Planview will be presenting at this year’s Chief Innovation Officer Summit in London on how today’s organizations can leverage resources and skills to achieve their goals.

The event takes place April 26-27 and explores how today’s thought leaders can put their innovative ideas into practice and ultimately translate them into increased bottom lines. Through panel sessions and open discussions, the summit aims to uncover how one should implement innovation in an organization.

In a recent study, 53 percent of product organizations report their number one business risk is the inability to innovate fast enough. If businesses...

Ricardo Software today announces a key partnership that will deliver immediate benefits to users of its IGNITE complete vehicle system simulation product, as well as enabling significant future developments. In the upcoming 2016 product release, planned for May, IGNITE users will have instant access to Modelon’s advanced OPTIMICA Compiler Toolkit, a Modelica and Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) based computational platform for system design.

Integrating IGNITE and OPTIMICA offers clear advantages for system simulation users, not least with a three-fold increase in the speed of compilation and simulation, providing very significant time-savings.  Moreover, it provides expanded compatibility with proprietary and open source...

NEC Corporation today announced the establishment of the "Blockchain Workshop" as part of the Incubation & Innovation Initiative (III), a cross-industrial consortium that includes NEC, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation and The Japan Research Institute, Limited.

NEC has been a member of III since its establishment in February 2016. The Blockchain Workshop studies the properties of Blockchain technology in order to maximize its utilization. Blockchain technology involves the use of encryption technology that is attracting attention due to its application in areas that include financial transactions and stock exchanges. Blockchain technology dispersion manages and synchronizes account book information such as transaction history,...

As part of the implementation of its Strategic Plan 2016-2018 and effective April 4th, Lantek has appointed Juan Jose Colas as Chief Commercial Officer.

Juan Jose will take a seat on the Board of Directors and he will be responsible for global commercial strategy and business development for the corporation.

As a special task, and considering the importance of the Strategic Plan 2016-2018, he will have under his direct responsibility two key markets: United Kingdom and France. Lantek has very strong development plans for these markets and they are a very important challenge.

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aPriori, a provider of product cost management (PCM) software solutions today announced the formation of a new strategic partnership with SCSK Corporation of Tokyo, Japan. SCSK will resell the industry leading aPriori Product Cost Management technology platform and deliver expert services to customers throughout this region.

The SCSK Engineering Solutions division provides a wide range of IT solutions on a global scale. These technology solutions support each step of the manufacturing process — such as computer-aided design (CAD), computer-aided engineering (CAE) analysis and simulations — and now product cost management. SCSK services leverage the experience and know-how...

ANSYS has licensed its engineering simulation software tools to ARM, a leading semiconductor intellectual property (IP) company for power efficiency, performance and reliability. The agreement will aid the ARM ecosystem and ARM® processor technology serving multiple markets including mobile computing, networking infrastructure, transportation and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

Modern electronic products require high performance and reliability as well as minimal power. This is accomplished by combining multiple sub-systems of an electronic product into one or more integrated circuits (IC) called a system on a chip (SoC). Minimizing power consumption and energy efficiency are critical design requirements for the...

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Dyan Finkhousen, Director of Open Innovation & Advanced Manufacturing at GENIUSLINK™, will make a presentation at CIMdata’s Innovation Engagement & Governance workshop.

GENIUSLINK™ is GE’s latest Open Innovation initiative and is seeking to redefine “what is possible” by connecting the world’s brightest minds and deepest expertise with the world’s most pressing issues. In her presentation, “Convening Brilliance and Redefining What’s Possible,” Dyan Finkhousen will talk about the impetus behind GENIUSLINK and how GE is engaging its innovation ecosystem with its most pressing needs.