Position Papers

Altair is excited to announce the availability of PBScloud.io, its latest appliance solution to enable and expand cloud computing for organizations. PBScloud.io allows users to model, build and run High Performance Computing (HPC) appliances on both public and private clouds, as well as bare-metal infrastructures. “PBScloud.io is the most intuitive solution to build and run HPC appliances on the cloud while enabling users to bring any third party applications using the bring your own license (BYOL) model,” said Sam Mahalingam, Chief Technical Officer at Altair. “It is a perfect illustration of Altair’s continued commitment to providing its customers with powerful ways to leverage HPC in the cloud in order to realize their innovation potential.” Key Features in PBScloud.io include: Multi-Cloud Management: Users are free to use more than one cloud provider and can deploy PBScloud.io on a public cloud, private cloud and bare-metal. Security & Governance: PBScloud.io offers secured set up and the ability

OpenText™ announced the availability of OpenText Magellan, the company’s new Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform. OpenText Magellan is a flexible AI and analytics platform that combines open source machine learning with advanced analysis and the capabilities to acquire, merge, manage and analyze Big Data and Big Content. Unveiled and demonstrated at OpenText Enterprise World 2017, Magellan’s cognitive computing platform offers users machine-assisted decision making, automation, and business optimization, in an easy to use and affordable package. OpenText Magellan is a cost-effective solution built on a cohesive, highly scalable infrastructure equipped for handling massive amounts of structured and unstructured data. Powered by OpenText Analytics, and Apache Spark, OpenText Magellan integrates across any EIM architecture to dramatically reduce the time, effort and expertise required to leverage the value of advanced analytics in decision making and task automation. Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText CEO and CTO, said, “Enterprises have created vast data lakes of information

Industrial IoT software firm Plataine launches the latest version of its Material and Asset Tracker software. Plataine has built on its market-leading success, using customer feedback, to design a cutting-edge manufacturing optimization software delivering unprecedented outcomes in material & tool utilization, productivity, throughput and quality. Version 4.0’s innovative microservices architecture structures the software as a suite of modular services, with each module supporting a specific business goal. The system uses Amazon’s robust Web Services platform and benefits from Amazon’s full suite of cloud services and strong security infrastructure. Both Plataine and AWS offer FedRAMP and ITAR compliant solutions that meet regulatory requirements of government and defense projects. The new release offers expanded support for the entire manufacturing supply chain, where OEMs and suppliers can collaborate on a single platform for integrated visibility of manufacturing status and traceability. As part of the new version 4.0, new – groundbreaking - analytical algorithms

PDM technology is excited to introduce our latest product development: CAD/ERP LINK – a distinct product that enables CAD and ERP users to join forces by working together in a unified solution. The functionalities of CAD/ERP LINK have been an important part of the core product, BLUESTAR PLM, for over a decade. We saw the need for a light-weight solution which is easy to implement and that eases the implementation and installation of BLUESTAR PLM later on, in line with company growth. CAD/ERP LINK is ready-to-go after a quick and easy installation, and features short and to-the point training sessions. SOLIDWORKS CAD/ERP LINK is an easy-to-use data integration system available for Microsoft Dynamics 365 for Finance and Operations & Dynamics AX (ERP) and the SOLIDWORKS CAD system. SOLIDWORKS is a leading 3D CAD system with more than two million engineers and designers. MICROSOFT DYNAMICS 365 FOR FINANCE AND OPERATIONS is a Microsoft enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for medium to

CGTech and MachiningCloud jointly announce a VERICUT enhancement in MachiningCloud whereby VERICUT customers can import cutting parameters from cutting tool manufacturers from within MachiningCloud directly into VERICUT.  VERICUT CNC machine simulation, verification and optimization software detects CNC programming errors as well as potential collisions from the same NC code that drives the CNC machine. MachiningCloud is a product data provider for world-leading cutting tool manufacturers, CNC machines and workholding.  After defining a tooling package on the MachiningCloud and directly downloading all the tool assemblies within the package into VERICUT, customers can now obtain the cutting parameters of the tool to verify that the tool was programmed correctly.      The process is simple: 1) Build a MachiningCloud job containing your tool assemblies; 2) Export the job downloading it to your local computer; 3) from within VERICUT click once to import all the tools from the job. In this step, 3D geometry representing

Tata Consultancy Services reported its consolidated financial results according to IFRS in dollar terms for the quarter ended June 30, 2017. Financial Highlights for Quarter Ended June 30, 2017 · Revenue at $4,591 million + 5.2 % Y-o-Y; + 3.1 % Q-o-Q · Net Income at $923 million (1.8%) Y-o-Y & (7.0%) Q-o-Q · Net cash from operations at 104% of Net Profit · Operating Margin at 23.4 % · Earnings Per Share at $ 0.47 Business Highlights for Quarter Ended June 30, 2017 · Volume Growth at 3.5% · IT Attrition rate at 11.6% LTM · Total employees: 385,809; Gross addition: 11,202 employees · 8 clients added in $1M+ band; 12 clients added in $10M+ band · 1 new client in $50M+ & $100M+ bands Commenting on the Q1 performance, CEO and MD, Rajesh Gopinathan said:

Women in Manufacturing® (WiM) announced today that it will hold its seventh annual SUMMIT in at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, CT on September 13-15, 2017. More than 300 women are expected to attend the annual three-day conference that is specifically designed to support, promote and inspire women in the manufacturing industry. WiM is the only national association specifically dedicated to supporting women in the manufacturing sector with year-round programming and a national directory for women in the industry. The SUMMIT program theme for 2017 is “Unified in MFG” and events, speakers and discussions are planned to emphasize the diverse nature of manufacturing and the women who make up its workforce. Attendees will attend plenary sessions with high-profile speakers, participate in educational breakout sessions and network with industry peers. “The ‘Unified in MFG’ theme was inspired by our members––remarkable women from every part of the manufacturing industry and every

"Energizing the digital engineering world". This was the motto under which CONTACT Software presented new products, innovations and strategies at Open World 2017. The aim: To make it easier to develop smart products and digital business models for the Internet of Things. More than 250 visitors came together at the two-day user conference Open World 2017, including many overseas guests from China, India, Korea, Turkey and the USA. The dominant theme at the most important meeting of the CONTACT Community was the digital transformation. As Managing Director Karl Heinz Zachries stressed when opening the event, the challenge is to continue developing proven business models while simultaneously remaining open for new, groundbreaking business ideas. It will become increasingly important for enterprises that they move forward in an agile manner with the aid of bimodal strategies. The key to digitalization In Fulda, CONTACT presented its new Elements for IoT modules. These include

SAP today announced three key appointments to its North America leadership team designed to strengthen the company’s focus on growth, innovation and customer success in the region. Stephen Shute assumes the new role of executive vice president and chief business officer for the Americas and Asia Pacific Japan (APJ); Donald J. (DJ) Paoni is elevated to the position of president of Sales for North America; and Dave Spencer moves into the role of chief operating officer for North America. Over the past two years, Shute served as COO for North America and was instrumental in creating synergies across the portfolio for the benefit of SAP customers, leading much of the day-to-day execution of the region’s operating plan. As EVP and chief business officer, he will have a broad range of responsibilities across the Americas and APJ to ensure top- and bottom-line business performance. Prior to SAP, Shute held senior executive

Lifeboat Distribution, an international value added distributor for virtualization, security, business continuity and other technically sophisticated products, announced today a distribution agreement with jetNEXUS, a leading global provider for application delivery, load balancing and security technology. Lifeboat will sell jetNEXUS solutions to its network of value-added resellers, system integrators, and managed service providers in North America. The company’s flagship product, the ALB-X, offers advanced load balancing, security and traffic management capabilities to mitigate the threat of downtime and address application performance issues for an outstanding end user experience. With a core focus on ease-of-use and simplicity, without compromising functionality, jetNEXUS solutions lead the way in price performance. “We are delighted to be working with Lifeboat and have selected them as our US distributor based on their stellar reputation and commitment to deliver innovative, high-value network solutions to the channel. Our load balancer’s ease-of-use is unrivalled in the ADC market. This