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Centric Software^® is delighted to announce the release of a success story featuring its customer, OTS, a leading Italian manufacturing company. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and related goods like cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Founded over 20 years ago, OTS is headquartered in Piove di Sacco, Italy. Specializing in ready-to-wear clothing, OTS today serves high-end clients such as Kering and the LVMH Group, offering end-to-end...

Oracle Corporation announced fiscal 2025 Q2 results. Total quarterly revenues were up 9% year-over-year, in both USD and constant currency, to $14.1 billion. Cloud services and license support revenues were up 12% year-over-year, in both USD and constant currency, to $10.8 billion. Cloud license and on-premise license revenues were up 1% in USD and up 3% in constant currency, to $1.2 billion.

Q2 GAAP operating income was $4.2 billion. Non-GAAP operating income was $6.1 billion, up 10% in both USD and constant currency. GAAP operating margin was 30%, and non-GAAP operating margin was 43%. GAAP net income was $3.2 billion. Non-GAAP...

Infor, the industry cloud complete company, today announced that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Consumer Goods Competency status. As an AWS Partner, Infor has earned the AWS Consumer Goods Competency designation, which recognizes its expertise in delivering validated solutions to help consumer goods brands overcome operational challenges within the industry. By leveraging deep industry knowledge and proven AWS solutions, Infor empowers clients to streamline their operating models and achieve greater efficiency at scale.

Infor has achieved the AWS Consumer Goods Competency, distinguishing itself as a provider that has demonstrated technical proficiency and proven customer success. This competency showcases Infor’s...

IBM has unveiled breakthrough research in optics technology that could dramatically improve how data centers train and run generative AI models. Researchers have pioneered a new process for co-packaged optics (CPO), the next generation of optics technology, to enable connectivity within data centers at the speed of light through optics to complement existing short reach electrical wires. By designing and assembling the first publicly announced successful polymer optical waveguide (PWG) to power this technology, IBM researchers have shown how CPO will redefine the way the computing industry transmits high-bandwidth data between chips, circuit boards, and servers.

Today, fiber optic technology carries...

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 10 December 2024—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the publication of a whitepaper titled “Critical Digital Transformation Elements: Leveraging MCAD consolidation to improve digital transformation results” and a related commentary “Supercharge Digital Transformation by Consolidating CAD to NX.”

The white paper discusses how integrating Mechanical Computer-Aided Design (MCAD) improvements with digital transformation initiatives can yield significant business benefits. It underscores the importance of MCAD data in driving these initiatives. It also highlights the challenges of using multiple MCAD systems, including increased complexity, costs, and risks in the product development lifecycle.

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Key Takeaways

• Mechanical CAD data migration has been a very difficult problem for decades.
• MultiCAD support is needed sometimes, but a single CAD solution is much more efficient and effective.
• CAD data is foundational to digital transformation improvements, and using multiple CAD solutions adds complexity, cost, and risk to product design and realization processes.
• The Siemens Content Migration Manager for CAD Solutions (CMM) enhances NX’s utility by maximizing the transfer of design intelligence from legacy CAD data to support the reuse of CAD models, drawings, and designs, thereby enriching the digital transformation initiative.

Introduction

Engineers have been...

The Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC), the trusted global leader in computing benchmarks, today announced the availability of the SPECworkstation 4.0 benchmark, a major update to SPEC’s comprehensive tool designed to measure all key aspects of workstation performance. This significant upgrade from version 3.1 incorporates cutting-edge features to keep pace with the latest workstation hardware and the evolving demands of professional applications, including the increasing reliance on data analytics, AI and machine learning (ML).

The new SPECworkstation 4.0 benchmark provides a robust, real-world measure of CPU, graphics, accelerator, and disk performance, ensuring professionals have the data they need to make informed...

Centric Software^® is thrilled to announce the release of Centric AI Fashion Inspiration™ for emerging brands, a generative AI image tool for fast-growing companies in apparel, footwear and accessories. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and related goods like cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Emerging brands in the apparel industry face unique challenges. To stay competitive, they must rapidly introduce new products, often with limited resources. Design...

Kubotek Kosmos, a leader in engineering and manufacturing geometric software technology, today announced the release of KeyCreator 2025 Service Pack 1.

The newly released service pack upgrades several CAD translators to the latest versions. Coincidently, all three are related to Siemens Digital Industries Software products. Parasolid X_T reading and writing has been extended to support version 37. Support for JT files now covers read of the latest version 10.10. Read capabilities for NX 3D and drawing files are now handling the 2406 file format.

One noteworthy user-requested enhancement to PDF export has been introduced in this minor release. A new option in...

Centric Software^® is pleased to announce that outdoor brand and retailer Trespass is now executing their allocation and replenishment planning with Centric Planning™. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, price and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, consumer electronics, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Trespass is one of the UK’s most successful outdoor clothing brands retailing a wide range of products from specialist performance clothing to outdoor sports equipment, selling internationally and exporting to over 60 countries.

With Centric Planning now...