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CONTACT Software has a new PLM partner in India, namely Neilsoft. The global full-service provider helps companies make their development process more efficient. Neilsoft is now conducting its first seminars involving CONTACT's product portfolio in three major cities in India. The CONTACT Global Ecosystem is flourishing: with Neilsoft, it has gained a new partner who can make a difference. The company has a long history of engineering expertise and establishes itself internationally with its comprehensive offering of consulting, services and software. More than 1,000 employees worldwide provide support to customers from a variety of industries in the USA, Europe, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific region and in its home market, India. "Industry in India is booming, thanks in part to the government's Make in India campaign," says Michael Sanjay Murgai, who is responsible for International Sales & Partner Management at CONTACT. "In Neilsoft, we have found the right partner to

It is rare today that a person spends their entire career servicing one industry. This is something people in the industry recognize of Sam Simpson who announced his plans to retire from Gerber. “When someone spends more than 47 years in an industry, it becomes a part of them,” stated Sam Simpson, vice president of global strategic accounts at Gerber. Even though Simpson will retire from Gerber, he will continue to serve as a consultant to the company providing insights on customer needs and trends, maintaining and strengthening key partnerships, providing oversight on software compliance, as well as serving as a special advisor to the CEO. “It has been a privilege to work alongside Sam and learn about the industry,” said Peter Morrissey, senior vice president global sales at Gerber. “Sam’s knowledge of the industry, customers and markets is unparalleled and we thank him for his years of service.” Sam

In its new Industrial IoT (IIoT) Innovation Center in Garching near Munich, Germany, Accenture is helping clients explore ways to reach new levels of efficiency and agility, unlock new sources of growth, and deliver personalized experiences through smart, connected digital technologies.   The Innovation Center, which has been set-up as an industrial “shop floor”, helps enable clients to design and prototype innovative digital solutions for their businesses and customers. It offers an Industrial Design Thinking capability for innovation workshops, a Connected Products Studio for rapid prototyping, and draws on an industrial ecosystem that connects clients with key technology partners, start-ups and academia. “Many of our clients have begun to take steps to digitize their businesses – be that from experiment to pilot, or from pilot to rollout. But many are missing some of the capabilities required to rapidly explore and scale the solutions they want to use,” said Eric Schaeffer,

ASI DATAMYTE today announced the sale of its QDA software platform and related operations to Alpina Partners (ALPINA), a private equity group located in London, UK and Munich, Germany.  As a part of this transaction ASI DATAMYTE will transfer substantially all of the QDA related customer contracts, assets, vendor contracts and its related operations.  The two companies will continue a deep bi-directional partnership to resell, support and service each other's products worldwide. ASI DATAMYTE will continue to support its global customers with data collectors, torque solutions, dimensional gages, quality management software as well as support and services for QDA.  In addition, they are innovating a new line of products and service offerings. "This transaction will allow both organizations to focus on their core businesses while also providing capital, resources and investment which will accelerate and deepen its position as the global standard for enterprise quality management," said ASI DATAMYTE Chairman Joel Ronning. ALPINA's new company, QDA Solutions, will provide "Industrie 4.0" platform

In preparation for an upcoming research activity on the Future of “Digitalized” Enterprise Innovation and Product Development, the following questions keep finding their way in to current thinking. With the changing political landscape and environmental regulations will enterprises continue on the path towards the “Circular Economy?” Will they continue to celebrate their “Sustainability” success stories? Given that every object and transaction are being linked and soon to be revealed through “digitalization,” how should enterprises approach innovation and new product development? With this in mind what steps need to be taken to achieve sustainability? Here are some suggestions: Establish an innovation platform Embed sustainability and digitalization to the front-end Restate “sustainability” and “digitalization” challenges as “BIG” innovation opportunities  Read the full blog post at http://www.cimdata.com/en/resources/cimdata-blog/item/8474-digitalization-and-sustainability-connect-them-to-innovate-big

SAP launched several new Internet of Things (IoT) solutions at SAP Leonardo Live, its global summit being held July 11–12 in Frankfurt, Germany, to showcase the latest technology and use cases for innovation, including the IoT. Part of the SAP Leonardo digital innovation system, these IoT solutions take advantage of advances in Big Data and analytics, the ability to connect people, things and business with SAP Cloud Platform, and technologies such as machine learning to enable IoT and Industry 4.0 strategies across digital logistics, manufacturing and asset management. The new solutions include: SAP Leonardo IoT Bridge, a configurable role-based digital command center giving operations managers unprecedented visibility and ability to act in real time  SAP Global Track and Trace, a cloud-based offering for unified, end-to-end tracking, monitoring and reporting of objects and business processes across supply chain networks  SAP Edge Services to bring compute, storage and business semantics via the cloud to where intelligent devices reside outside of the

Infor today announced Coleman(TM), an enterprise-grade, industry-specific AI platform for Infor CloudSuite(TM) applications. A pervasive platform that operates below an application's surface, Coleman mines data and uses powerful machine learning to improve processes such as inventory management, transportation routing, and predictive maintenance; Coleman also provides AI-driven recommendations and advice to enable users to make smarter business decisions more quickly. In addition, Coleman acts as a smart AI partner, augmenting the user's work.  Coleman uses natural language processing and image recognition to chat, hear, talk, and recognize images to help people use technology more efficiently.  Coleman develops a conversational relationship with the user which can be rendered in Infor Ming.le™, a social collaboration platform, or a synthetic conversational user interface. User efficiency is increased as studies show humans are able to speak and hear 3-4 times as many words per minute as they can type.  Processing the vast data in Infor CloudSuite, Coleman

PROS® today announced that it has won the 2017 Microsoft U.S. Enterprise Products Group Partner of the Year, ISV – Business Applications Award. Microsoft recognized PROS as its top U.S. partner, based on the company’s outstanding field service, innovation, and implementation of customer solutions running on Microsoft Azure and Dynamics 365. The awards were announced at the Microsoft Inspire conference in Washington, D.C. The Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards recognize Microsoft partners that have developed and delivered exceptional Microsoft-based solutions over the past year. As a company driving modern commerce with dynamic pricing science, PROS was recognized for its innovative solutions and for providing superior field engagement in the United States. In June, PROS also received the 2017 Microsoft Alliance Global Commercial ISV Partner of the Year Award, which recognized the company for excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft technology. “We are honored to be selected as Microsoft’s 2017 Partner of the Year for the

Danlaw, Inc. is pleased to announce that we are now an official Siemens PLM Solution Partner. This partnership highlights Danlaw's commitment to providing a seamless solution between our Mx-Suite™ Verification and Validation test software and Siemens Polarion QA software with the Mx-Suite Polarion Connector. Our customers benefit from increased quality and reduced development cycles, when developing electronic modules by centrally managing test case generation and execution with test results tied directly to requirements. "Danlaw's Mx-Suite provides automated testing capability and Polarion ALM provides forensic-level traceability. Integrating these two powerful tools provides the user with automated testing capability plus real-time planning and system lifecycle traceability," said David Cole, Program Manager of Danlaw. "MX-Suite's built-in support of a variety of hardware, tools and communication protocols, simplifies test system set up by enabling interfaces to these elements with Polarion, thereby reducing effort, time, and cost." The Mx-Suite Embedded Software Test Environment is designed to

As a part of a comprehensive strategy to transform the construction industry through improved digital process in all phases of the project lifecycle, Viewpoint today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to acquire Dexter + Chaney, a market leader in cloud-based construction enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. The addition of Dexter + Chaney’s product suite will be a powerful component of Viewpoint’s strategy to drive further the adoption of technology in construction. "The addition of Dexter + Chaney’s Spectrum suite to Viewpoint’s product offerings creates the strongest portfolio of ERP solutions in the industry,” said Manolis Kotzabasakis, Chief Executive Officer of Viewpoint. “We look forward to leveraging the strengths of both companies’ solutions to further accelerate technology innovation and adoption in the construction industry. Our goal is to ensure customers have the solutions they need to increase productivity, mitigate risk, and reduce cost.” Viewpoint ERP and project delivery software, including Vista and ProContractor,