Autodesk, Inc. announced a restructuring plan that will accelerate the move to the cloud and its transition to a subscription-based business model. Through the restructuring, Autodesk seeks to reduce expenses, streamline the organization, and reallocate resources to align more closely with the company’s needs going forward.

“As we progress through our business model transition, we continue to take a comprehensive look at our company to see where we can be more effective and efficient. To realize maximum value for both our customers and shareholders, and as a follow-on to previously discussed cost reduction actions, we are restructuring so we...

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Internet of Things – Hype or Value?” The webinar will take place on March 10 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will cover the issues and concerns related to the Internet of Things (IoT) and how best to achieve value while avoiding the pitfalls and hype.

The webinar will be an hour long and those attending will: gain the knowledge needed to prepare for IoT in a deliberate way; be in a position to consider all the possibilities for leveraging IoT; have a clearer...

iBASEt’s manufacturing operations management software suite, Solumina, is now successfully deployed with the Electronic Systems sector of global defense, aerospace and security company BAE Systems. In use at several Electronic Systems manufacturing locations, Solumina automates the sector’s Bills of Materials (BOM) management and Engineering Change Order (ECO) management, including serialized views of work orders and multilevel hold history as well as several other production processes that span the sector’s production workflows.

Earlier in the implementation, BAE Systems initiated a project to harmonize operations process management across its Electronic Systems’ manufacturing facilities, utilizing...

International TechneGroup, Inc. (ITI) is pleased to announce the acquisition of Glacier Technologies, LLC. With a vendor neutral approach to helping customers achieve value from their engineering, manufacturing, and quality systems, Glacier aligns well with ITI’s business strategy.

“Glacier’s consulting approach is ideal for enabling ITI to better understand how and where we can offer more value through our PLM integrations. This acquisition rounds out ITI’s PLM integration business, which encompasses; vendor/OEM integration development, end-user integration implementation, legacy PDM/PLM data migration consulting, and now business integration consulting,” commented Tom Makoski, Executive Vice President.

As products...

Razorleaf Corporation today announces Clover, its open integration platform, is releasing ERP connectors for SOLIDWORKS PDM Professional to SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, MAPICS/Infor and other ERP systems.  Clover will enable the passing of business and product data such as customer and supplier information, items and bills of materials, and change documents to improve productivity and enable agility through sharing accurate information.  Clover goes beyond typical middleware and ensures that contextual business processes are aligned for passing data to improve process efficiency and data integrity.

"Our customers find their biggest productivity gains come from connecting business processes between ERP and...

COMSOL has announced support for app development in the latest version of LiveLink™ for SOLIDWORKS®. Part of COMSOL Multiphysics® software, the only fully integrated environment for creating custom simulation applications, LiveLink™ for SOLIDWORKS® connects COMSOL® software simulations and 3D design and its latest version allows users to build apps with the Application Builder. This provides design engineers with a better understanding of how SOLIDWORKS® software designs perform in the intended operating environment by delivering an accurate evaluation of the impact of any physical effects and their interactions. With LiveLink™ for SOLIDWORKS® and the Application Builder, engineers can build apps based...

Lectra has announced that France-based fashion firm, The Kooples, has chosen the expert version of Modaris, Lectra's patternmaking, grading and prototyping solution, to support them in their expansion.

The Kooples controls its entire supply chain, from design to distribution. Lectra has accompanied the brand from the very beginning; its product development department has been using the standard version of Modaris on a daily basis for patternmaking. To continue building on its current success, the company's priorities are now to widen its product range by introducing sportswear and childrenswear lines, as well as to expand business internationally, particularly in Europe and the...

Gerber Technology announces that Chasing Fireflies^®, a leading children's and family lifestyle brand, has deployed the cloud-based version of YuniquePLM^™. Chasing Fireflies offers clothing, costumes, toys, artwork and other items through its direct-to-consumer catalog and online business.

Chasing Fireflies has been using YuniquePLM to manage product development and information for the creation of its proprietary children's costumes and apparel. Previously, Excel was used to manage styles, and spreadsheets were conveyed to manufacturing partners for sample and final production. With YuniquePLM, techpacks are sent to the manufacturer with everything...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc., today announced that it is hosting an Embedded Neural Network Summit, Extending Deep Learning into Mass-Market Silicon, on February 9, 2016. The summit will feature experts that have deep understanding of convolutional neural networks and have applied these complicated algorithms in various products and applications. Attendees will be treated to a panel discussion at the end of the speaking sessions.

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In today's world, there is an enormous amount of data that requires robust processing power to make intelligent decisions for various applications from image, pattern, and speech recognition to natural language processing and video analysis. The application...

Tata Consultancy Services has been rated as the world’s most powerful brand in Information Technology Services by a leading global brand valuation firm, the company said today.

Brand Finance’s 2016 annual report evaluated thousands of the world’s top brands to determine which are the most powerful and the most valuable.

Scoring highly on a wide variety of measures such as familiarity, loyalty, staff satisfaction and corporate reputation, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) emerged as the IT services industry’s most powerful brand with a score of 78.3 points earning it an AA+ rating.