Commentaries & Highlights

On November 15, 2018, Oracle entered into an agreement to acquire Talari Networks, a leading provider of Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN) technology offering centralized control and improved application performance used for over 500 customers in over 40 countries. Talari’s proprietary Failsafe technology enhances the benefits of SD-WAN by adding greater reliability and predictability while maintaining security for site-to-site and site-to-cloud connectivity and application access over any IP network. The transaction is expected to close in 2018. The addition of Talari’s technology is expected to complement Oracle Communications’ leading Session Border Controller (SBC) and network management infrastructure by adding high availability and Quality-of-Experience (QoE) connectivity and cloud application access across any IP network with the reliability and predictability of private networks. Together, Oracle and Talari will accelerate digital transformation and cloud adoption by providing companies with complete enterprise network solutions that ensure reliability and performance of real-time communications and mission-critical

Deloitte is expanding its Salesforce offerings, with the team from New Zealand’s leading Salesforce specialist, CloudinIT, to join the professional services firm from 1 February 2019. CloudinIT is a professional services firm that helps customers implement Salesforce and Amazon Web Services solutions. Their focus includes: Force.com services including Sales Cloud and Service Cloud; test automation; and marketing automation with Salesforce Marketing Cloud.  Co-owners Raymond Yong, Jacob Taljaard and Ben Edwards will become Deloitte partners, and the CloudinIT team will join Deloitte Digital in Auckland. Deloitte Chief Executive Thomas Pippos says the move follows the recent launch of Deloitte Digital in New Zealand. “Clients have increasingly told us that some of their biggest challenges are getting the basics of digital right, and this includes having a single view of their customers. The Salesforce capability that the CloudinIT team brings to Deloitte Digital gives us even more expertise to support clients in these

Simufact, an MSC Software Company, brings to market Simufact Additive 4 – the next generation of its solution for the simulation of metal additive manufacturing processes. Simufact Additive is a scalable, practitioner-oriented simulation solution predicting distortion, stress, and temperature effects. The software helps optimizing build preparation, build simulation and subsequent steps in the AM process chain, including Heat Treatment, cutting the base plate, removing supports and Hot Isostatic Pressing (HIP). “Our new version 4 underlines our ambitions to provide the best overall process simulation package – concerning speed, accuracy, functionality, and usability,” states Dr. Gabriel Mc Bain, Simufact´s Senior Director Product Management.  Automation and assistant functionality for investigation and optimization “The software comes with a workflow-oriented user interface, which our customers report as the best-in-class GUI,” Dr. Patrick Mehmert, Product Manager Additive Manufacturing, says. “We will further strengthen our ease-of-use approach with new functionality available in Simufact Additive 4, which efficiently guides the user through

Rockwell Automation and PTC today announced that they have launched FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC, a software suite that enables companies to optimize their industrial operations and enhance productivity by providing decision makers with improved data and insights. The new suite delivers complete visibility of operations and systems status from one source of information inside the organization. The collaborative offering is the first to integrate technologies from both companies following the strategic partnership announcement in June. FactoryTalk InnovationSuite, powered by PTC, improves connectivity to operational technology (OT) devices on the plant floor, natively supporting the rapid, scalable, and secure connection of the most commonly used industrial equipment. Combined with data from information technology (IT) applications and systems, decision makers can now gain a complete digital representation of their industrial equipment, lines, and facilities from anywhere in the enterprise. “Our offering is unique in its ability to improve how companies capitalize on the

PTC today announced the release of the KEPServerEX® Version 6.6 industrial connectivity platform. The latest version of KEPServerEX includes several new innovations and security enhancements that extend Kepware’s market-leading position in computer numeric control (CNC) and injection molding machine (IMM) connectivity, enabling manufacturers to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives.  “Connectivity to industrial assets in operational environments is driving valuable insights that allow manufacturers to improve productivity, efficiency, and safety. However, due to their age and the complexity of the protocols used, some assets, such as CNCs and IMMs, have proven to be notoriously difficult to tap for data,” said Howard Heppelmann, general manager, Connected Operations Solutions, PTC. “PTC has helped countless manufacturers overcome this data integration challenge and create holistic industrial IoT ecosystems. With KEPServerEX V6.6, we’re providing users with access to an even wider, more diverse set of industrial assets, thereby enabling smart manufacturing across the entire factory.” A key component of

Datawatch Corporation today announced that total revenue for its fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 ended September 30, 2018 was $11.59 million on a GAAP basis, an increase of 14% from total revenue of $10.20 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017. License revenue for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018 was $7.15 million on a GAAP basis, a 21% increase from the $5.89 million recorded in the same quarter a year ago. Total revenue on a non-GAAP basis was $13.14 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, an increase of 29% from the year ago period. License revenue on a non-GAAP basis was $8.64 million for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2018, an increase of 47% from the year ago period. A full reconciliation of GAAP reported results to non-GAAP is included in Appendix A of this press release. Non-GAAP results exclude the effects of the purchase accounting

Continuing a trend of nearly two decades of success in the Partner Program, TriStar was once again recognized as the Top North American partner at PTC's Annual Sales Kick-Off meeting. TriStar was also recognized as PTC's Top Growth partner worldwide for CAD and PLM products. These awards recognize TriStar's yearly commitment to thriving as the number one partner for PTC products in North America. TriStar's accomplishment demonstrates its commitment to providing reliable, innovative and best-in-class solutions to its customers. With clients ranging from local small businesses to Fortune 500 companies specializing in a variety of fields – including the medical device, technology, defense, automotive and aerospace industries – TriStar has over 2,000 active customers, and that number continues to grow annually. "TriStar had a great year of software sales in North America for PTC," said PTC Vice President of Americas Solution Provider Sales, Corey Pratte. "They continue to invest in the PTC program and it

HCL Technologies (HCL), a leading global technology company, is celebrating its 10-year anniversary in the Nordic region. During this time, the company has achieved significant successes, which have seen the Nordics grow to become HCL’s largest market in Europe. Today, HCL employs more than 1,600 people in the Nordics representing 31 nationalities, with 55 large-scale transformational clients including four out of the six Fortune Global 500 companies in the region.  While several significant milestones have been successfully achieved, HCL looks forward to the future and is dedicated to helping its clients in the Nordics to drive innovation and growth. The celebration coincides with a series of initiatives to mark this occasion starting with the opening of a new office at HCL’s Nordics headquarters in Central Stockholm. “We are humbled by the success that we have achieved together with our clients, colleagues and partners in the Nordics,” said Pankaj Tagra, EVP Nordic

Accenture has helped Carlsberg transition its information technology (IT) infrastructure to the public cloud as part of Carlsberg’s strategy to be an intelligent, digitally enabled and connected enterprise. The transition is providing Carlsberg with a modernized, dynamic and agile platform for its enterprise solutions, enabling digital innovation and helping the company gain more visibility into its IT operations.   This transformation — part of Carlsberg’s “SAIL ‘22” corporate strategy, which targets increased digital connectivity between the company and its customers, supply chain and employees — is setting the stage for a new era of growth and profitability at the leading brewery group and enhancing its ability to respond to market dynamics to capture greater market share.   Accenture and Avanade worked closely with Microsoft and SAP to help Carlsberg transition its core infrastructure and business-critical applications to the Microsoft Azure public cloud in less than six months. The transition covered

Tech Mahindra has been recognized as a leader for product engineering engagements for the year 2017. As part of this report, Tech Mahindra was positioned as a “Leader” for their ability to offer large-scale product engineering engagements leveraging their strong project management capabilities and widespread delivery footprint. Tech Mahindra was evaluated across a range of parameters such as “Vision & Capability” and “Market Impact” including Services, Products, Solutions and Locations and was rated highest based on the parameters that include – Top quartile performance across market success captured through a combination of ACV/TCV/number of contracts, renewals. Delivery capability, captured through ability to deliver services successfully through scale, scope, enabling capabilities and delivery footprint.  Expertise in, and driving focus on technologies of the future, investments in strategic platforms Customized industry specific solutions and advisory role in a customer’s digital transformation journey Karthikeyan Natarajan, Global Head, Engineering, IoT and Enterprise Mobility, said, “Tech Mahindra’s strategy, Design – Engineering