Commentaries & Highlights

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global leader in IT services, consulting, and business solutions, has entered a long-term, strategic partnership with Salling Group to drive sustainability, technology innovations and improve organizational efficiency. The collaboration will cover Salling Group’s 2,100 stores, brands and 68,000 employees across Denmark, Poland, Germany, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia including BR, a nationwide toy store chain, franchise quick-service restaurants Carl’s Jr. and Starbucks, and grocers føtex, Bilka, Netto and RIMI Baltic.

As part of this partnership, TCS will help the Salling Group’s cloud adoption journey and subsequently stabilize the operations with the aim of driving more agility, scalability,...

DXC Technology, a leading Fortune 500 global technology services provider, today announced it has been awarded a seven-year contract with Plan International, a development and humanitarian organization that champions children’s rights and gender equality in over 80 countries.

Under the agreement, DXC will lead the end-to-end conversion of Plan International’s current SAP implementation to SAP S/4HANA Private Cloud. By optimizing its operational processes and utilizing the capabilities enterprise resource planning (ERP), Plan International will improve operational agility, drive greater transparency, and deepen engagement with key stakeholders.

Empowering Plan International’s Global Mission Through Digital Transformation<

Plan International, founded in 1937, addresses critical...

Dassault Systèmes and the Université de Moncton, Canada’s largest French-language university outside Québec, today announced the launch of a new project aimed to solve housing, urban densification and ecological conservation challenges in the southeastern region of New Brunswick, Canada. The partnership was signed at VivaTech 2025 in Paris.

The six-month project will develop collaborative virtual environments to model, analyze and plan sustainable urban development in the cities of Dieppe and Moncton - two of Canada’s fastest growing metropolitan areas in the last 20 years - all while establishing a protected wildlife corridor in the southeastern part of New Brunswick.

In addition to...

Siemens Digital Industries Software today opened its chalet at the Paris Air Show, Paris–Le Bourget Airport, France. Showcasing the transformative power of the Siemens Xcelerator platform, Siemens’ presence focuses on tackling critical Aerospace and Defense challenges related to design, manufacturing, and operations, underscoring real–world applications and collaborations with partners and customers across the sector.

The Convergence Room is a multi-sensory environment where visitors will experience firsthand how Siemens is empowering customers with technologies including AI and digital twins. These technologies are integrated across engineering and production on the open and flexible Siemens Xcelerator platform to accelerate innovation, scale production and optimize operations.

The Continuum builds on...

Centric Software^® is thrilled to announce that it has won the Food 4 Future FoodTech Innovation Tastech by Sigma Award. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to design, develop, formulate, source, comply, buy, make, package, market and sell consumer goods products in food & beverage, grocery and multi-category retail to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

The Food 4 Future Expo is an annual event attended by over 8,000 professionals with exhibits of the latest solutions in food tech, food safety, robotics and automation, processing and packaging. The award was given to Centric Software in Bilbao, Spain on May...

Atos, a global leader in digital transformation and cybersecurity, today unveiled its cutting-edge Security Operations Center (SOC) in Qatar, expanding its global network of interconnected SOCs. This state-of-the-art facility marks a strategic expansion of Atos’ global cybersecurity footprint, delivering next-generation, AI-driven security solutions augmented by expert human oversight, empowering organizations to proactively detect, respond to and mitigate evolving cyber threats.

The urgent global demand for advanced, AI-driven cybersecurity solutions, particularly amidst an increasingly sophisticated and relentless threat landscape, underscores the critical necessity of robust Security Operations Center (SOC) services. Atos addresses this pressing need head-on with its new SOC in Qatar, designed to fortify cyber...

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Key Takeaways

• IFS Connect 2025 convened in Nashville, TN on 2-4 June, 2025, one in a global series of regional user events conducted by IFS, a global enterprise software company.
• IFS announced IFS.ai in 2023 and has worked diligently to build out the technology, with over 200 use cases spanning their applications and industries.
• Their embedded AI approach brings the power of generative AI (genAI) to the moment of service while easing adoption and use compared to more generalized AI implementations.
• IFS Connect 2025 provided a call to action for IFS’ customers to embrace their...

This PLM-focused event will take place in November in Paris, France.

Ann Arbor, MI, USA & Bromma, SWEDEN 12 June 2025—CIMdata and Eurostep are delighted to share the details about the upcoming PLM Road Map & PDT Europe 2025 conference, scheduled to take place at the Renaissance Hotel in La Defense, near Paris, France on 5th and 6th November. This premier PLM-focused event, under the theme “PLM’s Integral Role in Digital Transformation From Strategy to Execution: Elevating PLM to an Enterprise Business Solution, the PLM Professional's Road Map to Success,” promises an engaging exploration of the critical enablers of Product Lifecycle...

CIMdata’s Mark Reisig will address attendees at Hexagon Live, taking place in Las Vegas, NV.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA 11 June 2025—CIMdata, Inc., the leading global research, consulting, and education firm specializing in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and its digital transformation, announces that Mark Reisig, Sustainability Practice Director, will present at the upcoming Hexagon Live conference. The event will take place from 16 to 19 June in Las Vegas, NV.

In his presentation, "Emerging Trends in Sustainable Business Practice," Mark will examine trends shaping sustainable practices, such as reducing product carbon footprints, improving supply chain visibility, and creating eco-friendly products. The presentation...

This annual educational webinar will share results from CIMdata’s 2025 global PLM status and trends survey.

ANN ARBOR, Michigan, USA 10 June 2025—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, “2025 PLM Status & Trends.” The webinar will take place on Thursday, 10 July 2025, at 11:00 a.m. (EDT) and last for one hour.

This eagerly awaited annual webinar will provide insight into CIMdata’s global PLM Status & Trends research survey...