VRgineers, a developer and manufacturer of enterprise-grade VR solutions, and R3DT, a VR software provider for virtual prototyping, today announced a partnership that will enable the two companies to deliver a convenient hardware and software package for industrial engineers that need to plan for and review their production processes.

The XTAL VR system from VRgineers is known in the automotive, aerospace and defence industries for its ability to deliver lifelike picture quality over a peripheral vision-filling 170-degree field-of-view. Integrated with Leap Motion technology, it allows users to seamlessly control the virtual environment and interact with objects. The quality...

Oracle presented Inspirage with two 2019 Oracle Excellence Awards for Specialized Partner of the Year: Oracle ERP Cloud – Global and EMEA.  

The Oracle Excellence Awards for Specialized Partner of the Year recognize Inspirage’s outstanding work driving customer success with Oracle ERP Cloud. Oracle partners accelerate innovation and help customers upgrade to the cloud quickly and easily. From business planning and implementation, to connectivity and execution, Oracle partners provide the support and services needed to maximize the value of Oracle Cloud solutions within our customers’ organizations. 

Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN) offers opportunities for partners to accelerate and expand their...

General Motors (GM) and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced a new partnership in future global vehicle engineering. This builds on the 16-year long relationship between the two companies.

Under the terms of the agreement signed earlier today, TCS will acquire certain assets at the GM Technical Center – India (GMTC-I), in Bengaluru, and will partner with GM, supporting its global vehicle programs with engineering design services over the next 5 years. Over 1,300 employees of GMTC-I will transfer to TCS, including teams focused on propulsion systems, vehicle engineering, controls development, testing, creative design and special projects.

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For the second consecutive year, Accenture has been ranked the No. 1 company on Refinitiv’s Diversity & Inclusion Index, which identifies the 100 publicly traded companies with the most diverse and inclusive workplaces, based on Refinitiv’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) data. This is Accenture’s fourth year on the Index.
 
“Building a culture of equality where everyone can thrive is key to who we are as a company,” said Julie Sweet, Accenture’s chief executive officer. “We value each other’s unique backgrounds, skills and experience and hold ourselves accountable for progress against bold goals. Embracing inclusion and diversity is one of the things that...

Oracle Exadata Database Machine X8M, available today, sets a new bar and changes the dynamics of the database infrastructure market. Exadata X8M combines Intel® Optane™ DC persistent memory and 100 gigabit remote direct memory access (RDMA) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) to remove storage bottlenecks and dramatically increase performance for the most demanding workloads such as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), analytics, IoT, fraud detection, and high frequency trading.

“With Exadata X8M, we deliver in-memory performance with all the benefits of shared storage for both OLTP and analytics,” said Juan Loaiza, executive vice president, mission-critical database technologies, Oracle. “Reducing response times by...

Building on Oracle and Microsoft’s cloud interoperability partnership, Oracle announced the availability of an integration between Oracle Digital Assistant and Microsoft Teams. Enterprise customers can now access Oracle Cloud Applications through an AI-powered voice experience in Teams.

“Using Oracle Digital Assistant, business users can simply and conversationally interact with business applications directly from their Microsoft Teams interface just as they would collaborate with their fellow employees or other productivity tools,” said Suhas Uliyar, vice president, AI and Digital Assistant, Oracle. “Completing daily work tasks becomes much more efficient as the AI-trained conversational access doesn’t require additional employee training on different applications....

Oracle announced major new innovations across its data management portfolio that make it easier, faster, and safer for customers to run their mission critical workloads everywhere—in the cloud, on-premises, and via Exadata Cloud at Customer. Oracle continues to deliver the world’s most comprehensive data management solutions, including the industry’s first and only self-driving database, Oracle Autonomous Database.

“Oracle’s passion in helping customers solve tomorrow’s problems through technological investment and innovation is unparalleled,” said Andrew Mendelsohn, executive vice president, database server technologies, Oracle. “Our Autonomous Database sets the bar in the industry, and we’re very excited about introducing many new capabilities...

Titan International, Inc., a global manufacturer of off-highway wheels, tires, assemblies and undercarriage products, has started moving its core business and manufacturing processes to Oracle Cloud Applications. With Oracle Cloud Applications for finance, supply chain and manufacturing, Titan International will be able to take advantage of an integrated suite of applications to break down silos, quickly and easily embrace the latest advancements in machine learning and Internet of Things technology, and improve user engagement, collaboration and performance.

Headquartered in Quincy, Illinois, Titan has been manufacturing wheels and tires for the farming and construction industry for more than 125 years....

SAP today announced the first SAP.iO Foundry program in Munich with seven business-to-business technology startups creating innovative software that integrates with SAP’s marketing and commerce cloud solutions.

SAP.iO Foundry Munich is part of SAP’s innovation strategy and is designed to provide the startups with access to curated mentorship, exposure to SAP technology and application programmable interfaces (APIs), and opportunities to collaborate with SAP customers.

The startups in the Munich cohort were selected based on their ability to:

• Enhance customer experiences in commerce and marketing
• Apply emerging technologies, such as machine learning, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things (IoT)...

SAP announced that it is creating a new marketplace using its SAP Ariba solutions to expand the trade of recycled plastics and plastic alternatives.

This signals the next phase of Plastics Cloud, a pilot program launched last year to help reduce and ultimately eliminate the waste of single-use plastics.

The first phase of the program focused on collecting existing and live data from across the UK plastics supply chain to spark new ideas for waste reduction. SAP announced the next phase of Plastics Cloud at London Design Festival taking place September 14–22.

In this second phase, SAP...