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PTC announced that new software licenses for its core solutions and ThingWorx® Industrial Innovation Platform will be available globally only by subscription, effective January 1, 2019, with a few exceptions. PTC previously announced the transition from perpetual licensing to subscription in the Americas and Western Europe effective January 1, 2018. Customers globally will be able to continue to use their existing perpetual licenses and renew support on active perpetual licenses. “Subscription licensing has been positively embraced by customers throughout the phased rollout, with nearly 70 percent of new software bookings sold as subscription in fiscal 2017,” said Jim Heppelmann, president and CEO, PTC. “The ability to license enterprise software by subscription aligns with industry best practices and delivers the value and flexibility customers demand to achieve success in today’s highly competitive landscape.” Customers purchasing subscriptions benefit from PTC’s faster innovation cycles, a shared commitment to success, cloud deployment options, and increased flexibility with lower

NCR Corporation and PTC announced that they have joined forces to create a next generation service offering that spans a store’s entire operation. The new digital connected services enable retailers, financial institutions, and restaurant chains to optimize the total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, as well as their administrative spend. PTC and NCR showcased the new offering at NRF 2018 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, January 14-16. Enterprises have to converge physical and digital channels to provide the continuous engagement and experience that their customers expect. By outsourcing store IT asset management, combined with near real-time transparency and insights, NCR enables retailers, quick service restaurants, and financial institutions to drive consumer centric outcomes. “Having an IoT centric platform that can scale with the complex needs of secured ubiquitous connectivity is key in driving digital connected experiences,” said Venkat Ramamurthy, general manager, Digital Connected

Siemens PLM Software and Launch Forth are joining forces today to empower and educate the future workforce by offering free professional CAD software to a co-creation community of 185,000 innovators that are focused on product development, idea generation and creating solutions for challenges both big and small. As businesses and lines of work trend towards a global gig economy, Siemens and Launch Forth hope to enable and support the future workforce by providing them with the tools and tutorials they need to learn and grow within their career. According to Forbes, 57.3 million people makeup the freelance community in the U.S. alone. “Our members grapple every day with challenging problems in engineering and industrial design. Allowing them the opportunity to gain free access to this Siemens software will only further their ability to pursue transformative solutions that will not just change industries, but change the world,” said Elle Shelley, executive vice president of

SAP today announced that Esri, the global leader in geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial analytics, now supports the SAP HANA platform, a market-leading in-memory data and application development platform, as an enterprise geodatabase. This allows Esri to provide customers with greater insights, improved business decisions and a swifter ability to innovate. Esri and SAP customers will benefit from enhanced performance and scalability as well as full integration of both enterprise and spatial data. The announcement was made at DistribuTECH Conference 2018, taking place Jan. 23–25. Whether on premise or in the cloud, the Esri geodatabase powered by SAP HANA allows spatial data to be integrated and delivered across organizations and accessed from one place for true IT landscape consolidation. It also lowers total cost of ownership (TCO) and administration costs. “The full unification of SAP HANA and Esri is a very big win for our expansive joint customer base,” said Bernd Leukert,

The latest update of Datakit’s CAD data exchange software range is now available. This new version of CrossManager, CrossCad/Plg and CrossCad/Ware adds several improvements to Datakit’s interfaces: These applications can now read new versions of CAD formats: SOLIDWORKS 2018, NX 12 and DWG 2018. CrossManager is now able to convert 3D models to .prc files. This format allows to encapsulate 3D data in a PDF. Thus, CrossManager enables to integrate models coming from most of 3D formats in a PDF. Conversion to PRC is available from more than 20 CAD formats. The Revit format (.rvt files) reading is now available, expanding Datakit’s BIM data conversion offering, begun last year with the IFC format. This new reader enables software vendors to add Revit import capabilities to their own application by using CrossCad/Ware. It also enables end users to convert Revit files to IGES, STEP, 3DPDF and PRC with CrossManager. This new interface is able to read geometrical data along with colors and instances

Infor today announced that sustainable energy innovator Kingspan Environmental has invested in a suite of Infor applications.  Designed to support the goals of Kingspan Environmental, the first phase of the investment is set to go live in late 2018, with 1,200 users across 20 sites globally.  The Infor suite, which includes Infor LN, Infor d/EPM and Infor CX, forms the single largest IT investment made by Kingspan Environmental and replaces a current system that no longer supports the aggressive goals for growth within the Division. Infor LN will help standardize a range of key business processes including quality control and production on the shop floor and tracking goods through manufacturing. Elsewhere, Kingspan Environmental will use Infor applications to improve existing sales and operational planning and demand forecasting capabilities. Following a thorough review of the market, Infor was chosen on the basis of its partnership approach, the established track record of Infor within manufacturing, and

Infor today announced that CE Construction in Nepal has selected Infor LN as part of its modernization project to catalyze business growth. The implementation is expected to go live in July 2018.   As Nepal's leading construction player, CE Construction, whose primary operations is in General Contracting, Hydropower Development and Real Estate, has embarked upon its most significant IT investment to date and will deploy Infor LN to enhance overall productivity within the organization through improved collaboration within and across departments. This will help the construction leader stay ahead in an evolving industry facing demands to become even more efficient, sustainable and innovative.  To drive the company's projected growth, Infor's solutions will provide the scalability and a consumer-friendly user interface to engage the digitally-savvy millennial workforce.  Other solutions CE Construction will deploy include Infor Xi, Infor CRM, Infor d/EPM and Infor EAM. Following a thorough evaluation, Infor was selected for

OpenText™ today announced its 2018 Innovation Tour conference series. This global series of events will be held in nine cities around the world from February to May 2018. OpenText executives, including Mark J. Barrenechea, Vice Chairman, CEO and CTO; and Muhi Majzoub, EVP Engineering, will keynote at the events taking place in Tokyo, Singapore, Sydney, Paris, Munich, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Johannesburg, and London.   "The world is changing at an incredible pace, and the opportunities for businesses to grow, differentiate, and compete through digital technology have never been more dramatic than today," said Mark J. Barrenechea, Vice Chairman, CEO and CTO, OpenText. "At OpenText, we are helping our customers drive strategic transformation by harnessing the power of their information through extreme automation and insight. By combining enterprise information with applications, security, the Business Network, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence, we are defining the future of digital." Attendees at all Innovation Tour events will

SAP today announced new digital badges for the SAP Global Certification program to help SAP software learners and users promote their proficiency in various subject areas specific to SAP software. The new badges will help learners promote their achievement online and offline. They also provide a competitive advantage and trusted validation at no additional cost. Established in 1995, the SAP Global Certification program offers multitiered certification paths for specific subjects. The badges will serve as digital proof of successful completion of these programs for use on websites, social media and SAP Learning Rooms, the social environment of SAP Learning Hub. “We are thrilled to offer certification holders a digital way to showcase their achievements via social media, and to demonstrate to their employers a commitment to continuous learning,” said Bernd Welz, executive vice president and chief knowledge officer, Products and Innovation, SAP. “The badges will also help individuals to showcase

Navigator Business Solutions today announced it is the recipient of an SAP® North America Partner Excellence Award 2018 for SAP Cloud Partner Program. Awards were presented by SAP to the top-performing SAP partners in the North America region that have made outstanding contributions to driving our customers' digital transformation. Recipients of this year's awards have been – in partnership with SAP – helping customers adopt innovation easily, gain results rapidly, grow sustainably and run more simply with SAP solutions. "Navigator is thrilled to receive the SAP® Partner Excellence Award," says Grant Fraser, President/CEO, Navigator Business Solutions. "This award highlights Navigator's continued leadership in delivering SAP Cloud ERP solutions and recognizes the value Navigator delivers to our customers providing a competitive edge to excel in their respective industries." Selected from SAP's wide-ranging partner base, nominations for the SAP Partner Excellence Awards were based on internal SAP sales data. A steering committee composed of regional and global SAP