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DocuSign announced today at CeBIT that it has expanded its multi-pronged strategic partnership with customer, partner and investor Deutsche Telekom (DT). Following DT subsidiary T-Mobile US's success in deploying DocuSign across its retail stores and business sales, DT is extending DocuSign's Digital Transaction Management (DTM) platform and eSignature service enterprise wide to eliminate paper and transform the way its more than 228,000 employees do business to serve nearly 200 million customers worldwide. DT has also signed on as a DocuSign reseller to bring the power of DTM and eSignature to its own customers globally, and will provide data centers in Germany and France to ensure the continued protection and privacy of EU customer data while transacting business on the DocuSign Global Trust Network. From the CeBIT stage today, Deutsche Telekom CEO Tim Hoettges noted, "As the pioneer and global standard for Digital Transaction Management, DocuSign helped DT become a more efficient, competitive digital business. Based on the success we've seen at

Ciber, Inc. today announced an agreement to sell its Infor Practice to Infor. Ciber has been an Infor Alliance Partner since 2012 and has been selected as an Infor Alliance Partner of the Year multiple times. Ciber's Infor Practice offers implementation, integration and upgrade services related to Infor software to customers in North America and Europe. Employees from Ciber's Infor Practice will transition to Infor when the transaction closes. "The sale of our Infor Practice reflects a fundamental decision to hone our business to a focused IT staffing foundation with complementary integrated Business Consulting and Application Development Management capabilities in a synergistic Digital Transformation offering," said Ciber President and Chief Executive Officer Michael Boustridge. "We are working to provide a seamless transition and great continuity and service to our affected customers and our employees."  To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Infor on CIMdata.com

 PDF Key takeaways: Up-front performance analysis and optimization, starting early in the product development cycle, requires both a systems view of the product and simulation and co-simulation models of varying degrees of fidelity. Leading thinkers are turning away from the creation of CAD geometry as “the design starting point” to an up-front engineering process that focuses on optimizing product functional capability versus requirements before committing to design decisions that lead to detailed 3D assembly and component design. Altair is rapidly rounding out its systems modeling and simulation portfolio, through internal application development, acquisitions, and partnerships, to enable this vision of model-based and simulation-driven design. Tightly integrated optimization capability is a key factor in this vision, as is enabling early exploration of system-level designs across multiple disciplines. With the relentless improvements in engineering software and computer capability, simulation can now be effectively applied well ahead of detailed component design. As Mr. Jim Scapa, CEO of Altair says,

CONTACT Software has expanded its open platform Elements to include innovative components for CIM DATABASE PLM and Project Office. New, intuitive web apps and functions allow both enterprise solutions to offer an even better user experience. The motivation behind this is the users' desire for smart IT tools that are easy to use and help even complex specialized tasks to be performed efficiently. The web as a blueprint It is web technologies such as HTML 5 and frameworks like React that support complex enterprise applications and make an outstanding user experience possible. This is why CONTACT has greatly enhanced its article, document and task management components. What these modules all have in common is a web interface with a uniform design and navigation concept. Users can quickly find their way around in any context and achieve their objectives in fewer steps. Secure collaboration with other companies CONTACT´s Collaboration Portal connects

Joe Kaeser, President and CEO of Siemens AG, bolstered Siemens' strong commitment to strengthening American manufacturing during a meeting today at the White House with President Donald Trump. With 50,000 employees and more than 60 manufacturing sites across the United States, Kaeser joined German Chancellor Angela Merkel and several global CEOs for a discussion with the President focused on workforce development. An apprentice from Siemens' Charlotte Energy Hub accompanied Kaeser for the meeting, highlighting Siemens' efforts to demonstrate and utilize the apprenticeship model in the U.S. Continuing Siemens' extensive efforts to boost workforce development initiatives in the U.S., Kaeser announced a commitment to nearly double Siemens' industry-leading apprenticeship program, hire and train hundreds more veterans per year, and provide an additional $2 billion in in-kind grants of its Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Software for academic and institutional use. Additionally, Kaeser emphasized Siemens' commitment to the U.S. market, highlighting the company's

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that Dr. Robin Bornoff, Dr. John Parry and John Wilson, a team from Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division, received the Harvey Rosten Award for Excellence in thermal modeling and analysis of electronics.  The team received the award for their paper, Subtractive Design: A Novel Approach to Heatsink Improvement, at the 33rd annual IEEE Thermal Measurement, Modeling and Management Symposium (SEMI-THERM) in San Jose, California. The Mentor Graphics team created a unique methodology to sequentially remove underperforming portions of a heatsink to save weight and cost without compromising overall thermal performance. This method using Mentor Graphics® FloTHERM® technology provides a variety of automated optimization approaches to gain deeper insights into thermal characterizations to determine the best thermal design solution. “We are extremely proud of our team for their commitment and dedication in discovering ways in which heatsinks may be optimized,” stated Roland Feldhinkel, general manager of Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division.

Cabinet Vision’s reseller in Taiwan joined forces with Vero Software to run a week-long series of user group meetings across South China. Licom Systems Co. Ltd. put together the series of user group events and customer visits at a number of sites, including Excitech Machinery in Jinan – one of Cabinet Vision’s key OEM partners in China – Guang Zhou, and Nobee Kitchens. Cabinet Vision General Manager Richard Manager, and Development Director Roger Cowles joined Fran Cheng and Richie Lee from Licom Systems, for the popular and well- attended events. Search for Vero on CIMdata.com

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management (PLM) strategic consulting and research firm, announces that it will now be sharing the “Top Ten PLM News Stories of the Week” in a special section of their webpage.   The Top Ten is aggregated from CIMdata’s global PLM newsletter, the longest running in the industry.  Each week thousands of subscribers receive the Industry Summary in their inbox.  The Summary covers topics like financial news, acquisitions, product development, market events, PLM and PLM-related implementation news, and more, highlighting the latest announcements and releases from solution providers, system integrators, and other members of the PLM market, including CIMdata’s own PLM Community.  The new Top Ten feature showcases the trending headlines in the PLM market, based on Industry Summary readership. “With thousands of weekly readers, it is exciting to start sharing our top viewed stories with a larger audience.  This new feature will provide

New feature will showcase the most read PLM stories based on the preferences of readers of their weekly PLM Industry Summary. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 20 March, 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global product lifecycle management (PLM) strategic consulting and research firm, announces that it will now be sharing the “Top Ten PLM News Stories of the Week” in a special section of their webpage. The Top Ten is aggregated from CIMdata’s global PLM Industry Summary newsletter, the longest running in the industry.  Each week thousands of subscribers receive CIMdata's PLM Industry Summary (Industry Summary) in their inbox.  The Industry Summary covers topics like financial news, acquisitions, product development, market events, PLM and PLM-related implementation news, and more, highlighting the latest announcements and releases from solution providers, systems integrators, and other members of the PLM market, including CIMdata’s own PLM Community.  The new Top Ten feature showcases the trending headlines in the PLM market, based on Industry Summary

Alain de Rouvray, ESI Group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented: “The success of ESI Group’s commercial offering built on Immersive Virtual Engineering has been fully confirmed in 2016. The growth in the Licensing activity, which was particularly robust in Asia, and the real momentum built up in high value-added Services in 2016, reflect the growing demand among industrial companies to support their transformation towards the ‘Industry of the Future’. This represents an endorsement of ESI’s “Product Performance Lifecycle” (PPL) approach: a distinct disruption which allows industrial customers to address the complete lifecycle of their products beyond certification, through piloting of performance in operation, including in the “assisted” or “autonomous” Internet connected mode (IoT). This highly differentiating vision is based on the transformation of the ‘Virtual Prototype’ into its data driven “Hybrid Virtual Twin”, which largely benefits from the integration of the numerous innovative technologies recently acquired. In particular, ESI ITI,