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eQuorum Corporation announces major new features in Version 9.3 of ImageSite, its flagship, comprehensive, yet affordable Document Management Solution (DMS)/”Lite” Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) for manufacturers, architects and engineers, utilities, universities and government. Version 9.3 is available to customers starting February 29th, 2016, and provides the user with a modern, clean, and intuitive front-end which supports many new features and enhancements. As workflow management becomes more and more important, eQuorum has updated its Workflow functionality with an all new, fast, and friendly user interface. Each workflow step/action displays clear and concise instructions, timing, and appropriate notifications. Step approvals, delegations and escalations can all be done with a single click. Scott Brandt, CEO of eQuorum, remarked, “This is really cutting edge stuff, I don’t believe anyone else has HTML5 viewers with mobile access that can employ the device’s camera. The days of carrying drawings into the field or onto the production floor are

EMC Corporation  today announced a quantum leap forward in its enterprise storage strategy with major additions to the industry's leading all-flash storage solutions to address mixed, consolidated and the world's most performance-intensive enterprise workloads. Complementing the industry-leading XtremIO all-flash array, today's announcement of EMC's flagship VMAX® All Flash® enterprise data services platform and EMC® DSSD™ D5™ Rack-Scale Flash solution (see related news releases linked above) underscores EMC's commitment to all-flash arrays for primary storage. EMC's flash portfolio is designed to address virtually any enterprise data center use case, enabling the Modern Data Center. By 2020, EMC estimates that all storage used for production applications will be flash-based; traditional disk will primarily be used for bulk and archive storage only. EMC's all-flash portfolio is purpose-built to address virtually any enterprise data center use case: XtremIO® all-flash arrays for accelerating and consolidating mixed block storage workloads such as databases, analytics, server virtual machines, and

Accenture today announced the launch of the Accenture Cyber Intelligence Platform, a new addition to Accenture’s Managed Security offerings. The Accenture Cyber Intelligence Platform marries advances in chip processor technology with a proprietary combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning and streaming analytics to help organizations identify never before seen, network-born cyber threats in near real-time. The platform examines network flows and DNS data streamed from existing network components to learn, determine and report ranked suspicious behaviors attributable to malicious cyber-attack techniques. The Accenture Cyber Intelligence Platform is the first to harness Accenture’s quick-to-deploy, scalable technologies and new high performance big data-processing power, giving organizations an unprecedented level of flexibility. Underpinned by Accenture’s as-a-Service capabilities and the Accenture Cloud Platform, it can typically be implemented within one week. Once enabled, the Accenture Cyber Intelligence Platform automatically begins to learn “what’s normal” and then continuously improves. Organizations can easily scale the service

Modelon, the premier provider of Modelica Tools and Libraries for Model Based Systems Design, is pleased to announce that intrinSIM has signed a definitive agreement to add Modelica and Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) toolkits to its portfolio of Embeddable Technologies for Engineering Applications and further add the Modelica Libraries to its distribution portfolio.  intrinSIM is a premier source of embeddable and redistributable technologies for engineering applications and represents a broad portfolio of leading edge tools suitable for commercial or in-house engineering software applications through a unique technology broker model.  intrinSIM will partner with Modelon on business development and licensing of the Modelon Toolkits & Modelon Libraries on a worldwide basis. “Model-Based Systems Design and Simulation is a key technology as products become more and more complex”, says Joe Walsh, founder of intrinSIM.  “We are very happy to work with Modelon in bringing their industry standard Modelica Libraries and Toolkits to a

A long-established Newbury-based engineering subcontractor has invested in a DMC machining centre and Edgecam software in order to win long-term new business from a food company. Engineering Solutions & Supply Ltd were asked to manufacture complete kits of tooling to ensure that glass jars were in the right position at the right time on a conveyor system, to be filled with food products. It included feed scrolls and the associated base plates, base clamps, star heels and centre guides. The company serves a wide range of businesses; from local industry to the European Space Agency. Workshop Manager Neil Hutt says: “We make parts for agricultural equipment at one end of the scale, while at the other, one of our sensor assemblies is on its way to Mars.”   However, as their existing CNC machinery at the time was not able to produce what was required for the complex feed scrolls, they decided to

Aras, a leader in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, and Aras partner Elysium, a global provider of data translation software, today announced the Elysium xPDM for Aras connector solution, an integration for data exchange between Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform and the Aras Innovator PLM platform. Businesses are increasingly choosing to combine new platforms with existing systems to manage product information across the lifecycle and the extended enterprise. Design data from CAD must be connected with engineering business processes across product development, manufacturing, quality, suppliers and field service. Many manufacturers companies are selecting the best suited CAD, PDM and PLM platforms for each purpose and connecting them. “The new connector solution from Elysium fits perfectly with our PLM platform strategy to address the ‘no file’ world of CAD systems like CATIA V6 by providing global companies with a seamless way to integrate to the 3DEXPERIENCE environment,” said Doug Macdonald, Product Marketing Director

Dell Inc. and EMC Corp. today announced that the European Commission (EC) has granted unconditional clearance to the companies’ proposed combination. The EC announced the clearance on Feb. 29, 2016. The transaction remains subject to approval by EMC’s shareholders, regulatory clearance in certain other jurisdictions and other customary closing conditions. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Dell on CIMdata.com Search for EMC on CIMdata.com

Autodesk, Inc. media and entertainment software played a role in the making of many of 2015’s most distinguished television shows and movies. The company also received awards from The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award (Sci-Tech Award) for Shotgun RV and from The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences with a Technical Emmy for Autodesk MotionBuilder. “Film and television artistry is at an all-time high, and we’re proud that our technology continues to play a part in top Oscar-nominated features,” said Autodesk Senior Vice President Chris Bradshaw. “To top off our 21 year record, receiving both a Sci-Tech Award and Technical Emmy has made this one of the most memorable awards seasons yet.” In the Best Visual Effects category of the Academy Awards, all five nominees —“Ex Machina,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “The Martian,” “The Revenant” and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” —

Autodesk, Inc. today reported financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year ended January 31, 2016. Fourth Quarter Fiscal 2016 Total subscriptions increased by approximately 109,000 from the third quarter of fiscal 2016 to 2.58 million at the end of the fourth quarter. New model subscriptions (Desktop, enterprise flexible license, and cloud subscription) increased by approximately 62,000 from the third quarter of fiscal 2016 to 427,000. Total annualized recurring revenue (ARR) was $1.38 billion, an increase of 10 percent compared to the fourth quarter last year as reported and 12 percent on a constant currency basis. New model ARR was $255 million and increased 68 percent compared to the fourth quarter last year as reported, and 74 percent on a constant currency basis. Deferred revenue increased 31 percent to $1.52 billion, compared to $1.16 billion in the fourth quarter last year. Total billings increased 15 percent compared to the fourth quarter last year as reported and 23 percent on a constant

Synopsys, Inc. today announced the availability of Verification IP (VIP) for the HDMI version 2.0a standard, supporting High Dynamic Range (HDR) static metadata extensions and built-in support for High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) version 2.2. Synopsys VC VIP for HDMI enables system-on-chip (SoC) teams to design next-generation multimedia chips with ease of use, fast integration and optimum performance, resulting in accelerated verification closure. "Consumer electronics companies and content providers are rapidly deploying features enabled by the latest HDMI 2.0a specification, such as HDR video formats and high-bandwidth 4K/UltraHD picture quality," said Rob Tobias, president of HDMI Licensing, LLC. "It's important that our adopters are working to ensure the full 4K/UltraHD experience is delivered to consumers." Synopsys VIP for HDMI supports callbacks for creating real-time audio/video streaming examples, and custom video timing formats for faster simulation times. It also includes built-in HDCP 2.2 content protection, a security requirement for protecting transfer of UHD