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Diversified Communications and AEC Science & Technology, LLC (AEC-ST) announced that they have joined forces to re-launch a series of AEC high-technology shows in 2018. AEC-ST’s trademarked brands including its specialty events The National BIM Conference; The National High Performance Building Conference; The National Specifiers Conference; and The Federal Design & Construction Outlook Conference will join Diversified’s portfolio of AEC industry offerings, SPAR3D Expo and Conference; Commercial UAV Expo; and International LiDAR Mapping Forum to offer a comprehensive cutting edge slate of emerging technology solutions for the important design, building, and construction marketplace. AEC-ST founder and Principal George Borkovich says, “I am very pleased to take this evolutionary step. Since 1980, the AEC shows have been known as the leading educational events for advancing solutions on information technology, building information modeling (BIM) and facility performance. I am excited for the opportunity to continue to provide top-notch conference programming for AEC

Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced that it has joined the Industrial Internet Consortium® (IIC), the global, member-supported organization that promotes the accelerated growth of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This membership provides Wipro opportunities to engage and innovate with multi-partner testbeds and adopt best practices to drive digital transformation for customers. Wipro is a recognized leader in the Internet of Things (IoT) space, leveraging connected assets for the transformation of enterprise business, services and processes. IoT is a key enabler of Wipro Digital's transformation strategy for its customers. Wipro Digital, the digital business unit of Wipro, is an innovation-led, digital transformation partner built for today's digital challenges. Wipro has expertise in all stages of the IIoT system-development lifecycle across industry sectors such as Industrial Manufacturing, Healthcare OEMs, Retail, Oil & Gas, Utility and Transportation. The Industrial Internet Consortium coordinates ecosystem

Oracle announced that McColl’s has invested in Oracle Retail Xstore Point-of-Service and Oracle MICROS Family Workstation 6 to improve the in-store guest experience. With 1,375 stores, McColl’s is the UK’s leading neighbourhood retailer serving the convenience and newsagent sectors. As part of its growth strategy, McColl’s is investing to improve store standards and the customer experience. McColl’s sees significant growth opportunity in the convenience market and is increasing its store portfolio with the acquisition of 298 convenience stores during 2017.  Approval was gained from the Competition & Markets Authority (CMA) in December 2016 to acquire 298 convenience stores from the Co-operative Group Limited, the rollout of which will be completed by August 2017. The convenience sector requires software and hardware with speed, scale and agility to support the complete customer offer across the store portfolio.  “McColl’s performs over 4 million customer transactions per week through 2,700 tills and we need

Accenture has helped the Seattle Police Department (SPD) build and deploy a new data analytics platform that provides the Department with reliable and rapidly accessible data to meet its management and governance objectives and support insight-led policing. By enabling the Department to consolidate, prepare and analyze critical data relating to a wide variety of operational matters – including police calls and incidents, interactions with the public, use-of-force incidents, administrative processes, officer training and workforce management – the new data analytics platform provides the Department with enhanced reporting capabilities and insights into its day-to-day operations and investigations.  Among these new capabilities is a system of alerts that enables the SPD to make data-driven decisions based on analytics insights and informs leadership of incidents and cases of complaints that are outside established parameters and might require further inquiry – thereby enabling the Department to improve leadership monitoring and oversight of policing activities and

CGS, a global provider of business applications, enterprise learning and outsourcing services, announced that our BlueCherry® Enterprise Suite saw significant growth in companies selecting and implementing its solution in 2016. The company added more than 25 brands with thousands of end users globally to its fashion apparel, footwear and consumer lifestyle products community. The CGS team of experts and its BlueCherry suite are supporting brands that are manufactured or sold throughout various countries on nearly every continent, throughout the world. In just the last year, such coveted fashion brand names as The Aldo Group, Pendleton Woolen Mills, Etienne Aigner, Hansae, American made Holdings, Feathered Friends, Bill Levkoff and Star Garments chose BlueCherry Enterprise Suite for its proven solutions, including Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Shop Floor Control, B2B eCommerce and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM). Recognized among top fashion organizations for excellent support, a robust user community, and a fully integrated end-to-end

Engineers, from the novice to the highly experienced, can now use engineering simulation software across the entire product lifecycle with the newly released ANSYS® 18. This next generation of ANSYS' industry-leading engineering simulation solutions builds upon decades of cutting-edge technology for the most complete and accurate digital prototypes across all major physics, electronics and embedded software areas. This feature-rich release expands the boundaries of simulation upfront in the development process to digital exploration as well as downstream with digital twins, expanding simulation to the operations and maintenance of products. Today's industries are undergoing a fundamental transformation in manufacturing and product development. Trends like the Internet of Things, additive manufacturing and machine learning are merging the physical and digital worlds, creating an unprecedented pace of product innovation. The opportunity is immense, but also creates incredible levels of complexity across the entire product lifecycle. "Emerging technologies and changing customer expectations are spurring

Accenture has agreed to acquire InvestTech Systems Consulting, a market leader in investment technology systems-integration and consulting services that supports many of the world’s largest asset managers and investment service providers. The acquisition will further expand Accenture’s capabilities to help global investment managers, institutional investors and asset servicers strengthen their competitiveness by staying in front of new and emerging digital innovations and technology paradigms. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. “Asset managers are under growing pressure to modernize their investment management and operational infrastructure to support growth, higher efficiency and profitability,” said Owen Jelf, a senior managing director at Accenture and head of the company’s Capital Markets practice. “By further expanding our systems integration and consulting capabilities in this area, we will be able to do much more to help our clients tap new digital innovations and provide access to new scale advantages that can ensure their competitiveness well