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Fujitsu today announced that Fujitsu Forum 2016, the company's largest annual event, will be held May 19-20 at the Tokyo International Forum in Japan. The theme of this year's Fujitsu Forum will be "Human Centric Innovation: Driving Digital Transformation." By transcending boundaries between companies and industries, and connecting people, information…

3D Systems Corporation today announced management team changes to accelerate the company's growth strategy. Effective immediately, the 3D Systems board appointed Vyomesh Joshi (VJ) as President and CEO. VJ is a visionary who forever changed Hewlett-Packard's printing business from the ground up. As a seasoned and known leader, VJ is…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise group companies today signed a definitive agreement to sell its equity stake in Mphasis Limited, an IT services provider in Bangalore, to private equity funds managed by The Blackstone Group, one of the world's leading investment firms. Under the terms of the agreement, Blackstone has agreed to…

Applied Software®, a leading systems integrator to the AEC, construction and manufacturing industries, today announced that Clay Smith has joined the company as its chief operating officer. Smith offers nearly two decades of executive experience leading manufacturing, sales, engineering and software development organizations from start-up through high-growth transitions. Prior to joining Applied…

The change of the name marks the company’s transformation from a CAD provider to a broad supplier of software and services for the construction and facility sector, manufacturing and marine industries. Addnode Group’s subsidiary Cad-Q started off in 1989 as a supplier of CAD systems. The company has since then…

HCL Technologies Limited (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced an agreement to acquire (through demerger) all of the business of Geometric Limited, except for the 58% stake that Geometric owns in the joint venture – 3DPLM Software Solutions Ltd., with Dassault Systèmes. In consideration of this acquisition,…

HCL Technologies Limited (HCL), a leading global IT services provider, today announced an agreement to acquire (through demerger) all of the business of Geometric Limited, except for the 58% stake that Geometric owns in the joint venture – 3DPLM Software Solutions Ltd., with Dassault Systèmes. In consideration of this acquisition,…

PTC today announced its Vuforia® augmented reality (AR) platform will support Microsoft HoloLens. This capability was demonstrated live at Build in a morning keynote by Steven Guggenheimer, vice president and chief evangelist, Microsoft Corp. The Build demonstration showcased a scenario where a salesperson could provide 3D visualizations of a Caterpillar®…

Companies around the world now have unprecedented flexibility to solve the toughest engineering and product challenges, thanks to the introduction of ANSYS Elastic Licensing. This new ANSYS pay-per-use licensing model unlocks the world's broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software – enabling users to optimize license utilization while giving them license flexibility to…

Altium is scheduled to release a new documentation workflow available exclusively in their flagship PCB design platform, Altium Designer 16.1. Draftsman™ provides PCB designers with a unified documentation solution with customizable drawing views, documentation templates, and a fully complete design to documentation workflow in Altium Designer 16.1.  “Engineers have long…