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Lectra is pleased to announce that OVS, an Italian fashion retail group for menswear, womenswear and childrenswear, has chosen Lectra Fashion PLM to restructure their entire product development process. Founded in 1972, OVS has a vertically-integrated retail business model which relies on a strong design sensibility and a unique sourcing…

Arena Solutions today announced that Wenxiang Ma, Arena's vice president of engineering & chief technology officer, has been named a 2017 'Pros to Know' by Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine. Now in its 16th year, Supply & Demand Chain Executive's Pros to Know Awards recognize supply chain executives, and manufacturing and non-manufacturing enterprises, that…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Nimble Storage, the San Jose, Calif.-based provider of predictive all-flash and hybrid-flash storage solutions. HPE will pay $12.50 per share in cash, representing a net cash purchase price at closing of $1.0 billion. In addition…

Tech Soft 3D today announced that it has optimized the HOOPS software development platforms for native and web 3D engineering applications with the launch of HOOPS Native Platform 2017, HOOPS Web Platform 2017 and HOOPS Platform 2017. The three HOOPS platforms power applications with proven 3D technologies, including high performance…

Altair offers new best-in-class technologies to design and optimize high-performance, efficient, and innovative products with its release of HyperWorks 2017®. This latest release sees several functionalities added in areas such as model-based development, electromagnetism, nonlinear structural analysis, modeling and meshing, multiphysics and multi-disciplinary analysis, lightweight design and optimization. New products and enhancement…

Bestseller A/S, an international fashion group based in Denmark, has selected Centric Software to provide its PLM solution. Centric Software is the leading product lifecycle management (PLM) solution for fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor and consumer goods companies. Bestseller has more than 20 brands in its range, including Jack &…

CollabNet is a sponsor of DevOpsDays Baltimore, March 7-8. At the event, CollabNet experts will showcase the company's recently released DevOps Lifecycle Manager (DLM) platform. Building on its industry leadership for connecting teams, tools and processes, CollabNet DLM advances enterprise DevOps initiatives by providing continuous visibility and feedback throughout the DevOps…

Global End2End fashion software provider, Visual 2000 International Inc, has announced a complete rebranding effort. Visual 2000 has adopted the new company name: Visual Next. As Visual Next begins its 20th year as a company, the new brand identity marks an important shift in its evolution to providing innovative and sustainable technology solutions for…

Datavail, a leading provider of managed services for database management, analytics, and application life cycle management, today announced the acquisition of AdvancedEPM Consulting, an Oracle Platinum Partner focused on Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) solutions. The acquisition of AdvancedEPM is part of Datavail’s growth strategy to build on Datavail’s core…

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced its new Xpedition® vibration and acceleration simulation product for printed circuit board (PCB) systems reliability and failure prediction. As the industry’s market share leader in PCB design software, the Mentor Graphics® Xpedition product augments mechanical analysis and physical testing by introducing virtual accelerated lifecycle testing…