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On the occasion of its first centenary in China, Deloitte is pleased to announce a strategic investment program of US$200 million into talent development and capability upgrade. This program will be dedicated to enhancing its advisory services, advancing digital and technology transformation for the firm and Chinese enterprises, supporting the Belt & Road Initiative, as well as assisting Chinese enterprises in going global. This is a joint initiative of Deloitte Global and Deloitte China. "Over the past few decades, we have witnessed China's incredible transformation as an economic power, which has continued to generate Fortune Global 500 companies. China is an important market for Deloitte and we are committed to serving the China marketplace with distinction. The strategic investment will help the China firm build an even stronger and more innovative multidisciplinary business model, which is a source of our competitive strength," said Punit Renjen, Deloitte Global CEO. This strategic

SAP SE today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire Gigya, a market leader for customer identity and access management.  Gigya's customer identity and access management platform helps companies build digital relationships with their customers. Its platform allows companies to manage customers' profile, preference, opt-in and consent settings, with customers maintaining control of their data at all times. Customers opt in and register via Gigya's registration-as-a-service, which addresses changing geographical privacy issues and manages compliance requirements such as the upcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Gigya currently manages 1.3 billion customer identities in order to build identity-driven relationships for its enterprise clients. Gigya's technology provides new capabilities to consumers across channels and touch points, builds rich intelligent profiles and creates a consent-based approach to personalization across sales, service and marketing. Gigya, an SAP Hybris2 partner since 2013, has customers already using a solution extension from SAP Hybris and Gigya. This acquisition will enable

aPriori today announced that a new version of the company’s flagship aPriori Professional software is generally available. This new version of the software is designated as aPriori Professional 2017 R1. aPriori Professional 2017 R1 provides manufacturability and cost driver guidance for additional manufacturing processes and expands the guidance available for those processes already available. Extended manufacturability and cost driver guidance helps engineers during the design phase understand the manufacturing impact of tolerances, identify areas of the design that may present manufacturability issues and evaluate features that are expensive / time consuming to make. Listed below are some of the key Design to Cost (DTC) highlights featured in the new version of the software: DTC views are now available for Die Castings, Sand Castings, soft-tooled Sheet Metal components, and machined components analyzed in the 2-Model Machining process group. The DTC view for Plastic Injection Molded parts has been enhanced significantly to identify many additional manufacturability

CADCAM Group and Dassault Systemes, the 3DEXPERIENCE company, will present the most modern technologies that Industry 4.0 brings to the world of engineering, 3D design, modeling, robotics, production, simulation and product optimization at upcoming events. Live demonstrations and interesting lectures about software, user experience, and practical examples have been prepared. Professional lectures and workshops are held by domestic and foreign lecturers with rich experience in the profession. In addition, all participants are also invited to a playground with a premium electric car Rimac Concept One and an electric bicycle Greyp. The application of virtual reality technology will also be featured in an exclusive way so that participants can virtually look at the interior of the most complex assemblies on the 3DEXPERIENCE platform. Poppy's humanoid robot, which represents a blend of design, mechatronics, virtual reality and 3D printing, will also be there. Play-time and social time allow you to share ideas

Accenture will open an Innovation Hub in Atlanta in 2018, more than doubling its footprint in Midtown’s Technology Square. The Innovation Hub will be a destination where Accenture people and clients can work side-by-side to ideate, rapidly prototype and launch solutions that meet the demands of today’s fast-changing digital world.   Accenture also plans to add 800 highly skilled technology jobs in Atlanta by the end of 2020, accelerating its investment in its innovation capabilities and contributing to the city’s fast-growing tech community. The company is recruiting people with the critical skills needed to serve clients across all of its businesses – Strategy, Consulting, Digital, Technology and Operations. “Our clients look to us to help them grow, compete and transform in the digital economy,” said Jimmy Etheredge, senior managing director – US Southeast, Accenture. “We are bringing innovation to their doorsteps with a new destination in Atlanta where we can co-create

Siemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Montreal, Canada-based Infolytica Corporation, expanding the company’s simulation suite into electromagnetics (EM). Infolytica was one of the original pioneers in the field of simulating low-frequency EM and its market-leading simulation software is used by manufacturers worldwide to predict EM and thermal performance. This accelerates the development of reliable and optimized solutions for electric and electromagnetic devices such as electric machines - including motors, generators and transformers – as well as sensors, induction heating, MRI, and shielding. The Infolytica business will be incorporated into the Mechanical Analysis Division of Mentor, a Siemens business. Closing of the transaction is expected in October 2017. The addition of Infolytica enhances Siemens’ Simcenter™ portfolio for simulation and test, which covers mechanical, thermal, fluid dynamics and electromagnetic simulations. Infolytica’s products are widely used in the design of high-performance electromechanical products across industries such as aerospace, automotive, consumer electronics, electrical appliances,

CIMdata's Vice President of Research, Stan Przybylinski, recently sat down with down Autodesk’s Director for Fusion Lifecycle Product Management, Jared Sund, so that he could learn more about Autodesk’s cloud strategy. Among the topics on the table for discussion were:   How important are cloud-based solutions to the strategy of Autodesk? What about the ecosystem of infrastructure, applications, and other partners that are part of your offerings? How does your solution and its go-to-market address the issues raised by your customers and prospects? How are your offerings going to evolve in the short to medium term? Learn the answers to these questions and more in the full blog post available at: https://www.cimdata.com/en/resources/cimdata-blog/item/8908-autodesk-s-cloud-strategy-an-interview-with-jared-sund      

CIMdata's Vice President of Research, Stan Przybylinski, recently sat down with Autodesk's Director for Fusion Lifecycle Product Management, Jared Sund, so that he could learn more about Autodesk's cloud strategy. Let's find out! How important are cloud-based solutions to the strategy of Autodesk? Autodesk is committed to bringing cloud-based solutions to all of our vertical industries. You can already see this in our Fusion platform and our BIM solutions for the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) space. We continue to focus on bringing powerful solutions to our customers in these areas. Can you describe the ecosystem of infrastructure, applications and other partners that are part of your offerings? We have been working on our cloud offerings and infrastructure for the last several years. At the core is Forge and our Forge Fund (https://forge.autodesk.com/fund) announced at AU 2015. Autodesk created an innovative partnership program to help companies leverage Forge, the platform underlying Fusion Lifecycle and Fusion

OpenBOM has taken a step into the realm of manufacturing by providing users the ability to create Order BOM to perform production planning. The Order BOM is OpenBOM’s first practical step toward closing the gap between engineering and manufacturing. In the current version of OpenBOM, after a user releases a BOM, they will be able to create production batches to plan the number of product units to be manufactured. OpenBOM will create an Order BOM which includes information about the required and gap quantities for each part. The Order BOM can be shared with contractors and suppliers for follow up and collaboration on parts delivery. Moreover, the Order BOM can be integrated with Bookeeping or ERP systems for procurement and order tracking. When the Order BOM is released to production, the inventory quantity on hand for each part will be updated automatically in the the OpenBOM Part Catalogs (Inventories). From now

Mentor, a Siemens business, today announced the Precision® Synthesis product support for Silicon Mobility’s OLEA® Field-Programmable Control Unit (FPCU) – a flexible electronic circuit tailored specifically for the automotive market and specialized in real-time processing and control. Silicon Mobility’s OLEA FPCU is the first ever automotive-qualified semiconductor control solution to holistically address the need for flexibility, real-time data processing, timing predictability and safety for critical applications, such as powertrain electrification, electronic power steering (EPS), braking and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS). Under the terms of the OEM partnership, Silicon Mobility customers will receive licenses to use a Silicon Mobility version of Mentor’s Precision RTL Plus FPGA synthesis tool for mapping RTL (register transfer level) logic to OLEA’s patented AMEC FLU® (Flexible Logic Unit) - a programmable logic fabric in the FPCU. Mentor’s Precision RTL Plus is part of OLEA COMPOSER, a completely standardized, worldwide adopted and fully supported programming flow for OLEA. The Silicon