CAMPBELL, CA, Aug 31, 2023 – Centric Software, developer of an innovative product concept to launch platform and the product lifecycle management (PLM) market-leader, proudly announces the expansion of its partnership with leading lingerie brand, Triumph Group. Centric Software provides enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, price and sell products such as fashion, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics, cosmetics and food & beverage to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

One of the world’s leading intimate apparel companies, Triumph Group was founded in 1886 in Heubach, Germany and is 5^th generation family owned. Triumph has been crafting lingerie and helping women look and feel their best for over 135 years. Triumph is truly an international company serving 20,000 wholesale customers and selling its products in more than 2,300 points of sale as well as via several e-commerce sites.

In 2022, Triumph made the strategic decision to replace its legacy Merchandise Planning solution to be more aligned with the sophistication and nuances of the scale of the company.

“We identified very specific and strategic marketing and business demands as well as wanting to increase transparency across the board,” explains Pedro Monteiro, Global Sales Planning Lead at Triumph. “We need a more robust solution, specifically covering the merchandise planning process. And it made sense for us to enter this new phase harnessing AI and machine learning technologies for forecasting.”

Monteiro and his team were familiar with Centric Software, as Triumph has been using Centric’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM) solution since 2015. One of their criteria was to find a tool that could easily integrate with Centric PLM but ultimately Triumph selected Centric Planning for its innovative technology and user feedback.

“Centric’s expertise and the product capabilities were evident during the demo process,” says Monteiro. “We saw a superior planning technology solution and Centric customer referrals shared positive feedback including rapid deployment, high user adoption and quick, tangible business results. We also liked that Centric Planning was built for the omni-channel age.”

“It’s a tree of complexity we need to gather in one platform where information is transparent and we can leverage automation for planning tasks,” explains Monteiro. “With Centric Planning we expect to be far more agile in two key areas — forecast accuracy and time to market by speeding all aspects of the planning process and rapidly responding to market changes.”

“Our trick has been involving a core team representing all user groups since the beginning of the vendor selection process,” shares Monteiro. “We all have a clear strategic vision of what we want and expect in the future, and top-level management is heavily involved.”

“I’m expecting life to be easier,” says Monteiro. “My team and I are excited to be bringing new opportunities to the business and ushering in a transformational change.”

“We are thrilled that Triumph has deepened their partnership with us by selecting Centric Planning for their digital transformation goals,” says Chris Groves, CEO of Centric Software. “We look forward to their continued success and growth through this exciting phase.”

About Triumph Group 

Triumph has been crafting lingerie for over 130 years, ensuring women look and feel their best. Since 1886 Triumph has understood that with perfectly fitting lingerie comes the feeling of true support, empowering women every day, all over the world. Triumph is one of the world’s largest intimate apparel companies.

It enjoys a presence in over 80 countries with the core brands Triumph® and sloggi®. Globally, the company serves 20,000 wholesale customers and sells its products in more than 2,300 controlled points of sale as well as via several own online shops. The Triumph Group is a member of the amfori Business Social Compliance Initiative (amfori BSCI).

For more information, visit uk.triumph.com. 

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides a product concept to launch platform for consumer goods such as fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics, cosmetics & personal care and food & beverage. Centric Software’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM), Centric PLM, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric Visual Boards offer highly visual, touch-screen experiences for collaboration and decision-making. Centric Planning is an innovative, cloud-native, augmented-intelligence solution delivering end-to-end retail planning to maximize retail and wholesale business performance. Centric Pricing is an AI-driven market insight platform for data-informed decision-making on pricing and product assortments to maximize revenue and margins. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry.

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

Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, including being named by Red Herring to its Top 100 Global list several times. Centric Software also received five excellence awards from Frost & Sullivan over the past decade and 4 excellence awards from Just Style.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

SANTA CLARA, CA, Aug 24, 2023 – Propel Software, creator of the first product value management (PVM) platform, speeds product innovation with the availability of its new Accelerated Value Services. Included in the company’s second major release of 2023, Propel packages best practice solutions that compress software implementations to as little as six weeks, demonstrating its commitment to rapid return on investment. Propel’s Accelerated Value Services provide operational excellence across product lifecycle management (PLM), quality management (QMS), and product information management (PIM) software solutions.

Propel PVM connects commercial and product teams with one, continuous product thread to optimize decision making and remove process silos. This heightened product collaboration across the enterprise drives increased product value, faster. Propel Accelerated Value Services prioritize product value throughout the development process giving companies of any size a competitive, go-to-market advantage enabling swift and selective implementations of PLM, QMS and PIM. Customers can scale their solution to specific needs implementing any software combination based on market or business urgency.

Cyberdontics, a leading innovator in image-guided robotic restorative dentistry, recently completed its Propel Accelerated Value Services implementation. “Propel has been a game changer for our team in the implementation of our Quality Management System as we prepare to launch our first-generation devices. We were able to configure workflows, seamlessly integrate into our processes, and reach full deployment in half the estimated time,” said Scott Robinson, Director of Quality Assurance, Cyberdontics. “It’s a robust solution that will support us as we strategically scale our business.”

“Companies are often in the race of their lives to create and launch new products to capture valuable market share. Today’s market conditions require scalable solutions that are easy to adopt. Our Summer release gives customers a leg up on the competition as they implement best practices to achieve product value more effectively,” said Eric Schrader, CPO of Propel. “Coupled with our continuous enhancement of core business processes and workflows like change management, we’re truly demonstrating how Propel can drive operational excellence for product companies.”

In the Summer ‘23 release, Propel also unveils new features tailored to improve business processes through enhanced user experiences. These enhancements prioritize streamlined collaboration and refined analytics, offering groundbreaking innovation that positively affects profitability. Updates to workspace reporting have introduced standardized fields, allowing users to perform actionable queries. Questions like, “Which of my parts are single-sourced?” or “Which of my tasks are late?” can now be easily answered. Propel also includes many preloaded reports and has made the process of querying not only user friendly, but also shareable internally with teams, externally with partners, and across an engaged community of Propel customers.

Propel’s Summer ‘23 release is currently available.

About Propel Software

Propel helps product companies grow revenue and increase business value. Their product value management platform connects commercial and product teams to optimize decision making, drive process efficiencies, and engage customers with compelling products and experiences. Propel has a proven track record of improving product quality, speeding time to revenue and profit, and improving customer satisfaction. Recognized multiple times as a Deloitte Technology Fast 500 winner, Propel is built on Salesforce and drives product success for hyper growth startups, corporate pioneers, and Fortune 500 leaders in the high tech, medtech and consumer goods industries.

For more information, visit www.propelsoftware.com.

CAMPBELL, CA, Aug 2, 2023 – Zhongqiao Sports, a leader in China’s sporting goods industry, has successfully implemented Centric Software’s product lifecycle management (PLM) solution. Centric Software provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source and sell products such as apparel, footwear, sporting goods, furniture, home décor, cosmetics, food & beverage and luxury to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Since its establishment in 2000, Zhongqiao Sports has been involved in the design, R&D, production and marketing of sports shoes, clothing and accessories for adults and children. Zhongqiao Sports has nearly 6,000 brand stores across China and a number of well-known brands such as QIAODAN, QIAODAN KIDS and UMBRO.

Zhongqiao Sports needs greater digital integration to fulfill its consumer-oriented goals and keep up with the demands of local markets and global competition. Until now, their entire R&D process was managed using spreadsheets, resulting in low efficiency and difficulties in disseminating and obtaining development data.

Zhongqiao Sports is seeking exponential growth and has implemented Centric PLM to establish a platform that will digitalize R&D, standardize processes and data, facilitate rapid information sharing and improve cross-departmental collaboration.

Mr. Ma Lei, general manager of Zhongqiao Sports, says, “Zhongqiao Sports will soon establish a complete lifecycle management platform for every product line from planning and R&D to production. A one-stop digital platform will enable us to review progress efficiently, identify risks in time and quickly optimize products. Over the past 6 months of implementation, every colleague involved in the project has contributed to managing excellent results using Centric PLM.”

“Centric has already helped us integrate the best practices in the industry, and this PLM project is implemented on the shoulders of giants,” he concludes.

“We are honored to partner with Zhongqiao Sports to lay the foundation for their digital transformation,” says Chris Groves, president of Centric Software. “Now that Centric PLM has been implemented successfully, we look forward to working with Zhongqiao Sports to realize their ambitions for exponential business growth.”

About Zhongqiao Sports

ZHONGQIAO SPORTS was founded in 2000 and is mainly engaged in the design, development, manufacturing, marketing and sales of athletic footwear, apparel and accessories. Acting upon the core values of “consumer-orientation, integrity, innovation, collaboration and sharing”, ZHONGQIAO SPORTS has grown to be a leading company in China’s sportswear and gear industry.

ZHONGQIAO SPORTS products are sold through about 6,000 retail accounts in China, covering 31 provinces, cities and autonomous regions. The company is operating multiple well-known brands including QIAODAN, QIAODAN KIDS and UMBRO. Product pipeline covers many categories which are basketball, running, training, outdoor, new lifestyle and qiaodan zhizao. Nowadays, ZHONGQIAO SPORTS attracts millions of loyal consumers and continually strengthens its brand reputation, competitiveness and impact in worldwide every year.

For more information, visit www.qiaodan.com.

About Centric Software

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides a product concept to launch platform for consumer goods such as fashion, retail, footwear, luxury, outdoor, consumer electronics, cosmetics & personal care and food & beverage. Centric Software’s flagship product lifecycle management (PLM), Centric PLM, delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric Visual Boards offer highly visual, touch-screen experiences for collaboration and decision-making. Centric Planning is an innovative, cloud-native, augmented-intelligence solution delivering end-to-end retail planning to maximize retail and wholesale business performance.  Centric Pricing, is an AI-driven market insight platform for data-informed decision-making on pricing and product assortments to maximize revenue and margins. Among many other market-driven innovations, Centric Software is widely known for its connectivity to dozens of other enterprise systems, including ERP, DAM, PIM, e-com and more, in addition to creative tools such as Adobe Illustrator, a host of 3D CAD connectors and sustainability tools, such as HIGG. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry.

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

Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, including being named by Red Herring to its Top 100 Global list several times. Centric Software also received five excellence awards from Frost & Sullivan over the past decade.

For more information, visit www.centricsoftware.com.

JOHN’S and LABRADOR, Canada, July 20, 2023 – CoLab Software has announced a new partnership with PTC through their Partner Advantage Program. Through this program, PTC invests in enabling and growing its partners for the benefit of joint customers worldwide.

CoLab is a cloud based platform purpose built for fast, effective design review. Using CoLab, multiple engineers, designers, and other stakeholders can review designs together and build off one another’s feedback. The result is a more effective stage gate process for new product development, along with improved value analysis workshops and design for manufacturability exercises.

By digitizing these conversations, which often happen outside of PLM, CoLab provides an avenue to incorporate that data back into PTC Windchill, and contribute to a stronger digital thread ecosystem.

With Windchill, Creo, and CoLab, customers can easily create designs, communicate design intent, make decisions together quickly, and release those decisions to the rest of their organization. PTC customers using CoLab for complex review have accelerated design cycles 2x, achieved 8 figure cost reduction targets, and tapped into more supplier design expertise.

Adam Keating, CEO of CoLab said, “We are thrilled to officially partner with PTC to advance the goals of our shared customers, build stronger integrations between our products, and realize a shared vision of engineering teams bringing life changing products to market years sooner.”

“We are excited to bring CoLab into our technology partner program,” added Nick Samardzija, Product Manager at PTC. “Together with our products and expertise, we are looking to bring forward a solution to enable better collaboration among our customers’ teams using CoLab’s innovative Design Review capabilities together with Windchill, PTC’s enterprise PLM solution.”

To learn more about how PTC customers are using CoLab, visit https://www.colabsoftware.com/case-studies.

About CoLab

CoLab founders Adam Keating and Jeremy Andrews started their careers as mechanical engineers. They came up with the idea for CoLab in 2017, while working on Tesla’s model 3 and designing advanced medical devices. Today, engineers at companies like Ford, Komatsu, and Johnson Controls use CoLab to review designs faster, prevent mistakes, and build the next generation of innovative products.

Learn more at www.colabsoftware.com.

ANDOVER, MA, July 20, 2023 – Aras, which provides the most powerful low-code application platform to design, build, and operate complex products, announced that the company has brought on Josh Epstein as chief marketing officer (CMO).

Epstein is an accomplished technology CMO with a record of building category-defining enterprise technology brands across a variety of industries. Most recently, he served as CMO at AtScale, a data and analytics software provider helping enterprise data teams modernize business intelligence and analytics for the cloud. He has held marketing leadership positions at both venture-backed startups and global technology leaders, including ObserveIt, Kaminario, Oracle, and Dell/EMC.

At Aras, Epstein will focus on driving global awareness of the company’s differentiated approach to managing data across the product lifecycle, from design to manufacturing to support. He will lean on his track record of turning great technologies into category-defining brands to help redefine the product lifecycle management (PLM) category and further Aras’ mission to deliver flexible solutions that support companies’ digital transformation journeys. Those efforts will include fostering more opportunities for existing customers to expand their usage and better integrate with other adjacent technologies.

Josh Epstein, CMO, Aras, said: “Aras has an incredible technology vision and a loyal customer base.  That, along with the company’s impressive management team and investors, drew me to this role. I see enormous opportunity to build on Aras’ position as a force for digital transformation in modern product design and manufacturing. I look forward to helping grow broader awareness of the value, innovation, and flexibility of our platform.”

Roque Martin, CEO, Aras, said: “We have reimagined product lifecycle management with our open, flexible, and upgradable solutions. As we continue to grow, we need a top-notch marketing executive who can help tell the Aras story to a broader audience. Josh is that person, and we are excited to see where he can lead our brand.”

About Aras

Aras provides the most powerful low-code platform with applications to design, build, and operate complex products. Its technology enables the rapid delivery of flexible, upgradeable solutions that build business resilience. Aras’ platform and product lifecycle management applications connect users in all disciplines and functions to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain. Airbus, Audi, DENSO, Honda, Kawasaki, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, and Nissan are using the platform to manage complex change and traceability.

For more information, visit www.aras.com.