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Atos announced the completion of its acquisition of Maven Wave, a U.S.-based cloud and technology consulting firm specialized in delivering digital transformation solutions for large enterprises. With this acquisition, Atos reinforces its global leadership in cloud-solutions for applications, data analytics and machine learning in hybrid and multi-cloud platforms. After being awarded the Google Cloud Breakthrough Partner of the Year in 2019, Atos continues to build its Google Cloud solutions capabilities, notably by welcoming more than 330 Maven Wave employees, recognized as some of the best teams globally. The company now holds ten Google specializations and is recognized as the Google Cloud North America Services Partner of the Year for the last two years running. The addition of Maven Wave’s expertise into the Atos portfolio further accelerates the transformation and growth in North America and enforces the company’s commitment to extend and enrich its digital portfolio across the globe. “We continue

JETCAM will be showcasing new versions of its nesting and composite automation software at JEC World, Paris, booth no E28 between 3rd and 5th March 2020. The latest release of JETCAM Expert nesting software benefits from several major enhancements. Improvements to common cutting logic can further reduce nest runtime on the cutter, and several new interface enhancements such as screen macro recording and unlimited undo can drastically reduce workflow. CrossTrack 5, JETCAM composite material management software has been expanded further, now including two mobile applications for iOS and Android. The UI within the Material Transfer Station (MTS) app has been updated to allow handheld devices to be used in cold environments (such as freezers) where capacitive touch screens are less responsive. The General Purpose Information Station (GPIS) provides live information on material and job location and life status on tablets, allowing staff to access this information from anywhere. The core CrossTrack suite

Tata Consultancy Services has been named the #1 Top Employer in the UK by the Top Employers Institute. TCS received this recognition for the third consecutive year and has been a Top Employer in the UK for the last 10 years. The certification recognises TCS’ employee-friendly workplace practices and continued investments in building up local talent in the UK through professional development initiatives and digital skills programs. A variety of initiatives such as Rising Stars, Emerging Leaders and the Leadership Exchange, facilitate personal and professional development at every level in the organisation. These investments, initiatives and TCS’ progressive workplace policies have led to a best in class retention rate of 12.2%, over the last 12 months. By partnering with some of UK’s largest corporations in their growth and transformation initiatives, TCS grew organically by over 20% in FY2019, making it one of the top three providers of IT and IT-enabled

Oracle is excited to take the next step in our ambitious regional expansion plan, with five new cloud regions. We’ve added local regions in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah), Australia (Melbourne), Japan (Osaka), Canada (Montreal), and The Netherlands (Amsterdam). As of today, all of them are open for business and available in the Oracle Cloud Console. We’ve already opened 10 cloud regions in the last six months, and with these five new regions, we now have Oracle’s Generation 2 Cloud available in 21 fully independent locations. We’re well on our way to having 36 cloud regions available by the end of 2020. Adding Second Sites in Countries to Meet Customer Requirements Customers have told us that to run critical systems of record in the cloud, they need to run workloads across fully independent cloud regions for disaster recovery purposes. They also told us that those multiple sites must be in the same country to

OpenText announced findings from a new report launched at Legaltech 2020 in conjunction with Ari Kaplan Advisors. The report highlights the need to take control of eDiscovery costs, with AI, cloud and security all listed as top priorities for enterprise legal departments.  “To gain advantage in litigations, successfully conclude investigations, and competently deal with regulatory matters, decision-makers must be able to cull germane information in real time,” said Serge Savchenko, Vice President, Legal Technology at OpenText. “The demand for speed – amid escalating risks and ever-growing amounts of data – is pushing legal departments and law firms to automate routine tasks and inject machine learning and AI into daily operations.”  Key findings from the OpenText 4th Annual Survey of Legal Operations Professionals include:  Controlling eDiscovery costs is the ultimate goal: Legal operations teams are focused on controlling eDiscovery costs by gaining transparency from law firms on discovery budgets and review efficiency, centralizing

Accenture opened a new Innovation Hub in Hyderabad, where clients can co-innovate with Accenture by ideating, rapidly prototyping and then scaling disruptive products and services for the digital economy.   The latest addition to Accenture’s global innovation network, the Hyderabad Innovation Hub is spread over 300,000 square feet where clients can co-innovate and co-create solutions with more than 2,000 Accenture professionals with expertise across multiple industries and advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, security, extended reality, automation and blockchain.    “Our research shows that organizations are struggling to achieve their innovation goals, due to the lack of an enterprise-wide strategy for technology investments and adoption,” said Bhaskar Ghosh, group chief executive, Accenture Technology Services. “Through our leading advanced technology capabilities, we help clients scale their technology investments and bridge the innovation achievement gap. Our Innovation Hub in Hyderabad has the pieces our clients require to accelerate value creation through enterprise-wide, game-changing innovation.”

The new program will form an integral part of CIMdata’s PLM Leadership offering. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 4 February 2020—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, and SMS_ThinkTank, an industry leading resource providing system modeling and simulation expertise, announce that CIMdata has added a new Certificate Program to its PLM Leadership education and training offerings. The new “Systems Modeling & Simulation Certificate Program,” has been created by combining CIMdata’s knowledge and experience with that of SMS_ThinkTank. The new program is an integral part of CIMdata PLM Leadership—the PLM industry’s leading non-biased education and training offering. The goal of the new program is to provide a superior educational experience for today’s simulation and analysis professionals. It will be delivered through a series of education and training sessions that will equip those involved in systems modeling and/or simulation with a strong understanding of systems modeling and simulation concepts and industry-leading

Open Text Corporation announced its financial results for the second quarter ended December 31, 2019. “With the addition of Carbonite, we have a strategic market-opportunity to bring Information Management (IM) to all sizes of customers, from the largest of enterprises, governments, mid-size companies, small companies, and consumers. We are excited and energized to write the next chapter for OpenText as our vision expands and advances to Information Management, helping customers to migrate into the cloud and reinvent their businesses processes”, said Mark J. Barrenechea, OpenText CEO & CTO. “We are a partner-oriented company with the talent and culture to make an SMB channel wildly successful. With Carbonite this partner opportunity gets significantly stronger and deeper as we leverage OpenText’s proven expertise and successful track record of building powerful global partner programs.” “Our Q2 results reflect an increasing demand for OpenText products as we delivered strong top-line growth.

Infor is holding its 2nd annual EAM Summit in Dubai on Feb 18 to demonstrate the benefits of its latest innovations in enterprise asset management across industries, including facilities management, utilities, hospitality and healthcare. Infor will bring together executives from some of the region’s biggest employers, including the Infrastructure Asset Management Department of Abu Dhabi City Municipality and RAK Wastewater Agency (RAKWA). The event will focus on future trends of enterprise asset management and how to extend asset life and increase organizational efficiency with Infor CloudSuite™ EAM. The global enterprise asset management market is expected to reach a value of $8.2 billion by 2024, up from $5.1 billion in 2019 and representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10%, according to Research & Markets. “Organizations across all verticals are increasingly coming to realize the need to improve the way they manage and control their assets over their lifecycle to increase efficiency, performance and

Wipro Limited and Smart Energy Water (SEW) announced a multi-year global strategic alliance. This partnership aims to develop and deliver joint solutions, which will accelerate digital transformation for enterprise clients in the utilities space globally. Headquartered in California, SEW is a global energy and water cloud platform provider serving over 200 Utilities worldwide. The joint offerings, built on SEW’s industry-leading digital Customer Experience (CX), Workforce Engagement, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) and Big data analytics platforms will deliver transformational benefits to both companies’ new and existing clients in this space. It will help enterprise customers adopt self-servicing capabilities, gain real-time analytics on peak load management, leakage and high-usage, and accordingly optimize workforce efficiency. It will further enable them to transform their operations for greater efficiency and customer centricity. N.S. Bala, President and Global Head, Energy, Natural Resources, Utilities & Construction, Wipro Limited said, “The Wipro-SEW partnership