The Autodesk University 2009 wrap up report summarized the key results and feedback from the event. It noted that there were over 5,800 attendees on site and 19,000 virtual attendees. Media coverage included over 190 news articles and blog posts. Surveys of media attendees found high satisfaction with content and organization, and opportunities to improve certain events and increase structured interactions. The report provided recommendations to enhance the media and attendee experience for Autodesk University 2010.
Autodesk Manufacturing Community start verkiezing “Inventor of the Year 2009”Serge Beckers
Autodesk, leverancier van 2D- en 3D-ontwerpsoftware, roept de leden van zijn Manufacturing Community op hun stem uit te brengen in het kader van de verkiezing “Inventor of the Year 2009”.
Via de website http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com kunnen de Community-leden bepalen welke Inventor of the Month gekroond moet worden tot Inventor of the Year.
Amerikaanse werktuigbouwkundige ziet vraag naar duurzaam ontwerp toenemenSerge Beckers
The survey found that mechanical engineers expect to do more sustainable design work in 2010, with a 6% increase over 2009. More than two-thirds of mechanical engineers have worked on sustainable products and over half of engineering students study sustainable design. The top priorities for sustainable design are reducing energy usage and emissions in products and more efficient manufacturing processes that use less energy and resources.
Autodesk neemt visualisatiepakketten Dynamite VSP en Dynamite SIM overSerge Beckers
Autodesk, leverancier van 2D- en 3D-ontwerpsoftware, neemt de visualisatiesoftwarepakketten Dynamite VSP en Dynamite SIM over van 3AM Solutions. Dynamite VSP en Dynamite SIM zijn speciaal ontworpen voor gebruik in de civiele infrastructuur.
Autodesk announced the new Autodesk Inventor Publisher Technology Preview is available on Autodesk Labs. The Inventor Publisher technology is easy-to-use software for creating interactive, 3D product documentation that delivers clear and comprehensive technical instructions.
Autodesk Manufacturing Community start verkiezing “Inventor of the Year 2009”Serge Beckers
Autodesk, leverancier van 2D- en 3D-ontwerpsoftware, roept de leden van zijn Manufacturing Community op hun stem uit te brengen in het kader van de verkiezing “Inventor of the Year 2009”.
Via de website http://mfgcommunity.autodesk.com kunnen de Community-leden bepalen welke Inventor of the Month gekroond moet worden tot Inventor of the Year.
Amerikaanse werktuigbouwkundige ziet vraag naar duurzaam ontwerp toenemenSerge Beckers
The survey found that mechanical engineers expect to do more sustainable design work in 2010, with a 6% increase over 2009. More than two-thirds of mechanical engineers have worked on sustainable products and over half of engineering students study sustainable design. The top priorities for sustainable design are reducing energy usage and emissions in products and more efficient manufacturing processes that use less energy and resources.
Autodesk neemt visualisatiepakketten Dynamite VSP en Dynamite SIM overSerge Beckers
Autodesk, leverancier van 2D- en 3D-ontwerpsoftware, neemt de visualisatiesoftwarepakketten Dynamite VSP en Dynamite SIM over van 3AM Solutions. Dynamite VSP en Dynamite SIM zijn speciaal ontworpen voor gebruik in de civiele infrastructuur.
Autodesk announced the new Autodesk Inventor Publisher Technology Preview is available on Autodesk Labs. The Inventor Publisher technology is easy-to-use software for creating interactive, 3D product documentation that delivers clear and comprehensive technical instructions.
The document provides an overview of the training organization Zone24x7. It describes Zone24x7 as a technological company that provides hardware and software solutions. It details Zone24x7's organizational structure, products and services, partners and clients, and an assessment of its current position including strengths, weaknesses and suggestions. The training experience involved working on various software development projects at Zone24x7 to gain exposure to tools, technologies and company practices.
LinkedTV Deliverable 6.5 - Final evaluation of the LinkedTV ScenariosLinkedTV
The deliverable presents the results of evaluating the final
scenario demonstrators LinkedNews and LinkedCulture in the LinkedTV project. We tested specifically user satisfaction with the enriched TV experience we enabled for cultural heritage and news TV programs. We also supported the evaluation of other aspects of the LinkedTV technologies in the trials, specifically the personalization and content curation.
Is Lean UX Agile’s Brain? How Lean UX Fixes Common Agile ChallengesFITC
Agile development methods are sweeping the software industry, but reconciling UX, Agile and stakeholder demands for certainty are a struggle for many companies.
Expanding on a (in)famous “Agile doesn’t have brain” quote, Nick Van Weerdenburg, founder of Rangleio, shares his insights from 60+ modern front-end JavaScript projects on how Lean UX can drive the conversations that drive the creation of the right solution for the right audience.
Objective
Show the audience how Lean UX practices can drive the conversations that drive the effective adoption of Agile in companies small and large.
Target Audience
Managers, designers, developers and anyone who has a vested interest in build the right software for the right audience in the most effective manner.
Assumed Audience Knowledge
A basic knowledge User experience and Agile development.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
How to connect the user to the Agile development process
How to use Lean UX to drive Agile prioritization
How Lean UX creates the right conversations and eliminates the wrong ones
How to avoid UX design become a defacto waterfall process
How to use Lean UX to help drive effective enterprise transformation to Agile practices
BlogWell Chicago Social Media Case Study: Chevron, presented by Robert RainesSocialMedia.org
In his BlogWell case study, "Chevron Pulse Report: The State of Online Conversation About Energy Issues," Chevron's Manager of Corporate Interactive Communications, Robert Raines, shared how they are taking social media monitoring to the next level to build awareness of energy issues.
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BlogWell is the only conference where social media executives from big brands come together to share their case studies, offer practical how-to advice, and answer your questions.
To learn more about BlogWell, visit gaspedal.com/blogwell/
BlogWell is produced by GasPedal and the Social Media Business Council.
Learn More: gaspedal.com and socialmedia.org
Investing in BIM: Guide for architects.Yegor Shulyk
Following an introduction by Chief Government Construction Advisor Paul Morrell it then looks at what BIM is, the business benefits, survey results, legal issues, insurance, software and standards around the world. Finally there are a number of really interesting case studies from architects, clients and contractors. At over 100 pages it is a very thorough and well put together publication.
One of the great things about BIM is the way that many of those involved in making it happen it in the UK are so approachable via social media. The Editorial Board that provided guidance on the production are all active on Twitter:
The document appears to be a marketing analysis report for Videocon Industries Ltd, an Indian consumer electronics and home appliances company. It provides an overview of Videocon's business sectors, organizational structure, production processes, and marketing strategies. The analysis also examines the consumer electronics industry, Videocon's competitors, and performs a SWOT analysis of the company.
The document outlines the typical project life cycle including definition, proposal, planning, execution, and phase-out stages. It then provides more details on the activities involved in each stage such as establishing objectives, scope, milestones, budgets, and risks for the definition and proposal stages, work breakdown structure, roles, and resource planning for the planning stage, and development, testing, and monitoring for the execution stage. Finally, it includes examples of project structure, Gantt chart, resource allocation, and budgets.
Webinar: How to Manage Your Project to Completion Using the Project BuilderGoLeanSixSigma.com
Improving a process takes time and organization, but what if your project path was laid out for you? What if all the templates and examples were at your fingertips so you could focus your efforts on collecting data and digging to root cause?
That's the secret of the Project Builder. All the key tools and templates combined into one along with a progress tracker. It's a great guide and good way to share your hard work with colleagues and leadership. It's the ultimate all-in-one answer to Continuous Improvement!
https://goleansixsigma.com/webinar-how-to-manage-your-project-to-completion-using-the-project-builder/
Driving Innovation with Kanban at Jaguar Land RoverLeanKit
Find out how Kanban is accelerating product design and development at Jaguar Land Rover.
Watch the recorded webinar here: https://vimeo.com/172780037
Hamish McMinn, Automotive and IT Project Manager, will explain how Kanban is improving time, cost and quality across new vehicle development projects at Jaguar Land Rover.
You'll learn:
-Why new product development provides rich opportunities for continuous process improvement.
-Benefits and challenges of transferring agile software techniques to hardware design and development.
-How to visualize work, focus on flow and increase cross-functional collaboration using LeanKit.
Hamish will share learnings from the initial pilot project, and how Kanban is now being scaled across multiple engineering teams.
ETH GIS and Geoinformation Lab 2018: Discovering Mixed Reality (final present...Christian Sailer
ETH lecture about mobile Geoinformation Technologies
http://gis-lab.ethz.ch/
The purpose of this lab is using cutting-edge technologies to make geoinformation fun, interesting and intuitive.
The document outlines a presentation on UX strategy that includes 6 diagrams to master the topic in 10 minutes or less. The presentation agenda includes defining what UX strategy is, discussing 6 diagrams - define the problem, know your users, practice design thinking, acknowledge constraints, follow a design process, and test and iterate. The presentation concludes with a UX strategy checklist and sources for additional information.
This session will discuss strategies for incorporating all stakeholders, including committees, speakers and planners, into the logistics planning process for an event utilizing new technologies. The presenter will address challenges planners may face in learning new technologies and managing their implementation, and will advocate for empowering committees and speakers to interact and share responsibilities earlier in the planning process.
1. Why was Unicord successful in Thailand Describe the opportuni.docxpaynetawnya
1. Why was Unicord successful in Thailand? Describe the opportunities, challenges and the strategic choices taken by Unicord to overcome the institutional voids in becoming successful
2. What was the rationale for Unicord for acquiring Bumble Bee in USA? Why did Dumri persist in acquiring Bumble Bee in the midst of many bidders?
3. What caused the failure of the acquisition and the eventual collapse of Unicord ?
4. Unicord is a family conglomerate founded by Dumri. Would Unicord be better positioned if Unicord is managed by professional managers instead of centrally controlled by Dumri?
PROJECT SCHEDULING WITH PERT/CPM
********************************
*** PROJECT ACTIVITY LIST ***
IMMEDIATE OPTIMISTIC MOST PROBABLE PESSIMISTIC
ACTIVITY PREDECESSORS TIME TIME TIME
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A - 1.0 5.0 12.0
B - 1.0 1.5 5.0
C A 2.0 3.0 4.0
D A 3.0 4.0 11.0
E A 2.0 3.0 4.0
F C 1.5 2.0 2.5
G D 1.5 3.0 4.5
H B,E 2.5 3.5 7.5
I H 1.5 2.0 2.5
J F,G,I 1.0 2.0 3.0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
EXPECTED TIMES AND VARIANCES FOR ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY EXPECTED TIME VARIANCE
-------------------------------------------
A 5.5 3.36
B 2.0 0.44
C 3.0 0.11
D 5.0 1.78
E 3.0 0.11
F 2.0 0.03
G 3.0 0.25
H 4.0 0.69
I 2.0 0.03
J 2.0 0.11
-------------------------------------------
*** ACTIVITY SCHEDULE ***
EARLIEST LATEST EARLIEST LATEST CRITICAL
ACTIVITY START START FINISH FINISH SLACK ACTIVITY
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A 0.0 0.0 5.5 5.5 0.0 YES
B 0.0 6.5 ...
The Micro Focus AMC team are looking forward to hosting #DevDay50 back in Atlanta where the series began. It's in January 2019, the year that COBOL turns 60, so we thought it would be a great idea to pull some numbers about our DevDay events together. https://www.microfocus.com/events/dev-days/
20200522 computational bim community of practiceWoon Wei PONG
The Computational BIM Community of Practice aims to promote the widespread use of computational BIM through various activities:
- Monthly small group discussions explore how visual programming can solve work problems.
- Bi-monthly public sessions demonstrate solutions for awareness and panel discussions.
- Intensive 2-day workshops build skills in scripting with hands-on exercises.
- Upcoming events include webinars on generative design, code compliance using Python, and computational BIM for facilities management.
On the Road to 6D Challenges and Responsibilities in all Stages of the Projec...Mauricio Munoz
This document discusses the challenges of delivering a 6D BIM process that provides facilities management information. It describes four project situations showing how coordination, cost estimation, managing service openings, and verifying contractual requirements against the as-built model were addressed. Visualization tools, design reviews, and linking models to costing software and contracts helped optimize workflows for different stakeholders and deliver a successful 6D process.
Although essential to the survival of open source, it remains a challenge for many developers to get the companies they work for to provide paid support. At the moment, businesses around the world aren’t doing enough in this area, and they are certainly missing out in terms of innovation in the long term.
Het Arnhemse communicatie- en PR-bureau Wisse Kommunikatie startte op 15 september met de actie “Makelaar Overbodig”. Met dit initiatief wil het communicatiebureau aantonen dat de middelen waarvan de makelaardij zich traditioneel bedient niet meer bij de tijd zijn en dat de huidige consument zijn woning ook zelf kan verkopen. De actie wordt onder andere vormgegeven door middel van de website www.makelaaroverbodig.eu
The document provides an overview of the training organization Zone24x7. It describes Zone24x7 as a technological company that provides hardware and software solutions. It details Zone24x7's organizational structure, products and services, partners and clients, and an assessment of its current position including strengths, weaknesses and suggestions. The training experience involved working on various software development projects at Zone24x7 to gain exposure to tools, technologies and company practices.
LinkedTV Deliverable 6.5 - Final evaluation of the LinkedTV ScenariosLinkedTV
The deliverable presents the results of evaluating the final
scenario demonstrators LinkedNews and LinkedCulture in the LinkedTV project. We tested specifically user satisfaction with the enriched TV experience we enabled for cultural heritage and news TV programs. We also supported the evaluation of other aspects of the LinkedTV technologies in the trials, specifically the personalization and content curation.
Is Lean UX Agile’s Brain? How Lean UX Fixes Common Agile ChallengesFITC
Agile development methods are sweeping the software industry, but reconciling UX, Agile and stakeholder demands for certainty are a struggle for many companies.
Expanding on a (in)famous “Agile doesn’t have brain” quote, Nick Van Weerdenburg, founder of Rangleio, shares his insights from 60+ modern front-end JavaScript projects on how Lean UX can drive the conversations that drive the creation of the right solution for the right audience.
Objective
Show the audience how Lean UX practices can drive the conversations that drive the effective adoption of Agile in companies small and large.
Target Audience
Managers, designers, developers and anyone who has a vested interest in build the right software for the right audience in the most effective manner.
Assumed Audience Knowledge
A basic knowledge User experience and Agile development.
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
How to connect the user to the Agile development process
How to use Lean UX to drive Agile prioritization
How Lean UX creates the right conversations and eliminates the wrong ones
How to avoid UX design become a defacto waterfall process
How to use Lean UX to help drive effective enterprise transformation to Agile practices
BlogWell Chicago Social Media Case Study: Chevron, presented by Robert RainesSocialMedia.org
In his BlogWell case study, "Chevron Pulse Report: The State of Online Conversation About Energy Issues," Chevron's Manager of Corporate Interactive Communications, Robert Raines, shared how they are taking social media monitoring to the next level to build awareness of energy issues.
---
BlogWell is the only conference where social media executives from big brands come together to share their case studies, offer practical how-to advice, and answer your questions.
To learn more about BlogWell, visit gaspedal.com/blogwell/
BlogWell is produced by GasPedal and the Social Media Business Council.
Learn More: gaspedal.com and socialmedia.org
Investing in BIM: Guide for architects.Yegor Shulyk
Following an introduction by Chief Government Construction Advisor Paul Morrell it then looks at what BIM is, the business benefits, survey results, legal issues, insurance, software and standards around the world. Finally there are a number of really interesting case studies from architects, clients and contractors. At over 100 pages it is a very thorough and well put together publication.
One of the great things about BIM is the way that many of those involved in making it happen it in the UK are so approachable via social media. The Editorial Board that provided guidance on the production are all active on Twitter:
The document appears to be a marketing analysis report for Videocon Industries Ltd, an Indian consumer electronics and home appliances company. It provides an overview of Videocon's business sectors, organizational structure, production processes, and marketing strategies. The analysis also examines the consumer electronics industry, Videocon's competitors, and performs a SWOT analysis of the company.
The document outlines the typical project life cycle including definition, proposal, planning, execution, and phase-out stages. It then provides more details on the activities involved in each stage such as establishing objectives, scope, milestones, budgets, and risks for the definition and proposal stages, work breakdown structure, roles, and resource planning for the planning stage, and development, testing, and monitoring for the execution stage. Finally, it includes examples of project structure, Gantt chart, resource allocation, and budgets.
Webinar: How to Manage Your Project to Completion Using the Project BuilderGoLeanSixSigma.com
Improving a process takes time and organization, but what if your project path was laid out for you? What if all the templates and examples were at your fingertips so you could focus your efforts on collecting data and digging to root cause?
That's the secret of the Project Builder. All the key tools and templates combined into one along with a progress tracker. It's a great guide and good way to share your hard work with colleagues and leadership. It's the ultimate all-in-one answer to Continuous Improvement!
https://goleansixsigma.com/webinar-how-to-manage-your-project-to-completion-using-the-project-builder/
Driving Innovation with Kanban at Jaguar Land RoverLeanKit
Find out how Kanban is accelerating product design and development at Jaguar Land Rover.
Watch the recorded webinar here: https://vimeo.com/172780037
Hamish McMinn, Automotive and IT Project Manager, will explain how Kanban is improving time, cost and quality across new vehicle development projects at Jaguar Land Rover.
You'll learn:
-Why new product development provides rich opportunities for continuous process improvement.
-Benefits and challenges of transferring agile software techniques to hardware design and development.
-How to visualize work, focus on flow and increase cross-functional collaboration using LeanKit.
Hamish will share learnings from the initial pilot project, and how Kanban is now being scaled across multiple engineering teams.
ETH GIS and Geoinformation Lab 2018: Discovering Mixed Reality (final present...Christian Sailer
ETH lecture about mobile Geoinformation Technologies
http://gis-lab.ethz.ch/
The purpose of this lab is using cutting-edge technologies to make geoinformation fun, interesting and intuitive.
The document outlines a presentation on UX strategy that includes 6 diagrams to master the topic in 10 minutes or less. The presentation agenda includes defining what UX strategy is, discussing 6 diagrams - define the problem, know your users, practice design thinking, acknowledge constraints, follow a design process, and test and iterate. The presentation concludes with a UX strategy checklist and sources for additional information.
This session will discuss strategies for incorporating all stakeholders, including committees, speakers and planners, into the logistics planning process for an event utilizing new technologies. The presenter will address challenges planners may face in learning new technologies and managing their implementation, and will advocate for empowering committees and speakers to interact and share responsibilities earlier in the planning process.
1. Why was Unicord successful in Thailand Describe the opportuni.docxpaynetawnya
1. Why was Unicord successful in Thailand? Describe the opportunities, challenges and the strategic choices taken by Unicord to overcome the institutional voids in becoming successful
2. What was the rationale for Unicord for acquiring Bumble Bee in USA? Why did Dumri persist in acquiring Bumble Bee in the midst of many bidders?
3. What caused the failure of the acquisition and the eventual collapse of Unicord ?
4. Unicord is a family conglomerate founded by Dumri. Would Unicord be better positioned if Unicord is managed by professional managers instead of centrally controlled by Dumri?
PROJECT SCHEDULING WITH PERT/CPM
********************************
*** PROJECT ACTIVITY LIST ***
IMMEDIATE OPTIMISTIC MOST PROBABLE PESSIMISTIC
ACTIVITY PREDECESSORS TIME TIME TIME
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A - 1.0 5.0 12.0
B - 1.0 1.5 5.0
C A 2.0 3.0 4.0
D A 3.0 4.0 11.0
E A 2.0 3.0 4.0
F C 1.5 2.0 2.5
G D 1.5 3.0 4.5
H B,E 2.5 3.5 7.5
I H 1.5 2.0 2.5
J F,G,I 1.0 2.0 3.0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
EXPECTED TIMES AND VARIANCES FOR ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY EXPECTED TIME VARIANCE
-------------------------------------------
A 5.5 3.36
B 2.0 0.44
C 3.0 0.11
D 5.0 1.78
E 3.0 0.11
F 2.0 0.03
G 3.0 0.25
H 4.0 0.69
I 2.0 0.03
J 2.0 0.11
-------------------------------------------
*** ACTIVITY SCHEDULE ***
EARLIEST LATEST EARLIEST LATEST CRITICAL
ACTIVITY START START FINISH FINISH SLACK ACTIVITY
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A 0.0 0.0 5.5 5.5 0.0 YES
B 0.0 6.5 ...
The Micro Focus AMC team are looking forward to hosting #DevDay50 back in Atlanta where the series began. It's in January 2019, the year that COBOL turns 60, so we thought it would be a great idea to pull some numbers about our DevDay events together. https://www.microfocus.com/events/dev-days/
20200522 computational bim community of practiceWoon Wei PONG
The Computational BIM Community of Practice aims to promote the widespread use of computational BIM through various activities:
- Monthly small group discussions explore how visual programming can solve work problems.
- Bi-monthly public sessions demonstrate solutions for awareness and panel discussions.
- Intensive 2-day workshops build skills in scripting with hands-on exercises.
- Upcoming events include webinars on generative design, code compliance using Python, and computational BIM for facilities management.
On the Road to 6D Challenges and Responsibilities in all Stages of the Projec...Mauricio Munoz
This document discusses the challenges of delivering a 6D BIM process that provides facilities management information. It describes four project situations showing how coordination, cost estimation, managing service openings, and verifying contractual requirements against the as-built model were addressed. Visualization tools, design reviews, and linking models to costing software and contracts helped optimize workflows for different stakeholders and deliver a successful 6D process.
Although essential to the survival of open source, it remains a challenge for many developers to get the companies they work for to provide paid support. At the moment, businesses around the world aren’t doing enough in this area, and they are certainly missing out in terms of innovation in the long term.
Het Arnhemse communicatie- en PR-bureau Wisse Kommunikatie startte op 15 september met de actie “Makelaar Overbodig”. Met dit initiatief wil het communicatiebureau aantonen dat de middelen waarvan de makelaardij zich traditioneel bedient niet meer bij de tijd zijn en dat de huidige consument zijn woning ook zelf kan verkopen. De actie wordt onder andere vormgegeven door middel van de website www.makelaaroverbodig.eu
Twitter: Social Network Or News Medium?Serge Beckers
This document analyzes Twitter as a social network and news media by studying its topological characteristics and information diffusion. The authors:
1) Crawled over 41 million user profiles, 1.47 billion social connections, and 106 million tweets to analyze Twitter's structure and behavior.
2) Found that Twitter has a non-power law distribution of followers, short paths of separation between users, and low reciprocity - distinguishing it from other social networks.
3) Ranked users by followers, PageRank and retweets, finding influence inferred from followers differs from popularity of tweets.
4) Analyzed trending topics and found most are news headlines that persist for days with participation from many users.
2009 Social Media & Online Usage StudySerge Beckers
Of the 371 surveyed:
· Almost 9 out of 10 journalists reported using Blogs for their online research (89%).
· Only Corporate websites (96%) is used by more journalists when doing online research for a story.
- Approximately two-thirds reported using Social Networking sites and just over half make use of Twitter for
online research.
Other insights: check out the file
Autodesk University 2009 Manufacturing updateSerge Beckers
At Autodesk University 2009, Autodesk, Inc. is highlighting a series of innovative real-world applications of Digital Prototyping with Autodesk Inventor software. Autodesk is also hosting an extensive virtual event on AU Virtual, enabling customers around the world with limited time to participate. Check out BattleBots, First 3D-Printed Jet Engine and Commercial Spaceflight Pioneer at Autodesk University 2009.
SpeakeasyFX created the first 3D animated Muppet segments for Sesame Street called "Abby's Flying Fairy School" using Autodesk Softimage software. The 13 segments featured Abby Cadabby and friends attending fairy school. Softimage allowed SpeakeasyFX to animate over 500 characters and props, including advanced fur and cloth simulations to make the digital Muppets move like hand puppets. The software also enabled quick generation of magic effects through its Interactive Creative Environment.
The document summarizes a new technology preview of Autodesk Inventor Fusion that introduces bidirectional workflows between direct and parametric modeling. It allows users to switch between modeling approaches freely and updates models automatically when changes are made. The preview also includes a new change manager functionality that enables editing models in Inventor Fusion and updating them in Autodesk Inventor. Additional enhancements improve usability, productivity and collaboration. The technology preview is available for download until June 2010 in various countries.
Autodesk announced the release of Constructware 2010, an updated version of its construction project management software. The new version provides enhancements in areas like data accessibility, reporting, usability, and administration. It offers improved reporting features like the ability to subscribe to periodic reporting data updates and bundle multiple reports together. Constructware 2010 also features enhanced file viewing support and increased customization options to better meet customer needs.
Autodesk Announces Support For Windows 7Serge Beckers
Autodesk announced it will support Windows 7 for nine of its 2010 software products including AutoCAD 2010 and Autodesk Inventor 2010. Autodesk and Microsoft share a goal of making tasks easier for customers by supporting the new operating system. Autodesk will also take advantage of new capabilities in Windows 7 like multi-touch for drawing and drafting software.
The US House of Representatives voted to provide $560 million in funding for the development of the GE Rolls-Royce F136 engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as an alternative to a sole-source engine. The F136 engine supports over 2,500 jobs and is on budget and on schedule. Rolls-Royce applauded the vote that maintains competition on the program and avoids a $100 billion engine monopoly for the largest fighter program.
Top 100 Companies\' Engagement in social mediaSerge Beckers
The goals of the study were to measure how deeply engaged the top 100 global brands are in a variety of social media channels and, more importantly, understand if higher engagement is correlated with financial performance. We found that not only could we quantifiably measure engagement, we could also understand how more engaged companies tap an engagement mindset to perform better. The report lists some of the key findings.