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Open Text Corporation announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30, 2015.

"OpenText is helping the world's leading brands digitize their business, both on- and off-premise, and our strategy is showing bright-line success supported by our strong fourth quarter performance.  We ended fiscal year 2015 with total revenues of $1.9 billion, up 14% year-over-year, non-GAAP operating margin of 31% and operating cash flows of  $523 million," said OpenText CEOMark J. Barrenechea.  "With a more directly aligned sales leadership team in place, our sales organization performed extremely well in Q4, closing 26 deals over $1 million (11 cloud and 15 license)."

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Despite an overall soft spending environment,  notably in North America, Alcatel-Lucent reported revenue of EUR 3.450 billion for Q2 2015, excluding Managed Services and at constant perimeter, an increase of 6% year-on year. At constant exchange rates, Group revenues, excluding Managed Services and at constant perimeter, were down 8%.

The weight of next-generation activities continued to progress, representing 76% of revenues compared to 70% in the year-ago quarter. Next-generation technologies revenues increased 15% year-over-year at actual rates and declined 1% at constant exchange rates. Gross margin reached 34.8% of revenues, expanding 220 bps year-on-year, driven notably by improved profitability and favorable...

 XYZprinting has officially partnered with Microsoft on the global availability of its Windows 10 designing and printing application, 3D Builder. The best-in-class software XYZprinting is known for will sync effortlessly with the Microsoft 3D Builder app, allowing a seamless 3D printing transition for users who upgrade their operating systems. With Microsoft 3D Builder's 3D editing software,  Windows 10 users will be able to create 3D projects immediately from their desktops, laptops and tablets on the current fleet of top-rated 3D printers including XYZprinting's da Vinci 1.0, da Vinci 2.0, da Vinci 1.0 AiO, da Vinci 1.1, and the...

Materialise NV has signed an agreement with Lima Corporate for the use of surgical guides for partial knee implants, and now Lima will offer the Materialise-powered surgical knee guide system in the EEA region and Switzerland. The deal means Lima will now collaborate with Materialise in the design and production of surgical guides which allow surgeons to plan surgeries in 3D and use 3D printed, patient-specific guides.

Lima Corporate is a global medical device company providing reconstructive orthopedic solutions to surgeons, and they design, develop, manufacture and market joint replacement and repair solutions that include large joint implants for hip...

Nemetschek Vectorworks is calling for applications for the 2015 Vectorworks Design Scholarship program. Students from across all design disciplines around the world are encouraged to submit their best individual or group work. "Today's students are tomorrow's visionaries, solving all types of design challenges that the Vectorworks Design Scholarship program lets us celebrate," said Stewart Rom, chief marketing officer at Nemetschek Vectorworks. "We established this program to support their academic dreams by offering financial assistance, and we can't wait to see the inspiring work that students submit this year!" In its second year, the scholarship program supports the next generation of...

Altium has announced the release of a major update to their TASKING compiler for TriCore/AURIX microcontrollers which power advanced automotive applications. This new release supports the next generation of Infineon TriCore technologies and enables engineers to begin early development on advanced automotive applications before the new AURIX family line is released publicly. This update is now available to all TASKING customers on a maintenance contract and trial versions are available upon request.

"OEM's and Tier-1 automotive providers require the highest standards in code reliability and safety without any compromises to performance," said Franz Maidl, Managing Director of Global TASKING Business. "This...

Kubotek USA and Synergis Software announce their partnership to bring Synergis Adept PDM software to the KeyCreator Direct CAD customer base through development of an integrated plug-in. Adept PDM for KeyCreator will be available in late summer 2015.

Many of Kubotek’s larger contract manufacturer customers have requested a PDM solution to help them ensure accurate drawing revisions and engineering change control throughout their entire design to manufacture process. The selection of Synergis Software, with their 20 years of product data management know-how and support, strengthens KeyCreator’s legendary flexibility. The flexibility in this case is not in how a user...

SPEC's Application Performance Characterization (SPECapc) project group has released new performance evaluation software for systems running Dassault Systemes' SolidWorks 2015 CAD/CAM application. The benchmark is designed to run on Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit platforms.

SPECapc for SolidWorks 2015 consists of nine graphics and two CPU tests. The graphics tests use three SolidWorks view settings -- RealView, ambient occlusion and shadows -- in combination with shaded and shaded-with-edges display styles. The CPU tests perform tessellation and PhotoView360 rendering. Twelve models are included in the benchmark, three of which are new in this version of the benchmark, with the largest comprising 4.75-million triangles.

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Synopsys, Inc. today announced that it has achieved certification and compliance from multiple standard organizations  for a broad range of DesignWare® IP on the TSMC 16-nm FinFET Plus (16FF+) process including USB 2.0 and USB 3.0, PCI Express® 3.1, HDMI 2.0, MIPI® D-PHY^SM and Serial ATA (SATA™) IP solutions. The IP have passed all the required tests for certification and compliance through independent authorized test centers sponsored by USB-IF, PCI-SIG Interoperability Workshops, HDMI Licensing, LLC and SATA-IO standards organizations. By achieving certification of its DesignWare IP, Synopsys gives designers confidence that the IP is interoperable and...

BobCAD-CAM and Manufacturers of The Future announce the New Student CAD-CAM Contest. The Student CAD-CAM Contest offers student the ability to compete and win CAD-CAM software prizes by showcasing their innovation skills and submitting designed parts along with CNC machine toolpath programs that they have created. The goal is to inspire computer aided design & manufacturing innovation and award students with powerful CAD-CAM technology.

The Manufacturers of The Future educational program in combination with pioneer CAD-CAM provider BobCAD-CAM, Inc have come together to launch this new contest. For 30 years BobCAD-CAM...