Accenture will host a conference call at 8:00 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Sept. 26, to discuss its fourth-quarter and fiscal year 2019 financial results. A news release containing these results will be issued before the call.
 
To participate, please dial +1 (800) 230-1059 [+1 (612) 234-9959 outside the United States, Puerto Rico and Canada] approximately 15 minutes before the scheduled start of the call. The conference call will also be accessible live on the Investor Relations section of the Accenture Web site at www.accenture.com.
 
A replay of the conference call will be available online at www.accenture.com beginning...

ASSESS Initiative is proud to announce that Visual Collaboration Technologies (VCollab), will be a Gold Sponsor for the upcoming ASSESS 2019 Congress to be held at Chateau Elan Winery & Resort, Oct 27th-29th, 2019.

"VCollab helps manufacturers leverage their investment in simulation by improving communications among analysts and engineers and making simulation information more accessible and actionable. The ASSESS Initiative supports our mission, and we're pleased to be a gold sponsor of the ASSESS annual conference," said Prasad Mandava, CEO of VCollab”

The ASSESS 2019 Congress is the 4th annual congress for ASSESS organized to...

ANSYS announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), the premier provider of explicit dynamics and other advanced finite element analysis technology. Once closed, the acquisition will empower ANSYS customers to solve a new class of engineering challenges, including developing safer automobiles, aircraft and trains while reducing or even eliminating the need for costly physical testing. The purchase price for the transaction is $775 million, of which 60% of the consideration will be paid in cash and 40% will be paid through the issuance of ANSYS common stock to the current owners...

Accenture has acquired Pragsis Bidoop, a Spanish company with strong expertise in big data, AI and advanced analytics. Pragsis Bidoop, headquartered in Madrid with additional offices in Barcelona and the U.K., will add more than 200 employees with deep machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data engineering experience, along with its portfolio of end-to-end solutions, to Accenture’s Applied Intelligence business. Integrating Pragsis Bidoop’s capabilities will further enhance how Accenture Applied Intelligence serves the European and Latin American markets by helping enterprise clients scale their deployments of AI, analytics and automation to make data-driven decisions. 

Founded in 2004, Pragsis Bidoop stands...

Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. announces the 2020 release of Vectorworks Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Designer and Fundamentals, as well as 2020 versions of Vision and Braceworks. This newest release brings improved software performance, quality enhancements and new data-driven workflows.

“Data and usability are the cornerstones of this year’s product line enhancements,” said Vectorworks CEO Dr. Biplab Sarkar. “When we looked at the future of the industry and what our customers’ needs were, we kept coming back to data, particularly data-driven insights. Vectorworks 2020 is centered around providing our customers with intuitive ways to use the powerful tools...

InstantGMP™ PRO's picklist feature provides the ability to:

• Create a picklist for personnel to locate and gather ingredients within their facility
• Collect materials from specific receipts and vendor lots
• Set aside inventory for batch production or assembly use, both physically and virtually
• View the real-time status of each picklist in a centralized location
• Remove or return stock to inventory as needed
• Confirm Bill of Materials (BOM) before approving and dispensing
• Require Part 11 compliant signatures at each step
• Eliminate errors and minimize inventory waste
• Tie all inventory use, date of use, receipt and vendor lot numbers, and batches together for complete traceability

The picklist feature, much like InstantGMP™ PRO as a whole,...

During the month of August, the BIM 360 team delivered a number of features and enhancements to improve document collaboration, visibility, and control:

Document Control

• File-level Activity Log
• Document Log – now with custom attributes
• Set deletion

Review and Markup

• Review workflow report (individual review)
• New callout markup tools (text with arrow and cloud)

Updated Issues feature (ability to re-open and other usability improvements)

Other improvements

• Search results in thumbnail view (in addition to list view)
• Copy and Move files that are still processing
• Copy and Move – folder selection improvements 

File-level Activity Log

BIM 360 provides improved accountability and...

MAXRIENY, the Chinese ladies fashion brand, has selected Centric Software’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solution.

MAXRIENY is a Shenzhen CloudCreator Fashion Design Co., Ltd. (CC Universe) brand, co-founded by husband-and-wife team Kevin and Sara Wong. The brand had specific target segments in mind right from the start – fans of medieval castle themes and fantasy elements. In just 5 years, the brand recorded sales of approximately $1 billion USD in the already saturated domestic market for ladies apparel.

MAXRIENY’s early success was driven by CC Universe’s emphasis on enterprise digitalization, but a comprehensive digital platform was...

TECHNIA announced that they have entered into a strategic partnership with JM - a Scandinavian leader in the residential property market.

The clear objective with this partnership is to leverage digital tools and practices to enable JM to improve their product offering, efficiency, quality and collaboration in their supply chain.

Under the business agreement, TECHNIA will deliver a Product Lifecycle Management system to more than 500 users, enabling digital continuity between PLM, ERP and CRM. The PLM solution is based on Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE® platform augmented by TECHNIA’s software and delivered by our European AEC consulting...

New Generation Computing, Inc. (NGC) announced its participation as a lead sponsor at the 2019 PI Apparel Supply Chain Forum. The event, to be held September 17-18, 2019 in New York, brings together fashion, apparel and footwear industry executives to discuss the opportunities and challenges of emerging digital technologies.

NGC customers will speak at the event and share their real-world perspectives on digital transformation, sustainability and the challenges and opportunities of nearshoring/offshoring. These include:

• Carter's: Derek Davis, VP Operations, OML: "How to Make an End-To-End Digital Transformation a Business Priority”- September 18, 3:15 p.m. 
• Foot Locker: Jenny Sim,...