Position Papers

Maplesoft announced that they will be starting direct operations in Japan as of April 1, 2020. Maplesoft Japan will provide sales and technical support for Maple, the technical computing and calculation management software, and MapleSim, the advanced system-level modeling and simulation tool, as well as related products. "With expert staff dedicated exclusively to supporting Maple and MapleSim customers, our new office will offer increased services and support to our Japanese customers in both the commercial and academic markets," says Takashi Iwagaya, Vice President, Technical Strategy, Maplesoft. Maplesoft's parent company and current reseller in Japan, Cybernet Systems, will continue to be the first point of contact for Japanese customers for some Maplesoft products and offerings. These include MapleMBSE, which supports a model based systems engineering approach to requirements management, the Maple Design of Experiments Toolbox, and the MapleCLASS package for universities. During the transition period, Cybernet Systems will continue to be

Infor announced that Fetim Group, a Dutch construction and home decor leader, is using an Infor benchmark of 800 world-leading companies to improve its processes and workflows. For this benchmark, Infor collected data from global manufacturing and distribution companies on how they operate. Analyzing and comparing this data has helped Fetim improve productivity and workflow efficiency. Further, Fetim is playing an active role as an advisory group member to improve Infor’s software and to help it better align with customer needs. Fetim’s IT architecture is built on the best-of-class principle, and the company already uses Infor CloudSuite Distribution Enterprise, based on the Infor M3 ERP (enterprise resource planning) application and Infor CloudSuite Configure Price Quote (CPQ), a digital portal to improve the customer buying experience. It is currently rolling out Infor CRM and the acclaimed Infor Nexus to realize an online real-time collaboration platform to help improve cooperation with suppliers and to maximize the reliability of the supply chain.

ESI Group releases its sales for the financial year starting on February 1, 2019 and ending on December 31, 2019 (11 months), as well as for its last two months, approved by the Board of Directors on February 12th, 2020. As decided at the Annual General Meeting of July 18th, 2019, the Group now closes the fiscal year on December 31 of each year. As a pioneer in virtual prototyping solutions and a key player in industrial transformation, ESI Group empowers manufacturers to navigate increasing complexity by replacing real tests and prototypes with highly accurate, predictive and representational virtual prototypes. ESI Group’s software solutions are built from decades of global expertise in physics of materials, essential to the creation of authentic virtual prototypes. ESI’s customers are an enviable list of industry leaders who benefit from enhanced innovation, competitiveness, performance and productivity thanks to ESI Group’s solutions. At the end of

During his keynote at Oracle OpenWorld London, Oracle Executive Vice President Juan Loaiza announced the latest innovations which further strengthen Oracle’s strategy of providing a single converged database engine able to meet all the needs of a business. The new database features enable customers to take advantage of new technology trends—such as employing blockchain for fraud prevention, leveraging the flexibility of JSON documents, or training and evaluating machine learning algorithms inside the database. The future is data driven, and effective use of data will increasingly determine a company’s competitiveness. Unlocking the full value of an enterprise’s data requires a new generation of data driven apps. Oracle makes it easy to create modern data driven apps utilizing a single database engine which supports the most suitable data model, process type, and development paradigm for a wide variety of business requirements. We enable our customers to easily run many kinds of workloads

Synopsys, Inc. announced that it has completed its acquisition of certain IP assets from INVECAS. This acquisition broadens Synopsys' DesignWare® Logic Library, Embedded Memory, General Purpose I/O, Analog, and Interface IP portfolio. The acquisition also adds a team of experienced R&D engineers to accelerate Synopsys' physical IP roadmap across a range of process technologies to address customers' evolving design requirements in markets such as consumer, IoT and automotive. INVECAS will retain its HDMI IP and ASIC Design Solutions. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Synopsys on CIMdata.com

Capgemini announced the signing of an agreement to acquire Purpose, one of the world’s leading social impact agencies and hub for campaign innovation, headquartered in New York with outlets across the globe. The expertise of Purpose’s 100 campaigners, creatives, strategists and technologists, combined with Capgemini Invent, the digital innovation, consulting and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, will further support clients to transform their business models and practices for impact, and engage their stakeholders in making meaningful contributions to society. Founded in New York in 2009, Purpose has spent the last decade building a footprint and reputation for enabling impact across six continents by creating purpose-driven campaigns, branding, creative content, and participatory social impact strategies to a blue-chip client roster. It has launched major initiatives on issues ranging from refugees to international LGBT rights and established relationships with global brands and corporations, major philanthropies, the UN system, and many of the world’s leading civil society organizations.

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that it has acquired Integrand Software, Inc. to further accelerate innovation in the 5G RF communications space. Integrand’s EMX® technology has the industry-leading Method of Moments (MoM) solver technology for analysis and extraction and enables designers to accurately and efficiently simulate large integrated circuits (ICs) and advanced packages, characterize passive components and analyze interconnect parasitics in 3D-IC systems. Executing upon the Cadence® Intelligent System Design™ strategy, the integration of Integrand EMX with the Cadence Virtuoso®, Sigrity™, Clarity™ and AWR® solutions offers customers a complete electromagnetic signoff solution. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Cadence on CIMdata.com

If you are a currently maintained Mastercam customer, you can now participate in the Beta Program for Mastercam 2021. Shops all over the world, from small job shops to Fortune 100, get a chance to test-drive Mastercam 2021 before it is released and provide valuable feedback to help shape the final product. Participants in the Beta Program get an early look at dozens of powerful new tools for simple to complex jobs. Faster, more flexible multiaxis programming. As more shops continue to rely on streamlined multiaxis cutting for single-setup precision, Mastercam 2021 adds new techniques and strategies such as Expanded Multiaxis Pocketing, a new 3+2 Automatic Roughing toolpath, enhancements to the 5-axis Flowline toolpaths, and more. Advances in turning and turning-related applications. Mastercam 2021 introduces the new Lathe Custom Thread toolpath to support custom thread forms and expands the support for modeling chucks and chuck jaws. Mastercam supports collet chucks

Sevfun, the Chinese homewear brand, has selected Centric Software®‘s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to fashion, retail, footwear, outdoor, luxury, consumer goods and home décor companies to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Established in 1999, Sevfun is a garment brand for the whole family. Using natural, healthy and high-quality fibers as raw materials, Sevfun produces comfortable underwear, ‘wear at home’ clothing, home goods and sleepwear across eight categories. Sevfun has branches in Sichuan, Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei and Anhui. Sevfun is pursuing aggressive growth targets and the company’s existing product R&D processes require greater efficiency, accuracy and innovation to keep up with market demands. Sevfun has experienced challenges with large amounts of data stored offline, communication barriers between product teams in Chengdu and Shanghai and a need for a digital platform to support their transition from a buying model to an

The Board of Directors of Capgemini SE, chaired by Paul Hermelin, convened in Paris on February 12, 2020 to review and authorize the issue of the accounts of Capgemini Group for the year ended December 31, 2019. Paul Hermelin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini Group and Aiman Ezzat, who will become Chief Executive Officer of Capgemini Group following the Shareholders’ Meeting of May 2020, comment: “With the strong 2019 performance we continue the momentum started several years ago. Once again, we outpaced market growth, as we committed to do. Our operating margin is up for the 9th consecutive year and we have significantly exceeded our free cash flow target. This sound financial performance demonstrates the strength of our business model and our financial discipline. With this good set of results, we start 2020 on a solid footing. We can rely on a strong backlog, and on our ability to win