NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology unveiled today their Agile Virtualization Platform and Practice (AVP), a set of unique tools, platforms and services designed to accelerate and ease the adoption and commercialization of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV).

With AVP, NEC and Netcracker will help service providers move their operations, business processes and overall organizations along the path to becoming digital service providers (DSPs) that can quickly take advantage of new revenue opportunities through improved agility and streamlined cost structures.

AVP will accomplish this by giving service providers the technology, training and...

Infor today announced that Valmet, a global leader in pulp, paper and energy process technologies, automation, and services, has selected Infor to support a major global business transformation. The Infor suite of software incorporates Infor LN, Infor ION, Infor Ming.le, Infor d/EPM, Infor Warehouse Mobility and Infor Field Service, and will help drive greater visibility across the organization, boost productivity and capacity planning, and foster close collaboration amongst employees, customers and suppliers. In turn this will support Valmet's vision to become a global champion in serving its customers.

Spanning 43 countries for 5500 users, the project is...

Dassault Systèmes today announced that it has extended its strategic partnership with NIAEP, the state company of Rosatom, a leading Russian nuclear power plant engineering procurement and construction company in Russia and abroad. NIAEP is deploying Dassault Systèmes’ “Optimized Plant Construction” and “Efficient Plant Operation” industry solution experiences for the construction and operations of its nuclear power plants.

Both industry solution experiences leverage Multi-D technology, jointly developed by the two companies to simulate business processes and carry out detailed modeling of construction and installation processes based on 3D data, as well as NIAEP’s nuclear power plant construction management...

1 January - 31 March 2016:

- Net sales increased by 3 per cent to 724.2 MEUR (705.1). Using fixed exchange rates and a comparable group structure, net sales increased by 2 per cent

- Operating earnings (EBIT1) increased by 7 per cent to 160.5 MEUR (149.8)

- Earnings before taxes, excluding non-recurring items, amounted to 155.3 MEUR (142.2)

- Net earnings, excluding non-recurring items, amounted to 125.8 MEUR (113.8)

- Earnings per share, excluding non-recurring items, increased by 13 per cent to 0.35 EUR (0.31)

- Operating cash flow improved by 55 per...

ClickFox and Atos have announced an exclusive three-year partnership to deliver an industry first-of-its-kind journey approach in digital automation for infrastructure & data management to more than two thousand companies.

Atos selected ClickFox, and their advanced journey analytics platform for their innovation and specialized journey science capabilities. The unique Service Intelligence & Analytics capabilities will drive meaningful process improvements, performance transparency and efficiency related cost savings. This is made possible through the analysis and optimization of a service desk ticket's life-cycle journey, from first being opened through post resolution survey, including all of the detailed events in between.

"This forward-thinking partnership provides...

Altair has completed the acquisition of CEDRAT S.A. and its New York-based wholly-owned subsidiary, Magsoft Corporation, expanding the electromagnetic and thermal simulation capabilities of its HyperWorks® CAE portfolio. With over 35 years of experience in electrical engineering, CEDRAT is a leader in the field of simulating low frequency electromagnetics for electric motor design. Based in Grenoble, France, they are a top tier technology company in the electromagnetics software space, developing and applying simulation software used by manufacturers to accelerate the development of reliable and optimized solutions for electric and electromagnetic devices such as motors, transformers, actuators, sensors, heat...

Key takeaways: 

• Oracle PLM manages the creation, maintenance, and governance of the Common Product Model which includes the complete definition of a product or item end to end from ideation to commercialization and extends that definition to include all the operational attributes and constructs needed for to support ERP, SCM, and CRM
• PLM Cloud provides flexible entry to managing product data in the cloud through innovation, development, and commercialization
• PLM Cloud enables social product development by connecting social input to product definition for long term traceability
• A common product approach enables data harmonization across PLM, ERP, and SCM

More than ever, there is a...

The new Edgecam 2016 R2 offers significant time savings while loading solid model part files. During trials, the files loaded around 20 times faster, because less time is taken opening files, due to ‘tessellation.’

Edgecam Product Manager Simon Mee says: “This latest release of Edgecam breaks the  model down into triangles, which are then stored in such a way that they can be read back much faster than before.”

The new release is fully 64bit, improving access to memory. In the past, although Edgecam’s machining engine and machine simulator have been 64bit, the overall package...

Visual 2000 International Inc. is pleased to announce that KenDor Textiles Ltd., has successfully deployed the Visual 2000 End2End suite to manage their continuing growth as an apparel supplier.

KenDor Textiles Ltd, is a growing fabric and textile supplier that has been in operation since 1953. Until recently, KenDor had been operating under an aging database that had been in use for over three decades. Paul King, president of KenDor Textiles writes that “having operated on the same database for over 30 years, KenDor was in dire need of a modern ERP that would...

Stratasys Ltd. announced financial results for the first quarter of 2016.

Q1-2016 Financial Results Summary:

• Revenue for the first quarter of 2016 was $167.9 million.
• GAAP operating loss for the first quarter was $21.1 million, compared to a loss of $220.9 million for the same period last year.
• Non-GAAP operating income was $4.0 million, compared to a loss of $0.8 million for the same period last year.
• GAAP net loss for the first quarter was $23.1 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, compared to a loss of $216.3 million, or $4.24 per diluted share, for the same period last year.
• Non-GAAP net income for the...