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Uniphore, the Business AI Company, and LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world's largest enterprises, announced a strategic partnership focused on the joint development of industry- and domain-specific AI solutions that combine small language models (SLMs), AI agents, and deep domain expertise. As AI adoption matures, enterprises are shifting to smaller, purpose‑built models and agents for greater precision and control. The partnership brings this approach to core business processes with governance, security, and compliance by design. Uniphore’s Business AI Cloud will power LTM’s BlueVerse™ ecosystem and global delivery, unifying enterprise data, models, and AI agents on a secure, sovereign platform. LTM will drive industry expertise, client implementation, and AI‑led transformation, while Uniphore provides the foundation for building and fine‑tuning domain‑specific SLMs. The partnership will initially focus on banking, financial services, and insurance (BFSI), manufacturing, and media and entertainment, co-developing solutions to support workflows such as financial planning and analysis (FP&A), contract

SAP SE announced it has completed the acquisition of Reltio, a leading master data management (MDM) software provider. The acquisition helps customers make their SAP and non-SAP enterprise data AI-ready and will provide customers with the tools they need to unify, cleanse and harmonize data across sources for superior enterprise-wide agentic AI. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for SAP SE on CIMdata.com

Renesas Electronics Corporation, a premier supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, announced that a subsidiary of Renesas has completed the acquisition of Irida Labs, a Greece-based company specializing in embedded software for AI-powered visual perception systems. The acquisition strengthens Renesas’ edge AI embedded processing offerings, a key secular growth area for Renesas. It also enables system-level solutions that integrate physical AI and software to power camera and machine vision systems across industrial, robotics, smart city, IoT, agricultural and healthcare markets. As part of Renesas’ Digitalization strategy, Irida Labs’ software and tools will be integrated into Renesas 365, a newly released platform that unifies electronics system development from discovery to development and lifecycle management.  While the demand for intelligent systems at the edge continues to soar across industries, developers must often overcome growing complexity of AI system development. This includes the integration of power-constraint embedded processors and software, training and deploying AI models and addressing latency and security risks associated with data transmission. Vision AI software plays a critical role in interpreting and processing visual data from cameras and sensors widely used in industrial inspection, robotics guidance, in-cabin automotive sensing, traffic and infrastructure monitoring, smart retail analytics and safety and security systems. The addition of Irida Labs into Renesas’ product portfolio addresses these emerging

Siemens continues to be at the forefront of technological innovation, today announcing the next evolution of its Gridscale X platform at the Grid Software Summit in Amsterdam. Gridscale X provides the digital foundation for utilities to manage their grids at greater speed, and complexity at scale. Siemens also unveiled the next generation of PSS E on Gridscale X, introducing advanced AI‑powered, agentic capabilities to the transmission planning software. As utilities face rising demand and growing system complexity, both transmission planning and grid operations are being pushed beyond the limits of traditional approaches. Electrification, data centers, and AI‑driven industries are scaling faster than anticipated, while renewables are injecting volatility that traditional grids cannot absorb. Meeting these challenges requires true system operations. A unified grid model and digital twin enables system‑wide visibility to actively manage flexibility, reduce operational risks and operate grids closer to their technical limits with confidence – laying the foundation for autonomous, resilient grids. “Gridscale X is the integral digital backbone that bridges

ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention, and Accenture announced a forward deployed engineering (FDE) program to help enterprises take agentic AI from enterprise pilot to production at scale. Through the program, ServiceNow’s AI-native FDE team works together with industry-led Accenture FDEs inside mutual customers’ environments, collaborating to build agentic AI workflows natively on the ServiceNow AI Platform where enterprise work already runs, delivering value in production before enterprise rollout begins. “Forward deployed engineering is how ServiceNow and Accenture turn mutual customers’ agentic AI business goals into value-generating production workloads,” said John Aisien, senior vice president and general manager, Central Product Management, Security & Risk at ServiceNow. “We're not simply handing over instructions. Our teams are in the customers’ environments, implementing ServiceNow, customer & third-party building blocks, and demonstrating the resulting value metrics in the ServiceNow AI Control Tower.” “The question our clients ask is not whether to invest in AI—it’s how

Jama Software, the leader in intelligent engineering management, announced today that Jama Connect® is the first engineering management software to deliver a Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. Engineers across disciplines can now work in their chosen AI-enabled environment (e.g. Claude, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Visual Studio, etc.) and maximize Large Language Model (LLM) inference quality and token efficiency while maintaining AI governance and industry standards compliance with Jama Connect’s Traceability Information Model.  Unlike custom-built integrations, Jama Connect MCP provides a breadth of tools, enforces existing permissions, lifecycle workflows, and audit requirements; thereby ensuring that AI governance and regulatory compliance is maintained.   Engineering organizations for regulated multidisciplinary products are rapidly adopting AI-Driven Development to achieve 10X gains in product velocity. But AI-Driven Development requires reconfiguring the product development process and retooling to fully lever AI engineering agent speed into product velocity gains. Only Jama Connect addresses the key challenges for engineering organizations to achieve the desired product velocity gains from AI-Driven Development:  Spec Driven Development – Engineers and AI engineering agents via MCP must be able to iterate and version in a shared context for specifications and context engineering.  LLM inference quality

Trimble Inc. announced financial results for the first quarter of 2026. First Quarter 2026 Financial Highlights Revenue of $939.9 million, up 12 percent on a year-over-year basis, up 12 percent on an organic basis Annualized recurring revenue ("ARR") was $2.43 billion, up 12 percent year-over-year, up 12 percent on an organic basis GAAP operating income was $144.0 million, 15.3 percent of revenue, and non-GAAP operating income was $243.2 million, 25.9 percent of revenue GAAP net income was $98.9 million and non-GAAP net income was $186.9 million Diluted earnings per share ("EPS") was $0.42 on a GAAP basis and $0.79 on a non-GAAP basis Adjusted EBITDA was $257.7 million, 27.4 percent of revenue During the first quarter, Trimble repurchased approximately 4.7 million shares for $316.9 million Executive Quote "We began the year with strong momentum, delivering record annualized recurring revenue of $2.435 billion in the first quarter, and surpassing expectations on both top and bottom lines," said Rob Painter, president and CEO

Stratasys Ltd., a leader in polymer 3D printing solutions, announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026. “Our first quarter results reflect the resilience of our operating model in a measured spending environment, demonstrated by positive adjusted EBITDA and operating cash flow," said Dr. Yoav Zeif, CEO of Stratasys. "Recurring revenue from consumables and customer support continued to provide stability, while Stratasys Direct delivered strong 23% organic growth year-over-year across a diverse range of industrial applications, led by drone customers. As we look forward, our current pipeline in high requirement applications, especially in defense, continues to build as we gain confidence in our ability to win prominent contracts in 2026 and beyond.” Summary - First Quarter 2026 Financial Results Compared to First Quarter 2025: Revenue of $132.7 million compared to $136.0 million. GAAP gross margin of 41.7%, compared to 44.3%. Non-GAAP gross margin of 46.3%, compared to 48.3%. GAAP operating loss of

PTC reported financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2026. "PTC delivered solid financial results in Q2'26. Our go-to-market transformation continues to gain traction and our Intelligent Product Lifecycle vision is resonating with customers. The execution and momentum we've established over the past several quarters give us confidence that we are building a more durable, multi-year growth engine," said Neil Barua, President and CEO, PTC. "Customer interest in AI is growing, and our discussions reinforce how AI is driving momentum in PTC's business. Customers are modernizing their product data foundations with PTC's systems of record to apply AI. PTC is also establishing AI as a new intelligence layer over our systems to enable enterprise transformation," concluded Barua. "We are pleased to report our first quarter as a more focused company, aligned to accelerate our Intelligent Product Lifecycle vision. Our solid financial results in Q2 demonstrate the discipline and consistency we

Materialise NV, a global leader in 3D-printed medical devices and software, and a pioneer in additive manufacturing software and services, announced its financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2026. Additionally, Materialise announced the transfer of its eyewear business to the eyewear management team. Highlights — first quarter 2026 Total revenue was stable at 66,276 kEUR for the first quarter of 2026 compared to 66,379 kEUR for the corresponding 2025 period. Gross profit as a percentage of revenue for the first quarter of 2026 increased to 57.2%, compared to 55.3% for the corresponding 2025 period. Adjusted EBIT increased to 2,470 kEUR for the first quarter of 2026 from 646 kEUR for the first quarter of 2025. Net result for the first quarter of 2026 was 1,820 kEUR, or 0.03 EUR per diluted share, compared to a net loss of (535) kEUR, or (0.01) EUR per diluted share, for the corresponding 2025 period. Driven by recurring positive free cash flow,