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New Generation Computing, Inc. announced RIS News named the company a leader in 32 categories of the RIS 2020 Software LeaderBoard. The Software LeaderBoard, now in its 19thyear, is an annual report that ranks solution providers based on an end-user survey. This year 330 retailers submitted evaluations for a broad spectrum of retail software vendors. NGC received 32 top five vendor rankings in the 2020 Software LeaderBoard, including the following number one rankings: #1 in Overall Performance #1 in Overall Software Reliability #1 in Overall Ease of Installation and Integration #1 in Technology Innovation for Tier 1 Retailers #1 in Ease of Administration and Maintenance for Tier 1 Retailers #1 in Total Cost of Operations for Tier 1 Retailers #1 in Software Reliability by Tier 1 Retailers “The RIS News LeaderBoard is an unbiased measure of a software vendor’s commitment to customer satisfaction and technology excellence,” said Joe Skorupa, editorial director, RIS News. “It’s difficult to score among

OpenBOM announced that OpenBOM has earned a high performer position in G2.com, Inc. (G2) PLM Grid® Report for Product Lifecycle Management and also one of the top leaders for PLM relationships index report. OpenBOM earned top positions in all categories based on the reviews provided by OpenBOM customers online. Products are ranked by customer satisfaction determined by user reviews and market presence including market share, vendor size, and social impact. Products in the high performer quadrant are highly rated by G2 reviews. “We are proud to be named as a high-performer of G2 Crowd’s PLM grid,” said Oleg Shilovitsky, CEO and co-founder of OpenBOM. “At OpenBOM there is no better measurement for our focus on the relationships and commitments we provide to our customers,” said Shilovitsky. “When manufacturing companies are purchasing OpenBOM, our commitment is to give you the best product and best support. Our customer commitment is reflected in

L&T Technology Services Limited announced it has opened a design engineering center in Rockford, Illinois (USA) to cater to the new age digital requirements of the aerospace and defense markets. The latest initiative will enable LTTS to further build on the momentum gained by the company in the aerospace sector across the globe. This center of excellence will specialize in development of high-performance engineering solutions for global aerospace and defense technology players. The facility will have a team of over 100 engineers with expertise in digital engineering, systems engineering and avionics design. The center was inaugurated by Mr. Stan Kottke, Vice President of Electric Power Systems, Collins Aerospace, Senator Dave Syverson and Mr. Tom McNamara, Mayor, Rockford City, IL, in the presence of Dr. Keshab Panda, CEO & Managing Director, L&T Technology Services and other top industry officials. The 130-seater center of excellence is LTTS’ sixth design center

 PDF Key takeaways: SAP has repositioned their digital supply chain offerings with new messaging and new capabilities. The SAP Intelligent Digital Supply Chain vision is much expanded since 2018, with more networks and initial integrations with Qualtrics. Their PLM offerings play a key role in “Design to Operate”, a core part of their Intelligent Digital Supply Chain vision, including support for the digital thread, digital twins, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). CIMdata had the pleasure of attending an SAP Digital Supply Chain Analyst event in Boston, MA on November 14. SAP’s supply chain leadership updated the analysts in attendance on new supply chain messaging, product roadmaps, and progress to date. Customer First, the Digital Supply Chain One of their key messages was an increased emphasis on customers and customer-centricity. To drive home the point, SAP put their customers first on the agenda. Mr. Peter Roberts, Global Vice President for Customer Success at SAP, led a

 PDF Key takeaways: Autodesk remains focused on their transition from perpetually licensing on-premise to subscription licensing their on-premise and growing cloud portfolios, with several important announcements at Autodesk University 2019. The company remains committed to manufacturing but sees their architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) business as a bigger opportunity. The Autodesk Forge platform ecosystem continues to grow, with over 4,000 attendees at the one-day developers conference (DevCon). Autodesk continues pushing the boundaries of generative design beyond geometry for additive manufacturing to new manufacturing processes, and to new applications like site design and plant layout. CIMdata had the pleasure of attending Autodesk University 2019 (AU2019) on November 18-21, 2019 in Las Vegas, NV. According to Autodesk over 13,000 attendees participated during the nearly week-long event at the Venetian/Palazzo complex. This commentary focuses on key sessions, messages, and content from the event. Travel and/or other expenses were provided by Autodesk. Doing More with Less For the last several years, Autodesk has

Synopsys, Inc. announced version 11.3 of its CODE V® optical design software, which introduces new capabilities that empower designers to create, simulate, and visualize optomechanical systems faster and more efficiently than ever. Highlights include: Expanded CAD Model Support. CODE V's CAD model support has been augmented with flexible options to load CAD surfaces for ray tracing and 3D visualization. Ray-traceable CAD surfaces allow designers to evaluate the impact of mechanical structures on optical performance. These surfaces can be defined both sequentially and non-sequentially to provide design flexibility and fast simulations. CODE V also allows designers to import CAD surfaces into the lens model for mechanical visualization only. Visualization CAD surfaces are automatically excluded from ray trace simulations, without the need for designers to specify custom surface attributes. CODE V's unique combination of ray-traceable CAD and visualization CAD surfaces saves time in sequential and non-sequential design work. The enhanced CAD modeling capabilities in CODE V help

Deuter Sport GMbH is a leading German producer of backpacks, sleeping bags and outdoor accessories. The company was founded in 1898 and began by supplying mailbags and post sacks to the Bavarian Royal Mail. Over the years, the company evolved into a renowned provider of backpacks and sleeping bags for outdoor adventurers, hikers, cyclists and mountaineers, as well as specially designed backpacks for schoolchildren. Marco Hühn, Quality Manager at Deuter, recalls how the company was challenged by a lack of transparency and coordination across internal teams in the US and Germany as well as with their suppliers in Vietnam: “For the past 25 years, we have had one longstanding manufacturing partner in Vietnam who makes all of our backpacks and our developers travel there a lot. Often decisions about products are made there, on the spot. In the past, these changes were not always documented very well for our teams

Stratasys Ltd. announced the appointment of Yoav Zeif as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer, effective Feb. 18, 2020. Current Interim CEO Elchanan (Elan) Jaglom will continue in his role as Chairman. Zeif brings broad, global experience in industry transformation to Stratasys, having served in senior leadership roles for both public and private multi-billion-dollar corporations, leading worldwide operations across industries and professional domains. Zeif was President of the Americas Division, Head of Product Offering and Chief Commercial Officer at Netafim, the world’s largest micro-irrigation company, from 2013 to 2018. Prior to that, he was Senior Vice President of Products and Marketing at Makhteshim (now Adama Ltd.), a global crop-protection company, where he managed the entire portfolio of products and all global commercial relationships. Since 2018, Zeif has been a partner in the New York office of McKinsey & Company. Zeif obtained an Executive MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Ph.D. in International Economics from Bar-Ilan University. “Stratasys has

As a global provider of construction software tools, we’ve witnessed some wonderful innovation in the industry—like the widespread adoption of BIM and a move towards industrialized construction. But here in the UK, productivity in construction firms is being held back by the same challenges as twelve months ago, as efforts remain slow to adopt digital technology for the jobsite. To better understand how we can help our customers overcome this productivity “plateau”, we commissioned a research survey of 251 construction professionals in the UK.  We’ve published those findings in a new report: Digital Groundwork: Closing the Productivity Gap. It follows on from 2018 research by PlanGrid (an Autodesk company) and explores how firms’ efforts to improve productivity have progressed. Download the report: Digital Groundwork: Closing the Productivity Gap Here are the key findings from the report: As in 2018, issues with information-sharing on the jobsite are causing delays and wider operational challenges. Three in ten firms

Accenture has selected SAP Cloud Platform and SAP Cloud Platform, SAP HANA service, to enhance the next generation of Accenture NewsPage. With solutions from SAP SE, Accenture NewsPage 9 can provide an integrated view of consumer trends, secondary demand and supply chain management signals to help companies thrive in the experience economy and accelerate growth in Asia-Pacific and Africa. Accenture NewsPage is an integrated distributor management and sales automation system that helps consumer products companies better manage traditional trade channels, promotions, and sales processes. Accenture chose SAP Cloud Platform and the SAP HANA service to build the latest version of its NewsPage solution to help dynamically orchestrate the growing volume of data and business processes companies are dealing with so that they can make better sense of their data in real time. “Built on SAP Cloud Platform and the SAP HANA service, Accenture NewsPage 9 will create a single source of customer