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Nemetschek Scia will introduce Scia Design Forms, a new Open Design technology that allows Structural and Civil Engineers to centralize their engineering design tasks into one integrated workflow, at Structures Congress 2014 in Boston, Mass., which will take place April 2-4. Scia Design Forms allows civil and structural engineers to…

Infor announced that registration is officially open for its annual user conference, Inforum 2014, which will take place at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, La., September 15-18. More than 7,000 Infor customers, partners, employees, and industry experts will come together to demonstrate how Infor's purpose-built applications and…

Tata Consultancy Services announced that it has been named as the Top Employer in Europe by the Top Employers Institute for the second consecutive year. TCS was ranked first among the 20 companies that were eligible for the award. The company was recognized as an exceptional performer across six core Human Resources…

LEDAS Ltd. and ASCON today jointly announced the successful integration of ASCON’s C3D kernel into LEDAS Geometry Comparison technology. This is the first third-party component to benefit from the C3D kernel; previously, third parties had only developed CAD/CAM software as applications on top of C3D. LEDAS develops computational components and…

Altium Limited announces a third party developer partnership with Octopart, a well known provider of an electronic parts search engine used by hundreds of thousands of engineers to find and compare parts across different manufacturers and distributors. Around 70-80% of the life cycle cost for a new product is a direct…

The Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of SAP AG recommend that shareholders approve a dividend of €1.00 per share for the fiscal year 2013 at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. This represents a year-over-year increase of €0.15, or 18% compared to last year’s dividend of €0.85. If the…

The new release of WorkNC from Vero Software is being premiered at the Paris Industrie 2014 Exhibition. WorkNC V23 continues the development of finishing toolpaths, which was completely revised in the previous version. Nicolas Lepetit, CAD/CAM Development Manager says: “This development has continued by focusing on the precision and fluidity…

AVEVA will be showcasing its industrial gaming software AVEVA Activity Visualisation Platform (AVEVA AVP) at the Fiatech Annual Technology Conference and Showcase, 31 March to 2 April, 2014 at the Hyatt Huntington Beach Resort in California. AVEVA AVP transforms operator training by enabling users to create immersive, multi-person, interactive environments…

Altair today announced that SEGULA Technologies, a long-time Altair HyperWorks® customer, has adopted Altair's software asset optimization (SAO) solution. It is used at SEGULA Technologies to monitor and optimize the daily usage of commercial computer-aided engineering (CAE) and computer-aided design (CAD) software licenses. It helps to control and consolidate software…

Autodesk, Inc. today announced that Qatar Rail has awarded a Building Information Modeling (BIM) services contract to the company in Qatar. Autodesk will provide BIM implementation, consultancy and advisory services to Qatar Rail towards the construction of a modern integrated railway network in the country. This agreement was formalized at a signing ceremony…