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As the pace of business accelerates, the rules of supply chain management are changing – increased buyer expectations, shorter product life cycles, new regulations, and fluctuating demand are testing the limits of the traditional supply chain model. At Modern Supply Chain Experience, attendees will learn how to meet these challenges head-on and take the next step in business transformation. Join Oracle in San Jose and take home supply chain strategies that will help get better products to market faster; improve efficiencies and productivity, and streamline processes and communications for success. Please click here for more information, including registration. Search for Oracle on CIMdata.com

SAP SE CEO Bill McDermott today announced a series of planned investments for SAP's operations in France over the next five years to accelerate the company's digital strategy and support France's growing position as a hub of innovation. The move includes: Opening the second SAP.iO Foundry location in Europe to provide more than 50 startups with mentorship, technology and access to the vibrant SAP ecosystem Investment by SAP.iO Fund in French startups in the seed or Series A round Spend by SAP of €150 million in research and development annually over the next five years Acquisition of Recast.AI to accelerate development of SAP® Leonardo Machine Learning capabilities Signaling its continued support for France, SAP estimates a more than €2 billion spend over five years, intended to accelerate the company's fast growth in the cloud and advance a technology community focused on machine learning (ML), blockchain, the Internet of Things (IoT) and software as a service (SaaS). The step reflects SAP's global strategy – fueled by the SAP Leonardo digital innovation system

RegScan™, Inc. today announced that it has joined the SAP® PartnerEdge® open ecosystem. This membership allows RegScan to access resources from SAP with the aim of meeting customer needs for regulatory, audit and compliance content integrated with SAP solutions. RegScan content can be made available within the SAP Environment, Health, and Safety Management (SAP EHS Management) application as part of its compliance scenario functionality. This currently can be done as part of an implementation project. RegScan is collaborating with the SAP development teams with the intent of enabling import of RegScan data within the standard product. "We are excited that RegScan's compliance content will be integrated within the SAP S/4HANA® EHS solution. Our membership in the open ecosystem will better help us meet the needs of many of our global clients," said Gretchen Retteghieri, vice president of Business and Product Development for RegScan. "Additionally, we have been working closely with

Centric Software is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, Klim. Klim makes high-quality, durable, lifesaving products for snowmobilers and motorcyclists, with a mission to enhance the rider’s experience. In the mid-2000s, when Klim entered the motorcycle market, it became impossible to handle an exploding number of SKUs and ever more complex communication with just spreadsheets and email. Klim decided to invest in Centric Software’s PLM solution in 2009, and never looked back. Watch the video and read Klim’s success story to discover how Centric PLM helped build a backbone for dominance of the powersports apparel market, how having ‘one source of one truth’ brought dramatic improvements in efficiency and communication, and how Klim and Centric worked together to develop an innovative field testing solution. To learn more, click here to read the full story. Search for Centric Software on CIMdata.com

IDEMIA today announced the acquisition of Otono Networks and its industry-leading eSIM orchestration technology. Together, IDEMIA and Otono will offer a comprehensive eSIM lifecycle management solution to simplify the adoption of eSIM for both mobile operators (MNOs) and device manufacturers (OEMs). This acquisition marks the first external expansion by the IDEMIA group, formed in 2017 when OT (Oberthur Technologies) and Safran Identity & Security (Morpho) joined forces, and illustrates IDEMIA’s strategic vision facing the future of connected devices. By 2020, connected objects in use worldwide could reach 20.4 billion. Faced with the increasing number of new eSIM devices (smartphones, smartwatches, tablets, PCs, etc.) and IoT applications, MNOs and OEMs must confront several challenges, the most critical of which is navigating the complex architecture required to launch eSIM. New use cases create new challenges of implementation due to the strain on existing infrastructure. Teams must employ complex interfaces, manage different integrations

By Verdi Ogewell, on Engineering.com - Is time running out for “old school” PLM? Is the end at hand for the most common solutions in the world’s companies? Håkan Kårdén thinks so. He is Eurostep Group’s CEO and organizer of the PLM event PDT Europe, and he isn’t alone in his reasoning. “What we’re seeing now,” he said, “is an unprecedented stream of radical changes transforming product development, manufacturing, maintenance and business setup." The new generation of smart, networked products requires matching platforms and technologies to be developed, produced and operated. System development was previously focused on CAD, CAE and PLM/PDM solutions. Now the discussion has moved towards platform thinking and "the lifecycle model-based enterprise," including much-hyped concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Industrial IoT, digital twins and digital threads. To read the full Engineering.com feature, please click here. Search for Peter Bilello on CIMdata.com

Enterprise PDM. A CAD Data Vault across the organization. In most organizations today, Product Lifecycle Management solutions are little more than Enterprise PDM. I've said it, the ugly truth that most PLM veterans are afraid to admit or even mouth the words. Our organizations and their clients, don't deploy most of the capabilities PLM practitioners know can and should be implemented. So how do we bridge the gap between what is and what could be? In a word, knowledge. More specifically it has to be the right knowledge along with the insights that are gained by applying the latest PLM trends and technologies to our organizations and clients. PLM continues to push existing boundaries with continued progress in Industry 4.0, IIoT, Additive Manufacturing, and other key enabling technologies. At the upcoming 2018 CIMdata PLM Market & Industry Forum, you will gain the first-hand knowledge to transform your clients from the current Enterprise

Elysium, a global interoperability solutions provider, launched “Drawing Validator” for Creo® Parametric software from PTC Dec. 19, 2017. “Drawing Validator” has been developed under joint effort with PTC. The product’s value lies within its ability to provide a high-quality validation check. This is made possible by leveraging the semantic information extracted using the API (Application Programming Interface). Utilizing this tool will save users’ time and streamline the communication process between departments. The partnership between Elysium and PTC. will further continue as the “Drawing Validator” technology will be integrated into PTC ThingWorx® Navigate™ app in the upcoming year. With a growing global trend for MBD (Model-based Definition), Elysium’s CAD validation technology is deployed at many globe-spanning enterprises and has contributed to maintain their competitiveness. Beside such trend, many companies still rely on 2D drawings when it comes to ECO (Engineering Change Order) management and communication with the manufacturing sector and suppliers.

Minerva, Aras Certified Gold Partner in enterprise Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software, today announced that Mycronic, a Swedish high-tech company that has been active in the electronics industry for more than 40 years, has selected Aras Innovator® as the successor to ENOVIA SmarTeam for standardizing the management of product data, design and development processes. Key drivers in Mycronic’s selection were speed of implementation, breadth of functionality and cost effectiveness. “Aras provided more functionality at less cost than the other leading PLM systems we evaluated,” explained Britta-Karin Spåls, CIO at Mycronic. “We were able to download, get training and through our organization prove to ourselves that the Aras solution had the flexibility we require. We felt comfortable with the effort required for making changes and the functionality out of the box”, said Britta-Karin Spåls. Mycronic, like many of other companies have started to question product capabilities and the large

Infor today announced the success seen at Ring Container Technologies with Infor EAM, Infor LN and Infor Ming,le. Infor EAM is an enterprise asset management solution that helps improve asset performance, and uses predictive and preventive technologies to help extend asset life and increase efficiency. It is accessible on any mobile device, deployable in the cloud, and built on modern architecture. In addition, Infor LN, a leading ERP system, is helping Ring Container simplify business operations, offering one solution for multiple industry needs. Ring Container has 17 plant locations spread across the U.S., Canada, and England, and, prior to working with Infor, was utilizing 18 databases from a software vendor to keep up with maintenance across all those locations and its headquarters. Ring Container was not happy with the visibility between those databases control over who could set up new maintenance parts, or the tracking of maintenance costs or invoice processing, as