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Infor, a leading provider of industry-specific cloud applications, today announced that it will host an investor conference call to discuss Q4 fiscal year 2018 results for current holders of Infor securities and other interested parties on Thursday, June 28, at 11 a.m. Eastern time. Materials and dial-in details will be available at https://www.infor.com/company/infor-investors-relations/ after 9 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, June 28. To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Infor on CIMdata.com
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Efma and Accenture launched the sixth edition of their joint Distribution & Marketing Innovation Awards, which recognize innovative projects in global retail banking and encourage banks to share best practices in retail banking distribution and marketing.Retail banks worldwide have until Sept. 7 to submit their entries via the online portal at www.efma.com/innosubmit18. Winners will be invited to an exclusive awards ceremony in Lisbon on Oct. 17, which will be broadcast live."Our Distribution & Marketing Innovation Awards program has gathered pace over the last five years, each time getting bigger and better," said Vincent Bastid, Efma's CEO. "Since we began the initiative, we have received more than 2,300 innovations from 602 institutions representing 92 countries. It's such an honor to be involved in highlighting the most innovative and exciting solutions that are transforming the retail financial services industry."This year's innovation portal has been transformed to deliver a more personalized, responsive and
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Monday, June 25, 2018

Andrew Baxter joins KPMG

KPMG Australia has appointed former Publicis Communications Chairman and Publicis Australia CEO, Andrew Baxter, as Senior Adviser to the firm's entrepreneurial Customer, Brand & Marketing Advisory (CBMA) business.Andrew has proven himself as a strong strategic thinker who drives growth in his own and his clients' businesses, and has been successfully leading major professional services firms for the past 11 years. He also has significant experience as a non-Executive Director. He will advise key CBMA clients on his specialty areas of brand and customer experience, as well as support the CBMA leadership team in the development of a range of new growth initiativesAndrew has worked with the executive teams of many of Australia's largest companies and brands, across a multitude of industries including retail, packaged goods, sports and entertainment, automotive, banking and finance, gaming, tourism and travel, fast food, oil and mining, fashion, health, education and government. His previous role as
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• Acquisition strengthens Mentor integrated circuit (IC) design and verification technology for automotive, enhances ISO 26262 functional safety testing via Siemens' digital twin offering• Innovative technology performs fault simulation at orders of magnitude faster than competing solutions• Acquisition builds upon Siemens' digitalization strategy and investments in the IC market, enabling customers to realize innovationSiemens has entered into an agreement to acquire Austin, Texas-based Austemper Design Systems Inc., a startup software company that offers analysis, auto-correction and simulation technology. This technology allows customers to test and harden IC designs for functional safety in applications such as automotive, industrial and aerospace systems where functional safety and high reliability are mandatory for compliance to safety standards like ISO 26262.ICs in these applications require three types of functional safety verification: for systemic faults, malicious faults and random hardware faults. Mentor's existing Questa™ software is a leading technology for functional verification of systemic faults and
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VIAVI Solutions today announced the addition of cellular IoT (CIoT) capabilities to its TeraVM solution, enabling operators, vendors and service providers to test and future-proof their networks for the development and commercialization of the Internet of Things (IoT). The new TeraVM virtual Radio Access Network (vRAN) CIoT module can emulate over 16 million IoT devices via narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) and CAT-M connections in a fully virtualized environment. This enables users to test the ability of their networks to support the huge array of current and potential connected IoT end-points, while delivering consistent, reliable connectivity for 'traditional' mobile voice and data services. The module forms part of VIAVI Solutions' 3GPP-compliant RANtoCore™ end-to-end test platform, which validates networking performance from the RAN to the core via the mobile edge. This enhancement provides users with a single platform that covers 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G traffic scenarios, helping service providers determine bottlenecks, protect mission critical services
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AT&T will launch NarrowBand Internet of Things (NB-IoT) to meet the growing needs of business customers for a wide range of IoT solutions. Our NB-IoT technology will complement our existing LTE-M network in the U.S. and Mexico. NB-IoT and LTE-M are Low-Power Wide-Area (LPWA) technologies that support massive IoT deployments. Both NB-IoT and LTE-M are supported in licensed spectrum and with carrier-grade security. "We've seen global momentum for LPWA since launching our North American LTE-M network last year," said Chris Penrose, President, IoT Solutions, AT&T. "Adding NB-IoT to our portfolio will expand our LPWA capabilities, help drive investment in our evolution to 5G and support our customers as they deploy IoT solutions across the U.S. and Mexico." We plan to launch NB-IoT in the U.S. early next year, followed by Mexico by the end of 2019. Our investment in NB-IoT and LTE-M will be future-ready. These technologies are expected to become part of the industry's massive
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Phoenix Integration is pleased to announce its participation in and sponsorship of the 28th Annual INCOSE Annual International Symposium (IS) in Washington DC on July 7-12, 2018. The INCOSE IS is the largest worldwide annual gathering of people who do systems engineering. Phoenix Integration will participate as a sponsor, exhibitor, and presenter. According to Dr. Scott Ragon, Phoenix Integration’s Director of Technical Business Development, “Our attendance at the INCOSE IS allows us to not only interact with and learn from the systems engineering community, but to stay current with the latest developments in Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE).” Be sure to attend the presentation and LIVE demonstration presented by Dr. J. Simmons and Dr. Scott Ragon on Monday, July 9th and learn how Phoenix Integration’s ModelCenter helps you to reduce system development time and cost by giving you the ability to connect ANY engineering analysis to your SysML based systems
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Centric Software is delighted to announce the release of a success story about its customer, Marine Layer. Marine Layer was founded in 2009 by two friends, Mike Natenshon and Adam Lynch. The San Francisco-based company began by making just one product: a super-soft shirt, made from a recycled beechwood fiber and cotton mix. Marine Layer now produces a large range of clothing and accessories for men, women and children, from button-down shirts to bathing suits. MicroModal, the beechwood fiber mix used in over 25 custom fabrics developed by Marine Layer, is eco-friendly and sustainable. To support Marine Layer’s expansion, the company decided to invest in a PLM solution to manage data and support operations from product design and development to retail. “We did a bunch of demos, but we felt that Centric was the best fit,” says Megan Eddings, Director of Design & Product Development at Marine Layer. “The possibility
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In collaboration with American technology giant IBM, India’s National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL) launched a 12-week online course on blockchain architecture, design and uses, on June 19, 2018. Students can enroll for the course from July 2018, and aim to develop over practical and conceptual skill sets pertaining to the technology. All coursework will be available free-of-cost on the NPTEL website. “The popularity of blockchain has moved from cryptocurrency to business applications across many industries such as insurance, finance, supply chain logistics, digital identity, healthcare and public sector,” said Sandip Chakraborty of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. Mr. Chakraborty co-developed this course with IBM’s Technical Manager of Smart Contracts and Blockchain, Praveen Jayachandran. Jayachandran added, “IBM’s collaboration with India’s leading academic minds to create a blockchain curriculum is a reflection of our commitment to enabling the technology to realize its full potential, while also addressing the increased demand
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TXT Retail, an Aptos Company, announced today that the European online retailer and mail order specialist Atlas for Men has successfully implemented the TXTPLM (product lifecycle management) solution to support all phases of product creation, development and costing. With TXTPLM, Atlas for Men is streamlining processes and communication for all stakeholders involved in the creation and management of collections, resulting in shorter product lifecycle processes and faster time to market. Founded in 1999 and headquartered in Paris, Atlas for Men provides outdoor clothing and accessories at very attractive prices. The company, which is rapidly growing its multichannel presence through catalogues, mail, web, mobile and TV campaigns, operates in 10 European countries — including France, Belgium, Germany and Russia — serving over 3.5 million customers. "This rollout has already generated benefits, including the speeding up of the design process, accurate technical product descriptions and improved communication," said Marie Malespine, Purchasing and Supply Chain Performance Manager at Atlas for Men. "Everybody is very satisfied with the system;
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