BrightArch AS, an independent provider of data-driven organizational change solutions and software, today announced that COWI Norway AS, an engineering consultancy, deployed OrganizationWeaver™ to implement an internal career system for their employees.

OrganizationWeaver is BrightArch’s software toolkit to gather, manage, and analyze organizational data and individual input to drive meaningful change. COWI Norway specifically deployed OrganizationWeaver Map™ and OrganizationWeaver Manage™ to implement their career system.

Gry Slemmén, Human Resource Director at COWI Norway, said “Our goal was to ensure that our career system was implemented in a way that engages employees, takes into account multiple manager evaluations, and has a quality outcome. OrganizationWeaver allowed us to accomplish these goals and complete the project in record time.”

In the end, 92% of eligible employees provided their career details, 97% of managers chosen by employees as evaluators participated, and 100% of direct line managers evaluated their employees for the career system.

According to Tor Kielland, CEO of BrightArch, “The participation figures show that COWI implemented a change process that was engaging and trustworthy to the entire organization. We are very proud that COWI was able to meet their ambitious goals with the help of OrganizationWeaver.”

OrganizationWeaver Map is BrightArch’s newest tool to implement data-driven organizational changes. It is one of four core OrganizationWeaver tools that were designed to bridge the gap between ambitious organizational change strategies and their successful implementation.

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/brightarch-chosen-by-cowi-to-deliver-data-driven-organization-change-software-2012-01-31

Shares of JDA Software Group Inc. tumbled in aftermarket trading Tuesday after it said the Securities and Exchange Commission is requesting information about some of its past financial reports.

JDA said the SEC requested information related to revenue recognition and other accounting and financial-reporting matters for “certain past fiscal years.”

“JDA is actively cooperating with the SEC and is committed to addressing any questions the SEC may have,” the company said. It did not provide further details.

The company, which makes supply-chain management software, made the disclosure in its fourth-quarter earnings report, issued after the close of trading on Wall Street. JDA’s shares were down $2.97, or 10 percent, in extended trading to $26.50.

Scottsdale-based JDA posted a loss of $1.4 million, or 3 cents per share, for the quarter that ended Dec. 31 due to restructuring, acquisition and other costs. That’s down from a profit of $5.8 million, or 14 cents per share, in the same quarter last year.

After adjusting for a number of special items, the company earned 65 cents per share versus 61 cents per share in the prior period.

Its revenue rose to $174.2 million from $168.8 million, helped by gains in its software and subscription revenues overseas.

Analysts polled by FactSet anticipated the company would earn 65 cents per share on revenue $172.8 million.

The company said that for the full year its profit rose to $71 million, or $1.66 per share, versus $17.7 million, or 42 cents per share, for the prior year. It earned $2.20 for the year on an adjusted basis versus $1.95 in the prior year.

Revenue for the year increased to $671.8 million from $617.2 million.

Source:http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/jda-software-sec-requesting-accounting-data-15483373#.TyindoHvooE

2X Software, global leader in virtual desktop and application delivery solutions, today announced an agreement with Tech Data Corporation, one of the world’s largest wholesale distributors of technology products. With this agreement in place, 2X virtual desktop and application delivery solutions will be distributed through Tech Data’s worldwide network of over 60,000 value added resellers (VARs).

2X Software’s flagship product, 2X ApplicationServer XG, combines the best in application delivery and virtual desktop (VDI) management by allowing administrators to publish applications and virtual desktops from an all-in-one platform, with additional features such as complete universal printing and scanning, virtual desktop pooling and templates,

“Our StreamOne partnership with 2X Software confirms Tech Data’s commitment to provide our customers with innovative software that will continue to help them meet their business goals,” said Stacy Nethercoat, Vice President of Software Product Marketing for Tech Data. “By offering 2X ApplicationServer XG, our network of resellers are able to provide business value and an innovative solution to end-users.”

“We are extremely pleased to be represented by Tech Data,” said Nikolaos Makris, CEO of 2X Software. “2X products are a perfect fit for the Tech Data reseller network, and we recognize the value of Tech Data’s reputation within the partner channel. As a result, we expect this will further grow the 2X brand among value-added resellers worldwide.”

Source:http://www.openpr.com/news/208721/2X-Software-Included-in-Tech-Data-s-StreamOne-Solutions-Store.html

Cayuse Inc., a Beaverton-based developer of research management software, was acquired last week in a deal it believes will help expand its product to a wider audience.

Irvine, Calif.-based Evision Inc. on Jan. 13 announced it had acquired Cayuse. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Cayuse was founded and is led by Chris Harker, a state representative from Beaverton and a former researcher at the Mayo Clinic and Oregon Health & Science University.
The company’s Web-based products are used in research management and grant proposal development primarily in higher education and health care markets.
According to Mark Ace, vice president of Cayuse Products and Services, the company in the past five years has grown from 15 employees with around 20 customers to 26 employees and more than 100 customers.
Cayuse declined to disclose sales figures, though Ace said it was self-funded through sales and had no debt.
Evisions provides software to higher education clients for use in enterprise reporting, form management, data transformation and payment processing.
With more than 800 customers, Evisions will give Cayuse access to a broader audience. It will also give its existing customers access to a wider array of Evisions services.
“In combining with Evisions, we see an opportunity to bring a much more complete set of services and products to Cayuse customers,” Harker said in a news release last week. “From them, we hear the need to address opportunities for enterprise-class reporting for the research organization and the need to integrate research administration data into enterprise financial systems. These are two areas in which Evisions excels.”
Evisions already had a five-person team in Portland, which will be combining with Cayuse’s workforce into a larger office space in coming months, Ace said.

Source:http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/news/2012/01/27/beaverton-software-firm-cayuse-sold-to.html

Guidance Software Inc. GUID +0.14% , the World Leader in Digital Investigations(TM), today announced the Guidance Software Federal Summit 2012: A Focus on Data Visibility, a unique one-day thought leadership summit where data security and e-discovery experts from top government agencies and industry leaders will come together to discuss best practices in achieving end-point visibility for effective digital investigations.

The summit will be held on Friday, February 10, 2012, from 8:00 a.m. — 5:00 p.m. at the Crowne Plaza Washington National Airport Hotel in Washington, D.C. It provides a rare opportunity to hear from top government agencies such as the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Internal Revenue Service, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), U.S. Department of Education, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Justice, USDA Forest Service and many others, as well as Guidance Software executives and industry analysts.

Guidance Software President and CEO Victor Limongelli will deliver a welcome address with co-keynote speaker Matthew McCormack, Chief, Office of Cyber Security, DIA. Key sessions include “I Can See Clearly: Achieving Data Visibility,” “E-Discovery in the Cloud,” “Hot Topics in Criminal E-Discovery,” “A Pro-Active Approach to eDiscovery Management: An IT POV,” and “Zero Day Mitigation.” A full agenda is available on the event website: http://www.guidancesoftware.com/federal-summit-register.htm

“The dramatic proliferation in the type and location of new endpoints such as smartphones, tablets, and cloud servers, in conjunction with the ever increasing need for digital investigations introduces brand new challenges in how to manage and secure the resulting vast web of data,” said Limongelli. “The Guidance Software Federal Summit will arm attendees with invaluable insight into how eDiscovery and cyber security best practices and technology can be applied to gain visibility into and control of this vast web of data to ensure the security of confidential and proprietary information.”

Source:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/top-government-agencies-join-guidance-software-to-discuss-data-visibility-2012-01-24?reflink=MW_news_stmp

The latest release of Isight provides designers, engineers, and researchers with an open system for integrating design and simulation models—created with various CAD, CAE, and other software applications—to automate the execution of hundreds or thousands of simulations. The software lets users trim time and improve their products by optimizing them against performance or cost metrics through statistical methods such as Design of Experiments (DOE) or Design for Six Sigma.

“Isight has features and add-ons that let us integrate all of the different codes and interfaces used for our physics subroutines,” said Cosimo Chiarelli, head of the Aeromechanics and Propulsion unit in Business Segment Space Infrastructure and Transportation at Thales Alenia Space Italia in Turin. “It played a key role in helping us unify our processes and saved a considerable amount of time in our design optimization process.” Key features of Isight 5.6 include:

Reliability analysis techniques for importance sampling lets users compute and sample around the most probable point of failure in a design. When compared to sampling around the mean value point, importance sampling requires orders of magnitude fewer evaluations for the same accuracy in predicting the probability of failure or success. This is especially important in the verification of high-reliability systems, such as jet turbines or automotive brakes.

Updates to Abaqus support multiple Abaqus/CAE cases by providing users with the option to parse all detected input files and create output parameters for multiple analyses

Updates to the Data Matching component allow defining and matching multiple data sets within multiple ranges

New options in an approximation viewer for overlay-constraint graphs perform quick trade-off studies by relaxing constraints, show or hide constraint boundaries, and view constraint violations using a floor projection graph

Source:http://www.windpowerengineering.com/construction/simulation/software-lets-many-programs-share-data-work-together/