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solidThinking Inc (www.solidthinking.com) announced today that it has signed productONE (www.prodone.com) as its first channel partner in South Africa.  productONE will introduce the South African market to solidThinking Inspire software and will be offering support and workshops to customers in the region. "We are very excited to introduce solidThinking Inspire…

Altium Limited has released the newest version of the company's flagship PCB design tool, Altium Designer 15.1. Included in this release are a number of new features to improve design efficiency with expansions to productivity, documentation, and high-speed design. The newest update to Altium Designer is available now for all Altium…

PTC today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire ColdLight, a visionary in big data machine learning and predictive analytics, for approximately $105 million. The acquisition of ColdLight’s Neuron automated predictive analytics platform will enrich PTC’s technology portfolio and extend PTC’s position as a leader in the Internet…

Mentor Graphics Corporation today announced the Nucleus real time operating system (RTOS) targeting high-performance, next-generation applications for wearable embedded devices designed for medical, fitness, security, safety and other sectors. The introduction of new multicore system-on-chip (SoC) architectures targeting wearable devices with Internet of Things (IoT) features requires an operating system…

Infor today announced general availability of Infor Advanced Scheduling (AS) version 11. This latest release of Infor AS provides a major leap forward in product functionality. Infor AS version 11 includes key enhancements to help planners collaborate efficiently and evaluate production schedule performance using real-time decision support metrics. The results…

Granta Design has released the latest version of GRANTA MI, its platform for managing materials knowledge. Version 8.1 expands on developments added in 8.0, the company states. Added features include Web app control over user groups to support workflows such as composite qualification. The release adds tools and data structures for…

Elsevier, today announced the launch of Knovel Quick Search for AutoCAD. Available to customers at no cost, the feature rich, easy-to-use search plugin connects Knovel's essential insights with one of the most widely used CAD software programs in engineering markets. This integration significantly improves the users' efficiency and workflow.  …

Xilinx, Inc. announced acceleration of system verification with the release of the Vivado® Design Suite 2015.1, featuring major productivity advances  for the development and deployment of  All Programmable FPGAs and SoCs. This release includes the Vivado Lab Edition, accelerated Vivado Simulator and third party simulation flows, interactive clock domain crossing (CDC) analysis,…

Trimble and the Nemetschek Group announced today that they have formed a strategic alliance to expand the deployment of Building Information Modeling (BIM) across the entire Design-Build-Operate (DBO) lifecycle of buildings. The alliance will emphasize collaborative approaches to design modeling and 5D construction management through data integration between a variety…

As the emergence of social media, Cloud, and Big Data continues to fuel the digital evolution, today's digital workplace must drive new levels of employee engagement, operational efficiency and service excellence. To help deliver on this digital transformation, EMC (NYSE: EMC) today announced new enhancements across its Documentum portfolio of…