitive agreement for the acquisition of Starschema, a leading provider of data engineering services, based in Budapest, Hungary. The strategic acquisition will bolster HCL’s capability in digital engineering -- driven by data engineering -- and increase its presence in Central and Eastern Europe.

Starschema provides consulting, technology and managed services in data engineering to Global 2000 companies in the U.S. and Europe.

The acquisition combines Starschema’s high-value capabilities and data-focused expertise with HCL’s existing presence in industry segments undergoing data-driven transformation. In addition, HCL will strengthen its position in data engineering, which...

Infor, the industry cloud company, today announced that Pentland Brands Limited, owners of the Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury of New Zealand, Endura, ellesse, SeaVees and Mitre brands, has adopted the Infor Nexus supply chain platform. The technology will help Pentland Brands improve visibility of inventory, enhancing collaboration with suppliers, automating the vital procure-to-pay process, and accelerating the onboarding of new suppliers and partners.

The Pentland Brands UK businesses are already live on the platform, with the US-based businesses going live at the end of 2021.Now its entire supplier network across China, East Asia and Europe is connected to Infor Nexus, with standardised...

Sud Express, the French women’s apparel retailer, has adopted Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software provides innovative business solutions for the planning, design, development, procurement and distribution of products – including apparel, footwear, sports equipment, furniture, home furnishings, beauty products, food and beverage, and luxury goods – that enable companies to achieve their strategic and operational goals for digital transformation.

Founded in 1977 by Patrick Bellaïche, Sud Express is a premium brand serving multiple generations of active and modern women. Sud Express has revenues of just under 50 million Euros a year, 350 employees, 140 shops based mainly...

Atos announces that it has been awarded a new contract to supply and install a new supercomputing cluster at Technische Universität Dresden (TU) in Germany. The supercomputer will be used for data intensive HPC tasks and data analysis at the Center for Information Services and High-Performance Computing (ZIH). Based on Atos’ powerful BullSequana XH2000 architecture, researchers at TU Dresden will use the new supercomputer for computational tasks in environmental research, life sciences, materials sciences and engineering, as well as for basic research in physics, chemistry and mathematics. It is scheduled to start operations in autumn 2022.

"We are pleased to continue...