A renewed focus on the cloud is likely to be revealed by leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provider SAP this week.

The company recently acquired SuccessFactors and its founder Lars Dalgaard has now moved to SAP in order to oversee its growth in the cloud sector, reports Bloomberg.

Indeed, Mr Dalgaard is expected to speak at the organisation’s conference in Orlando to explain how it can generate €2 billion (£1.2 billion) from cloud software.

“To really make the cloud an opportunity rather than a threat they need to move their traditional functionality to the cloud,” said Leon Cappaert, a manager at KBC Asset Management in Brussels.

In 2011, SAP recorded its best-ever financial results, meaning an improvement in its cloud performance could see it shatter records once again in the years to come.

SAP has a target to achieve €20 billion in revenue from the cloud by 2015 and its recent takeover plans and strategy tweaks have reflected this.

Source:http://www.codestone.net/news/story/erp-software-firm-sap-to-tailor-strategy-towards-the-cloud/801362009/

Lantek Steelworks 2012 integrates 3D design programs to provide continuous monitoring of costs, capacity, and delivery performance. Dimensions of parts within projects is analyzed and considered against available stock material sizes.

Pre-nesting simulation calculates mix and quantity of material needed and, by calculating delivery date, material is only purchased when required. System can manage reservation of material, making it possible to reallocate material as needed.

Source:http://news.thomasnet.com/fullstory/ERP-Software-supports-structural-steel-industry-614973

Numetrics has announced that Triad Semiconductor has deployed Numetrics’ fact-based, project planning software. The Numetrics solution generates reliable, analytics-driven estimates of IC design complexity, project duration, key schedule milestone dates and engineering staffing requirements for new projects. Triad is integrating Numetrics into its R&D processes to ensure world-class development productivity and schedule predictability.

“Triad’s mission is to make low-cost mixed signal IC design available to system-level designers. Our customers target their designs to Triad’s ever-expanding line of Via Configurable Arrays (VCAs),” said William Pratt, vice president of Engineering. “Numetrics’ IC design productivity and resource planning tools allow us to get the maximum number of VCAs to market in the compressed time frames that our customers have come to expect from Triad.”

Using models calibrated with vast amounts of industry data plus Triad’s own project data, Numetrics’ project estimation tools enable engineering managers to generate the reliable project plans. With Numetrics’ software, a project plan can be balanced to reconcile its competing constraints, including resource availability, product functionality, time-to-market and development cost, to enable maximum engineering efficiency.

Numetrics tools have been applied to over 2,000 production semiconductor IC projects from over 50 semiconductor and electronics companies.

Source:http://www.eeherald.com/section/new-products/nps2012050610.html