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Thursday, April 7th, 2011

NewTek Elevates Pat Grogan to Senior Vice President of Operations

NewTek, worldwide leader of video and 3D animation products, today announced that Pat Grogan has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Operations. Previously, Grogan was the vice president of Operations at NewTek. In his new role, Grogan will focus on corporate facilities and manufacturing processes to meet ever-increasing product demands.

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

AceCad Features its BIM solution at Fiatech 2011

Decision makers will hear the vision for Material Management Enterprise (MME) at the conference; an holistic approach to materials planning, procurement, fabrication, installation and ongoing operations support. AceCad’s approach to materials management in fabrication will be presented by Reg Hunter, Fiatech Sr. Program Director. AceCad solutions offer a practical implementation of the vision for structural

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

2011 Version of Tecplot 360 Released

Tecplot, Inc. has released the 2011 version of Tecplot 360, the company’s software for Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) visualization. The latest release provides enhanced support for unsteady analysis solutions including new tools for time-dependent solutions, discrete Fourier transform (DFT), updated data loaders, additional animation formats, plus a number of new general analysis tools and usability

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

United States Air Force Takes Flight with Autodesk Software

Autodesk, Inc. announced the United States Air Force (USAF), Office of the Civil Engineer, has signed a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) with DLT Solutions for access to the Autodesk complete portfolio of software products and Autodesk-related services and training. DLT Solutions is Autodesk’s master U.S. government reseller. The contract value under the BPA against which

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Amey Rolls Out Confirm OnDemand from Pitney Bowes Business Insight to Support Birmingham Highways Service

Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI), a global leader in customer data, analytics and customer communication software and services, has successfully deployed and mobilised Confirm OnDemand – PBBI’s on-demand asset maintenance and management system – for the Birmingham Highways Maintenance and Management Service, a £2.7bn project run by Amey in partnership with Birmingham City Council (BCC).

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

New Pythagoras Partner in Qatar- Al Shabeeb Precision Instruments

Pythagoras is a standalone CAD program that focuses on markets concerning surveying, constructing, engineering,… Powerful and user friendly drawing and calculation functions give the user the possibility to treat measurements accurately and to finish drawings swiftly. Thanks to the modular system, the user can compose a software package according his or her needs. Digital terrain models, road design, importing

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

City of Brantford Wins ESRI Canada’s Award of Excellence in GIS

ESRI Canada today presented the City of Brantford with an Award of Excellence for enhancing enterprise asset management using ESRI geographic information system (GIS) technology.  Since the 1990s, the City has recorded and managed information on the location and attributes of their municipal infrastructure.  To efficiently manage the large amount of data they have accumulated, the

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Elektro Celje – First Slovenian Electrical Utility to Introduce the ArcFM UT System

Elektro Celje is one of the leading electricity distribution companies in Slovenia, covering roughly 22% of the territory of Slovenia, comprising the regions of the Savinjska, the Koroška and lower Posavska with a total of around 50 municipalities. The distribution network consists from more than 3500 km high and average voltage power lines, 3500 transformer stations,

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Swiss Meteorological Network Upgrades with Precision GNSS Positioning

As part of a major upgrade and renewal of the Swiss Metrological Network of weather stations, the Swiss Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss, is employing an Ashtech® ProMark™ 500, smart GNSS receiver, to measure to centimetre-level accuracy the position of each of its more than 1,100 sensors located at 135 stations throughout the

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

Applanix Launches POS MV V5 for Hydrographic Surveys

Applanix announced today the release of POS MV™ V5  (Position and Orientation System for Marine Vessels), the next generation of its industry leading georeferencing and motion compensation system for hydrographic surveying. The announcement was made at Ocean Business 2011, a leading international hands-on ocean technology and training forum.