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IBM unveiled three new Watson services delivered over the cloud. The first, Watson Discovery Advisor, is designed to accelerate and strengthen research and development projects in industries such as pharmaceutical, publishing and biotechnology. The second, Watson Analytics, delivers visualized Big Data insights, based on questions posed in natural language by any business user. The third offering, IBM Watson Explorer, helps users across an enterprise uncover and share data-driven insights more easily, while empowering organizations launch Big Data initiatives faster. The services are being developed and will be offered by the new IBM Watson Group, announced at an event in New York City. The Watson Group will accelerate a new class of cognitive computing services, software and apps into the marketplace that analyze, improve by learning, and discover answers and insights to complex questions from massive amounts of disparate data. ”Watson is the solution to today’s influx of information, delivered from the cloud and ready to be the ultimate advisor

IBM announced it will establish the IBM Watson Group, a new business unit dedicated to the development and commercialization of cloud-delivered cognitive innovations. The move signifies a strategic shift by IBM to accelerate into the marketplace a new class of software, services and apps that think, improve by learning, and discover answers and insights to complex questions from massive amounts of Big Data. IBM will invest more than $1 billion into the Watson Group, focusing on development and research and bringing cloud-delivered cognitive applications and services to market. This will include $100 million available for venture investments to support IBM’s recently launched ecosystem of start-ups and businesses that are building a new class of cognitive apps powered by Watson, in the IBM Watson Developers Cloud.  The IBM Watson Group will have a new headquarters at 51 Astor Place in New York City’s “Silicon Alley” technology hub, leveraging the talents of approximately 2,000 professionals, whose

An updated version of GstarCAD8 brings out an end-year package with relevant new additions, commands reinstated and 100% functional, complemented with improvements and bugs fixed making this version more stable by delivering great performance in comparison with previous patches. One of the greatest new additions is Digitizer Integration: This version has built-in a digitizer tablet command-driver. Users can execute TABLET command to calibrates, configures, and turns on and off an attached digitizing tablet. Digitizers are often used along with takeoff software because they can quickly measure, transfer and store quantities seen on a blue print. Additional benefits are found in features such as a dimension list, which can be saved and used a future estimate. Another innovative addition is Xtra Grips for Objects Edition: Polyline as well hatch objects in this version now have extra grips to make editing them easier than before. Now users can stretch a polyline or hatch object

Applied Math Modeling Inc., announced CoolSim 4.2 – the next revision of the company’s popular modeling software. As one of the industry’s only cloud-based implementation, CoolSim 4.2 continues to add important ease-of-use and modeling features. “CoolSim 4.2 is laying the foundation for data center design optimization by allowing multiple design scenarios to be set up and submitted for analysis concurrently. This key feature allows CoolSim users to consider multiple designs from one base model,” said Paul Bemis, CEO of Applied Math Modeling. “Using CoolSim 4.2, users can now combine the power of parametric variation with the cost effectiveness of cloud computing to drive down simulation time and cost while increasing user productivity.” CoolSim 4.2 allows users to quickly set up a model with varying cooling parameters over multiple scenarios, all from one model. Supply air temperature, mass flow rate, and cooling unit on/off state can all be altered from one simple table. This key

CGS announced its participation in the 103rd annual NRF Annual Convention & EXPO at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, NY from January 12th to 15th. Tagged "Retail's BIG Show,” NRF's flagship industry event offers unparalleled education, collegial networking, and an enormous EXPO Hall full of technologies and solutions. Located at booth #2245, CGS will present its exclusive BlueCherry software suite, value-added Microsoft Dynamics AX solutions, and CGS professional service offerings for fashion and softlines retailers. BlueCherry, a fully integrated enterprise solution, has the power to manage the entire concept-to-consumer product lifecycle. Comprising Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Omnichannel Planning, Omnichannel Warehouse Management and other industry-focused modules, BlueCherry enables retailers and their suppliers to streamline processes, gain visibility, reduce costs, increase productivity, and enhance competitiveness. CGS will also display solutions and services for Microsoft Dynamics AX Retail, Dynamics AX POS, a CGS-exclusive iOS Mobile POS app and other related technologies. The

The winners of the five categories of Tekla Global BIM Awards have been chosen among a vast range of competing models, using all kinds of materials all around the world. In the Total BIM category, the best was Puuvilla Shopping Center in Pori, Finland. The Cast in Place Concrete award went to BB&T Ballpark in Charlotte, USA, and Precast Concrete award to Kalasataman Fregatti and Fiskari in Helsinki, Finland, while the best Engineering project was Tesco Sheringham. The Steel award was given to the Gap ice-skating stadium in France. The Puuvilla Shopping Centre, delivered by a project group of 13 companies, is truly a Total BIM project. The team tackled the challenges of large project, tight schedule and combining new and old structures with good Building Information Modelling. In addition to structural, they utilised architectural, MEP, electricity and sprinkler system models and laser scanned the existing structures to create an inventory model. The competition

Virtual product development is becoming increasingly important in the apparel industry. The Human Solutions Group now presents the outstanding features of its simulation software Vidya in detail on its own website at www.vidya-software.com. The high-resolution images are convincing: shirts, pants, dresses and coats – almost any garment can now be very accurately simulated with a high degree of realism. The decisive factor about Vidya is the interaction of human, material and pattern, because the program doesn’t access just any generic avatars – upon request, it’s delivered with a scanatar studio that corresponds to the standard sizes of SizeGERMANY. And there’s more too – the body shapes are designed to exactly match those of the human body, the materials are imaged according to their stiffness and drape behavior – and any pattern and style changes are immediately visible. Vidya simulates all the folds, seam types, darts, buttonholes and zippers as if they were

Francis Cadin, CEO of Datakit, has embarked on a world tour riding his motorcycle to meet customers and resellers all over the world. The second step of this trip was Dakar, where Francis Cadin met with the LMBA-GEDIX team with more than 25 years of experience. LMBA is involved in the manufacturing workshops of companies in the field of mechanical industry (machining, machine tools, cutting tools, tools workshop).  LMBA aims to contribute to reducing production costs by digitizing manufacturing data. This meeting with Arnaud Guillermet, CEO of LMBA, focused on an agreement allowing LMBA to integrate Datakit technology in their "GEDIX" offer, thereby giving their customers from industry and design departments the ability to use Datakit converters. GEDIX users will thus be able to get 3D PDF version of the geometries of all their tools, and visualize these models regardless of the original format. LMBA and DATAKIT are among the founding members of the brand

IMS Software announced CDC as the first IMS distributor in South Africa, representing the full product line including IMSpost™, IMSverify™ and IMSce™. "With IMS integrated post processing and validation capabilities CDC will be able to address the most complex needs of our machining customers” said Igal Filipovski, managing director of CDC. “In this growing industry segment in South Africa, our partnership with IMS will allow us to provide a complete 'one stop' solution for companies looking to reduce risk and time in their NC programming process." "South Africa has seen tremendous growth in high-end CNC machining." said Dan Wrenn, president and co-founder of IMS. “CDC brings a wealth of experience and will be an excellent partner for IMS in this rapidly growing market.”

EdgeAX, a unit of Visionet Systems, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of EdgeAX Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) version 2.0, which is embedded in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, and offers a collaborative PLM solution to Apparel and CPG industries. With an increased complexity in the PLM processes, and in contrast to the rapidly growing demands of the consumers, the need to collaborate at each phase of the product lifecycle has increased by manifold. EdgeAX Collaborative PLM version 2.0 is hence designed to not only accelerate the product innovation but also to maximize product profitability through effective collaboration. What distinguishes EdgeAX PLM is its ability to capture the experience and knowledge, which is unique to each phase of the product lifecycle, and then use it to influence the subsequent informative decisions throughout the process. Some tangible benefits of EdgeAX PLM include enabling internal collaboration for product concepts and designs to create new