Boyd Industries, a supplier of dental equipment and cabinetry, has announced two major technology implementations that will enable it to manage increasing demand for its products. On the data management side, Boyd has implemented Microsoft Dynamics GP enterprise resource planning system to its existing MS Dynamics CRM cloud-based customer relations management system; this will enable seamless end-to-end customer account management from initial quote and order through manufacturing, invoicing and delivery. At the same time, Boyd has standardized all mechanical and wood products design to SolidWorks computer-aided design system to help streamline and improve product design and manufacturing.

“As...

Infor reported strong results for the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2016, ended April 30, 2016.  Software revenue for the quarter, including license fees and cloud subscriptions revenue, was up 34.9 percent and 35.5 percent year over year on a GAAP basis and non-GAAP1 basis, respectively, in constant currency2, and Infor added more than 700 new customers.

Total revenues for the quarter, on both a GAAP and non-GAAP basis, increased year over year by 8.8 percent at actual currency rates and 9.4 percent in constant currency with growth in each revenue category, including software license fees and subscriptions...

T-Systems has been announced as Platinum sponsor of the 2nd Healthcare Innovation Summit. From 24-25 August 2016, healthcare and technology professionals will convene at the Radisson Blu Gautrain Hotel located in Sandton, Johannesburg for the upcoming summit, under the theme – “Transforming Healthcare with Technology.”

T-Systems forms part of the Deutsche Telekom group of companies, which puts the company in a unique position to combine Information Technology and Telecommunications into replicable, cost effective solutions. Internationally, T-Systems is one of Europe’s leading providers of Information and Communications Technology (ICT), and is responsible for serving major business accounts.

Since...

PROSTEP, Inc., which has its headquarters in Birmingham, Michigan, at the center of the US automobile industry, celebrates its 10th anniversary this month. Within a decade, PROSTEP AG's US subsidiary has become an important partner to companies overseas when it comes to data exchange and managed file transfer (MFT), product data and process integration, and 3D PDF-based communication. Numerous customers in the automotive, aviation and arms industries, but also in other sectors, use the solution provided by the consulting and software company.

The purchase of the 3D PDF animation software from EOS Solutions in 2014 was a milestone...

OPEN MIND Technologies has now been awarded Tier 1 membership status at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC). The globally renowned research facility has invited OPEN MIND to enhance its membership status following a number of successful collaborative projects that have been undertaken during OPEN MIND's four year tenure as an AMRC Tier 2 member.

The AMRC in Rotherham near Sheffield, UK, was initially founded in 2001 as collaboration between the University of Sheffield and Boeing with support from Yorkshire Forward and the European Regional Development Fund. It now has over 80 industrial partners that include Boeing,...

Fujitsu Limited, Oracle Corporation, and Oracle Corporation Japan today announced that they have agreed to form a new strategic alliance to deliver enterprise-grade, world-class cloud services to customers in Japan and their subsidiaries around the world.

In order to take advantage of cloud computing to speed innovation, reduce costs and drive business growth, organizations need IT partners that can deliver the performance, security and management capabilities that are demanded by enterprise workloads. To help organizations in Japan capitalize on this opportunity and confidently move enterprise workloads to the cloud, Oracle Cloud Application and Platform services - such as Oracle Database Cloud Service...

NUM (NUM Taiwan Ltd) and Taiwan’s Feng Chia University have jointly developed an intelligent CNC gear hobbing machine with an advanced electronic gearbox that completely eliminates the time overheads of changing mechanical gears on traditional machine tools. 

Development of the machine began in 2014, under the initiative of Professor Ruihong Xu, who works for the Bachelor’s Program in Precision System Design at the College of Engineering in Feng Chia University. Professor Xu is responsible for a number of industry-university collaborative research and development projects at the university. 

Following detailed discussions between NUM and Professor Xu about...

Deloitte in the Middle East in collaboration with Deloitte’s Europe, Middle East and Africa Center of Excellence for Telecom Engineering has launched new services which provide support to clients in managing revolutionary disruptive technologies.

These technologies and Deloitte’s new offerings to Middle East clients were presented at the 5G and Long Term Evolution (LTE) World Middle East and North Africa (Mena) 2016 conference held in Dubai, UAE.

“We are currently witnessing the move from physical to virtual, which Deloitte predicts will be the new revolutionary move by 2020, through two disruptive technologies: network functioning...

Ahead of this years' Farnborough International Airshow, engineers and scientists at BAE Systems and the University of Glasgow have outlined their current thinking about military aircraft and how they might be designed and manufactured in the future.

The concepts have been developed collaboratively as part of BAE Systems' 'open innovation' approach to sharing technology and scientific ideas which sees large and established companies working with academia and small technology start-ups. 

During this century, the scientists and engineers envisage that small Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs) bespoke to specific military operations, could be 'grown' in large-scale labs through...

Tukatech, Inc. proudly announces the introduction of TUKAcad, pattern making grading and marker software, and TUKA3D, 3D fashion design and development software, at Hochschule Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, the largest European education center in textile and clothing for education and research. With a history of 100 years and over 1700 students, Niederrhein provides a wide range of Bachelor’s and Master’s programs, creating opportunities for its attendees to work in Germany and abroad.

Dr. Michael Ernst has been the lead coordinator in implementation of the Tukatech systems. Ernst summarizes the importance of Tukatech for the University:

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