Commentaries & Highlights

PTC today announced that it has added new capabilities for connected causal and maintenance forecasting in its leading Servigistics® Service Parts Management solution. The new capabilities are powered by the ThingWorx® Industrial Innovation Platform and enable customers to leverage data from connected equipment to increase forecast accuracy, improve service levels and availability, and reduce inventory investment. Servigistics is a purpose-built solution with a long legacy of optimizing service parts networks for over four decades. With Servigistics, clients, including Pratt & Whitney, Metso, Cummins, and the US Air Force, are empowered to unleash the potential of their service businesses. With the latest release, PTC continues its thought and innovation leadership by adding new connected features, new forecasting algorithms to enable improved repair forecasting, new optimization features including space capacity optimization, new performance-based logistics management features, and new techniques for maximimizing use of inventory in complex chains. “At Pratt & Whitney, our

At an Oracle event today, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison announced the availability of the first service based on the revolutionary new Oracle Autonomous Database. The world’s first self-managing, self-securing, self-repairing database cloud service, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, uses machine learning to deliver industry-leading performance, security capabilities, and availability with no human intervention, at half the cost of Amazon Web Services. “This technology changes everything,” said Ellison. “The Oracle Autonomous Database is based on technology as revolutionary as the Internet. It patches, tunes, and updates itself. Amazon’s databases cost more and do less.” Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud delivers all of the analytical capabilities, security features, and high availability of the Oracle Database without any of the complexities of configuration, tuning, and administration—even as warehousing workloads and data volumes change. The autonomous database is an entirely new class of offering which requires zero operational administration on the customer’s

At an Oracle event today, Oracle Executive Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison announced the availability of the first service based on the revolutionary new Oracle Autonomous Database. The world’s first self-managing, self-securing, self-repairing database cloud service, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud, uses machine learning to deliver industry-leading performance, security capabilities, and availability with no human intervention, at half the cost of Amazon Web Services. “This technology changes everything,” said Ellison. “The Oracle Autonomous Database is based on technology as revolutionary as the Internet. It patches, tunes, and updates itself. Amazon’s databases cost more and do less.” Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud delivers all of the analytical capabilities, security features, and high availability of the Oracle Database without any of the complexities of configuration, tuning, and administration—even as warehousing workloads and data volumes change. The autonomous database is an entirely new class of offering which requires zero operational administration on the customer’s

Announced on the Microsoft blog: “Today, I am excited to announce that Simplygon has added compatibility for JT and STEP file formats, which are pivotal to the productivity of CAD professionals. The addition of two of the most common CAD file formats brings automation of 3D optimization to customers across many industries. As the enterprise increasingly embraces the era of digital transformation, CAD support for Simplygon empowers more industries to painlessly and efficiently bring their existing assets into mixed reality.” To view the original announcement, please click here. Search for Simplygon on CIMdata.com

Announced on the Kubernetes blog: “We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.10, our first release of 2018! Today’s release continues to advance maturity, extensibility, and pluggability of Kubernetes. This newest version stabilizes features in 3 key areas, including storage, security, and networking. Notable additions in this release include the introduction of external kubectl credential providers (alpha), the ability to switch DNS service to CoreDNS at install time (beta), and the move of Container Storage Interface (CSI) and persistent local volumes to beta.” To view the original announcement, please click here. Search for Kubernetes on CIMdata.com

Druva, Inc. today announced a major update to its Druva Cloud Platform to address the growing challenges posed as enterprises store more data in complex, heterogeneous cloud environments. The Druva Cloud Platform, which is now available, offers a data management-as-a-service solution that unifies data protection, management and intelligence capabilities for business-critical data. The new update extends the platform capabilities for cloud applications, and customers can now view and manage their data across SaaS (Software-as-a-Service), PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service) and IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) to ensure their data is properly managed through its lifecycle, meets enterprise service level agreements, and achieves consistency of service regardless of where their data is ultimately stored. CLOUD DATA CHALLENGES The cloud enables organizations to transition from legacy infrastructure, save money and gain business agility for their data. However, once in the cloud, organizations experience a loss of visibility and control, making the data much harder to protect and manage. Challenges include: A patchwork of

Sopheon plc is pleased to announce its results for the year ended 31 December 2017 together with an outlook for the current year. Barry Mence, Chairman, commented: “As we reflect on a third and unprecedented year of success for Sopheon, we are more determined than ever to make sure that Sopheon strengthens its leadership position in our rapidly evolving market. We have ambitious investment plans for 2018 involving product, people and process.” To read more, visit: https://budurl.me/fe2lm To view the annual report, please click here. Search for Sopheon on CIMdata.com

COMSOL has announced that the Program Committee of the COMSOL Conference 2018 has started to accept abstract submissions for posters and papers. Presenters will have the opportunity to showcase their modeling and simulation work to colleagues within industry and academia and get recognized for their contributions to the simulation community. The conference fosters an environment that opens a dialogue for advancing skills and further innovation in multiphysics modeling. The papers and posters accepted for presentation will reach approximately 2,000 conference attendees across the globe. Additionally, the Conference proceedings are then published online for public access, amplifying the reach beyond those directly in attendance. "The COMSOL Conference provides the best opportunity to talk with other users about their experiences and challenges. Such cross-fertilization provides great opportunities for professional growth." said Kyle Koppenhoefer, AltaSim Technologies, a COMSOL certified consultant. The COMSOL Conference 2018 Boston will be held October 3-5, 2018 at the

Tata Consultancy Services has been named number one for customer satisfaction in the region’s largest independent report of IT service providers. This is the fifth year in a row that TCS has achieved the highest level of customer satisfaction across the continent, leading the way for customer centricity in a world where technologies such as AI, cloud and robotics are playing an increasingly decisive role in how businesses are performing. With a satisfaction score of 80% in 2017, TCS occupied first place again in customer satisfaction rankings across Europe. The company topped the rankings in Germany (80%), Belux (80%), Netherlands (80%), Switzerland (83%), and the Nordics (82%), while also leading the way for the financial services and manufacturing sectors. Conducted across 13 European countries by Whitelane research in 2017, the study is based on the experiences of more than 1,600 business leaders (CIOs, CEOs, CFOs or their direct reports), who

NGC® Software today announced that Mark Burstein, president, NGC Software, has been named Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2018 Pro to Know of the Year. In its 17th year, the Pros to Know Awards recognizes supply chain executives, in manufacturing and non-manufacturing enterprises, that are leading initiatives to help prepare their companies’ supply chains for the significant challenges of today’s business climate. This year’s list includes more than 200 individuals from software firms and service providers, consultancies or academia, who helped their supply chain clients or the supply chain community at large prepare to meet these challenges—and more than 30 Practitioner Pros, who do the same within their own companies. Supply & Demand Chain Executive received more than 300 entries for the 2018 Pros to Know Awards. “It’s truly an honor to be named Supply & Demand Chain Executive’s 2018 Pro to Know of the Year among such a long list of accomplished supply chain professionals,” said Burstein. “This award acknowledges NGC Software’s thought