Commentaries & Highlights

T-Systems is now offering SAP applications on the Microsoft Cloud platform Azure as part of its wider strategic partnership with Microsft. T-Systems’ offerings enable customers to integrate these SAP services with other Azure Cloud services as well as the Internet of Things. T-Systems said it will offer these SAP services worldwide, while a standardized operating system will enable customers to obtain SAP systems immediately through a self-service platform. T-Systems experts are also available to help customers with their implementation and transition to SAP services. T-Systems will also present six digitisation packages covering topics like the transition to the new SAP S/4HANA Business Suite, next generation maintenance and IoT logistics at SAP’s Sapphire Now + Asug Conference in June in Orlando, Florida. T-Systems will also host two lectures for companies interested in deploying SAP Hana. Search for T-Systems on CIMdata.com

Senet and global technology leader Laird today announced that the Laird Sentrius LoRaWAN gateway now comes pre-loaded with the Senet LoRa® Packet Forwarder software and provides native support for registration and operation on Senet’s network. This out-of-the-box integration allows enterprise organizations to deploy LoRaWAN solutions more efficiently across a variety of markets and rapidly expand as new business opportunities arise. Designed for secure and scalable Enterprise IoT (EIoT) deployments, the 8-channel Sentrius gateway supports LoRaWAN, dual-band Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet for multi-protocol flexibility. This flexibility expands the number of smart devices that can be connected to enterprise applications and delivers a highly optimized and economical approach to meeting the diversity of real-world EIoT use cases. Laird and Senet are both members of the LoRa Alliance and will be participating at the 10th LoRa Alliance All Members Meeting and Open House in Vancouver, Canada from June 4-7, 2018. The companies will be hosting a LoRaWAN boot camp session

Utopia Global, Inc. has announced the launch of the Utopia Asset Data Reference Library (uADRL), which houses over 500,000 models and material data records for new and brownfield assets. This library makes available critical master data for maintenance, planning and scheduling tasks through SAP® Asset Intelligence Network. The uADRL provides operators with cleansed and accurate information on equipment manufacturers, models, characteristics and failure data compliant with ISO 14224. It also includes over 400 templates for integration with SAP solutions for enterprise data management. uADRL is tightly integrated with SAP Asset Information Workbench by Utopia and SAP Master Data Governance, enterprise asset management extension by Utopia, to allow for ongoing governance and syndication of master data across multiple systems of record. "We believe master data is the DNA of an enterprise, and those trusted to maintain and manage that data need a single source of trusted information about their enterprise assets," said Arvind J. Singh, CEO

NTT Group, represented by NTT DATA, itelligence, NTT Communications, Dimension Data, NTT Security and Secure-24, today announced its companies will receive recognition for four awards at the SAP Global Partner Summiton June 4 and the SAP SAPPHIRE NOW® conference, June 5-7, in Orlando, Florida, held in conjunction with the Americas’ SAP Users’ Group (ASUG) Annual Conference. In addition, NTT companies will make six official theatre presentations and 15 booth presentations at booth #701. “Lending the highest-level corporate support to this major cloud and business technology conference, NTT Group is eager to share our knowledge and expertise at SAP SAPPHIRE NOW,” said Eric Clark, President Applications Services, NTT DATA Services. “Having delivered strong results in SAP integration work and cutting-edge SAP projects across many industries, the leaders of our companies are excited to demonstrate how our combined resources and partnerships are digitally transforming businesses and satisfying customers around the world.” To view the original press release, please click here. Search for NTT Group

Ulsan Metropolitan City, South Korea’s industrial center, has announced a collaboration with Materialise to drive business growth for the local manufacturing industry by leveraging the transformational power of additive manufacturing. As part of this agreement, Materialise will engage in co-creation campaigns with local manufacturing companies to identify opportunities to optimize the manufacturing process. Over the past several decades South Korea has positioned itself as a leading manufacturing economy. Ulsan Metropolitan City, South Korea's seventh-largest metropolis, is at the heart of this manufacturing industry, hosting some of the world's largest automobile assembly plants, shipyards and oil refineries. In order to reinforce its competitive position, the Ulsan Metropolitan City government is presenting a roadmap of growth that will focus on the convergence of digital technologies and manufacturing, leading to smarter and better connected production processes and factories. Additive manufacturing will play a key role in this digital, data-based transformation and that is

GROM, which offers sales and support for SAP® solutions, today announced that it is now an SAP gold partner. SAP gold partners consistently demonstrate that they have the vision, talent and dedication to guide their customers to higher levels of success using industry-leading and cutting-edge technology solutions from SAP. "We are proud to achieve the SAP gold partner level and strengthen our partnership alignment with one of the world's most valuable brands, SAP," said Robert Grom, president and CEO of GROM. "We look forward to providing the benefits associated with our increased access to SAP's technology and roadmaps to each of our customers." It was only three years ago that GROM became an authorized reseller of SAP solutions, adding that capability to a highly successful implementation and business-development practice. It soon became clear that customers running SAP software were benefitting from GROM's demonstrated expertise and business performance, and saw tremendous value

Supporting its vision to improve the way the world works and lives, Accenture is committing more than US$200 million over the next three years to help equip people around the world with job skills for the digital age.   “As a technology leader, we have an obligation to apply new scalable technology solutions to help solve complex societal challenges,” said Pierre Nanterme, Accenture’s chairman and CEO. “Our investments will continue to empower Accenture to produce socially minded partnerships and programs that will have a profound impact on the lives of millions of people throughout the world, now and for the future.” Accenture’s commitment will help support Skills to Succeed, Tech4Good, Accenture Development Partnerships and related Accenture initiatives.   The company’s Skills to Succeed initiative advances employment and entrepreneurship opportunities, leveraging digital innovation to help close employment gaps at scale. Together with a network of nonprofits and other ecosystem partners, Accenture has since

The webinar will consider some of the core questions related to Digital Twins. ANN ARBOR, Michigan, 31 May 2018—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm, announces that Frank Popielas, a CIMdata Executive Consultant, will take part in a webinar entitled, “Digital Twins - Changing the way we Engineer, Validate, Market, and Operate Our Products.” The webinar will show how digital twin solutions can help your company embrace digitalization and increase competitiveness. Webinar attendees will learn the answers to some of the core questions related to digital twins and their practical value, including the following: What are the new challenges emerging in engineering and manufacturing? What are Digital Twins and why do they matter? How are Digital Twins already utilized in real-life business cases? The webinar, which is sponsored by Mevea, will take place on Tuesday, 12 June at 11:00 EEST and will last one hour. To register or learn more, visit

Engineers developing technologies such as laser and fiber ring gyroscopes for civilian and military applications can now test new ideas and configurations in the virtual world using numerical simulation. The Ray Optics Module, an add-on product to the COMSOL Multiphysics® software, supports the ability to accurately trace rays through a moving geometry. To showcase this capability, COMSOL is excited to announce the addition of a Sagnac Interferometer example model, complete with documentation and solution, to the Application Galleries. The new example provides simulation specialists with a working application of the Sagnac effect, the fundamental operating principle of ring laser gyroscopes, and will help those working with attitude detection to get a better understanding of the sensitivity and accuracy of such complex inertial navigation systems. "We are very excited to share the Sagnac Interferometer model with the simulation community," says Christopher Boucher, Technical Product Manager, COMSOL, Inc. "Just specify the angular

Energias de Portugal (EDP) has chosen Polarion ALM™ software, the Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution suite from Siemens PLM Software, to streamline its software applications management process. EDP is using Polarion to help achieve agility, traceability and compliance for its complex set of software applications and processes. Implementing Polarion can help EDP to operate more efficiently and transparently, resulting in higher value for its customers.  “Polarion ALM software will provide the important tools we need for our complex business environment, while integrating easily within our IT infrastructure,” said Filipe Lucas, IT Architectures Director from EDP. “The ability to have a knowledge base of the requirements for our business processes and applications, and the traceability among all levels of requirements and tests, as well as using an open product architecture were key factors in our decision to use Polarion as our solution.” Polarion will help enable EDP to manage the requirements