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CBX Software announced today that they had been named to the list of the 30 fastest growing companies in Asia by The Silicon Review. The Silicon Review recognized CBX software for its year over year growth and expansion of retail sourcing automation through web based purchasing, retail sourcing and supply chain automation of consumer product goods. Retail organizations have invested a significant amount of time, energy and resources attempting to enhance the identification and supplier selection and the associated purchasing process which has resulted in a tremendous uptick in CBX customer acquisitions. Michael Hung, CEO of CBX Software says, “Consumers are increasingly demanding and trends are constantly changing; staying competitive means finding ways to quickly match demand by developing, sourcing, and bringing products through the supply chain much faster.” Michael continued to say, “CBX is the only solution of its kind to combine retail Product Lifecycle Management (Retail PLM) with Retail Sourcing and Supply Chain Management (SCM) to offer

CISTECH, Inc. today announced it has joined the Infor Partner Network (IPN). CISTECH will focus on delivering Infor XA and Birst solutions to customers across the manufacturing industry in North America. Infor, the industry cloud company, is fundamentally changing the way information is published and consumed in the enterprise, helping customers in more than 170 countries improve operations, drive growth, and quickly adapt to changes in business demands. Through partnerships with organizations such as CISTECH, Infor is working to provide customers with more direct access to local resources with knowledgeable personnel in technology specific to their market. "We joined the IPN because Infor continually invests in its partner community in an effort to help their partners better serve their customers," said Mike Taylor, CEO, CISTECH. "The deep manufacturing industry functionality and innovative user experience offered by Infor, combined with the experience of our employees can delivers significant benefits to our customers. The

The Life Sciences division of AMPLEXOR, a leading provider of digital experience and compliance solutions, has announced its March 2018 webinar program, with two webinars that aim to address challenges facing those in the life sciences industry. The latest webinar program is a continuation of AMPLEXOR's commitment to open dialogues about issues that impact the life sciences industry, as Elvis Paćelat, Executive Vice President, Life Sciences, AMPLEXOR, explains: "All AMPLEXOR webinars aim to address industry issues that matter most in life sciences, based on discussions with our clients and industry experts. We want our online delivery platform to engage attendees in a practical and informative manner, and anyone in life sciences who seeks to understand translations and localization and master data management strategies is encouraged to attend the webinars this month." The first webinar (22 March), 'Regulatory Master Data Management – Best Practices to Get It Right', presented by Romuald Braun, Vice President, Strategy, AMPLEXOR,

ANSYS announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire OPTIS, a premier provider of software for scientific simulation of light, human vision and physics-based visualization. The acquisition of OPTIS will extend ANSYS' industry-leading multiphysics-based portfolio into the increasingly important area of optical simulation. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of 2018. Management will provide further details regarding the transaction and its impact on the 2018 financial outlook after the closing.   Headquartered in La Farlède, France, OPTIS develops physics-based software that simulates light and human vision. Other vendors consider the aesthetics of light, but OPTIS bases its solutions on real-world physics to give the most accurate simulation possible. Its customers include a who's who of the automotive industry, including Audi, Ford, Toyota and Ferrari as well as business leaders in other fields like Boeing, Airbus, GE, Swarovski and L'Oreal. Engineering simulation plays an increasingly important role

Lectra introduces collaborative solutions specifically developed for design and product development teams, enabling fashion companies to affront tighter deadlines and handle wider product mixes with speed and serenity. With the rise of e-commerce, digitally dependent consumers expect personalized, innovative fashion delivered to their doorstep at the click of a mouse. Fashion companies are struggling to keep up with consumer demands and looking for new ways to speed up design and development without compromising quality. Design teams work faster than ever to deliver fresh, eye-catching collections. Product development teams rush to transform new designs into consumer-ready products. Given the accelerated pace of the fashion marketplace, information sharing has become vital for these teams. Lectra has developed two new solutions to fulfill the specific needs of these teams, Lectra Connected Design and Lectra Connected Development. These solutions deliver collaborative environments that integrate business applications to aggregate, standardize and store

Maplesoft™ today announced a major new release of its flagship product, Maple™, mathematical software that makes it extremely easy to analyze, explore, visualize, and solve math problems. Maple 2018 includes substantial improvements to how customers interact with Maple, providing significant benefits to all users no matter what they use Maple for. The release also includes an extensive collection of improvements in advanced mathematics, visualization, specialized application areas, and more, which will be extremely useful to the mathematicians, educators, engineers, and scientists who rely on these particular features. People use Maple to do many different things, so naturally the value of the improvements in any new release varies for each user.  However, Maple 2018 is not a release to skip over, for any customer.  Maple 2018 contains a large number of substantial enhancements to how users interact with Maple, which means all customers will see immediate benefits from this release.  These improvements include: An intelligent

Infor today announced the success that Invenergy has seen with Infor Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) Mobile. Invenergy, one of North America's largest privately-held renewable energy companies, decided to adopt more mobile enterprise asset management processes to help optimize and digitize turbine maintenance operations, and help streamline asset management with better, more up-to-date data. Infor EAM Mobile is designed to help organizations get maximum value from their EAM system by providing technicians with access to the system virtually any place and any time. Like many asset management operations, Invenergy's maintenance checklists were paper-based when the team first began considering new technology options several years ago. Technicians at the organization would go out with paper checklists and fill out steps as they were completed—sometimes legibly, sometimes not. That paper had to be uploaded into EAM, and then stored in binders for physical record-keeping. Adopting Infor EAM Mobile provided a way for the Invenergy teams

Altair Engineering Inc. today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2017. “Altair delivered strong fourth quarter and full year results highlighted by revenue that exceeded guidance,” said James Scapa, Founder, Chairman and CEO.  “We are also seeing a positive margin impact as a growing portion of revenue comes from higher margin software.” “We enter 2018 with the strongest product portfolio we’ve ever had, including our recent acquisition of Runtime.  With ongoing investments in R&D, we continue to innovate to increase the value our simulation-driven design, high performance computing, IoT and Analytics solutions can deliver to our customers. Our strong billings growth in Q4, and 2017 as a whole, support our optimism for further growth in 2018, which coupled with continued investments, will help further elevate our leadership position in the multi-billion dollar markets we serve.” Fourth Quarter 2017 Financial Highlights Software product revenue

Oracle unveiled its new Austin, Texas campus as a sales innovation customer experience hub to support increasing demand for Oracle Cloud and attract top talent to service the business. "Oracle is expanding in Austin to attract, hire and train the best talent to support the unprecedented growth of our cloud business," said Oracle Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd. "This campus will help enable our customers to accelerate their Oracle Cloud adoption and drive success." The Austin complex features a 560,000-square-foot facility and spans 40 acres of Lady Bird Lake waterfront property that could ultimately support a workforce of up to 10,000. The campus also includes the adjacent 295-unit Azul apartment building for employees and the general public. The new campus will feature a variety of design elements and amenities including: Dining: Full service restaurant, Starbucks, food truck court Health: Fitness center, beach volleyball and basketball courts, flag football field, B-cycle station, access to Lady Bird Lake hike and bike

Neverfail today announced that its new data center in Sydney, Australia, is online and serving a variety of Neverfail’s enterprise and ISV clients. The addition of the Sydney data center is a key component in Neverfail’s ongoing global expansion of its cloud and software solution offerings, and makes it easier for customers to serve the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. Like Neverfail’s other data centers, the new Sydney facility offers world-class reliability and operational excellence with full UPS power, back-up systems, N+1 redundancy and >99.99999% uptime. The state-of-the-art facilities are certified compliant with SSAE16 and ISO/IEC 27001 standards for information security management systems. “Our distribution, VAR and enterprise customers need an ever-expanding level of geographic diversity to solve their mission-critical IT requirements,” said Paolo Di Leo, Neverfail’s Director of Sales for the EMEA region. “Leveraging the Neverfail software and cloud services throughout the world helps fill in gaps in this new