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Siemens announced that the ORECA Group, a major motorsport engineering organization, has selected Siemens’ Simcenter software, part of the Siemens Xcelerator portfolio, to support advanced CFD and composite structural optimization for its high-performance racing vehicle development programs, including Le Mans 24 Hours with Ford Motor Company. To fulfill the ORECA Group’s ambition to expand the use of advanced simulation technologies across highly competitive racing programs, it has replaced its legacy CFD environment with Siemens’ technologies to improve simulation efficiency, enable more advanced multiphysics simulation and strengthen workflow integration across its motorsport engineering teams. “ORECA was looking for a simulation environment that could support accelerated and more streamlined workflows from design through simulation while enabling new types of multiphysics analysis,” said Jean-Philippe Pelaprat, head of aerodynamics, ORECA Group. “Siemens’ simulation software gives our engineering teams the flexibility to run more advanced simulations and optimize composite structures in a highly demanding motorsport environment.” “Our collaboration with

Nemetschek Arabia, part of the Nemetschek Group, one of the world’s leading software providers for the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations industry, has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with KEO Group, a leading multidisciplinary consulting firm. The agreement establishes a framework for collaboration aimed at advancing digital facilities management practices and supporting smarter, more efficient built environments across the Gulf region. As owners, developers and public sector entities across the GCC continue to invest in complex built assets, the ability to connect design, construction and operational data has become increasingly important to improving performance, reducing lifecycle costs and enabling more informed asset management decisions. The agreement brings together Nemetschek Arabia’s expertise in digital technologies with KEO Group’s regional experience in facilities management consultancy, operations advisory and FM data strategies, supported by OPTIMA, KEO Group’s Allied Practice specializing in facilities management solutions. Together, the organizations will explore opportunities to help public and private sector clients

Tech Mahindra, a leading global provider of technology consulting and digital solutions to enterprises across industries, announced a partnership with Perplexity to embed AI-powered intelligence across its sales organization. Through the deployment of Perplexity Enterprise Pro, Tech Mahindra aims to empower its sales teams with faster access to trusted, source-backed insights, enabling them to better understand customer priorities, engage more effectively, and deliver greater business value. As part of the partnership, Tech Mahindra is deploying Perplexity Enterprise Pro across its sales and customer-facing teams to support customer partners and senior sales leaders with real-time access to relevant business, industry, and technology insights. The platform will help teams efficiently research customer priorities, understand industry-specific challenges, identify emerging opportunities, and explore how technology can accelerate digital transformation for customers. Mohit Joshi, CEO & MD, Tech Mahindra, said, “AI is transforming how enterprises engage with customers, make decisions, and create value. By integrating Perplexity Enterprise Pro into

Tech Mahindra, a leading global provider of technology consulting and digital solutions to enterprises across industries, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to showcase an advanced Network Digital Twin solution. The solution is designed to help communications service providers modernize their network operations, improve service performance, and accelerate monetization of next generation 5G capabilities. The solution integrates Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure Digital Twin services to unify high-volume network telemetry into a real-time, AI-ready data estate capable of supporting advanced simulation and predictive modeling. By integrating Microsoft Foundry, Fabric IQ, and agentic AI frameworks, the platform enables intelligent reasoning, autonomous decision-making, and closed-loop orchestration across network operations. The offering is designed for medium and large-scale telecom operators managing complex, multi-vendor network environments and seeking greater operational agility and measurable business outcomes. In addition, the solution will enable telecom providers to accelerate enterprise-focused service monetization by supporting SLA-driven offerings such as network

Siemens and IFS announced a strategic partnership to help manufacturers connect engineering intelligence with operational reality - increasing the value of their products and optimizing their production assets across the entire product lifecycle with industrial AI. The collaboration brings together Siemens' leadership in industrial AI, engineering, automation and manufacturing execution and IFS's strengths in industrial AI, enterprise asset management and field service domains. Together, the two companies aim to help manufacturers close a persistent gap: the disconnect between how factory operations are designed and how they run in reality, where unplanned downtime, disconnected maintenance schedules, siloed production data and supply chain disruption continue to erode throughput, agility, and margin. A shared mission for manufacturers Manufacturers are under growing pressure to do more with their existing assets – produce more on the plant floor, protect margins, and extend the value of equipment across its full lifecycle and react to change with greater agility and

MongoDB, Inc. announced new capabilities at MongoDB.local Bengaluru that address the two reasons enterprise AI projects routinely stall before production: retrieval that isn't accurate enough to trust and infrastructure that can't meet compliance requirements. voyage-context-4, Hybrid Search, and Native Reranking work together to improve retrieval accuracy, with Native Reranking alone improving retrieval quality by up to 30%*. The capabilities are powered by Voyage AI models that outperform Google and Cohere on the public Retrieval Embedding Benchmark leaderboard. Search and Vector Search are now generally available for MongoDB Enterprise Advanced and Community Edition, bringing the same retrieval capabilities Atlas customers rely on to on-premises, private cloud, and local environments where regulated enterprises and startups operate. Together, these capabilities give enterprises and builders a production-ready retrieval stack that is accurate, compliant, and deployable wherever their data lives. “The biggest barrier to enterprise AI in production and at scale isn’t the LLM. It’s memory, retrieval,

OVHcloud, a global cloud player and the European Cloud leader, and LTM, the Business Creativity partner to the world’s largest enterprises, announced a strategic partnership allowing LTM to deploy sovereign AI solutions in Europe. Aimed at enabling organisations to achieve technological sovereignty for critical workloads, the deployment will also accelerate sustainable AI adoption. Through OVHcloud’s open, trusted cloud, extensive presence and AI infrastructure in Europe, LTM will target new markets, further pushing their sovereign AI ambitions in the region. As enterprises across industries require cloud environments that are secure, scalable, open, compliant with regulations and support high-performance computing and data-intensive AI workloads, the OVHcloud–LTM partnership will address these challenges through standardised industry blueprints without compromising sovereignty, innovation or speed. This partnership integrates OVHcloud’s trusted sovereign cloud infrastructure designed for data control, regulatory compliance and sustainability with LTM’s deep industry expertise and AI‑powered transformation capabilities. OVHcloud and LTM will collaboratively focus on highly

Eviden, the Atos Group product brand leading in cybersecurity products, mission-critical systems and vision AI announced the availability of its Key Management System (KMS) integration with Salesforce on Hyperforce and Shield: Platform Encryption. This solution enables enterprises and public sector organizations to encrypt their critical data using completely independent, externally managed encryption keys hosted in Europe. By introducing this “Bring Your Own Sovereign Encryption” (BYOSE) model, Eviden provides users with rigorous, meaningful, external control over their information assets. Consequently, organizations can accelerate process modernization and fully leverage Salesforce’s application innovations and artificial intelligence solutions, while benefiting from the native flexibility, performance, and compliance of the Hyperforce cloud environment. The shared responsibility model at the core of Hyperforce This announcement aligns seamlessly with the shared responsibility model, a foundational principle of cloud security. Under this model, the cloud provider is responsible for the security of the cloud itself and its underlying infrastructure. Meanwhile, customers

Vericut proudly announces the release of Vericut 9.7, the latest version of its industry-leading CNC simulation, verification and optimization software. Vericut 9.7 delivers major performance and precision gains at real speed, thanks to expanded AI-powered assistance, and workflow enhancements designed for the most demanding CNC environments. Built on the industry’s most trusted simulation engine, Vericut 9.7 continues to advance performance forward, without sacrificing accuracy, stability, or machine-level realism. For manufacturers working with larger NC programs, more complex machine configurations and tighter production schedules, Vericut 9.7 has been designed around one clear promise: deliver faster, smarter, and with proven performance. Faster where it matters. Today’s manufacturers face growing program complexity, tighter deadlines, and increasing pressure to do more with less, without compromising quality. Vericut 9.7 introduces major performance enhancements across simulation, verification, and review workflows - helping teams process demanding NC programs faster, while maintaining the confidence that comes from proven machine-level simulation. Real CNC simulation. Real performance. Vericut 9.7 has

The FMI Project is happy to announce the Pre-Release v1.3-beta.1 of the FMI Layered Standard for Network Communication! In this release FMI-LS-BUS: Ethernet and FMI-LS-BUS: LIN are going from Alpha to Beta state. Additionally it contains smaller adoptions for FMI-LS-BUS: FlexRay. Summarized this version includes the common Physical Signal Abstraction, that fits for all bus types, and the Network Abstraction that currently supports CAN, CAN FD, CAN XL (from v1.0.0), FlexRay (from v1.1.0; currently in Beta state), Ethernet (from v1.2.0; now in Beta state) and LIN (from v1.3.0; now in Beta state). Check out our roadmap to get more information about the expansion plans of the FMI-LS-BUS. Many thanks to the whole FMI-LS-BUS working group (with members from Akkodis, Altair, AVL, Beckhoff Automation, Bosch, dSPACE, PMSF IT Consulting Pierre R. Mai, Siemens Digital Industries Software, Synopsys Inc, VECTOR Informatik)! And especially to Benedikt Menne for the release preparation! To view the original press release,