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Building on its strategy to develop innovations that drive retail transformation for brands, retailers and manufacturers, PLM leader Centric Software announces a new addition to the Centric Visual Innovation Platform (Centric VIP). Visual Studio Boards vitalizes idea creation and sharing for design studios and production teams. Centric VIP, for visual, touch-based devices such as tablets and touchscreen televisions,is fully connected with Centric PLM and is a platform dedicated to mood, material, style, allocation, merchandising, line and sales boards. This innovative platform drives digital transformation and decision-making, significantly reducing time to market and generating major productivity gains for creative and technical teams as well as executives. Visual Studio Boards are a highly collaborative, visual sandbox environment where designers can be creative and play yet also share ideas with other teams. Designers can pull in sketches, images, colors, materials and more from previous collections and desktop files as well as directly from

Siemens PLM Software and the Michigan-based American Center for Mobility (ACM) announced today a new partnership that brings Siemens’ Simulation and Test solution for Automotive to ACM to support virtual and physical testing and validation of automated and connected vehicles. Siemens is already part of similar strategic initiatives in Singapore and the Netherlands, once considered to be early adopters of AV technology, applications and solutions and now leaders in the testing and deployment of autonomous vehicles and infrastructure in real-world environments. Siemens PLM Software is proud to partner with other leading companies in supporting ACM including AT&T, Visteon Corporation, Toyota, Ford and Hyundai America Technical Center Inc., Microsoft, Subaru of America, Inc., and Adient. As ACM’s preferred simulation provider, Siemens PLM Software secures a seat on ACM’s Industry Advisory Board which will help advance its already strong position in autonomous vehicles and automotive overall. Included in the Siemens Simulation and

Oracle announced that it has completed the acquisition of Vocado, which provides a leading student-centric, cloud-based financial aid solution for higher education institutions. Vocado works with thousands of financial aid sources to optimize funding for any type of higher education learning model. The solution helps students identify eligibility and obtain financing so they can achieve their academic goals. Vocado integrates its financial aid solution with both cloud and on-premise Student Information Systems (SIS). Oracle Student Cloud is Oracle’s next-generation, cloud-based SIS designed for all academic models across every stage of the modern student lifecycle. Vocado adds the most advanced financial aid solution with a highly-automated and scalable platform. Together, Oracle and Vocado offer institutions the most complete SaaS solution suite in higher education. “The education industry is undergoing an unprecedented digital transformation,” said Steve Miranda, Executive Vice President of Product Development, Oracle. “Oracle Student Cloud is architected for the modern

Altair has acquired all of the intellectual property assets of California-based CANDI Controls, Inc. and hired CANDI’s experienced software and technology team into Altair’s IoT organization to strengthen and expand the scope of its Carriots™ solution offering. Founded in 2009 with significant start-up capital, CANDI developed a modern platform which supports multiple data protocols for edge gateway computers to communicate with a constellation of IoT devices. CANDI also developed several relationships with important players in the IoT market including Google, Microsoft, and Intel. CANDI’s software is designed to easily connect systems and equipment with cloud-based monitoring and control services to help organizations improve performance, conserve resources, and cut operational costs. Sensor data can be analyzed, visualized, and processed with machine learning and predictive analytics tools to forecast performance and prescribe actions consistent with business objectives.  “Altair’s vision is for digital twin simulation and predictive/prescriptive analytics solutions to run in the

From e-works global: CIMdata China 2018 PLM Market and Industry Forum has been successfully hosted at Marriott Hotel Shanghai Hongqiao. The topic this year is “Industry 4.0—Its Global Impacts & Status”. CIMdata PMIF is a global PLM leadership event in North America, Europe, India, China, and Japan and is exclusively for software and service providers in PLM economy. China is the fourth stop and it is the 7th year that CIMdata and e-works co-hosted the China event. Mr. Peter Bilello, CIMdata President and Mr. Stan Przybylinski, CIMdata Vice President gave lectures and shared global PLM market trends and insights with participants. Dr. Pei Huang, e-works CEO translated through the event. Peter and Stan analyzed the current global economic climate and trends as well as examined their effects on the PLM economy. They also released CIMdata’s 2017global PLM market analysis results—including extensive analyses and forecasts regarding market growth across PLM domains,

Announced on the Red Hat blog: “To help make it easier to build Kubernetes applications, Red Hat and the Kubernetes open source community today share the Operator Framework -- an open source toolkit designed to manage Kubernetes native applications, called Operators, in a more effective, automated, and scalable way…” “We believe that the new Operator Framework represents the next big step for Kubernetes by using a baseline of leading practices to help lower the application development barrier on Kubernetes. The project delivers a software development kit (SDK) and the ability to manage app installs and updates by using the lifecycle management mechanism, while enabling administrators to exercise operator capabilities on any Kubernetes cluster…” To read the full announcement, please click here. Search for Kubernetes on CIMdata.com Search for Red Hat on CIMdata.com

Tasktop today announced that during the record-setting first half of fiscal year (FY) 2018 – covering the reporting period Oct. 1, 2017 to March 31, 2018 – the company doubled its year-on-year subscription revenue vs. the same period of the prior fiscal year. New customer brands from its direct business increased by 60 percent compared to last year’s FY, while revenue from partners remained strong as well. Tasktop’s strong revenue growth has been driven by a market that increasingly understands the value of Value Stream Integration.  According to Neelan Choksi, Tasktop president and COO, “We've had an incredibly strong start to our year, which reflects the growing demand for value stream management solutions. More and more organizations are realizing that Agile and DevOps aren't enough to provide the visibility CIOs need to align the software they're delivering with critical business needs. For organizations seeking to transform their development environments into

Siemens PLM Software announced today the appointment of Brenda Discher in a new position for the company, senior vice president for Strategy and Marketing. Reporting directly to CEO Tony Hemmelgarn, this position will be responsible for transforming the Siemens PLM Software and Mentor marketing and strategy functions into a combined organization that will play a significant role in the growth of the company going forward.  "We’ve been quite successful in partnering with mid- to large-size companies to help them realize their innovation goals through the application of our software,” said Tony Hemmelgarn, CEO of Siemens PLM Software. “Brenda’s background and experience add an important component to our team, which can help increase our focus in helping small and mid-size companies leverage our software to transform their business as well.” Most recently, Discher served as vice president of Global Customer Service/Support for Autodesk. In this role, she was responsible for transforming

SAP today announced the opening of 11 campus-located SAP Next-Gen Chapters, which will join SAP customers with universities across North America to spur innovation. These campus outposts will collaborate with more than 500 educational institutions in the SAP Next-Gen program network in North America. The chapters aim to share best practices for educating graduates with SAP skills, while inspiring industries to work with students and researchers to accelerate innovation and insights into the digital future. Additional chapters across the globe are planned to open in 2018. “Today’s digital disrupters are tapping into the mind-set of academic thought leaders and researchers, students, and startups, and linking innovation to a higher purpose,” said Ann Rosenberg, senior vice president and global head of SAP Next-Gen, SAP. “The SAP Next-Gen Chapters will enable our long-established SAP University Alliances member schools to accelerate the education of next-generation leaders using the latest SAP technologies. SAP customers

SAP today announced the five-year anniversary of the openSAP platform, an online learning platform that has trained more than 630,000 individuals from over 200 countries. One of the first providers of massive open online courses (MOOCs), openSAP originally offered just three courses. Today it has grown to offer more than 140 courses, available free of charge, and has spurred over 2.5 million course enrollments. Hosted and run by the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI), openSAP was recently recognized as one of the top 100 brands for digital transformation based on industry research from Onalytica. “Five years ago, I envisioned SAP sharing knowledge freely through interactive social media systems. With the collaboration between SAP and HPI, we have realized this and reached 630,000 people globally,” said Professor Hasso Plattner, chairman of the Supervisory Board of SAP SE. “We originally adopted MOOCs, currently counting 200,000 learners with 500,000 enrollments on the openHPI platform at Hasso Plattner Institute for