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Sopheon is proud to be recognized for the seventh consecutive year by Consumer Goods Technology (CGT) magazine’s 2017 Reader’s Choice Survey as a top provider of New Product Development & Introduction (NPDI) solutions for the consumer goods industry. Andy Michuda, CEO at Sopheon, stated:  “It is an honor to be recognized year after year. It means that much more that innovation leaders choose to partner with Sopheon in today’s consumer-driven age when they have such a broad variety of solutions available to them.” Sopheon’s extensive experience working with innovation leaders − including 25% of the world’s largest and most successful consumer goods, food and beverage manufacturers − has uniquely positioned us to enable our clients to execute strategic plans for digital transformation, speed and business agility. Sopheon’s mission is to support customers in achieving exceptional long-term growth and profitability, ensuring relevance for their long-term future. As stated by CGT magazine: “In these modern

By: Tom Gill, Frank Popielas and Fred Keith CIMdata raised a prickly issue last November that precious few people in technology want to deal with.  This issue is politics, specifically the ins and outs of cost-justifying a big project, securing resources, launching the implementation, and sustaining its momentum.  The difficulties surface when several would-be project leaders vie among themselves for resources: funds, support from information technology (IT), and management backing.   Industry analysts and marketing people usually posit that “silos of expertise” are the No. 1 problem.  A recent workshop convinced us otherwise, that silos and their well-documented speed bumps are symptoms of a more fundamental problem, politics. (…) To continue reading the article, please click here.

Educational webinar will present a framework to simplify enterprise network management and enable more effective and efficient collaborative innovation. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 14 February 2017—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, “Digitize Your Enterprise Network Management for Competitive Advantage.” The webinar will take place on March 9, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. (EST) and will last for one hour. According to research undertaken by the Wharton School of Business, the Network Orchestrators, that is businesses based on digital platforms and virtual networks, are two to four times more valuable and significantly more profitable than traditional organizations. These companies are more successful because they leverage both the tangible and intangible assets of their networks and real time interactions better. Can the success principles of the Network Orchestrators be applied by more traditional enterprises? According to the webinar host, CIMdata’s Director for Collaborative Innovation &

Software developers can now use a new digital tool: AppAgile, the T-Systems development platform for readily available business applications and data analytics from the cloud, is now also available as a hybrid cloud based on Microsoft Azure. “AppAgile Azure Hybrid” is available from Microsoft Cloud Deutschland and globally as a modular Platform-as-a-Service offering based on Red Hat Open Shift container platform. Microsoft Cloud Deutschland provide Azure services out of German data centres. Customer data is processed and stored solely in Germany. Access to customer data is in the hand of data trustee T-Systems: Microsoft does not gain access without permission of data trustee or customers. The AppAgile hybrid approach enables customers to combine private, data-critical applications with public cloud offerings and nonetheless retain full control of their data. Both “AppAgile Azure Hybrid” and the platform services are offered as end-to-end managed services with a uniform service level agreement. T-Systems developed the solution in close cooperation with Red Hat and Microsoft.  To view the original

CSS, a leader in PKI-based digital identity software and services for enterprise and IoT security, and a ThingWorx Ready™ partner, announces the integration of CMS VerdeTTo with the ThingWorx IoT platform, and the availability of its CMS VerdeTTo Access Valve in the ThingWorx Marketplace. CMS VerdeTTo enables organizations to establish their own dedicated IoT Directory and build a high assurance security model based on trusted identity and certificates. CMS VerdeTTo enables authentication, authorization, encryption and code signing based on a private Root of Trust (RoT), certificates, and private keys. Dedicated to the organization and hosted in a single-tenant model, the IoT Directory is fully managed by CSS, including a dedicated Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) for the issuance and delivery of unique certificates to each device. The Access Valve for ThingWorx integrates an organization's dedicated IoT Directory and Root of Trust with the ThingWorx IoT platform, and turns on certificate-based authentication

Travelport, a leading travel commerce platform providing distribution of technology, payment and other solutions to the global travel industry, has named Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as its “primary technology partner”. The appointment of TCS follows an extensive selection process during which several of the world’s premier IT development companies were assessed on their ability to deliver “unrivalled” IT services. TCS was selected in recognition of its extensive domain strengths in the global travel industry and its ability to work alongside Travelport with “transformative intent”. According to a TCS release, TCS will partner with Travelport to innovate and shape a superior customer experience through the power of digital technologies. Travelport will also make use of TCS’ mathematical and digital expertise to accelerate the benefits of data and analytics in its business, the release added. Commenting on the appointment, Gordon Wilson, Travelport’s President and CEO, said: “The purpose of our heightened investment

Fourth quarter 2016 revenue of $585.5 million was up 5 percent as compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. Engineering and Construction revenue was $320.2 million, up less than 1 percent. Field Solutions revenue was $83.3 million, up 5 percent. Mobile Solutions revenue was $146.8 million, up 11 percent. Advanced Devices revenue was $35.2 million, up 21 percent. GAAP operating income was $55.3 million, up 68 percent as compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. GAAP operating margin was 9.4 percent of revenue as compared to 5.9 percent of revenue in the fourth quarter of 2015. GAAP net income was $37.7 million, up 57 percent as compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. Diluted GAAP earnings per share were $0.15 as compared to diluted GAAP earnings per share of $0.09 in the fourth quarter of 2015. Non-GAAP operating income of $107.2 million was up 18 percent as compared to the fourth quarter of 2015. Non-GAAP operating margin was 18.3 percent of revenue as compared

PTC India's Q3FY17 standalone results for the quarter came in mixed versus consensus estimates. Revenue for the quarter came in 4.8 % lower than the estimated figure of Rs. 3267.6 crores. EBITDA for the quarter came in 16.4 % higher than the estimated figure of Rs. 46.1 crores. And lastly, net profit for the quarter came in 12.5 % lower than the estimated figure of Rs. 48.625 crores. PTC India standalone revenue for the quarter came in at Rs. 3111.69 crores, registering a 7.8% yoy increase. EBITDA for the quarter fell by 6.7% yoy to Rs. 54 crores with a corresponding margin contraction of 27 bps. EBITDA margin for the quarter stood at 1.7%. This margin contraction was aided by increase in Employee Benefit Expenses by 8% yoy. The PAT for the quarter came in at Rs. 43 crores, a yoy decline of 9.1%. This was due to

Tech Mahindra has been declared winner of the prestigious Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Ethics (GPACE) for the year 2016. The award will be conferred by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley at a special presentation ceremony scheduled to be held in Mumbai on February 17. Instituted by the Institute of Directors (IOD) in 1991, Golden Peacock Awards are regarded as a benchmark of Corporate Excellence worldwide. Justice P N Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of India, is the Chairman Emeritus of Golden Peacock Awards while Justice M N Venkatachaliah, Chairman, Institute Of Directors and former Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India is the Chairman. Every year, the nomination committee receives around 1000 applications for various categories of awards which are evaluated following a three-tier evaluation process. The Awards Jury that selected the winner of the ‘Golden Peacock Award for Corporate Ethics’ for 2016, was chaired by Justice Arijit Pasayat, former Judge,

In a joint effort to improve the quality of life in urban areas, IoT and Smart City platform provider Fybr has teamed with IBM’s Watson Internet of Things group. This new partnership will bring sensor data from Fybr’s Smart City Platform to IBM’s Bluemix Cloud to take advantage of Watson's advanced analytics capabilities to add continuous learning and contextual data to Fybr’s sensor data. IBM describes Watson IoT as “a cognitive computing system that learns from experience.” With Fybr’s gateways and edge devices sending data on things like traffic, air quality and lighting to the IBM Bluemix Cloud, Watson can combine the information sent from Fybr Smart City implementations with other data such as news, weather, or historical events. By optimizing public safety, traffic, energy data and more, local leaders can make intelligent and informed decisions more rapidly—enhancing livability and sustainability within a community. With more than two-thirds of the