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Open Text Corporation and Eloquent, Inc. announced the completion of Open Text's acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Eloquent. Details * Financial * Verity, Inc. reported financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended February 28, 2003. Verity's revenues for its third quarter ended February 28, 2003 were $27.8 million, representing a 22% sequential increase over second quarter revenues of $22.9 million, and an 11% increase from revenues of $25.0 million for the same period last year. Details  * People * Bentley Systems, Incorporated announced the appointment of Anthony Flynn to the position of chief marketing officer (CMO). Details Formtek, Inc. announced that Robert Walter has joined as Manager of Government Operations. Details LightWork Design announced the promotion of Andy Chapman to the position of CEO of the company with immediate effect. Details Ronald E. Daly, who was appointed CEO of Oce-USA Holding, Inc. with effect from December 1, 2002 has been appointed member of the Executive Board of Oce N.V. Details * Implementation * ACS Software announced that NAV CANADA is currently implementing the AutoEDMS document management and workflow solution throughout its five Technical Data Centres. Details Autodesk, Inc. announced that Iowa State University is using Autodesk Inventor software as an integral part of its curriculum for two courses within the Department of Industrial Education and Technology. Details Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced that Wintegra has deployed the Cadence Encounter digital IC design platform. Details Digital Paper Corporation announced that Control Components, Inc. (CCI), a provider of severe service control valve solutions in the power, oil and gas industries, and pulp and paper plants worldwide, is in production with Digital Paper. Details Documentum announced that Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNR), an independent oil and natural gas exploration company, has chosen the Documentum ECM platform to manage its enterprise content. Details EDS announced that Callender (Lancashire) Aeropart Ltd. has recently completed their implementation of Unigraphics. Details Engineering Intent announced that Butler Manufacturing Company has selected the Intent Product Family (Intent) from Engineering Intent to automate critical path, resource intensive processes in its engineer-to-order business. Details Formation Systems announced that LVMH Perfumes and Cosmetics has implemented Formation Systems' flagship product Optiva to improve time to market of new products. Details Formation Systems announced the successful deployment of its Optiva solution at Yves Rocher. Details Framework Technologies announced it has been selected by American Racing Equipment, Inc. to assist the company in product planning by reducing its new wheel design development time. Details ITI announced that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has selected ITI TranscenData's DEXcenter (Data Exchange Center) for integrating the company's network of suppliers and departments. Details Proficiency announced that Wartsila Switzerland has purchased its Collaboration Gateway software. Details Realization Technologies announced that Hamilton Beach/ Proctor-Silex, Inc. has selected its Concerto software to manage its product development projects. Details SmarTeam Corporation Ltd., a Dassault Systemes company, announced that Vanderlande Industries of the Netherlands has selected SMARTEAM as its enterprise product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. Details SolidWorks Corporation announced that the University of Ottawa has adopted SolidWorks as the 3D CAD software it uses in its mechanical engineering design curriculum. Details SolidWorks Corporation announced that the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering has selected SolidWorks software as one of its primary 3D CAD software packages. Details Synergis Technologies, Inc. announced that Lindsay Manufacturing is achieving significant benefits including reduced engineering time and increased product quality by using Synergis Adept. Details * Developments * Actify Software announced localized versions of its SpinFire product line for Korea, Taiwan and Japan. Details ALGOR, Inc. announced new, linear contact analysis capabilities. Details ANSYS Inc. announced support for the full product line from 3Dconnexion (a Logitech Company), the leading developer of 3-D motion controllers. Details CADKEY Corporation announced the release of a new CADKEY V21 Viewer for use on Windows 98/ME/NT 4.0/2000/XP that is available as a free download on the company's website. Details Green Pasture Software announced the integration of its G5 product line with IBM's new DB2 Content Manager Version 8.2. Details i2 Technologies, Inc. announced the introduction of Supply Chain Operating Services (SCOS). Details MatrixOne, Inc. announced that it has extended the existing integration of EDA tools, such as those from Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics, with a new capability that allows designers, product managers and others to access and collaborate on electronic designs. Details McLaren announced that the latest version of its kVisia Industry Process Server (IPS) will be one of the first Documentum partner products to support Documentum Webtop 5. Details Missler Software announced the new GOelan version provides improved functions for data import. Details MSC.Software Corp. announced the availability of MSC.EASY5 Version 7.0. Details PTC announced that it is shipping the newest version of its Granite interoperability software development platform. Details Verity Inc. announced its new Verity Federator will be available at the end of this month. Details * Relationships * Actify Software announced strategic partnerships with 4 distributors, 4 solution providers and 2 independent solution vendors (ISVs). Details Actify Software announced its support for the Catia V5 CAD System for its SpinFire product line. Details Concurrent Systems Inc (CSI) announced it has signed an agreement with Autodesk Inc. to provide sales, implementation services and support for the Autodesk Inventor Series. Details Imagecom, Inc., the parent company of ASPire3D, announced a new marketing agreement with Continental DataGraphics (CDG), a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company. Details Informative Graphics Corporation announced that IGC has obtained a source code license from Blue Pacific Software, enabling the publishing of documents to Macromedia's Flash format. Details Informative Graphics Corporation announced that it has released its Brava for Documentum for both the Documentum Webtop and Documentum Digital Asset Manager to allow companies to view, markup and collaborate on a wide variety of graphic and CAD files. Details MatrixOne, Inc. and Tata Consultancy Services announced that they have solidified their strategic alliance by establishing a Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Center of Excellence. Details Open Text Corporation and Ricoh Corporation announced that they will offer an integration that will link a company's knowledge repository in Livelink to Ricoh devices across an enterprise. Details Pilgrim Software announced that it has signed a new partnership agreement with validation specialists Cetan Technologies. Details Tech Soft America and CADKEY Corporation announced the CADKEY V21 Viewer was rapidly built on the HOOPS 3D Application Framework, further extending CADKEY's use of HOOPS technologies. Details Verity, Inc. announced Stellent Inc. has certified specially-tailored Verity categorization technology for use with its content management system. Details * Other * Ariba, Inc. announced that it has been included in the visionary quadrant in Gartner, Inc.'s first Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant. Details Covisint announced business highlights for 2002 demonstrating positive growth for the company compared to 2001. Details EDS announced a free, global business-to-business (B2B) supplier program for users of its Solid Edge CAD software. Details EDS announced two major product lifecycle management (PLM) industry publications have honored Solid Edge, its CAD software product. Details EuroPractice, the European Union initiative to boost the number of high quality graduates entering the electronics industry, has agreed to make available design collaboration and management software, including the SOC Developer Suite, from Synchronicity Inc. Details Gartner published a case study on Hewlett-Packard's Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) entitled "HP Program to Reinvent Product Development Management". Details Hummingbird Ltd. announced that Gartner, Inc., a leading technology research and advisory firm, has positioned Hummingbird in the Visionary Quadrant of the Smart Enterprise Suite (SES) Magic Quadrant for 2003. Details Hummingbird Ltd. announced that KMWorld magazine has named Hummingbird as one of the 100 companies that matter in knowledge management for the third consecutive year. Details IDEAL.com announced it won the Distributor of the Year award from Contex Scanning Technology. Details Informative Graphics Corporation announced it plans to broaden its successful Federal Government sales. Details Selectica, Inc. announced it has been named one of the "Top 100 Companies that Matter" in knowledge management by KMWorld magazine. Details SolidWorks Corporation announced that readers of the United States' largest circulating engineering magazine have selected SolidWorks 2003 CAD software as Product of the Year for 2002. Details Sopheon announced it has been named one of "100 Companies That Matter" by KMWorld magazine. Details STEP Tools, Inc. announced it will cohost a STEP-NC technology meeting with NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) at NIST headquarters in Gaithersburg, MD in June 2003. Details |
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