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For the 23rd consecutive year, visual effects artists used software from Autodesk, Inc. to bring many of 2017's most memorable films and TV shows to audiences worldwide, including this year's five nominees for the Best Visual Effects Oscar. Autodesk also celebrated the accomplishments of the Shotgun Software team, whose work was recognized with an Engineering Emmy from the Television Academy, as well as Sr. Software Engineer Hans Rijpkema, who received a Scientific and Technical Achievement Award (Sci-Tech) for his contributions to technology developed during his time at Rhythm & Hues visual effects and animation studio. "Visual storytelling in Oscar-nominated films continues to advance at an impressive rate. We take pride in building tools that help artists bring riveting visuals and narratives to audiences everywhere," said Autodesk Senior Vice President, Amy Bunszel. "Autodesk congratulates all of the 2018 nominees on their exceptional work in contributing to this year's Academy Award-nominated films. We're also incredibly proud

Infosys today inaugurated its flagship Technology and Innovation Hub in Indianapolis. In addition, the company announced that it has hired more than 2,500 American workers over the past year as part of its ongoing commitment to accelerate innovation for American enterprises. The Indianapolis Hub in One America Tower will train, upskill and reskill employees in the technologies required to help businesses accelerate their digital transformations, while also allowing Infosys to work closely with clients to develop cross-functional solutions to pressing business challenges. "What an honor to celebrate Infosys' grand opening in Indiana today," Governor Eric J. Holcomb said. "Not long ago, Infosys announced its plans to grow and create up to 2,000 high-wage jobs for Hoosiers. Today, the company is not just up and running here in Indiana; it's taking off. It's great to welcome a company like Infosys that shares our vision for a 21st century skilled workforce and is committed to increasing opportunity for working adults, students

Arena Solutions today announced that it closed a successful 2017 by surpassing the 1,000-customer mark. Arena provides the most comprehensive approach to new product development (NPD) and new product introduction (NPI) in the market through better visibility and enhanced collaboration, which enables dispersed teams to introduce new products more quickly, with fewer errors. In the fourth quarter of 2017, Arena added 35 percent more new customers than it did for the same period in 2016. Arena also closed more enterprise deals in 2017 than in any prior year. More than one-third of new customers in 2017 were medical device and life sciences companies, a fast-growing segment for cloud-based product realization. New customers signed in Q4 2017 include: Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (Laboratory Products Business): Helps customers accelerate life sciences research, solve complex analytical challenges, improve patient diagnostics, deliver medicines to market, and increase laboratory productivity. IMRIS: Offers the most advanced hybrid surgical

Findings suggest that it is extremely difficult for industrial users to move PLM beyond traditional Product Data Management topics. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 6 March 2018-CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces the completion of its research in to the current status and trends related to the product lifecycle management (PLM) economy. The goal of the research was to deepen the PLM community's collective understanding of the status, drivers, and preconditions necessary for companies to derive value from their investment in PLM. A web-based survey was developed to identify the key issues. Significant findings show that: Industrial companies continue to struggle to move their PLM implementations beyond traditional product data management (PDM) topics, such as engineering data management, engineering change and change management, configuration management, and workflow management. The value and importance of PLM is still primarily being seen by the engineering function. The pursuit of future topics, such as AI

SAP SE today announced a new consumption-based commercial model for customers to easily acquire and engage SAP Cloud Platform, the company’s platform as a service (PaaS). Additional updates include the next-generation SAP Cloud Platform SDK for iOS, which allows customers to easily extend enterprise apps and processes to mobile devices. The announcement was made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, being held February 26–March 1. SAP Cloud Platform is the foundation of SAP Leonardo, SAP’s digital innovation system. Together they enable rapid innovation and empower customers to become “intelligent enterprises,” ready for the 21st century. “The new consumption-based commercial model for SAP Cloud Platform makes it even easier for our customers and partners to build and extend innovative solutions utilizing our increasing portfolio of platform and business services,” said Björn Goerke, SAP Cloud Platform president and chief technology officer. “Innovations in mobile delivery with consumer-grade experiences via our new SAP Cloud Platform SDK

The renowned Application Center for Industry 4.0 at the University of Potsdam has evaluated and selected the leading solutions in its "Factory Software of the Year" competition. The finalists presented their software in mid-February at the Factory Software Congress 2018 in Frankfurt. The winners in the various categories were CONTACT Software (Internet of Things), CSB System (complete ERP solution), Jungheinrich (logistics), software4production (Industry 4.0) and ZF Friedrichshafen (process excellence). CONTACT Software convinced the jury of consultants, scientists and media with its clear commitment to open source components and the innovative life cycle approach of its open Elements for IoT platform. Their coordinated software building blocks help the industry to develop smart products for the Internet of Things and to implement new value-added services such as predictive maintenance. The jury evaluated the presented solutions according to differently weighted criteria. The concrete customer benefit of 23 percent was decisive, followed by adherence

Infor today announced that international brewing leader Heineken International has selected Infor Advanced Scheduling for a global standardization program that will see the application rolled out to its breweries in 20 countries.  Infor Advanced Scheduling is expected to play a key role in helping to harmonize and standardize approximately 90% of the operations in these breweries, helping Heineken to optimize capacity across this network, reduce production complexity and improve purchasing power. The project is the latest phase of a relationship between Infor and Heineken that spans more than 20 years.  Following a pilot in two breweries in Italy, Heineken now has a template to implement throughout operating companies across the globe. Based on this template, and previous experience, Heineken expects to decrease levels of inventory of materials such as glass bottles by up to 40%, whilst improving capacity by up to 10% and helping enhance the consistency of workload scheduling in the

Infor today announced that the company has reached a significant milestone in providing its U.S. federal government customers increased confidence in the security of Infor's products and cloud solutions. Infor Government Software as a Service (SaaS) (IGS) featuring Infor Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) has reached "FedRAMP Prioritization" status by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and has formally begun the process for achieving a Provisional Authorization to Proceed (P-ATO).  IGS-EAM is a cloud-based, award winning, configurable enterprise-grade asset management solution that runs within Infor's Common Controls Environment that includes the Xi platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS) GovCloud FedRAMP infrastructure. Users have the power to improve asset and maintenance management for a diverse range of items, from simple to highly complex, in ways that help increase reliability, enhance predictive maintenance, ensure regulatory compliance, reduce energy usage, and support sustainability initiatives. "We are excited to have been selected by

SAP SE and Deutsche Telekom are expanding their partnership to include Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for real-time logistics. This announcement was made at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which took place from February 26 through March 1. Enterprises of all sizes are seeking to benefit from the proliferation of sensors and smart equipment by embracing the IoT for improved customer intimacy, new business models, reduced waste and higher efficiency. SAP and Deutsche Telekom are joining forces to deliver a comprehensive, cost-effective solution that provides connectivity, business application software, device tracking and monitoring and support services. “In the complexity of the digital age, customers increasingly seek for comprehensive support to address their business needs — at the device, connectivity, platform and software level,” said Anette Bronder, director of Telekom Security and T-Systems’ Digital Division. “To offer our customers the best, easiest-to-use and most secure solution for every specific need, we constantly

IFS today announces it has hired Darren Roos as the Chief Executive Officer of IFS. The appointment is effective 1 April 2018 and aligns with the retirement of Alastair Sorbie at the end of Q1 2018. Roos is a proven enterprise software leader, with a track-record for establishing and scaling global software businesses. Most recently Roos was President of SAP's Cloud ERP business, and prior to that, significantly grew Software AG's international operations, which enabled the company to triple in size during his tenure. Darren Roos, CEO of IFS, said: "I am excited and privileged to lead IFS in this next chapter. IFS is an incredible business! The combination of its strong ERP heritage, leadership in EAM and FSM, and exemplary customer satisfaction gives it the perfect platform to play a dominant role in the enterprise software industry. I plan to bring my experience and skills specifically around scaling companies, building cloud businesses, and establishing high-performing