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CCE, a leading provider in advanced interoperability technology and engineering services, has announced major enhancements of its Open Data Exchange (ODX) libraries focused on productivity gains. Parallel processing support, that was already available for its CATIA V5, NX, SOLIDWORKS and Creo libraries, has now been extended to its CATIA V6, Autodesk Inventor, Solid Edge and IGES libraries. This enhancement allows applications to import documents in multiple threads and process them simultaneously. This increases user productivity by allowing much faster loading of large assemblies and significantly accelerated batch translation times. "The largest Independent Software Vendors in the CAD/CAM/CAE space depend on CCE's interoperability technology to read and write multi-CAD data. These ISVs are constantly looking at ways to leverage today's increasingly advanced computing power in the form of multiple cores and processors. Extending parallel processing to a new set of libraries as part of this recent update, in addition to the ones

e-Xstream engineering, an MSC Software company, announced a collaboration project with Hexcel Corporation, a leading advanced composites materials company. HexMC® is a Hexcel product made of long discontinuous carbon pre-impregnated fibres and was specifically developed for compression molding of structural parts with complex geometries. Hexcel has superior material and process expertise to generate the data needed to support e-Xstream in the development of next generation of long discontinuous fibre simulation. In this collaboration, e-Xstream will develop the Digimat® platform to model the molding of HexMC® material (Digimat-CM), HexMC® behavior (Digimat-FE) and the performance of the structures made from HexMC® (Digimat-RP). Hexcel and e-Xstream will also work closely together on the verification & validation of the software on actual parts. "We've been working with Hexcel for more than 10 years. Today we are very proud to grow our partnership to support HexMC® and help our customer to design and product HexMC® structures," says

Redbubble has selected Centric SMB. Centric SMB is a cloud-based PLM solution available on a subscription basis (SaaS). Centric SMB is tailored for emerging businesses to speed time to market, reduce costs and increase market responsiveness. Founded in 2006, by Martin Hosking, Peter Styles and Paul Vanzella, the award-winning Melbourne-based company helps independent artists from across the globe showcase and profit from their creativity and talent. With a supply chain team in San Francisco and offices in Europe, the company has grown rapidly in recent years.  As a result of this growth, Redbubble wanted to improve cross-team collaboration, particularly between the product development and supply chain teams. “Sometimes shared information is stored across multiple documents and spreadsheets, making it difficult and time-consuming to know which is the most up-to-date,” says Shayla Gontmakher, Strategy Analyst at Redbubble. “We wanted a user-friendly hub that is easily accessible and intuitive for our Melbourne,

Redbubble has selected Centric SMB. Centric SMB is a cloud-based PLM solution available on a subscription basis (SaaS). Centric SMB is tailored for emerging businesses to speed time to market, reduce costs and increase market responsiveness. Founded in 2006, by Martin Hosking, Peter Styles and Paul Vanzella, the award-winning Melbourne-based company helps independent artists from across the globe showcase and profit from their creativity and talent. With a supply chain team in San Francisco and offices in Europe, the company has grown rapidly in recent years.  As a result of this growth, Redbubble wanted to improve cross-team collaboration, particularly between the product development and supply chain teams. “Sometimes shared information is stored across multiple documents and spreadsheets, making it difficult and time-consuming to know which is the most up-to-date,” says Shayla Gontmakher, Strategy Analyst at Redbubble. “We wanted a user-friendly hub that is easily accessible and intuitive for our Melbourne,

Accenture has launched a Liquid Studio in Singapore to help clients around the region take advantage of new innovations and accelerate software application development cycles. The Liquid Studio features an open environment where clients work with highly skilled Accenture engineers to turn concepts into applications and solutions with speed and agility. At the Liquid Studio, Accenture helps clients reduce development time from months to days by applying rapid development approaches including Agile methodologies and DevOps, and experimenting with disruptive technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain and serverless architectures. In addition to serving clients, the Liquid Studio will be used to train and upskill Accenture professionals, providing them with experience in new and emerging technologies. Candidates from Accenture’s Emerging Technologist Development Programme (ETDP), which include participants of SkillsFuture Earn and Learn Programme, will also be trained at the Liquid Studio and deployed to client projects. ETDP is a one-year specialised learning initiative

Infor today announced the acquisition of Accentia Middle East, an Infor partner serving the Middle East, North Africa, and India (IMEA) region. The acquisition of Accentia, structured as a purchase of the assets of Accentia Middle East and its affiliates, significantly expands Infor's presence in the region, and comes amid a period of strong growth following the July 2016 announcement of a dedicated IMEA business unit at Inforum, the company's annual user conference. Based in Cairo, Egypt, Accentia has approximately 80 employees and additional offices in Dubai (UAE), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Casablanca (Morocco), and Pune (India). The company has customers in 17 countries across the region and specializes in selling and implementing Infor M3, a comprehensive, centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for medium to large enterprises in the manufacturing, distribution, and equipment industries. "Infor's strategy of delivering industry-specific business applications in the cloud uniquely positions us for growth in the important Middle

Infor today announced the acquisition of Accentia Middle East, an Infor partner serving the Middle East, North Africa, and India (IMEA) region. The acquisition of Accentia, structured as a purchase of the assets of Accentia Middle East and its affiliates, significantly expands Infor's presence in the region, and comes amid a period of strong growth following the July 2016 announcement of a dedicated IMEA business unit at Inforum, the company's annual user conference. Based in Cairo, Egypt, Accentia has approximately 80 employees and additional offices in Dubai (UAE), Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), Casablanca (Morocco), and Pune (India). The company has customers in 17 countries across the region and specializes in selling and implementing Infor M3, a comprehensive, centralized enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution for medium to large enterprises in the manufacturing, distribution, and equipment industries. "Infor's strategy of delivering industry-specific business applications in the cloud uniquely positions us for growth in the important Middle

 PDF Key takeaways: Dassault Systèmes’ continued investment in SOLIDWORKS, as well as its connection to their 3DEXPERIENCE platform, illustrates a long-term commitment to add value and ensure that SOLIDWORKS remains a design platform of choice for its customer base. Dassault Systèmes is driving to reduce the distance between the virtual and the physical to zero. SOLIDWORKS World 2017 demonstrated the strength and size of the SOLIDWORKS community and greater eco-system that continues to develop around it. The 19th annual SOLIDWORKS World conference was held February 5-8, 2017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, California, USA. A large and enthusiastic crowd of over 5,000 SOLIDWORKS users attended the conference, reportedly the largest crowd ever. This year’s theme was “The New, The Next, The Never Before.” The general sessions focused on how specific SOLIDWORKS engineers and innovators have used it “to break the bounds of the ‘possible’ and create the next great things that has

Fenergo, the leading provider of Client Lifecycle Management software solutions for investment, corporate and private banks, has announced its foray into Spain by providing its flagship software platform to a major European bank to ensure lifecycle compliance with a broad range of global and local regulatory obligations. Fenergo’s Client Lifecycle Management platform will centralize all client and counterparty data and documentation and allow them to re-use these attributes for a number of different regulatory purposes, eliminating the need to repeatedly source this information from clients. Its Regulatory Rules Engine will ensure that all compliance obligations are identified, actioned and evidenced as quickly as possible. This greatly expedites the rules-driven compliance and subsequent onboarding processes, helping to improve client experience and time to revenue for BBVA. Under the terms of the agreement, BBVA will deploy Fenergo’s solutions across its Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) divisions in Europe. Speaking of its selection of Fenergo, Emma Rey

V19.4 supports Creo 2.0 and 3.0 and has a number of new and improved product features and enhancements, including improvements to PMI and PMI highlighting, support for exploded views and an enhanced Interactive Export Dialogue. Theorem’s Publish 3D- 3D PDF product enables the publishing of 3D Creo data directly from within the Creo design application in to the interactive 3D PDF document format.  The published PDF document contains embedded interactive 3D representations of the native Creo data (within pre-defined templates), offering greater levels of Intellectual Property (IP) protection with support for separate passwords to control the editing of the 3D PDF output. The Publish 3D product supports Model Based Definition (MBD) and 3D annotations and dimensions (PMI) from Creo into the 3D PDF format. The inclusion of Theorem’s Unified Interface (UI) provides the opportunity for multiple PDF publishing from a single data source using the selection of ready-made templates, or the option