Accenture announced today it has acquired Maglan, a privately-held Israeli cybersecurity company specializing in offensive cyber simulation, vulnerability countermeasures, cyber forensics and malware defenses, and IT security research and development with a focus on threat intelligence. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
 
The acquisition brings to Accenture a team of highly skilled cybersecurity professionals, who honed their skills fighting cyber crime and confronting cyber espionage around the globe. The acquisition advances Accenture’s strategy of leveraging Israel as a cybersecurity innovation hub to provide clients with cross-industry cyber defense consulting. Maglan has specialized tools and methodologies...

Autodesk, Inc. today announced several updates to its Forge platform, including new cloud application development tools and services and three investments at Forge DevCon, the company’s inaugural event for cloud developers. Since its inception last December, rapid progress has been made with early adopters of the Forge Platform in changing both how things are made and the nature of what is made.

“We are seeing Forge used to power the future of making things for a variety of applications ranging from part inspection to sub-sea surveying, from managing mines with drones to turning cost...

Zuken’s CR-8000 3D product-centric PCB design platform includes support for ANSYS’ electronics database (EDB) standard as part of the 2016 release, available now. The CR-8000 2016 release expands ANSYS support beyond the existing ANSYS neutral file (ANF) format to include EDB, enhancing the simulation interface with Design Force, Zuken’s PCB design tool, ANSYS® HFSS™ software and ANSYS® SIwave™ software.

Using EDB in Design Force 2016, users can easily pass extensive information to support simulation, such as ports, boundary definitions and simulation control parameters to the ANSYS platform. CR-8000’s support for the EDB will deliver a unique virtual prototyping flow...

Materialise NV announces at Rapid.Tech its collaboration with Luxexcel, a fast-growing Dutch start-up of customized 3Dprinted optics and of products that require the highest standards of transparency. Together, they will develop a Build Processor tailored to Luxexcel’s needs.

Materialise recently introduced the Materialise Magics 3D Print Suite, wrapping all their industrial software solutions into one suite. The Materialise Build Processor is the technology within the Materialise Magics 3D Print Suite that takes care of communication between software and 3D printing machines. Materialise and Luxexcel are now working on a machinespecific, image-based Build Processor for Luxexcel, to give Luxexcel...

Over the years, marketing teams have evolved the ways in which they work to reduce the number of lost requests, increase customer satisfaction, and provide more management oversight.

During a webinar on June 22, Jason Morio, Projectplace segment manager at Planview®, and Ryan Doherty, director of interactive marketing, will discuss how Doherty’s team incorporated more order into their work processes by transitioning to agile principles.

Webinar Title: “Making the Leap to Agile within Marketing: A Practical Success Story” 

Morio and Doherty will share with attendees:

• The principles and foundations of getting started with agile principles
• The most...

Electronics For Imaging, Inc. announced today the acquisition of Optitex Ltd., an emerging, fast-growing global leader in integrated 3D design software that enables the textile industry’s digital transformation and accelerates the adoption of fast fashion. Privately-held Optitex will be integrated into EFI’s Productivity Software business unit. 

Optitex’s 3D technology and best practices enable the textile industry’s leading retailers, brands and manufacturers to transform how they do business, gaining benefits of significantly improved time-to-market, cost and efficiency, as well as enabling new capabilities for their design, sales and marketing activities.

“We are thrilled to add the Optitex...

“Waves of digitization are washing across every industry, bringing the promise of greater productivity and economic benefit but also new risks and the potential to disrupt established business models. At its core, digitization involves far more than automating existing processes; it is about connecting workflows among historically disparate industries and disciplines, and leveraging information to deliver new capabilities. In the area of Facilities Management (FM), the digital revolution has the potential to bring clarity to hidden processes and reduce waste and duplication, but achieving this improvement will require addressing business processes, relationships, and technologies in concert.[…]”

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As a result of over 25 years of experience and working closely with constructors and end users, Lantek software combines machine technology perfectly with rail sector customers' programming and management needs. The capabilities of the software are ideally suited to the manufacture of specific parts used in the railway industry whilst also optimising the whole manufacturing process. 

"Lantek provides the rail industry with greater control of safety issues and the means of implementing intelligent transport solutions thanks to full command of manufacturing procedures. It provides an overall vision of how we'll be travelling on