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Tata Consultancy Services today announced the launch of Engineering Environment as a Service, a cloud based framework developed on the Red Hat OpenStack Platform. The framework will help increase utilization of business resources, lower infrastructure footprint and reduce operational costs. The Engineering Environment as a Service framework enables anytime-anywhere development and test environment to product engineering teams across the globe, through a self-service portal. When a new request is created using the framework, a configurable work-flow is triggered, enabling approvals and zero-touch environment provisioning to take place. The framework allows for easier configuration of policies for scaling, high availability of services, greater security, and work load optimization. In addition, advanced service assurance capabilities provided by the framework have been designed to monitor critical infrastructure and engineering environment parameters and allow auto-recover from failure conditions. "On-demand availability of development and test engineering environments is not only an infrastructure resource optimization and
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NEC Corporation and Netcracker Technology announced today that, in partnership with Infinera and Juniper Networks, they have released a new Transport SDN solution designed to transform how networks are managed and controlled. Combining Infinera's strength in building its Intelligent Transport Networks, Juniper’s industry-leading capabilities in IP/MPLS, physical/virtual network functionality and domain orchestration, and NEC/Netcracker's multilayer control and service orchestration expertise, including NEC's advanced network transport products, the partnership enables a compelling new Transport SDN solution. This new solution provides full visibility across all IP, optical and microwave domains, including SDN and traditional network environments, optimizes network utilization and automates service provisioning and path restoration. This solution benefits service providers by enabling network transformations that intelligently adapt to the dynamic requirements of end users with the ability to carve out network slices for specific services end-to-end. This makes it possible to accommodate changing traffic patterns and on-demand customer requests, deliver an improved customer experience and produce
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CAM industry innovator DP Technology Corp. announced the release of ESPRIT®2017, the latest version of its pioneering flagship product. ESPRIT 2017 delivers a smarter, simpler, faster machining process with expert toolpath, streamlined user control, and accelerated processing power. ESPRIT 2017's intelligent, optimized toolpath utilizes powerful new algorithms to deliver exceptional toolpath, more reliably, with fewer clicks. Smarter toolpath in ESPRIT 2017 includes sophisticated new 3-axis steep/shallow milling for streamlined machining of complex parts, smart facing with intelligent stock management, responsive 5-axis swarf machining on a wide range of part geometries, and precise tool positioning along lathe contours regardless of insert shape. User productivity is improved to get faster results with less effort. The steps needed to go from design to machining are simplified in ESPRIT 2017 through easier editing of features to bypass geometry you don’t want to machine, automatic recognition of more details inside complex holes for
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DataXstream, the designer and seller of OMS+, a fully integrated Order Management solution, announced today that Gerdau has selected DataXstream's OMS+ application for its sales operations. The solution extends the SAP® ERP application and provides traditional and advanced order management capabilities. Built on the SAP NetWeaver® technology platform, DataXstream's OMS+ application deploys easily through SAP's Cloud Platform technology and features real time inventory visibility across the supply chain. DataXstream's solution helps organizations leverage live reporting of their business activities – an invaluable benefit for operations and management reporting. "Service is one of the main pillars of Gerdau's value proposition. We continually strive to provide a higher level of service and solutions - and we accomplish this with the enhanced sales order system," said Rob Thompson, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "This solution will enable Gerdau to be more proactive in not only addressing challenges, but helping to avoid
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DeLaval has selected CXO-Cockpit to replace their Excel-based management reporting processes with a digital performance reporting platform that eliminates human error, speeds up the reporting process and presents SAP BPC data through dynamic reporting dashboards. CXO-Cockpit, global provider of integrated Strategic Performance Reporting solutions for leading Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) systems, is proud to announce Delaval as a member of the fast-growing global CXO-Cockpit User Community. "With CXO-Cockpit, we established a shared single view of our KPI's, speeding up our reporting and decision-making process, based on a centrally governed reporting process that eliminated the risks of data manipulation and multiple versions of the data through a direct connection to our SAP BPC data," says Niklas Listermark, Financial Controller at Delaval. "The direct connection to SAP BPC enables us to leverage the structures, hierarchies and meta-data from SAP BPC to the CXO-Cockpit reporting platform," Torgny Runhall, SAP BPC Consultant at Delaval,
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The annual TopSolid customer conference took place on 11 May 2017. The Brünigpark in Lungern on the Brünig Pass, a large modern event park buried deep in the rocks, offered the very special setting. Marc Choquin, director of Commercial Communications at Missler Software, and all the team of Missler Software Switzerland welcomed more than one hundred customers. They were guided through a varied and informative day by Manfred Sac, the managing director of Missler Software Switzerland AG. The highlight of the meeting was the new features in TopSolid version 7.11. The new key features of TopSolid-CAD, TopSolid-CAM and NCDManager were presented by the TopSolid team to the participants in various workshops.  Simon Pravda from Stöger Automation, a TopSolid user, explained the value and functionality of Volumill. In addition, the new tools that simplify collaboration between customers and TopSolid support were introduced. The TopSolid information section was supplemented by Marc Zimmermann,
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Europe’s leading IoT event; the IoT Tech Expo Europe will open its door to 5,000 attendees this week (1-2 June) where it will host 2 co-located events covering Blockchain and AI, 10 conference tracks covering the entire ecosystem, 250+ speakers, an exhibition of 150+ companies showcasing the latest innovations and the IoT meetup. Industries covered include manufacturing, healthcare, logistics, transport, government, utilities, insurance, finance, and automotive. Across the 10 conference tracks, you will be able to see a range of industry leading speakers including: Stefan Gubi, Senior VP Cross Industries & IoT, T-Systems Thomas Brenner, VP, Digital Life & Research, BMW Group Ralf Hagen, Engineering Manager MES/E&A, Nestlé Aurelius Wosylus, Director Sales & Partners Germany, Sigfox Peter Hoffmeister, Senior Director of the IoT Technical Sales, Microsoft Serdar Gürbüz, Digital Innovation Manager, Turkish Airlines Niko Hossain, Senior PM / Deputy Head of Automation & Digitization, Lufthansa Cargo Kai Gait, Senior Global Digital Director, GlaxoSmithKline Jonathan Vaux, Executive Director - Innovation & Partnerships, Visa Europe Christine Billaud, Director Business Tech - Connected Solutions, Volvo CE Derek
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Zero Wait-State (ZWS) today announced Bob McDuffee, System Engineer, has achieved certification as a Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH) from the International Council of E-Commerce Consultants (EC-Council). The EC-Council is one of the world’s largest cyber security technical certification bodies and is ANSI 17024 accredited. Mr. McDuffee’s certification provides a critical vulnerability assessment offering to the company’s Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) services portfolio. The EC-Council defines a Certified Ethical Hacker as “a skilled professional who understands and knows how to look for weaknesses and vulnerabilities in target systems and uses the same knowledge and tools as a malicious hacker, but in a lawful and legitimate manner to assess the security posture of a target system(s). The CEH credential certifies individuals in the specific network security discipline of Ethical Hacking from a vendor-neutral perspective.” Steve Porter, CEO of Zero Wait-State, commented, “This certification highlights our commitment to protect our customers’ information and to share
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The VOQUZ Group, a German system integrator and provider of software asset management solutions for SAP, today announces a new reseller partnership with Tech Mahindra Brazil. As part of the agreement, Tech Mahindra will be reselling VOQUZ’ flagship product samQ throughout Brazil. samQ is a SAM tool (software asset management) for managing and optimizing SAP licenses across multiple systems. The add-on allows an automatic allocation of SAP user licenses based on a user’s actual behavior. This way, companies gain overall transparency of their license distribution across all connected SAP systems. In addition, samQ is a cost-efficient and time-saving tool to detect indirect usage of SAP data. “We are very excited to announce this partnership. Tech Mahindra is a very strong partner in Brazil, who is an expert for SAP services and business solutions,” says Sebastian Schoofs, Executive Director at VOQUZ. “Partnering with Tech Mahindra is a great opportunity to help
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Trimble announced today that it has acquired privately-held Network Mapping Group Limited (NM Group), headquartered in Knaresborough, United Kingdom. The acquisition expands Trimble's energy solutions portfolio to provide high-value data modeling and 3D visualization services for the utilities industry. Financial terms were not disclosed. Trimble provides scalable and robust enterprise solutions for supporting the asset management and operations processes of energy distribution utilities. Trimble's solutions enable asset managers and planners to optimize their network asset investments, construction projects and maintenance processes to drive improved ROI, electric supply reliability, regulatory compliance and customer satisfaction. In addition, Trimble's geospatial solutions for aerial, mobile and field data collection and data analytics are used globally to serve utilities with accurate and reliable information. NM Group is a leading data capture, modeling, engineering and analytical services and 3D visualization solutions provider for electricity network operators. NM Group combines multiple remote sensing techniques with unique data analysis
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