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SAP SE today announced that Bill McDermott has decided not to renew his contract and is stepping down from his position as chief executive officer. In activating the company’s long-term succession plan, SAP Executive Board Members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein have been appointed co-chief executive officers, effective immediately, with the approval of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE.

McDermott will remain in an advisory capacity until the end of the year to ensure a smooth transition.

SAP SE today announced that Bill McDermott has decided not to renew his contract and is stepping down from his position as chief executive officer. In activating the company’s long-term succession plan, SAP Executive Board Members Jennifer Morgan and Christian Klein have been appointed co-chief executive officers, effective immediately, with the approval of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE.

McDermott will remain in an advisory capacity until the end of the year to ensure a smooth transition.

Australian Military Bank (AMB), one of Australia’s longest serving mutual financial institutions, and Infosys Finacle, part of EdgeVerve Systems, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Infosys (NYSE: INFY), announced the go live of the Finacle banking solutions suite to drive AMB’s ambitious digital transformation program. The comprehensive, Australia ready digital banking solution stack, has been implemented in a fully SaaS model, hosted out of Infosys datacenters in the country. Finacle has enabled AMB with significant operational benefits and cost efficiencies, along with enhanced security and scalability. AMB is now able to provide both its staff and members,...

Capgemini has today announced the signing of a two-year extension to its existing contract with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the UK. Under the agreement, Capgemini will continue as a strategic supplier to HMRC, primarily providing data, digital and cloud technologies, alongside applications management services, until June 2022. As part of this extension, Capgemini will also support HMRC in its strategic transformation programs and in growing HMRC’s own IT capability.

This extension builds on a successful 15-year partnership between the two organizations, which has been instrumental in the delivery of...

Capgemini has today announced the signing of a two-year extension to its existing contract with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the UK. Under the agreement, Capgemini will continue as a strategic supplier to HMRC, primarily providing data, digital and cloud technologies, alongside applications management services, until June 2022. As part of this extension, Capgemini will also support HMRC in its strategic transformation programs and in growing HMRC’s own IT capability.

This extension builds on a successful 15-year partnership between the two organizations, which has been instrumental in the delivery of...

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced that, in collaboration with Samsung Electronics, it is delivering a wide range of design, verification and test tools and flows optimized for Samsung Foundry's 10nm FinFET process. The announcement includes the Calibre^® physical verification suite, Mentor^® Analog FastSPICE™ (AFS™) platform, Olympus-SoC™ digital...

When duty calls for John Dunne, owner of Mother Hubbards Cupboards, to design a new kitchen, he says it’s a pleasure and not a chore, thanks to Cabinet Vision.

“Some people play computer games such as Call Of Duty for leisure, as a past-time. I have Cabinet Vision – that’s gaming for me.”

Designing bespoke kitchens for individual customers in and around Leeds, John Dunne finds it ideal for his popular lay-on, modular system. And he says it is the only CAD software he has come across that can handle his speciality – a traditional frame system.

Cabinet Vision...

Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced it is scheduled to showcase 10nm FinFET (10FF) and 16nm FinFET Plus (16FF+) advanced-node technologies that optimize customer designs and manufacturing efficiency at this year's TSMC Technology Symposium in booth 103 on March 15, 2016, in San Jose, Calif.

What:
Cadence is planning to hold several demonstrations across a broad range of technology solutions including:

• Library characterization combining the foundry-trusted Virtuoso® Liberate™ Characterization Solution and the silicon-proven Spectre® Circuit Simulation Platform
• Circuit simulation with Spectre Accelerated Parallel Simulator (APS), Spectre eXtensive Partitioning Simulator (XPS) and Virtuoso AMS Designer for analog, RF design, FastSPICE and mixed-signal system-on-chip...

SofTech, Inc. today announced its partnership with T-Systems International GmbH, creator of PDM WebConnector, a web-based system integration solution. A division of Deutsche Telekom, T-Systems operates information and communication technology (ICT) systems for multinational corporations and public sector institutions.

 “Through this partnership with T-Systems, SofTech broadens our company’s portfolio of complementary products with the PDM WebConnector solution,” said Bob Anthonyson, vice president of business development at SofTech. “We are pleased that PDM WebConnector’s capabilities will allow our clients to not only benefit further from our enterprise technology solutions, but also from other technology solutions that they...

Rand Worldwide  announces that its IMAGINiT Technologies division was awarded a 2016 Autodesk Platinum Club Award at the Autodesk One Team Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. For the second consecutive year, IMAGINiT earned this prestigious award by achieving largest revenue growth of any Autodesk partner in North America.

“The Autodesk Platinum Club Awards recognize an elite group of organizations for top sales performance and excellent customer service,” says Steve Blum, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales and Services, Autodesk. “As a 2015 and 2016 award winner,...