Oracle today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire Apiary, whose pioneering APIFlow solution provides the framework and tools for developing application programming interfaces (APIs) that share enterprise services and data and help create modern, cloud-based applications and experiences.

Apiary has helped companies create hundreds of thousands of APIs and products that their customers and partners love to use. APIFlow spans the API creation lifecycle, including design, governance, testing, and documentation, while supporting API Blueprint and OpenAPI industry standards. Together, Oracle and Apiary will help companies thrive in the digital economy by comprehensively managing connectivity complexity...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise today announced a definitive agreement to acquire SimpliVity, a leading provider of software-defined, hyperconverged infrastructure, for $650 million in cash.  The hyperconverged market was estimated to be approximately $2.4 billion in 2016, and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 25 percent, to nearly $6 billion, by 2020.  By bringing together HPE’s best-in-class infrastructure, automation and cloud management software with SimpliVity’s industry leading software-defined data management platform, HPE and its partner ecosystem will deliver the industry’s only “built-for-enterprise” hyperconverged offering.    

“This transaction expands HPE’s software-defined capability and fits squarely within...

e-Xstream engineering, an MSC Software Company, and software developer of Digimat, a nonlinear multi-scale material and structure modeling platform, has announced the new release of Digimat 5.0.1. The new capabilities in this release significantly improve the user friendliness of analyzing fiber reinforced plastics and the accuracy of analyzing unidirectional (UD) and woven composites.

New User Interface for Reinforced Plastics Analysis Digimat-RP (“Reinforced Plastics”) now provides engineers with a guided workflow tool that aids in the setup and streamlines the process of accurate analysis of plastic parts in a robust, fast and easy manner. It bridges the gap...

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced its Tessent®DefectSim™ product was awarded 2016 Product of the Year by Electronic Products magazine. This award is presented for a product launched in 2016 that represents innovative design and advancement in technology, as determined by the editors of the publication.

The Tessent DefectSim product measures the defect coverage of any test applied to an analog or mixed-signal circuit. This tool enables a designer to improve the quality of analog and mixed-signal circuits during integrated circuit (IC) design by guiding design-for-test (DFT) and the selection of more effective manufacturing tests. It also enables test...

Today EpiGrid announced that AMD® has accepted EpiGrid as an AMD Technology Partner™. EpiGrid VDI™ solutions enable any mechanical engineering application to be deployed in the cloud. With VDI access via a private cloud, users can access their applications (like SOLIDWORKS®, ProENGINEER®, and DriveWorks™) from any thin client from anywhere. The EpiGrid VDI can also integrate with on-premise servers to create a hybrid cloud implementation bringing together the best of on-premise and cloud computing.

“We are pleased to be accepted as an AMD Technology Partner,” said Chad Garrish, Chief Technology Officer, EpiGrid. "This partnership adds...

Elysium, a global leading interoperability solution provider, announces a new partnership with Transvalor, a leading software editor of material forming numerical simulation. 　

After decades of evolution in manufacturing, today, 3D data are being used throughout the product life cycle stages, and interoperability between multiple applications/systems is a key factor to ensure smooth and effective 3D data utilization. Hence, there has been an ongoing challenge in manufacturing industry to prevent problems caused by poor data quality and/or geometrical complexity of 3D CAD data, e.g., errors in importing design data into simulation tools, translation errors such as...

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Accenture have formed an innovative collaboration to help shape how the fashion industry integrates technology and consumer insights into its business practices.

Combining the high caliber of creativity within CFDA’s membership with Accenture’s deep expertise in customer experience, strategy, insights and technology, the two organizations will create talent-development programs for today’s designers and tomorrow’s retailers.

In addition, Accenture and CFDA will develop a series of thought leadership articles and hypotheses on the future of the fashion customer experience and test these ideas in live pilots with CFDA...

The Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) and Accenture have formed an innovative collaboration to help shape how the fashion industry integrates technology and consumer insights into its business practices.

Combining the high caliber of creativity within CFDA’s membership with Accenture’s deep expertise in customer experience, strategy, insights and technology, the two organizations will create talent-development programs for today’s designers and tomorrow’s retailers.

In addition, Accenture and CFDA will develop a series of thought leadership articles and hypotheses on the future of the fashion customer experience and test these ideas in live pilots with CFDA...

MecSoft Corporation, the developer of industry leading CAD/CAM software solutions, has announced the availability of VisualCAM 2017 for SOLIDWORKS, the latest version of MecSoft’s integrated Gold Certified CAM solution for SOLIDWORKS.

VisualCAM 2017 for SOLIDWORKS now includes Feature Detection and Feature Based Milling. Machining features such as 3 Axis Pockets, Prismatic Pockets, Slots, Planar Faces, and Bosses can now be detected in Solid models and toolpath methods applied to these features. New machining methods such as 4 Axis Drive Surface Operation for true 4 Axis Milling and Slot Milling Operation for single line and trochoidal machining of slots...

Centric Software announces that Bettina, a luxury knitwear expert, has selected Centric’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution to optimize collection creation, development and production.

In order to support their support collection creation and development process, Bettina began a comprehensive PLM selection search, employing the services of an independent advisor, Monaco Informatique Service, in order to select the best possible partner.

“We wanted a single, reliable and sustainable tool,” explains Philippe Prud’homme, Bettina CEO. “But most importantly, we wanted to find a partner that would really understand our traditional way of working and would offer a...