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ArticleSAP to acquire Cloud services provider Ariba
SAP’s Ariba acquisition is set to boost the German group’s Cloud-based offering (Photo: SAP)SAP plans to acquire US-based Cloud services provider Ariba for about 4.3 billion dlrs.The German business software group said the acquisition, which is set to close in the third quarter, will combine Ariba's buyer-seller collaboration network with ...
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ArticleSurvey: Purchasers do without IT support
SAP and other sofware makers have limited success in corporate purchasing departments, a RAAD study shows (Photo: SAP)Purchasing departments at German companies more often than not manage without IT systems that are tailored to their requirements.According to a survey conducted last year by Germany's RAAD Research, fewer than 20 pc ...
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Automotive microsystems conference - Berlin
The two-day conference will take place at Harnack House in Berlin (Photo: AMAA)The 16th International Forum on Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications will take place in Berlin May 30-31.The conference, which will focus on "Smart Systems for Safe, Sustainable and Networked Vehicles," will look at how the car is changing ...
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ArticleMcLaren signs new contract with SAP
Sports cars generate large amounts of performance data that need to be analyzed (Photo: McLaren)McLaren will use SAP software tobetter handle data flows, optimize its infrastructure and improve group operations.The British automotive racing technology company said it had signed a new contract with SAP to use the business software maker's ...
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ArticleInfineon CEO Bauer resigns for health reasons; Ploss takes over
Reinhard Ploss (left) takes over as Infineon CEO Oct 1; Peter Bauer is leaving his post for health reasonsInfineon CEO Peter Bauer is stepping down for health reasons, but the Germany-based semiconductor groupimmediately announced he would be succeeded by another board member, Reinhard Ploss.Infineon said in a press release that ...
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ArticleGoogle gets Nevada OK to test self-driving cars on public roads
Nevada is the first US state to approve public-road testing of Google’s driverless car (Photo: DMV Nevada)Nevada became the first US state to give the green light for Google to test its driver-less car on public roads.The state's Department of Motor Vehicles said in a statement that it had approved ...
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ArticleSurvey: Green IT on the rise in Europe
Audi’s new Ingolstadt computer center, which opens this summer, boasts lower CO2 emissions (Photo: Audi)Green IT is on the rise, according to a survey conducted by German IT consultants Devoteam.The survey, which included responses from 270 companies in 22 European countries, found that 78 pc of those polled considered green ...
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ArticlePLM survey: Standards needed for data exchange
Manufacturing companies need a universally recognized standard for the exchange of product data across the supply chain, according to a survey of industry executives.The survey, conducted by Germany's RAAD Research in cooperation with Contact Software and Siemens PLM, found that manufacturing companies are challenged by an absence of standards when ...
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ArticleVW opts for new positioning system in high-bay warehouse
Car bodies are stacked 20 meters high at VW’s high-bay warehouse in Wolfsburg (Photo: PSI Technics)Volkswagen Group has decided to instal new software to operate a high-bay warehouse at its Wolfsburg factory more efficiently.The carmaker is replacing an old Trimble ICS5000L positioning systems with the so-called Positioning Solution System developed ...
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FeatureInterview: JCI's automotive CIO on course to meet global targets
Sanjay Rishi is CIO and group vice president, information technology, at Automotive Experience, the biggest division of US-based Johnson Controls.Rishi runs a global IT operation with between 400 and 500 people worldwide, not including a "partner ecosystem" of companies that provide a broad range of IT services to JCI.The automotive ...
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ArticleJCI Automotive picks Siemens PLM Teamcenter software
Johnson Controls' automotive division has chosen Siemens PLM's Teamcenter as its corporate standard for collaboration and process integration.Siemens PLM Software, a division of Germany's Siemens Group, said Johnson Controls Automotive Experience will use Team Center across its entire global product development operation.Siemens said it had won the contract in competition ...
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ArticleIBM boosts analytics capacity with Varicent acquisition
IBM has finalized the acquisition of Varicent Software in a move by the US IT services and software group to further grow its business analytics offering.Varicent, a privately held Canadian company, makes analytics software for compensation and sales performance management. The company's products will become part of IBM's Smarter Analytics ...
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ArticleHyperworks adds VehicleSim to partnership
Mechanical Simulation’s CarSim software simulates the dynamic behavior of passenger cars, racecars, light trucks, and utility vehicles (Photo: CarSim)Altair is expanding its Hyperworks computer-aided engineering software to include the use of Mechanical Simulation vehicle dynamics simulation tools.Altair, a US-based business software group, said in a press release that Mechanical Simulation's ...
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ArticleVolkswagen raises IT's profile with new in-house academy
VW will use IT to improve cooperation between its various brands (Photo: VW)Volkswagen has launched a new company-wide IT academy in a move to give greater in-house prominence to the role of information technology in meeting its corporate goals."IT is the nerve center of our company," said VW personnel chief ...
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ArticleBosch-Samsung battery JV may be dissolved - Financial Times Deutschland
SB Limotive builds battery systems for the new generation of electric vehicles (Photo: SB Limotive)A four-year old battery joint venture between Germany's Robert Bosch and Korea's Samsung may be dissolved because the two partners' business priorities are too diverse, according to the Financial Times Deutschland.The newspaper said Bosch, the world's ...
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ArticleMunich Management Colloquium: Winterkorn, Bohr see different resource opportunities
VW CEO Winterkorn (left) and Bosch Automotive CEO addressed the Munich management conference March 20MUNICH -- Top industry executives speaking at this year's Muenchner Management Kolloquium provided various interpretations of the conference topic: Growth through resource efficiency.But they agreed that, by making better use of available resources, companies can save ...
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ArticlePLM suppliers in Germany see strong growth continuing
The PLM industry is benefiting from strong demand through the IT sector (Photo: wikipedia)PLM software suppliers in Germany see strong growth continuing despite expectations of an economic slowdown this year.At a meeting in February of the sendler\circle, an association of PLM service providers in Germany, company representatives said growth in ...
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Article1,500 software engineers wanted at Germany's Continental
Continental expects the connected car to generate additional programming demands (Photo: Continental)Continental is looking to add about 1,500 new software developers to its global workforce in a bid to stay competitive with products that rely ever more on sophisticated IT components.The German automotive supplier group, one of the world's largest, ...
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ArticleBosch opts for IBM Connections software
IBM will help Robert Bosch provide its employees with social-media toolsRobert Bosch has decided to use IBM Connections software to deepen the integration of social media in its office procedures.The German automotive supplier decided on IBM because the US based IT services and computer company offered a highly standardized package ...
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ArticleChinese group set to acquire German supplier Kiekert
Kiekert makes side-door latches and other locking systems (Photo: Kiekert)Hebei Lingyun Industrial Group is set to acquire German locking systems specialist Kiekert in a move that will give the Chinese automotive supplier a strong position in the market for specialist latches and other automotive locks.Kiekert said Lingyun had reached agreement ...
