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This CIMdata educational webinar will identify the problem and offer actionable ways to encourage executives to provide and maintain the level of support needed to ensure success. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 9 December 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Winning the C-Suite: How to Build the Executive Case for Sustained PLM Investment.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 8 January 2026, at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and last for one hour. PLM initiatives routinely fail to deliver full ROI when top management does not take an active supporting role. Because enterprise PLM initiatives are inherently cross-functional, they require resources spanning disparate areas—such as finance, personnel alignment, and infrastructure—that often fall outside the PLM program manager's scope of control. Gaining initial executive approval is only half the battle; maintaining sustained, high-level

 PDF Major announcements at IFS Industrial X Unleashed Key Takeaways At their one-day IFS Industrial X Unleashed event in New York City, IFS highlighted the strategic importance of leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) across their solution portfolio. Their June 2025 acquisition of TheLoops, now IFS Loops, added industrial-grade agentic AI capabilities to the AI functionality already embedded in their solution. At the event, IFS announced four new partnerships—with Anthropic, 1X Technologies, Boston Dynamics, and Siemens Grid Software—that bring new technology and industry expertise that should turbocharge IFS’ pursuit of their Industrial AI vision. CIMdata had the pleasure of attending the IFS Industrial X Unleashed event in New York City on 14 November 2025. A crowd of about 300 customers, partners, investors, analysts, and press joined the IFS team at the Spring Studios venue in SoHo for this information-packed event.[1] IFS is a global provider of enterprise cloud and Industrial AI software, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Enterprise Asset

DXC Technology, a leading enterprise technology and innovation partner, announced the appointment of Russell Jukes as Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO). In this expanded role, Russell becomes the first to lead DXC's end-to-end digital and AI agenda, accelerating the company's AI-powered transformation and ensuring its global technology environment is optimized to support customers' strategic operations and our employees AI fluency.  Since joining DXC in 2017, Russell has played a pivotal role in shaping DXC's digital strategy and global technology capabilities. He has overseen DXC's enterprise technology environment and has been central to advancing modernization across platforms, applications, and employee experience. Most recently, he played a key role in supporting the development of Xponential, DXC's proven AI framework that simplifies the complexity that often stalls large-scale AI adoption.  As CDIO, Russell will bring together digital, information, and AI transformation agendas across the groups delivering services, solutions, and software to our customers. This approach reflects a broader industry shift in which digital leaders increasingly oversee AI investment and

LTIMindtree, a leading global technology consulting and digital solutions provider, announced that it received the AWS 2025 Geography and Global Partner Awards, recognizing leaders around the globe who play key roles in helping clients drive innovation and build solutions on Amazon Web Services (AWS). LTIMindtree has been awarded Application Modernization Consulting Partner of the Year (Global) and Industry Partner of the Year – Travel and Hospitality. At the AWS re:Invent 2025 Partner Awards Gala, partners were recognized for their specialization, innovation, and collaboration, and for evolving business models that enable success on AWS while supporting their customers. LTIMindtree was recognized as: The Industry Partner of the Year – Travel and Hospitality: Recognized as a trusted transformation partner in Travel and Hospitality, LTIMindtree is enabling a global leader to modernize at scale—exiting global data centers and migrating seamlessly to AWS. The initiative has delivered accelerated modernization of critical business processes, such as billing,

Meurer-etechnik will become an active member of an expanding network that promotes and makes tangible digitalisation and automation in panel building and switchgear manufacturing. The Rittal and EPLAN Application Center Partners provide practical answers and concrete solutions for companies planning the next step towards efficiency and competitiveness. Meurer-etechnik: A pioneer in digitalisation and automation“Rittal and EPLAN are putting their heart and soul into solutions for our industry – I can really see that now. We at Meurer-etechnik can contribute our experience and have been asked for feedback on new developments because we are the ones covering the ground in the market,” says Dietmar Meurer, owner of Meurer-etechnik. EPLAN and Rittal already have a long-standing cooperation with Meurer-etechnik. The 65-strong company optimised its production early on with software and hardware solutions from EPLAN and Rittal and is regularly active as a test and development partner for new worker assistance systems, for example. Experience the

Centric Software® is pleased to announce that Sparco S.p.A., a global leader in developing and producing safety equipment for the world of motor racing, has successfully implemented Centric PLM™ to drive digital transformation, streamline collaboration and enhance agility across its operations. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care products as well as multi-category retail, to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Volpiano, Italy, Sparco is known worldwide for its high-performance motorsport equipment and PPE, supplying over 300 partner teams in elite racing competitions including F1 and all the world motorsport championships. In recent years, Sparco has expanded its portfolio into carbon fiber automotive components, safety workwear, esports gaming accessories and branded seating for major sporting teams. With more than 2,000 employees

TECHNIA, the leading provider of virtual twin solutions and digital engineering, is proud to announce that it has been named one of five companies selected to join Digital Catapult’s Defence Testbed Accelerator, a programme designed to strengthen industrial supply chain resilience in the defence sector and advance the practical application of technical innovation to ensure the industry is future-ready. TECHNIA UK is honoured to be part of the Defence Testbed Accelerator, an initiative designed to tackle critical challenges in the UK defence manufacturing supply chain, including secure data sharing and enabling agile, distributed manufacturing. The programme is delivered by Digital Catapult under the Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub, in collaboration with the Ministry of Defence (MoD), leading defence manufacturers, and key UK technology companies. “TECHNIA’s proven expertise in PLM, systems integration, and secure data exchange makes it a strong fit for this challenge. With a global track record delivering complex, secure integration projects

Agiloft, the global leader in data-first contract lifecycle management (CLM), announced the release of its AI-driven Obligation Management solution, a suite of breakthrough capabilities that empowers enterprises to transform contracts into actionable business intelligence. Powered by Agiloft’s CLM with AI on the inside™, the feature set transforms static contract text into data-driven intelligence, helping legal and contracting teams eliminate manual review, prevent value leakage, and improve compliance. Every organization runs on commitments – deliverables, service-level agreements, renewals, compliance requirements, payments, milestones – defining what their business promises to deliver and what they are entitled to receive. Research from PwC shows that companies can lose 5–9% of annual revenue due to poor obligation management, notably when key commitments and deliverables are overlooked. However, organizations face a number of challenges when it comes to post-signature contract management, such as forgotten terms, manual tracking, and unclear ownership. With Agiloft’s AI-enhanced Obligation Management, organizations can automate the extraction of their obligations

Altair, a global leader in computational intelligence and now part of leading technology company, Siemens, announced the latest updates to HyperWorks® 2026 software. With significant advances in AI, high-performance computing (HPC), and multiphysics integration, HyperWorks 2026 enables engineering teams to accelerate innovation and improve product performance across industries using comprehensive computer-aided engineering (CAE) design and simulation. “HyperWorks 2026 exemplifies how Altair and Siemens are driving the future of simulation and empowering engineers to design smarter, faster, and with greater confidence in real-world outcomes by bringing AI, automation, and multiphysics into a unified ecosystem,” said Sam Mahalingam, chief technology officer, Altair, and executive vice president, Siemens Digital Industries Software. “Following the acquisition by Siemens earlier this year, our commitment is to create the world's most complete AI-powered portfolio of product lifecycle intelligence software and further enhance the most comprehensive digital twin.” HyperWorks in use at JetZero JetZero, a pioneering aviation startup building the

PROLIM, a global leader in Industrial AI, Engineering, PLM, and Cloud software and consulting services, is excited to announce the acquisition of Kasmo Digital, a specialized digital consulting and services firm headquartered in Dallas, USA. Kasmo brings a team of over 200 consultants and has rapidly emerged as one of the fastest growing and award-winning partners in the Salesforce and Snowflake ecosystem, delivering innovative CRM, AI and Data Cloud solutions and measurable value to its customers. “Kasmo Digital’s reputation as a Premier Snowflake and Salesforce 2025 Innovation Award winning Summit (Platinum) Partner aligns perfectly with PROLIM’s commitment to delivering world-class Agentic AI, data, and cloud transformation solutions. Together, we are accelerating innovation and empowering our customers to achieve greater agility, efficiency, and growth on a global scale,” said Prabhu Patil, Founder & CEO of PROLIM. The acquisition is designed to empower enterprises across industries to accelerate their digital transformation through advanced, AI-driven data