Berne Apparel Selects Centric PLM

CAMPBELL, CA, Mar 26, 2024 – Centric Software, the product lifecycle management (PLM) market leader is pleased to announce that Berne Apparel, a leading workwear company has selected Centric PLM to drive efficiency. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Founded in 1915, Berne Apparel is privately held and based in Ossian, Indiana. The company produces durable, affordable workwear and outdoor clothing for men, women and children. Products include insulated outerwear, tops, bottoms and accessories, with expansion to new categories coming in the future. Berne Apparel’s products can be found at bernedirect.com, at farm & agriculture retailers, and through industrial distributors.

Amanda Campbell, product development manager at Berne Apparel, highlights the necessity for streamlined processes and a centralized repository for product information as the decision driver. She explains, “Our current systems include detailed internally developed programs housing specification data, coupled with Excel use and catalog references.” Campbell points out, “We are looking for increased efficiency to reduce repetitive tasks and manual data entry. We are also looking for a solution to provide real-time visibility to assortment development, material management, and sourcing in one place.”

A key factor that influenced Berne Apparel’s decision to choose Centric was the impressive range of well-known brands already using Centric Software. Campbell says, “I know there are companies that have switched over to Centric PLM from another system. That’s not an easy thing to do, so that gave Centric credit in my mind. I have experience in a handful of other PLM systems prior to my time at Berne, and was impressed with its ease of navigation and ability to configure as needed without hidden costs.”

Campbell explains some out-of-the-box benefits she sees with Centric PLM, “I know the system automation will make our workflows immediately more streamlined. I’m excited to link seasonal calendars to Centric, and fully utilize system generated reports to track development for real-time reporting. We will be using the AdobePLMC plug-in from initial launch, so designers can build products and artwork in-system as they create them, saving time.” She adds, “I like the familiar Excel-like feel of the interface. We have some teammates migrating to a PLM system for the first time.  Learning new systems and processes isn’t easy, and Centric has proven very intuitive as we’re on-boarding the greater team.  Its robust features are allowing us to establish repeatable, scalable processes to grow into the future.”

Berne Apparel will roll out Centric PLM in carefully planned phases across multiple key departments to ensure a smooth transition and optimal utilization. “The majority of our leadership team comes from an IT background, so high standards needed to be met before an outside system was seriously considered,” states Campbell. “Centric earned our trust as a partner in the exploration phase, and our trust has only grown during implementation as we’ve gotten to know their team. I’m looking forward to their continued guidance through best practices as we roll out internally, and as we onboard vendors in the future.”

President of Centric Software, Fabrice Canonge says, “We are thrilled that Berne Apparel, a growing heritage brand that has 100+ years of success behind them, has chosen to place their trust in Centric Software. We look forward to our association with Berne into their next century of business.”

About Berne Apparel

Berne Apparel has been in business for over 100 years, and since day one they have been committed to providing hard-working Americans with workwear that is made right, made to work, and made affordable.

Berne offers an extensive assortment of workwear for men, women and youth. Their products are known in the industry for their rugged quality and exceptional value. Their insulated items feature warmth options for every cold-weather situation, from arctic insulation to lightweight flannel lining. Their basics lines are year-round workwear staples —tough enough for grueling jobs and comfortable enough for all-day wear.

For more information, visit bernedirect.com.

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides a concept to customer solution experience for consumer goods such as fashion, outdoor, luxury, multi-category retail, grocery, food & beverage, cosmetics & personal care and consumer electronics to plan, design, develop, source, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric Software’s flagship solution Centric PLM brings cost savings and efficiency by optimizing product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture. Centric Planning is an innovative, cloud-native, augmented-intelligence solution delivering end-to-end planning capabilities to maximize retail and wholesale business performance. Centric Pricing & Inventory leverages AI to drive margin and revenue improvement by influencing demand via price and inventory optimization from pre-season to in-season to season completion. Centric Market Intelligence is an AI-driven, market insight platform for data-informed decision-making on competitor offers and pricing as well as consumer trends and buying behavior. Centric Visual Boards pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers.

Centric Software has the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition appears regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research.

Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes, the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

DataRobot to Accelerate Enterprise-Ready AI with NVIDIA

BOSTON, MA, Mar 26, 2024 – DataRobot, the leading AI platform at the forefront of value-driven AI innovation, today announced that its enterprise-ready AI solutions will be supercharged with NVIDIA technology to offer world-class performance, security and efficiency across the full AI lifecycle.

“Organizations across industries are eager to quickly and safely deliver on AI investments with tangible, real-world value,” said Venky Veeraraghavan, chief product officer, DataRobot. “Combining DataRobot’s full AI lifecycle platform and NVIDIA’s accelerated AI computing software stack and unique optimization technology, this collaboration brings together cutting-edge capabilities to enable organizations to rapidly build, confidently operate and govern AI solutions at scale to drive transformative business impact.”

This new collaboration with NVIDIA accelerates AI use case delivery. Customers can now:

Operate AI

  • Deploy fully-configured generative AI models with NVIDIA NIM microservices, included with NVIDIA AI Enterprise, which are designed to accelerate the deployment of generative AI across the cloud, data center and workstations. Achieve peak performance, security and scalability with pre-built model container microservices in the DataRobot AI Platform, optimized for execution on top of NVIDIA devices. Accelerate deployment, replacement and monitoring of deep learning and LLM models on any cloud or on premises, bringing GPU-powered infrastructure to the environment that fits business needs.
  • Integrate and run commercial and open-source LLMs natively on NVIDIA Triton Inference Server. Maintain full optionality while optimizing performance of GPU infrastructure.

Govern AI

  • Monitor and moderate LLMs with DataRobot custom metrics and NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails. Apply NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails to DataRobot LLM blueprints to align models with safety and security requirements, or modify and combine these models with DataRobot’s custom metrics to support exact monitoring needs.

Build AI

  • Compare LLM blueprint strategies in production, including NVIDIA Nemotron-3-8B LLMs. Leverage best-in-class LLMs to build generative AI applications that are uniquely tuned for an organization, with the visibility and performance needed to deliver the most optimal solution to your customers.
  • Utilize NVIDIA RAPIDS libraries within DataRobot Notebooks. Enhance end-to-end AI and data processing pipelines with a suite of GPU-accelerated data science and AI libraries to unleash development for any use case.

“Generative AI applications are key to helping businesses boost productivity with unprecedented personalization, product development and operations optimization,” said Anne Hecht, senior director of AI Software, NVIDIA. “DataRobot’s integrations with NVIDIA technology enhances productivity for practitioners and developers by reducing LLM deployment times from weeks to just a few minutes, maximizing inference performance efficiency and supercharging production AI for customers.”

To learn more about how DataRobot and NVIDIA are collaborating, visit https://www.datarobot.com/partners/technology-partners/nvidia.

About DataRobot

DataRobot is the leader in value-driven AI, empowering organizations to accelerate AI from idea to impact. With over a decade at the forefront of AI innovation, they know what it takes to make a real difference – to your bottom line, to your business vision, and to the world around us. Their open, end-to-end AI lifecycle platform allows your organization to quickly build, securely operate, and confidently govern your entire AI landscape from a single, unified experience. Organizations across industries and geographies trust DataRobot to help solve their biggest challenges with AI, leveraging generative and predictive capabilities today while providing the flexibility to adapt to the innovations of tomorrow.

Learn more at datarobot.com.

ProjectReady Extends Automated Project Site Setup

to Autodesk Construction Cloud

WHITE PLAINS, NY, Mar 26, 2024 – Collaborative project information management software provider for architects, engineers, contractors, and project owners, ProjectReady, announced its automated project site setup feature extends to Autodesk Construction Cloud, a portfolio of software and services that combines technology, a builders network and predictive insights for construction teams. This development marks a milestone in ProjectReady’s existing Autodesk integration as well as the continued evolution of the solution’s Integrated Data Environment (IDE), ensuring consistency and data alignment across different common data environments (CDEs) involved on a project.

Improve Consistency across Project Platforms

“Different professionals on a project will continue to depend on different digital tools to do their portion of the job,” said ProjectReady CEO Joe Giegerich. “Even when different platforms are used, team members still need to have access to project-related information. ProjectReady facilitates the free flow of information between CDEs while ensuring consistency of essential information.”

“With increasingly compressed timelines on construction projects, it’s important for teams to automate manual processes whenever they can,” said James Cook, Director of integrations and technology at Autodesk. “By automating project setup with ProjectReady, construction teams can move straight to tracking key data and milestones in Autodesk Construction Cloud and focus on their primary objective – building.”

Automate Autodesk Construction Cloud Project Site Creation

ProjectReady’s head of development Shaili Modi-Oza said a user can set up a new project in ProjectReady, instantly connect external CDEs, and simultaneously create projects in Autodesk Construction Cloud, Procore, and Microsoft 365 with authoritative data and information pulled from the organization’s ERP, CRM or accounting system to ensure accuracy and consistency.

By automating setup of Autodesk Construction Cloud projects and connections to other platforms, all systems involved will share the same Project ID, consistent metadata, and a unified process. This ensures alignment, delivers a scalable taxonomy, and establishes a single source of truth across platforms.

ProjectReady offers long-standing, unique value to Autodesk Construction Cloud users, including content synchronization, the ability to quickly search for information across connected platforms, and an email management solution that lets users register email and attachments directly to Autodesk Construction Cloud while making email actionable in the context of a project. ProjectReady’s WorkBridge allows Autodesk Construction Cloud and Procore users to work together on Requests for Information (RFIs)/Issues without having to leave their preferred platform.

For more information, visit www.project-ready.com or the Autodesk App Store.

OMNIVISION Unveils OX08D10 with TheiaCel

SANTA CLARA, CA, Mar 26, 2024 – OMNIVISION, a leading global developer of semiconductor solutions, including advanced digital imaginganalog and touch and display technology, announced that its OX08D10 8-megapixel CMOS image sensor with TheiaCel technology is now compatible with the NVIDIA Omniverse development platform.

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NVIDIA Omniverse is a platform of application programming interfaces (APIs), software development kits (SDKs) and services that enables developers to easily integrate Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) and RTX rendering technologies into their 3D applications and services. Such applications include high-fidelity, physically based simulation for accelerated autonomous vehicle (AV) development.

The recently announced OX08D10 is the first image sensor that features OMNIVISION’s new 2.1-micron (µm) TheiaCel technology, which harnesses the capabilities of next-generation lateral overflow integration capacitors (LOFIC) and OMNIVISION’s DCG high dynamic range (HDR) technology to accurately capture LED lights without any flickering artifact for nearly all driving conditions. TheiaCel enables the OX08D10 to achieve HDR image capture at up to 200 meters. This range is the sweet spot for delivering the best balance between SNR1 and dynamic range and is optimal for automotive exterior camera applications. The OX08D10 features industry-leading low-light performance and low power consumption in a compact size that is 50% smaller than other exterior cabin sensors in its class.

“The OX08D10 is OMNIVISION’s flagship image sensor that features our TheiaCel technology, ushering in a new era to low-light sensitivity in an easy-to-implement solution that yields dramatic improvements in image quality,” said Dr. Paul Wu, head of automotive product marketing, OMNIVISION. “We are proud to be part of the ecosystem of NVIDIA partners who are working together to accelerate AV development. Today, we are excited to announce that the OX08D10 is now compatible with NVIDIA Omniverse, a powerful platform for high-fidelity sensor simulation capabilities, reducing automotive OEM development efforts and cost.”

The new OX08D10 features OMNIVISION’s a-CSP package technology for the smallest possible solution available today. Samples are available now, and the OX08D10 will be in mass production in the second half of 2024.

About OMNIVISION

OMNIVISION is a global fabless semiconductor organization that develops advanced digital imaging, analog and touch & display solutions for multiple applications and industries, including mobile phones; security and surveillance; automotive; computing; medical; and emerging applications. Its award-winning innovative technologies enable a smoother human/machine interface in many of today’s commercial devices.

Find out more at www.ovt.com.