Position Papers

Arena Solutions today announced that Wenxiang Ma, Arena's vice president of engineering & chief technology officer, has been named a 2017 'Pros to Know' by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. Now in its 16th year, Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Pros to Know Awards recognize supply chain executives, and manufacturing and non-manufacturing enterprises, that are leading initiatives to help prepare their companies' supply chains for the significant challenges of today's business climate. Ma was named a 2017 Provider Pros to Know which recognizes individuals from software firms and service providers, consultancies or academia who have helped their supply chain clients or the supply chain community at large prepare to meet these challenges. Ma has been developing manufacturing supply chain solutions for nearly 20 years. He leads Arena's engineering and security teams, and also defines Arena's technology and architectural roadmap. Ma oversees and is responsible for the development and delivery of Arena Solutions' cloud-based, outsourced

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nimble Storage, the San Jose, Calif.-based provider of predictive all-flash and hybrid-flash storage solutions. HPE will pay $12.50 per share in cash, representing a net cash purchase price at closing of $1.0 billion. In addition to the purchase price, HPE will assume or pay out Nimble’s unvested equity awards, with a value of approximately $200 million at closing. Flash storage is a fast-growing market and an increasingly important element of today’s hybrid IT environment. The overall flash market was estimated to be approximately $15 billion in 2016 and is expected to be nearly $20 billion by 2020, with the all-flash segment growing at a nearly 17 percent compound annual growth rate.  Nimble’s predictive flash offerings for the entry to midrange segments are complementary to HPE’s scalable midrange to high-end 3PAR solutions and affordable MSA products. This

Tech Soft 3D today announced that it has optimized the HOOPS software development platforms for native and web 3D engineering applications with the launch of HOOPS Native Platform 2017, HOOPS Web Platform 2017 and HOOPS Platform 2017. The three HOOPS platforms power applications with proven 3D technologies, including high performance 3D graphics for desktop, web and mobile, accurate and fast CAD data exchange, 3D data publishing for native 3D PDF, HTML and standard CAD, and tight connections to popular modeling kernels. “The explosion of cloud and mobile computing, and advances in browser-based technology are transforming markets and creating incredible business opportunities as well as challenges for developers of engineering software,” said Ron Fritz, CEO of Tech Soft 3D. “HOOPS Platforms are designed to help development teams quickly get high-performance 3D products to market, even in an environment where development resources are limited and competition is fierce.” Native vs. Web Applications

Altair offers new best-in-class technologies to design and optimize high-performance, efficient, and innovative products with its release of HyperWorks 2017®. This latest release sees several functionalities added in areas such as model-based development, electromagnetism, nonlinear structural analysis, modeling and meshing, multiphysics and multi-disciplinary analysis, lightweight design and optimization. New products and enhancement highlights include:  Model-based Development Suite: solidThinking Activate®, Compose® and Embed® capabilities encompassing concept studies, control design, system performance optimization and controller implementation and testing are now part of the platform. Electromagnetics Analysis and Design: Flux™ for EM simulation of static and low frequency applications, and WinProp™ for propagation modeling and radio network planning are added as perfect complements to FEKO, focused on high frequency EM simulations related to antenna design, placement, radiation hazard and bio electromagnetics. Material Modeling and Manufacturing: Multiscale Designer is a tool for development and simulation of accurate models for heterogeneous material systems including laminated composites, honeycomb cores, reinforced concrete, soil, bones, and various others. Manufacturing offerings

Bestseller A/S, an international fashion group based in Denmark, has selected Centric Software to provide its PLM solution. Centric Software is the leading product lifecycle management (PLM) solution for fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor and consumer goods companies. Bestseller has more than 20 brands in its range, including Jack & Jones, ONLY, Vila, Selected, Vero Moda and children’s brand, Name It. With 2,700 branded chain stores, clothing in 15,000 multi-brand stores across Europe, the Middle East, North America, Latin America, Australia and India, and an independent Bestseller company designing collections for 8,000 stores across China, Bestseller is a truly global enterprise. Bestseller has ambitious plans for the next few years, aiming to double sales revenue by 2021. In order to support this growth, the company needed to replace its homegrown business applications with a PLM system that could handle the company’s complexity and scale. “Our previous applications were stalling the

CollabNet is a sponsor of DevOpsDays Baltimore, March 7-8. At the event, CollabNet experts will showcase the company's recently released DevOps Lifecycle Manager (DLM) platform. Building on its industry leadership for connecting teams, tools and processes, CollabNet DLM advances enterprise DevOps initiatives by providing continuous visibility and feedback throughout the DevOps tool chain. The platform also saves cost, effort and time by giving organizations insight and intelligence for better decision making and earlier issue detection. "DevOpsDays are great localized gathering hubs for premier DevOps thinkers – practitioners, managers and service providers alike," said Thomas Hooker, Vice President of Marketing at CollabNet. "We're looking forward to discussing the latest industry advancements and how we can continue to create better software, better user experiences and, as a result, better businesses together." CollabNet DLM gives users a holistic view of the entire software development lifecycle together with key performance indicator (KPI) reporting, so early detection

Global End2End fashion software provider, Visual 2000 International Inc, has announced a complete rebranding effort. Visual 2000 has adopted the new company name: Visual Next. As Visual Next begins its 20th year as a company, the new brand identity marks an important shift in its evolution to providing innovative and sustainable technology solutions for the fashion industry. Throughout the year, Visual Next will be launching revamped versions their suite of best-of-breed AFA business solutions, including Visual PLM, ERP, Sales Force Automation, Ecommerce, Warehouse Management, Business Intelligence, and more. VP of R&D, Charles Benoualid, expresses, “Just as Visual 2000 was named to represent our vision for the New Millennium, Visual Next is in line with our promise to always build towards the future. We pride ourselves in being at the forefront of fashion technology and market shifts so that our customers are always prepared for what’s next.” Visual Next has adopted the new slogan “The

Datavail, a leading provider of managed services for database management, analytics, and application life cycle management, today announced the acquisition of AdvancedEPM Consulting, an Oracle Platinum Partner focused on Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions. The acquisition of AdvancedEPM is part of Datavail’s growth strategy to build on Datavail’s core capabilities in data and application operation and integration. AdvancedEPM’s expertise in Oracle application cloud implementation and customization will be combined with Datavail’s expertise to create an end-to-end application life cycle offering to support the Oracle EPM solution stack. As a Platinum-level member of the Oracle® PartnerNetwork and an Oracle Accelerate solution provider, AdvancedEPM has extensive, hands-on application expertise, deep functional knowledge, and integrated technical skills across Oracle’s Enterprise Performance Management product suite. Founded in 2007, AdvancedEPM has core competencies in the Oracle Hyperion Planning, Oracle Essbase, Oracle Hyperion Financial Management, Oracle Data Relationship Management products with application and industry specializations

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced its new Xpedition® vibration and acceleration simulation product for printed circuit board (PCB) systems reliability and failure prediction. As the industry’s market share leader in PCB design software, the Mentor Graphics® Xpedition product augments mechanical analysis and physical testing by introducing virtual accelerated lifecycle testing much earlier in the design process. This is the industry’s first PCB-design-specific vibration and acceleration simulation solution targeting products where harsh environments can compromise product performance and reliability, including the military, aerospace, automotive and industrial markets. Traditional, physical HALT (highly accelerated lifecycle testing) is conducted just before volume manufacturing, and requires expert technicians, which can result in costly schedule delays. Bridging mechanical and electronic design disciplines, the Xpedition product provides vibration simulation significantly faster than any existing method. This results in increased test coverage and shortened design cycles to ensure product reliability and faster time to market. The Xpedition component

Simparel, Inc. announces that American women’s sportswear brand Veronica Beard is replacing its current ERP system with the Simparel® Enterprise software solution at its Manhattan (New York City) headquarters. The fast-growing wholesaler, e-tailer, and retailer expects the new end-to-end fashion business solution to increase the speed and visibility of its sales, production, accounting, logistics and other end-to-end business processes and enable the business to more efficiently scale with its double-digit growth. “After more than doubling our business in each of the past 3 years, we recognized that our business system was not nimble and powerful enough to meet our current and future omnichannel needs,” explained Campbell Peters, Veronica Beard VP, Production. “With Simparel, we found a solution that is not only easy to configure and customize to our changing needs; it is extremely flexible and easy to use. This flexibility also extends to the integration that is needed with our