Commentaries & Highlights

OnceMore® from Södra, the world’s first large-scale process for recycling blended fabrics into high‑quality dissolving pulp, will begin using TextileGenesis, a Lectra company, to strengthen traceability from raw material to retail across the value chain. OnceMore® produces dissolving pulp made from blended textile waste and wood sourced from responsibly managed Swedish forests. By integrating TextileGenesis, OnceMore® supports the growing need for verified data and secure, transparent tracking throughout increasingly complex supply chain. Traceability as a foundation for circular MMCF and regulatory readiness The implementation marks a key milestone for scaling circular MMCF, highlighting the role of digital traceability. It establishes a verified digital chain for OnceMore® materials, ensuring full chain–of-custody from pulp and fiber production through to finished garments. By unifying material movement and supply‑chain data into a single system, the rollout enhances transparency across tiers and geographies and increases supplier participation. Traceability from raw material to retail will give OnceMore® and its

The Capital Markets Day will be held on November 24–25, 2026, in Tampere, Finland, at one of Sandvik business area Mining’s largest sites. The agenda will include presentations by CEO, CFO and business area management, as well as guided site tours where Sandvik will showcase its leading offerings. More information and link to registration will be communicated in due course. Stockholm, March 17, 2026 Sandvik AB To view the original press release, please click here. Search for Sandvik on CIMdata.com

Syncron, the global leader in aftermarket lifecycle management software, announced the appointment of Osama Solieman as Executive Vice President of Customer Experience. Osama will lead Syncron's post-sales organization, encompassing professional services, technical support, and customer enablement, and report directly to CEO Josh Weiss. "As we scale, the quality of our customer experience is a direct competitive advantage—and a direct reflection of whether we're actually delivering on the outcomes we promise," said Josh Weiss, CEO of Syncron. "Osama has built and run exactly the kind of customer organizations we need to take our own to the next level. This hire is a signal of where we're headed." Osama joins Syncron from ETQ, a Hexagon company and global leader in SaaS-based Quality Management Software, where he served as Chief Customer Officer. Over his tenure at ETQ, he held progressive leadership roles including VP of Professional Services and Director of Professional Services, building and scaling

IBM announced at GTC 2026 an expanded collaboration with NVIDIA to help enterprises operationalize AI at scale. Advancing efforts across GPU-native data analytics, intelligent document processing, on-premises and regulated infrastructure deployments, cloud, and consulting, the collaboration aims to give enterprises the data foundation, infrastructure, and expertise to move AI from pilot to production. Enterprises are making significant investments in AI, but too many remain stuck between experimentation and production at scale. The barriers are consistent: data is fragmented and difficult to access; infrastructure wasn’t built for advanced AI workloads; AI deployments don’t support the compliance and residency requirements of regulated industries; and many organizations still need the guided expertise to implement and deploy the technologies. An announcements from IBM and NVIDIA are designed to close these gaps. "In the next wave of enterprise AI, the model layer will rely on the data, infrastructure, and orchestration layers – and on businesses that can bring

The Board of Directors of Capgemini SE, meeting on March 16, 2026, deliberated on the change in its composition to be proposed to the next Shareholders’ Meeting of May 20, 2026. Messrs. Xavier Musca and Frédéric Oudéa having indicated their desire not to seek reappointment[1], the Board of Directors warmly thanked them for their respective contributions to the work of the Board of Directors and its committees, and particularly as Chairman of the Audit & Risk Committee for the first one, and Lead Independent Director and Chairman of the Ethics & Governance Committee for the second one. Based on the report of the Ethics & Governance Committee, the Board of Directors decided to propose to the 2026 Shareholders’ Meeting, i) the renewal of the terms of office of Mr. Paul Hermelin and Ms. Maria Ferraro and ii) the appointment of Ms. Véronique Weill[2] and Mr. Luc Rémont as members of the Board of Directors, for

Carahsoft Technology Corp., The Trusted IT Solutions Provider®, and ServiceNow, the AI control tower for business reinvention, today expanded their partnership to extend availability to the ServiceNow AI Platform across Carahsoft’s full reseller ecosystem in the U.S. and Canada. For the first time, the partnership opens Carahsoft’s commercial and industry channels – including retail, technology, manufacturing, healthcare, financial services, and critical infrastructure – to ServiceNow. Carahsoft built its reputation as the leading Government IT distributor — with more than 10,000 resellers, system integrators, and consulting partners and $23 billion in annual bookings — and has been expanding that network into regulated and non-regulated industries that share Government's demands for compliance, security, and complex procurement. This partnership brings ServiceNow directly into those channels, reaching organizations that prefer to buy through trusted channel partners rather than through traditional enterprise software sales motions. “Carahsoft's network reaches organizations with serious demands around compliance, security, and how they

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 17 March 2026—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and the digital transformation it enables, announces an upcoming free educational webinar, Digital Threads and Twins in Theory and Practice: Benchmarked Industry Use Cases." Hosted by James Roche, Aerospace & Defense Practice Vice President, and Janie Gurley, Director, Data Governance Practice, the webinar will take place on Thursday, 9 April 2026, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour. Today's complex engineering systems demand unprecedented levels of data integration. While the vision of Digital Twins and Digital Threads (DTW-DTH) promises to revolutionize product lifecycles, many organizations struggle to translate concepts into tangible implementations. This session will tackle common industry pain points that often stall digital initiatives, moving beyond theory to demonstrate what is practical and achievable with currently available tools and methods. The webinar will start by focusing on

Keysight Technologies, Inc. introduced new 224G test solutions that expand its 1.6T end-to-end portfolio, addressing the growing R&D validation and manufacturing challenges of next-generation electrical and optical interconnects for AI data centers. As AI workloads drive unprecedented scale-up and scale-out architectures, data center networks are rapidly transitioning to 224G electrical lanes and 1.6T optical modules. These advances introduce significant challenges across the development lifecycle, including signal integrity at extreme data rates, tighter compliance margins, and the need for efficient, repeatable testing in high-volume manufacturing.  Engineers require integrated, standards-compliant solutions that reduce test complexity while ensuring interoperability, reliability, and yield as networks scale. The new Digital Communication Analyzer (DCA)-based test applications support IEEE 802.3dj electrical and optical development from early validation through production testing. Together, they enable engineers to move faster from bring up and characterization to compliance readiness, reducing design risk and accelerating time to market for next generation 224G per lane data center

CLO Virtual Fashion Inc. and Vizoo are pleased to announce a new plug-in that connects Vizoo’s u3m (Unified 3D Material) format directly with CLO, the leading 3D fashion design software. This is part of the first step in their collaboration as Vizoo joins CLO’s Ecosystem Partnership Program (EPP), which aims to combine the expertise and resources of fashion tech companies to enhance CLO’s 3D design process and define the next generation of the digital ecosystem for the fashion industry. The plugin enables designers to easily import and work with Vizoo’s photorealistic xTex materials inside CLO, creating a smoother workflow between the two platforms. With this plugin, CLO and Vizoo meet a mutual user base request for seamless U3M material integration in CLO, enabling companies to scale Digital Product Creation (DPC) effortlessly and removing a key hurdle in the digital material integration process. "We are excited to deepen our partnership with CLO Virtual Fashion through this plug-in. Together, we are

The R&A and Accenture announced a new six-year partnership which will see Accenture become the Official Business and Technology Consulting Partner of The R&A as well as an Official Patron of some of golf’s most iconic championships—The Open, AIG Women’s Open, and ISPS HANDA Senior Open until 2031. As the Official Business and Technology Consulting Partner of The R&A, Accenture will provide business transformation and management consulting services to support its strategic priorities across governance, championships and development of the sport by harnessing deep expertise in digital, cloud, data and artificial intelligence. The partnership will accelerate the use of technology in golf - enhancing insights, operations, and fan and player experiences - to help open the game to more people, in more places, around the world. Mark Darbon, Chief Executive of The R&A, said: “Accenture has a renowned reputation worldwide for its expertise in technology, data and innovation and we