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Flowserve Corporation, a leading provider of flow control products and services for the global infrastructure markets, today announced that R. Scott Rowe has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Company, effective April 1, 2017. He succeeds Mark Blinn, who previously announced his intention to retire. Mr. Rowe will also join the Flowserve Board of Directors. Mr. Rowe brings nearly 20 years of senior leadership and operational experience in the industry to Flowserve. He most recently served as President of the Cameron Group, a position he assumed in April 2016 following the merger between Schlumberger and Cameron International Corporation (“Cameron”), formerly a NYSE-listed leading provider of flow management equipment, systems and services to the worldwide oil and gas industry. At Cameron, Mr. Rowe served in a variety of progressive roles during his 14-year career, culminating as its President and CEO. Mr. Rowe’s accomplishments include contributing to Cameron’s

Accenture received numerous SAP® Partner Excellence Awards, which recognize top-performing alliance partners that have made outstanding contributions to driving customers’ digital transformation. Recipients of this year’s awards have been – in partnership with SAP – helping customers adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and run more simply with SAP solutions. Accenture won the following awards: SAP Latin American Partner of the Year Excellence Award 2017 for System Integrator SAP North America Partner Excellence Award 2017 for SAP Hybris Solutions SAP North America Partner Excellence Award 2017 for SAP SuccessFactors Solutions SAP North America Partner Excellence Award 2017 for Industry Services SAP North America Southwest Region Partner of the Year 2017 “We see these awards as a great recognition of Accenture and SAP working together to help clients transform to digital businesses,” said Christophe Mouille, senior managing director and Global SAP practice lead at Accenture. “Our focus is on

Accenture has completed its acquisition of InvestTech Systems Consulting, a market leader in investment technology systems-integration and consulting services that support many of the world’s largest asset managers and investment service providers. The acquisition expands Accenture’s capabilities to help global investment managers, institutional investors and asset servicers stay in front of new and emerging digital innovations and technology paradigms to strengthen their competitiveness. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. It represents Accenture’s second asset management industry-focused acquisition in a little over a year. In December 2015, Accenture acquired Beacon Consulting Group to enhance its management consulting capabilities and expand its back-office and middle-office client relationships with five of the top 10 North American asset management firms. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Accenture on CIMdata.com

Stratasys Ltd. today announced that it is partnering with Dassault Systèmes to provide next generation design tools that improve the functionality, efficiency and weight ratio of additively manufactured production parts. The companies have collaborated on design and simulation capabilities for Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform which support Stratasys’ FDM® 3D printers and materials. These new industry leading capabilities include: Design optimization for lighter weight parts - 3D printed in a fused deposition modeling process (FDM), using less material than a traditional manufacturing technology to achieve the same performance. Weight savings increase efficiency and reduce cost beyond what is possible with traditional manufacturing processes. Strength and fatigue analysis that gives the confidence to expand applications for load-bearing 3D printed FDM parts and provide the tools needed to support part qualification. Print process simulation providing further insights into the residual stresses and performance of the 3D printed FDM part. “For additive manufacturing to reach its true potential, engineers need tools that will allow

Kenesto Corp. today announced the availability of Kenesto Drive 2.0. Kenesto, known for its secure cloud-based Product Document Management and CAD collaboration, delivers a new generation in sharing and bridging the gap between cloud storage and engineering documents. Kenesto now allows users to manually define document dependencies for any type of document and-within products such as SOLIDWORKS and Solid Edge-defines those dependencies automatically. Having defined these dependencies, users are able to find all of the places where a document is used (Where-Used). Users are now able to selectively replace or rename instances of documents that are used in SOLIDWORKS and Solid Edge assemblies. In addition, users are also able to define revisions of assemblies when released to production. This functionality has only been available in the past in traditional installed PDM systems."Our focus has always been to serve the engineering community," said Mike Payne, CEO of Kenesto. "With Kenesto Drive

ESTECO announces the release of VOLTA - the state-of-the art environment that takes enterprise-spread engineering processes to a new, collaborative dimension. The new web-based, collaboration environment helps companies leverage enterprise engineering knowledge and processes on a global scale. "To accomplish the shift to agile product development, innovative companies demand for comprehensive solutions that help them orchestrate design data generated across globally-dislocated teams and collaborate on simulation and optimization projects. As the role of integrators becomes essential in the global value chains, ESTECO technology helps R&D departments create a reliable, protected virtual prototyping process where organizations co-operate seamlessly in designing new products ,” said Carlo Poloni, President of ESTECO. COLLABORATIVE, AGILE: OPTIMIZATION-DRIVEN DESIGN Working closely with customers over the years, ESTECO has achieved an in-depth understanding of the governance of engineering workflows and procedures. ESTECO technology has evolved into a comprehensive environment for integrated management of simulation process and data – SOMO (Service Oriented

Marine Layer, a San Francisco-based premium casual apparel brand specialized in soft clothing, announces a successful go live of their Centric Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) project. Most of Marine Layer’s clothing is made in San Francisco and Los Angeles, and the business is rapidly growing. They have 23 stores across the United States, eight of which opened in 2016. In the midst of this rapid growth and change, Marine Layer needed a PLM solution to help manage data from product development through to retail.  “The biggest challenge we were facing was keeping track of shared information,” says Megan Eddings, Director of Design & Product Development at Marine Layer. “There was a big push this year to get a PLM system,” recalls Eddings. “I was looking at different options and fortunately someone from Centric reached out to me about seminars they were doing in the Bay Area. I went along

TriCore Solutions today announced it has partnered with Winshuttle to help customers manage critical SAP data more efficiently. The partnership supports customers in realizing the full value of their  investment, placing the capabilities back into the hands of their business users. “In today’s business environment, data accuracy has never been more important,” said Steve Woodgate, General Manager, SAP Practice, TriCore Solutions. “Our partnership with Winshuttle is another reason TriCore is setting the bar high for service excellence by putting customers first. Understanding the difficulties of managing data in today’s complex environments, our team, alongside Winshuttle, help our customers make sense of their data.” Winshuttle provides robust capabilities for collecting, validating and integrating data within SAP ERP systems in a rapid manner without compromising security or governance. These solutions can be developed and deployed quickly and iteratively, allowing organizations to easily adapt to changes in the business environment. Partnering with Winshuttle extends TriCore’s functional support for

Tata Consultancy Services today announced that it has been recognized as a 'Leader' in Big Data and Analytics by NelsonHall in its 2017 NEAT project on "Big Data and Analytics," authored by Dominique Raviart. NelsonHall analyzed the overall performance of top vendor's worldwide offerings of Big Data and Analytics services, with specific focus on Big Data and Analytics platforms and accelerators, solutions for improving operational efficiencies, and for developing new business models. TCS' position as a leader was driven by its end to end Big Data and Analytics products and services that enable customers to harness deep insights from variety of data sources at scale. TCS also co-innovates with customers to address business and technology challenges, helping them to re-imagine business models and discover new ways to use their data. Dominique Raviart, ITS Practice Director at NelsonHall and author of Big Data and Analytics NEAT report 2017, said, "TCS combines several

e-Xstream engineering, an MSC Software Company, and co-winners Solvay Engineering Plastics and Solvay Specialty Polymers,  have been recognized with a JEC Innovation Award for launching Digimat Additive Manufacturing. Awarded in the software category, the launch was recognized for its innovation and market potential. The JEC Innovation program was created in 1998 to help identify, promote, and reward the most innovative composite solutions worldwide. The selection criteria for the JEC Innovation Awards were technical excellence, exemplarity of the chain of partners, market potential, and originality. The ultimate goal is to recognize the efforts being made towards the advancement of the composite industry. "We're honored to be recognized as an industry innovator by JEC, and look forward to continuing our modeling leadership with Digimat Additive Manufacturing to help address the global industry's need to transition from prototyping to actual manufacturing" said Roger Assaker, Chief Executive Officer of e-Xstream. "With solutions for materials development, process simulation,