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Quick Heal Technologies Limited (“Quick Heal”) today announced the appointment of Mr. Manu Parpia as Additional Director (Independent Director) with effect from May 10, 2018. Mr. Parpia’s appointment is subject to shareholders approval at the ensuing Annual General Meeting. With the addition of Mr. Manu Parpia, the Board strength of the Company has increased to nine which includes five independent directors, including Mr. Parpia. Mr. Parpia was the founder of Geometric Ltd., a leading player in the PLM industry, and as its Managing Director & CEO till recently, oversaw its growth as it became a $200 Million enterprise serving leading global companies as well as the leading ISV’s in the CAD/PLM area. Geometric Ltd, now a part of HCL Technologies, also had a significant portfolio of Intellectual Property. He has over 35 years of experience in the industry, with over 25 years in the PLM and Engineering arena. Mr. Parpia

SAP today announced the winners of the 2018 SAP Innovation Awards, which honor individuals and companies using SAP platform technologies to transform their business, drive innovation and win in the digital economy. The awards recognize SAP customer and partner innovations driven by the SAP HANA business data platform, SAP Leonardo capabilities, SAP Cloud Platform, SAP Analytics solutions and SAP S/4HANA. Winners by category include: Process Innovation: City of San Diego, NTT DOCOMO, ExxonMobil, PwC, Ruralco, SAR Group Next-Gen Innovator: Nextview, Rainforest Connection, Queensland Treasury Digital Transformation: Bilbao City Council, HarrisLogic, Maple Leaf Foods, Moderna Therapeutics, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB), AB SKF, Vestas Wind Systems A/S Industry Disruptor: Shell Aviation Best Run: Ballance Agri-Nutrients Social Hero: Gustave Roussy Regional Choice: China General Nuclear Power Corporation, EOH Int., JFE Steel, Kaiserwetter, L3 Technologies, San Miguel Global, Waterwatch Cooperative Honorable Mention: Bundeswehr – German Armed Forces Commenting on the SAP Innovation Award, Beat Deuber, head of energy at SBB, said, “This recognition confirms our endeavor to exploit the opportunities of digitalization

NTT DATA Germany and Aras have signed a system integrator partnership agreement. Under the agreement, NTT DATA will offer the Aras PLM Platform, an open, flexible, scalable, and upgradable PLM system for digital transformation of complex product processes.  Using the Aras platform, manufacturers can modernize their legacy IT architectures while building a foundation for new opportunities in Digital Thread, Digital Twin, and IoT. In addition, Aras enables agile implementation for fast deployment, development, and rapid iteration of specific solutions that companies may require. Manufacturers have built out fragmented IT and PLM architectures for years, cluttering their IT landscape with a myriad of different features and making it hard for teams to collaborate. They now face unprecedented product complexity, and multitudes of product variants. With Aras’ open PLM solution, engineering teams are able to connect processes and teams. “With NTT DATA’s expertise in the automotive and manufacturing industries, Aras is gaining

In the era of digitalization, speed is the main competitive advantage but getting started with IoT is a challenge. MindSphere is the cloud-based, open IoT operating system from Siemens that lets you understand your data by quickly and securely connecting your products, plants, systems and machines to the digital world. By unlocking the wealth of data from every machine and system in your business, MindSphere transforms this data into productive business results using powerful industrial applications with advanced analytics.  MindSphere is a secure and scalable industrial end-to-end solution from asset connectivity to actionable business insights utilized to increase productivity and efficiency across your entire business. To download the whitepaper, visit: https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/topic/mindsphere-whitepaper/28842 To view the original press release, please click here. Search for MindSphere on CIMdata.com

Mercury Marine is known for its marine propulsion technology, but the company also has its own PLM consulting business inside its global headquarters in Fond Du Lac, Wis. Mercury Digital Services provides its clients, including Mercury Marine, technical services and solutions to manage customer product data throughout its lifecycle and drive business outcomes for companies during the product development phase.  The company recently expanded its offerings to better serve its core customers and grow the business. “At Mercury Digital Services, our core competency will remain in the PLM space, with an added focus on scaling to downstream functions,” said Lateef Khan, Mercury Marine general manager of digital services. “We will bring key manufacturing and field data to engineering in a closed loop fashion by leveraging the IIoT and IoT technologies.  Additionally, we plan to scale our offerings to include Digital Manufacturing and elements of Model Based Enterprise, providing greater opportunities

Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, launched the 3DEXPERIENCE on WHEELS 2018 campaign in Pune. The 3DEXPERIENCE on WHEELS is a nationwide campaign to connect small and medium enterprises and industrial hubs in tier II cities showcasing the3DEXPERIENCE platform. Samson Khaou, Managing Director, Dassault Systèmes India said, “The start-up and SME sector is a goldmine for growth in India. We are committed to collaborating with start-ups and SMEs at every step to boost innovation and sustainable product development. Cloud is a great enabler in this process and with the 3DEXPERIENCE platform we will continue to create opportunities for entrepreneurs to build better products and catalyse innovation in manufacturing. We plan to work closely with the Governments’ mission of sustainable innovation in electric vehicles… With3DEXPERIENCE on WHEELS we take a step forward in our strategy to create new reach and new markets for the adoption of the3DEXPERIENCE platform.” 3DEXPERIENCE on WHEELS 2018 is a mobile lounge

CGTech, the developer of VERICUT CNC simulation, verification and optimization software, is pleased to announce the formation of a direct office in Russia. Headquartered in Moscow, the subsidiary is responsible for marketing, sales, technical support, and reseller support throughout Russia. “CGTech is committed to customer success around the world, as demonstrated by our continued investment in local offices for direct sales and support,” said Jon Prun, President of CGTech. “There is a growing demand for simulation of complex machine tools and CGTech is well positioned to provide manufacturers with the skills and technologies they need to be successful.” The office is located at White Stone Business Park, Floor 5, Office 524, 4-Y Lesnoy Pereulok 4, Moscow, 125047. “This office is a real benefit for our existing Russian customers. It strengthens our position as the worldwide leader in NC simulation, verification, and optimization technologies,” said Prun. To view the original press release,

Winshuttle Holdings, LLC (Winshuttle), a SAP-centric robotic process automation and data management platform provider, announced today that it has been acquired by Symphony Technology Group (STG) based in Palo Alto, CA. STG is a strategic private equity firm with $2 billion in assets under management focused on transforming high-potential companies into definitive market leaders. The firm’s long-term outlook allows its portfolio of software, data and analytics companies to develop innovative product offerings that will appeal to high-growth markets. “This is an exciting step for Winshuttle that will allow us to leverage the tremendous expertise of STG to accelerate and scale our offering in the application data management space,” said John Pierson, CEO of Winshuttle. “This partnership will allow us to deepen and broaden the value we deliver to our very satisfied customer base comprised of many of the world’s largest brands.” Winshuttle is a leading provider of data automation and

Announced on the Google Blog: “Today, Google is excited to announce that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Israel-based Velostrata, a leader in enterprise cloud migration technology. As more and more enterprises move to the cloud, many need a simple way to migrate from on-premises and adopt the cloud at their own pace. This helps them take advantage of what the cloud has to offer—speed, scalability, and access to technologies like advanced data analytics and machine learning. With Velostrata, Google Cloud customers obtain two important benefits: they’ll be able to adapt their workloads on-the-fly for cloud execution, and they can decouple their compute from storage without performance degradation. This means they can easily and quickly migrate virtual machine-based workloads like large databases, enterprise applications, DevOps, and large batch processing to and from the cloud. On top of that, customers can control and automate where their data lives at

Nutanix today announced at its .NEXT Conference 2018 Nutanix Era, a new set of enterprise cloud platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings to streamline and automate database operations so database administrators (DBAs) can focus on business-driving initiatives. Era extends the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS software stack beyond core infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) capabilities for private cloud environments to platform-layer services that bring Nutanix one-click simplicity to database operations. The initial release of Nutanix Era will provide rich copy data management services to address the increasing complexity and burdensome cost of managing multiple copies of databases across organizations. With Era, Nutanix is targeting one of the most prodigious consumers of enterprise storage capacity. Nutanix Era will allow enterprises to reduce storage costs, simplify the management, control and security of data, while easing the complexity of database lifecycle operations. Nutanix Era’s copy data management service will initially support Oracle and Postgres database engines, with planned support for other