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Accenture Interactive was appointed by INFINITI Middle East to handle the auto manufacturer’s digital marketing duties across 11 markets in the Middle East region. The collaboration will assist INFINITI Middle East to continue to innovate in new ways by using digital channels and position the company as a leader in the ever-changing automotive world.
 
Leveraging its digital capabilities and its expertise in the automotive industry, Accenture Interactive will help INFINITI amplify and optimize its presence across digital channels and touchpoints, and will also be responsible for the management of INFINITI’s digital marketing initiatives — including website content management, digital analytics and...

From the moment you walk into the Autodesk Dublin office, you’re surrounded by a lively atmosphere and buzzing team energy. It’s hard to believe that just over 18 months ago, this team had started its journey as Autodesk’s EMEA hub.

We chose Dublin because of its global business environment, access to rich talent, ability to support European languages and quality of life for employees. We’ve learned some valuable lessons along the way, but the fact still remains that Dublin is a vibrant, multicultural and creative city and these qualities align well with Autodesk’s brand and...

ModuleWorks announces Visual Twin, its next generation of machining visualization technology. Visual Twin combines the proven ModuleWorks simulation components with state-of-the-art computer graphics to achieve a new level of realism.

With lighting, shadows, textures, flying chips and high-quality audio, Visual Twin delivers an authentic and immersive experience that takes real-time simulation beyond mere technical functionality and turns it into a powerful business tool. With Visual Twin, sales teams can deliver impressive and convincing demonstrations of a customer’s specific machining process. As part of a company’s marketing strategy, Visual Twin is a cost-effective alternative to shipping large, heavy...

MathWorks and Coursera announced a joint effort to address the data science skills gap. MathWorks is developing a series of courses entitled “Practical Data Science with MATLAB,” with the first course, “Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB,” now available on Coursera. Registration for the four-course Specialization, which  helps learners solve domain-specific data problems using MATLAB, is now open at: coursera.org/specializations/practical-data-science-matlab.

 According to a March 2019 Coursera Global Skills Index (GSI) report, the demand for data science skills is increasing by both individuals and companies alike. Looking at year-over-year learner...

Eni has started the updating work for its new supercomputer system, HPC5, in order to strengthen the existing HPC4, tripling its computing power from 18 to 52 petaflops, equivalent to 52 million billion mathematical operations a second. Thanks to HPC5, powered by Dell Technologies, Eni's Green Data Center, will become the world's most powerful supercomputer infrastructure in the industrial sphere, with a total peak power of 70 petaflops.

 The new HPC5 supercomputer has been designed according to the same philosophy as its predecessors, based on hybrid cluster technology (Central Processing Unit or CPU and Graphics Processing Unit or...

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) announced that its IoT solutions have won two awards at the Emerging Digital Technologies Awards 2019 organized by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM).

The awards recognize outstanding applications and deployment of emerging digital technologies such as AI, IoT, blockchain, and robotics for business and governance transformation in India. TCS was named the winner in the category ‘Most Innovative Use of Emerging Digital Technology – IoT’ for its Remote Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance solution. The solution has helped equipment manufacturers in India improve asset availability and operational efficiency, enhance customer...

Synopsys, Inc. today announced a multi-year agreement with AMD to utilize its ZeBu®Server 4 emulation system, accelerating verification of the growing number of AMD high-performance processor, graphics, and gaming projects. As part of this new agreement Synopsys will optimize its ZeBu and VCS® software for execution on AMD EPYC™ processor-based servers. AMD continues its development strategy to enable early customer enablement using the high-performance ZeBu emulation system. AMD and Synopsys will extend their successful emulation collaboration to support system-level debug and analog/mixed-signal emulation, in addition to software-driven power and performance analysis, hybrid emulation, and virtual host solutions.