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Today at VMworld® Europe 2017, IBM and VMware, Inc. announced that more than 1,400 enterprises in nearly every industry around the world are extending their VMware environments to the IBM Cloud. Through the partnership, clients such as Honeywell International and Vodafone are using IBM Cloud’s global reach and cloud-native services, and the infrastructure and operational consistency of VMware Cloud Infrastructure, to create new business opportunities. As part of today’s news, IBM and VMware are announcing new solutions to further the partnership and IBM is launching network control and visibility solutions from F5 Networks and Fortinet so that enterprises can continue to extend their VMware environments, as they are, to the public cloud. In 2016, IBM and VMware set out to tackle a pressing industry challenge: extending existing VMware workloads from on-premises environments to the cloud without having to retool operations, re-architect applications and re-design security policies. Enterprises are able to run their

Accenture today launched the Accenture Digital Hub in Singapore. Supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board, the facility aims to help clients around the region invent, co-create, and apply disruptive solutions to help transform their businesses in today’s digital economy.   The Accenture Digital Hub in Singapore comes equipped with all the technologies and resources clients need to solve business challenges, reimagine customer experiences, develop and test prototypes and achieve their goals. The Digital Hub combines capabilities across Accenture Digital – including interactive marketing, analytics and mobility – to provide an extensive range of creative, business and technology power under one roof.  “We’ve designed the Accenture Digital Hub in Singapore to serve as a catalyst for clients who want to co-create leading-edge customer experiences with us,” said Patrick de Moustier, managing director, Accenture Digital ASEAN. “This is where businesses keen to leverage the latest digital technologies and data science can develop their

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that it has completed the spin-off and subsequent merger of its software business with Micro Focus International plc, a leading global enterprise software company headquartered in Newbury, U.K.   "With the completion of this transaction, HPE has achieved a major milestone in becoming a stronger, more focused company, purpose-built to compete and win in today's market," said Meg Whitman, Chief Executive Officer of HPE.  "And, this transaction will deliver approximately $8.8 billion to HPE and its stockholders."  In the transaction, Seattle SpinCo, Inc. ("Seattle"), which holds the software business of HPE that was spun off, merged with a wholly owned subsidiary of Micro Focus.  With the close of the transaction, HPE stockholders received 0.13732611 American Depositary Shares of Micro Focus ("Micro Focus ADSs") for each share of HPE common stock held as of the record date of August 21, 2017.  Each Micro Focus ADS represents one Micro

WANdisco, a Gold level member of the Oracle PartnerNetwork (OPN), today announced that its patented technology, WANdisco Fusion®, is one of the first Big Data solutions to be made available in the Oracle Cloud Marketplace. Oracle Cloud Applications customers can now purchase WANdisco Fusion via a consumption-based pricing model to continuously replicate selected data at scale between multiple Big Data and Cloud environments with data consistency and continuous availability, regardless of where data is ingested or changed. The Oracle Cloud Marketplace is a one-stop shop for Oracle customers seeking trusted business applications and service providers offering unique business solutions, including ones that extend Oracle Cloud Applications. Oracle Cloud is the industry's broadest and most complete public cloud, delivering enterprise-grade services at every level of the cloud technology stack including software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), infrastructure as a service (IaaS), and data as a service (DaaS). Inclusion in the

Over the 4th quarter of 2016/2017, IGE+XAO enjoyed strong growth in its activity, with turnover amounting to 8,080,204 euros compared to 7,499,071 euros one year ago, which is an increase of 7.8%. The acceleration in sales over this period was particularly substantial in Asia, in Europe with the SME/SMI activity and with major international accounts. The Prosyst subsidiary, specialising in diagnostics, optimisation and simulation of industrial processes, also enjoyed strong growth in its activity. Over the entire 2016/2017 financial period, consolidated turnover for the IGE+XAO Group is up 4.7%, amounting to 29,439,262 euros compared to 28,117,938 euros one year earlier. 2016/2017 was a dense year from a technical standpoint with increased mobilisation in Research and Development efforts on the Group's most widely distributed software, SEE Electrical Expert and SEE Electrical, for which the new versions will reach the market before the end of the year 2017. Moreover, IGE+XAO launched a

Hubertus Tummescheit, Modelon’s Chief Strategy Officer, will present ‘The Functional Mock-up Interface: Innovation through Open Standards’ at the 2017 Global Product Data Interoperability Summit (GPDIS), September 19 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. This presentation will address a critical pain point arising among model-based systems engineers in the aerospace industry; the ability to share models between tools and deploy easy-to-use models to development engineers. The automotive industry, an FMI early adopter, has successfully utilized FMI technologies for model exchange and co-simulation of dynamic models at the system and component level. “FMI breaks down barriers between departments and companies to collaborate more efficiently without major investments in new tool chains or training” says Hubertus Tummescheit. The following presented examples will enable process innovations and efficiency gains to tame the increasing complexity of the software development: Connecting tools quickly and efficiently Cost efficient enterprise-wide deployment of executable models Virtualization of the controls development process Reuse of validated models

SpecPage will be hosting two complimentary English webinars in both the US and European time zones covering food safety, global regulatory compliance, speed-to-market, food labeling laws and other industry-relevant issues. The webinars scheduled for September 28, and October 5, 2017 will be held in cooperation with the global regulatory compliance expert, Decernis. They will address topics such as speed-to-market, lifecycle management and legal regulations. The webinars are designed to fit the needs of the regulatory, R&D and quality assurance personnel in the food and beverage and food packaging industries. The webinars will feature distinguished speakers from SpecPage: Milan Vacval, Director Professional Services and a specialist in master data management and data quality, Amin Khatir, Project Manager with prominent expertise in labeling and regulatory affairs across European, American and Asian markets, as well as keynote speakers from Decernis: Dr. Carolyn Fisher, Senior Scientist and IFT board member, Christie Gray, Director of Quality responsible for providing

Oracle announced today that it has joined the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as a Platinum Member. In addition, Oracle is releasing Kubernetes on Oracle Linux and open sourcing a Terraform Kubernetes Installer for the next-generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. As such, developers gain unparalleled simplicity for running their cloud native workloads on Oracle. As enterprises accelerate how they build and deploy mission-critical applications, development teams are seeking an open, cloud-neutral, container-native technology stack that avoids lock-in. By joining CNCF, Oracle is demonstrating its support for this effort as well as the Kubernetes open-source community, the core component of the CNCF technology stack. Kubernetes is the industry leading open source container orchestration and management platform rapidly emerging as the standard for containerized applications. Deploying Kubernetes can be complex, especially with regards to storage, security and networking. By open sourcing its fully-supported, automated Kubernetes Terraform template for the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Oracle

Gannon University has received an in-kind product lifecycle management software grant with an estimated commercial value of $373 million from Siemens, a global technology company. The grant will make it possible for Gannon engineering students to use the same technology in its classrooms that companies worldwide depend on to design some of today’s most sophisticated products. With software playing an increasing role in the next era of manufacturing, this in-kind software grant – the largest in Gannon’s history – is intended to help prepare a highly-skilled STEM workforce for the advanced manufacturing industry. Gannon is also exploring how it can leverage the software grant to develop a retraining program that could provide both employed and unemployed workers with the skills they need to succeed in the digital factory of the future. Product lifecycle management (PLM) software from Siemens enables global organizations to work as a single team to design, produce,

Altair has acquired Componeering Inc., a Helsinki, Finland-based technology company specializing in structural analysis and design of composite structures. Componeering, now Altair Engineering Finland Oy, is the developer of ESAComp composites simulation software.  Originating through a European Space Agency (ESA) project, today ESAComp is a staple technology throughout the aerospace industry and has expanded to just about every industry where composite material structures are found, including marine, automotive, rail transportation, alternative energy and machinery to name a few. The initial collaboration between Altair and Componeering was prompted by a mutual client, RUAG Space, who approached Altair to see if it was possible to transfer data between the two software packages. This kick-started the joint-development of a bi-directional interface to meet the customer's needs. "Altair HyperWorks and ESAComp are an essential part of RUAG's composite analysis process. We're looking forward to experience the tighter integration between the two products to further streamline