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Centric Software® is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, DANIELS, a premium German fashion retailer. Centric Software delivers innovative, integrated, end-to-end AI-powered enterprise solutions to take products from concept to commercialization. Fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail teams can plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, assort, sell and replenish products to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. Founded in 1967 and headquartered in Bornheim, Germany, DANIELS is a retailer of high-quality men’s and women’s apparel. The company offers over 200 brands plus its own private-label products. Renowned for exceptional customer service, DANIELS operates stores across Germany and has expanded its reach with an e-commerce site serving consumers throughout Europe. Recently, DANIELS was struggling to manage its vast product range. Manual product information updates were time-consuming and error prone. With two collections per year, each containing about 3,200 color variants, the company generates massive volumes of product
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IFS, the leading provider of Industrial AI software, announced a five-year extension of its partnership with Morgan Motor Company, the world’s pre-eminent coachbuilder of lightweight British sports cars. The renewed partnership enables both companies to jointly innovate, ensuring they remain at the forefront of their respective fields. Morgan benefits from IFS’s deep technological and industry expertise, and the partnership ensures that IFS stays ahead of industry shifts, with Morgan’s real-world experience directly shaping and influencing the IFS automotive and manufacturing roadmap. For more than a decade, Morgan has consistently been an early adopter of new IFS Cloud capabilities, using the platform to connect and optimize core operations across finance, procurement, supply chain, production, sales and delivery. Updating to the latest version of IFS Cloud platform, underpinned by IFS.ai, marks the next stage of this evolution. The new Industrial AI capabilities will enhance supply chain resilience, improve procurement efficiency and strengthen essential
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Centric Software® is pleased to announce that renowned beauty brand SHEGLAM has selected Centric PXM™, originally Contentserv, to enhance brand operational capabilities and inject sustained momentum into brand growth. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and related goods like cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. SHEGLAM has disrupted the global beauty industry since 2019, becoming one of the fastest-growing color cosmetics brands worldwide. Driven by a philosophy of listening to consumers and iterating rapidly based on their feedback, the brand delivers trend-forward products that resonate powerfully with Gen Z globally. This approach has fuelled explosive growth with 3x year-over-year sales increases in international markets, over 100 million units sold in 2023 and expansion across 150+ countries online. The brand’s remarkable
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Centric Software® is pleased to announce that SKECHERS China is advancing its digital transformation with Centric PLM™, now powering product development and operational excellence across more than 3,000 athletic and fashion lifestyle styles annually. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home and related goods like cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals. SKECHERS China, the regional division of the global footwear brand, has established itself as a dominant force in the Asian market since entering China in 2007. Operating across mainland China, Southeast Asia and South Korea, covering performance athletic and lifestyle categories. SKECHERS China coordinates this portfolio through innovation processes spanning multiple categories and regions. The company’s rapid market success and expansion into apparel alongside its core footwear operations required centralized
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We are pleased to announce that Roima has entered into an agreement with Sügro A/S to implement Roima’s WMS, LOGIA, as the company’s new warehouse management solution. With this investment, Sügro takes an important step in its transformation from primarily supplying kiosks and cafeterias to also serving businesses within the liberal professions. Sügro is one of Denmark’s most prominent players in the convenience and grocery retail sector, with a turnover of DKK 1.6 billion and a product range of more than 5,000 SKUs. From its distribution centres in Greve and Vejle, the company supplies goods to grocers, kiosks, service stations, cinemas, canteens—and now also to businesses across the country. With LOGIA, Sügro gains a platform that enables more efficient picking processes, supports broken-case picking for smaller customers, and allows consolidation of picks across warehouse areas. The solution supports the handling of short shelf-life products, ensures compliance with the EU TPD tobacco database, and
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Trimble® announced that its cutting-edge positioning technology will supply crucial data used by the navigation and driver assistance systems in the new Lucid Gravity. By integrating Trimble RTX® and ProPoint Go™ technology, Lucid Gravity becomes the first EV to feature a resilient positioning engine in a system that can enable centimeter-level accuracy even in tunnels, parking garages and dense city centers where standard GPS often fails. This collaboration brings a new level of confidence to the road by delivering a solution that fuses satellite data with 6-axis inertial sensors to help create a high level of accuracy. While standard automotive navigation creates a margin of error measured in meters, Trimble technology can narrow this down to a few centimeters and help validate the car's lane and position. "This collaboration marks a major shift in how vehicles perceive the world," said Olivier Casabianca, vice president, advanced positioning at Trimble. "The Lucid Gravity is the first electric
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Atos Group, a global leader of AI-powered digital transformation, announces that it has signed a binding agreement for the sale of its South American operations to the Brazilian company Semantix. The perimeter sold currently employs circa 2,800 professionals across Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Uruguay and Peru. This divestment is part of the ‘Genesis’ transformation plan, aimed at returning Atos Group to sustainable growth and improved profitability by re-focusing on core geographies and assets such as AI, cloud-enabled, secure solutions and services. The acquisition, once completed, would expand Semantix’s portfolio and create one of South America’s largest AI & Data Enterprise services and technology provider. Founded in Brazil in 2010, Semantix began its journey with a lean team and a clear belief in the transformative power of data. The transaction would add scale, broaden Semantix’s geographic coverage and technology ecosystem by expanding its services portfolio, alongside the integration of Atos recognized operational
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Mastercam, the world’s leading CAD/CAM software provider and part of the Sandvik Group, announced the completion of a strategic acquisition to strengthen its market presence across Sweden and Norway. The company has acquired Advanced Mechanical Engineering AB (AME) in Sweden, a longtime channel partner with decades of CAD/CAM industry expertise. This acquisition integrates the extensive regional knowledge and customer relationships of the trusted channel partner directly into Mastercam’s operations, enhancing customer support and service delivery across these key markets. Expanding Market Reach with Experienced PartnersAdvanced Mechanical Engineering AB (AME) has served as a trusted Mastercam Channel Partner in Sweden and Norway for over 30 years, delivering comprehensive CAD/CAM solutions and technical support to Swedish and Norwegian manufacturers. Following the acquisition, AME will be known as Mastercam Sverige, reinforcing Mastercam’s commitment to localized support and service.  “This integration is about more than growth–it is about strengthening our connection to manufacturers across EMEA,” said Stuart
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TECHNIA, the leading knowledge partner in virtual twin solutions and digital engineering, announced the acquisition of the Dassault Systèmes business from encad consulting GmbH. This strategic acquisition strengthens TECHNIA's customer base across the Euro-Central region. As a global partner of Dassault Systèmes with extensive expertise in 3DEXPERIENCE, ENOVIA, CATIA, SIMULIA, 3DEXCITE, and DELMIA, TECHNIA is committed to delivering comprehensive software solutions, professional services, training, and technical support while enhancing its local presence to serve both new and existing customers throughout Euro-Central. “At TECHNIA, we have an exceptional team ready and eager to support our new customers. By providing comprehensive consultancy and services across the full Dassault Systèmes software portfolio, we aim to deliver even greater value to customers in Germany and across the wider region.”Magnus Falkman Chief Executive Officer | TECHNIA “We are excited to support our new customers as they continue their innovation journeys. Our German team, together with the wider TECHNIA organization, is ideally
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Altium, a global leader in electronics design systems, announced the appointment of Don Cantow as General Manager of Altium, effective January 1, 2026. In his role as General Manager, Mr. Cantow will be central to accelerating Altium’s adoption as an industry platform, while safeguarding its openness and accessibility across the global electronics ecosystem, spanning semiconductor companies and the broader EDA and ECAD community. Following the acquisition of Altium by Renesas Electronics Corporation (“Renesas”, TSE: 6723) in 2024, the company has been advancing a bold strategy to accelerate the digitalization of the electronics industry. Altium has evolved into a platform-first business, extending its electronic design software, Altium Designer, and its cloud-based collaboration platform, Altium 365, with electronics system design and lifecycle management capabilities to support the development of software-defined products. Altium remains a wholly owned subsidiary of Renesas and will continue to operate under its existing legal entity. Mr. Cantow will report to Aram Mirkazemi, Senior
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