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Table of Contents
1. Financial, M & A Updates...................................................................................................................................1
2. Solution Updates..................................................................................................................................................4
3. Customer Success Updates.................................................................................................................................9
4. Partnership Ecosystem Updates.......................................................................................................................12
5. Miscellaneous Updates......................................................................................................................................17

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Planview Announces Strategic Acquisitions of Clarizen and Changepoint to Accelerate
Strategy to Delivery for Enterprises
Planview, a global leader in Portfolio Management and Work Management, announced
the company has entered into definitive agreements to acquire Clarizen and
Changepoint, leading enterprise Project Portfolio Management (PPM) providers. Across
industries, enterprises are transforming their businesses to be digital-first. This shift has
only accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what’s emerged is a new and
enduring way of working that’s flexible, highly distributed, and digital. As increasingly
dispersed teams embrace new tools and processes to meet the evolving needs of their
customers, visibility and connectivity across the enterprise have never been more
critical. The market demands a comprehensive software platform that can connect
strategy to delivery across siloed workstreams and disciplines – capabilities best
provided through PPM and Agile. The combination of Planview, Clarizen, and
Changepoint creates a unique platform enabling organizations to better collaborate,
deliver, and thrive in this new world of work. Backed by TPG Capital and TAAssociates,
the combination harnesses the capabilities of three leading providers to deliver
customers an unmatched level of expertise, IP, and resources to ensure their most
important outcomes are delivered with efficiency, urgency, and transparency.
Executive Commentary
“In today’s environment, enterprises are looking for partners with the vision,
expertise, and scale to help them navigate and excel in our all-digital world,” said
CEO of Planview. “Planview, Clarizen, and Changepoint are all leaders, and
together, our customers create an exceptional community of PMOs, PPM and
Professional Services Automation (PSA) practitioners. Collectively, there is no
better platform to drive innovation and fuel the transformation of strategy to
delivery.”
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3D Systems Completes Sale of Cimatron and GibbsCAM Businesses and Provides
Preliminary Financial Results for Fourth Quarter 2020
3D Systems has completed the sale of its Cimatron and GibbsCAM software businesses to a
subsidiary of ST Acquisition Co., an affiliate of Battery Ventures, on January 1, 2021, resulting
in purchase price proceeds of approximately $64.2 million, after certain adjustments and
excluding $8.9 million of cash amounts transferred to the buyer. Using a portion of the proceeds
from the sale, the company paid off approximately $21 million of outstanding balances under its
senior secured term loan facility. With the paydown of the term loan, the company is now free of
any outstanding debt but continues to have availability under its senior secured revolving credit
facility, which remains fully undrawn at this point. The company also terminated the previously
announced at-the-market equity program (“ATM Program”), under which no shares of common
stock were sold during the fourth quarter of 2020. Additionally, the company is providing
preliminary financial data for the quarter ended December 31, 2020. The company expects
revenue for the fourth quarter of 2020 will be in the range of $170 million to $176 million and
fourth quarter non-GAAP operating income in the range of $11 million to $19 million(1). The
GAAP operating (loss) income for the fourth quarter is expected to be in the range of $(8.6)
million to $0.5 million. This non-GAAP operating income range compares favorably to the
non-GAAP operating income of $5.6M reported in Q4 2019 and $0.0M reported in Q3 2020. The
GAAP operating loss for Q4 2019 was $(4.7) million and for Q3 2020 was $(67.6) million.
President and CEO of 3D Systems, said, “In the summer of 2020, we laid out a four-stage
plan to deliver increased value to our customers and shareholders. This plan included:
reorganization into two business units, Healthcare and Industrial Solutions; restructuring of
our operations to gain efficiencies; divesting of non-core assets; and investing for
accelerated, profitable organic growth. We are pleased to now see significant progress from
these efforts, as reflected in accelerated top-line growth and rapidly strengthening operating
margins. Our Team’s ability to deliver over 20% consecutive-quarter revenue growth in both
business units, while executing large scale restructuring, was particularly gratifying to see.
This was even more impressive when viewed with a backdrop of continuing headwinds from
the COVID virus, which impacted our operations and those of our customers. Having
surpassed our prior year, pre-COVID revenue performance in Q4, and with continued strong
focus on operational execution, we are excited about the trajectory we are on as we enter the
new year.”
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Transaction brings total par value of Series A Preferred Stock repurchased to $15
million including $5 million repurchased in October 2020
Rimini Street, Inc. a global provider of enterprise software products and
services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP
software products and a Salesforce partner, announced the completion of
repurchases totaling $15 million par value of Series A preferred stock at
an aggregate purchase price of $13.45 million, or 89.7% of par value.
Repurchases of $5 million took place on October 30, 2020 and $10
million on January 5, 2021. As part of the transaction terms, the
requirement to pay “make-whole” dividends through the end of the
“non-call” date of July 19, 2021, was waived and the repurchased shares
were retired. Please see Rimini Street’s SEC 8-K filings made on
November 2, 2020, and January 6, 2020, which include copies of the
stock purchase agreements, for additional information.
“The repurchase of the preferred stock presented us with an
opportunity to lower our cost of capital, increase cash flow and
reduce the Series A preferred stock obligations. We continue to
evaluate the capital markets for additional opportunities to lower our
cost of capital and optimize our capital structure for the benefit of
shareholders,” stated Michael L. Perica, chief financial officer,
Rimini Street.
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Autodesk Construction Cloud Expands with Powerful New Project Management,
Quantification and Design Coordination Products
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Solution Description
Stuttgart/Las Vegas. Intelligently networked devices are now enriching many people’s homes and everyday lives. To coincide with CES 2021, Bosch is offering a preview of the technological options that the
new year holds in store to provide users with greater safety, comfort and everyday convenience. And all this will soon be available in eleven additional European countries.
Healthy air is safer: Bosch presents a new ventilation reminder service
The year of 2021 begins with a topic that is important for all of us. In view of the on-going pandemic, a healthy climate inside our homes remains a high priority. Bosch Smart Home has always focused on
safety and on supporting its users in their daily lives. That’s why the company has now introduced a new “Healthy Room Climate” service for its Bosch Smart Home App. The first feature is the ventilation
detector, which makes it even more convenient for users to monitor air quality with the Twinguard. Receiving the ventilation reminder, users can set up their own ventilation ”traffic light” based on the measured
purity of the indoor air. The convenient assistant guides its users through the setup in three simple steps: selecting the room; setting the limits for the three warning levels (red, yellow and green); and specifying
the period of use. Alerts can be sent to a smartphone via a push message while being simultaneously displayed as coloured warning lights on the integrated smart lamps from Philips Hue or LEDVANCE Smart+.
Two partners for a shared vision: smart home meets smart car
Our frequently stressful everyday lives mean that when we are already in our car driving to the office or to our children’s school or day-care centre, our thoughts often still revolve around the home and whether
we have left everything there in proper order. Are the lights switched off? Are the windows and doors closed? Is the heating turned down? Fortunately, it is now easy to instantly check all these things. With a
simple voice command and a “Hey, Mercedes”, the most important Bosch Smart Home functions are already available aboard the Mercedes-Benz and can be controlled directly within the car. The driver’s hands
remain on the steering wheel and the driver’s attention stays on the traffic – for optimal safety on the road. The integration is made possible by an open interface that Bosch Smart Home began offering early in
2020. The interface enables partners such as Mercedes-Benz to integrate Bosch Smart Home devices into their own solutions via a cloud API. The following Bosch Smart Home products have been controllable
from Mercedes S-Class cars since December 2020: Smart Plug, Room Thermostat, Radiator Thermostat, Shutter Control, Door/Window Contact, Light Control and Motion Detector. Successive expansion to
include other model series from Mercedes-Benz is planned in the course of the year.

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Honeywell Launches Next-Generation Digital Cabin Pressure Control And
Monitoring System For Aircraft
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Honeywell has introduced the next generation of its Cabin Pressure Control and Monitoring System with applications in both commercial and military aircraft. This new
version of the system is all-electric, lighter-weight, and available now for business and regional aviation as well as tactical or military trainer-sized aircraft. The Cabin
Pressure Control and Monitoring System helps maintain and monitor the air pressure inside an aircraft. It can be found onboard any aircraft that flies high enough to
require air pressurization, including commercial and business jets as well as military aircraft. It regulates the air that is pumped into the cabin of an aircraft to maintain
a safe and comfortable environment while flying at high altitudes. It also manages the rate of pressure change to avoid passenger discomfort during climb and descent.
This new fourth-generation version of the system is all-electric and has built-in test capability to detect and report any failures or issues, including for the back-up manual
portion of the system. Along with the improved system reliability, there is also less system maintenance for the airplane operator. This system further improves sensor
accuracy and response rate performance, resulting in more comfortable pressure control. The system can serve a wide variety of aircraft, offering customers the ability
to customize the control software to best fit their needs. The entire system weighs less than six pounds, is 30% lighter than its predecessor and has a new and smaller
digital controller that allows it to be fit for future upgrades. Honeywell has won a contract with Piaggio Aerospace to provide the new CPCMS for its integration into the
new P.180 Avanti Evo aircraft configuration, currently under development. The products will start delivery in the third quarter of 2021 and the first planes with the new
system are expected to enter service in the first half of 2022. From the first cabin pressure regulator on the Boeing B-29 until now, Honeywell has over 75 years of
experience with pressure control systems, with over 20,000 systems flying globally on aircraft. Honeywell's legacy as an avionics manufacturer and integrator also helps
ensure proper system operation and a smoother path to aircraft certification.

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A Trusted Companion: AI Software Keeps Drivers Safe and Focused on the
Road Ahead
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NVIDIA DRIVE IX cabin perception software provides advanced driver monitoring, personalization, in-cabin situational understanding and intuitive AI assistants. This is the latest
post in our NVIDIA DRIVE Labs series, which takes an engineering-focused look at individual autonomous vehicle challenges and how NVIDIA DRIVE addresses them. Catch up
on all of our automotive posts, Even with advanced driver assistance systems automating more driving functions, human drivers must maintain their attention at the wheel and build
trust in the AI system. Traditional driver monitoring systems typically don’t understand subtle cues such as a driver’s cognitive state, behavior or other activity that indicates whether
they’re ready to take over the driving controls. NVIDIA DRIVE IX is an open, scalable cockpit software platform that provides AI functions to enable a full range of in-cabin
experiences, including intelligent visualization with augmented reality and virtual reality, conversational AI and interior sensing. Driver perception is a key aspect of the platform that
enables the AV system to ensure a driver is alert and paying attention to the road. It also enables the AI system to perform cockpit functions that are more intuitive and intelligent. In
this DRIVE Labs episode, NVIDIA experts demonstrate how DRIVE IX perceives driver attention, activity, emotion, behaviour, posture, speech, gesture and mood with a variety of
detection capabilities.
A Multi-DNN Approach
Facial expressions are complex signals to interpret. A simple wrinkle of the brow or shift of the gaze can have a variety of meanings. DRIVE IX uses multiple DNNs to recognize faces
and decipher the expressions of vehicle occupants. The first DNN detects the face itself, while a second identifies fiducial points, or reference markings — such as eye location, nose,
etc.
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Vehicle manufacturers can leverage the driver monitoring capabilities in DRIVE IX to develop advanced AI-based driver understanding capabilities for personalizing the car cockpit.

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IM AI: China Automaker SAIC Unveils EV Brand Powered by NVIDIA
DRIVE Orin
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There’s a new brand of automotive intelligence equipped with the brains — and the battery — to go the distance. SAIC, the largest automaker in China, joined forces
with etail giant Alibaba to unveil a new premium EV brand, dubbed IM, or “intelligence in motion.” The long-range electric vehicles will feature AI capabilities powered
by the high-performance, energy-efficient NVIDIA DRIVE Orin compute platform. The first two vehicles in the lineup — a flagship sedan and SUV — will have
autonomous parking and other automated driving features, as well as a 93kWh battery that comes standard. SAIC will begin taking orders for the sedan at the Shanghai
Auto Show in April, with the SUV following in 2022. These models will have multi NVIDIA Orin SoCs (system-on-a-chip) at the core of a centralized computer system,
achieving 500 to 1,000+ TOPS of performance for automated and autonomous capabilities in addition to in-cabin personalization that is continuously upgradable
over-the-air for a truly software-defined experience. By centralizing and unifying the compute architecture, IM vehicles will be able to receive advanced software
features as they’re developed. Just like a mobile phone, which periodically gets software updates, these software-defined vehicles will do the same. Developing a
top-of-the-line premium electric brand requires best-in-class in-vehicle compute. Orin is the world’s highest-performance, most-advanced AV and robotics processor.
This supercomputer on a chip is capable of delivering up to 254 trillion operations per second (TOPS) to handle the large number of applications and deep neural
networks that run simultaneously in autonomous vehicles and robots, while meeting systematic safety standards such as ISO 26262 ASIL-D. With two Orin SoCs at the
center of IM vehicles, these compute platforms will be able to deliver more than 500 TOPS of performance to achieve the redundancy and diversity necessary for
autonomous operation. Like all modern computing devices, these intelligent vehicles will be supported by a large team of AI and software engineers, dedicated to
improving the performance and capability of the car as technology advances.

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NIO Partners with NVIDIA to Develop a New Generation of Automated
Driving Electric Vehicles
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EV Models Featuring NIO Adam Supercomputer Powered by NVIDIA DRIVE Orin to Begin Production in 2022, NIO, a pioneer in China’s premium smart
electric vehicle market, and NVIDIA announced that the automaker has selected the NVIDIA DRIVE Orin™ system-on-a-chip (SoC) for its new generation
of electric vehicles, which will offer advanced automated driving capabilities. NIO is working to make consumer adoption of smart, performance-packed
electric vehicles a widespread reality. At NIO Day, the company’s annual customer event, the EV maker revealed its NVIDIA DRIVE Orin-powered
supercomputer, dubbed Adam, which will first appear in the ET7 sedan that will ship in China starting in 2022. Adam signals a major achievement by NIO
in bringing automotive intelligence and autonomous driving to market, safely and reliably. With a centralized, software-defined computing architecture,
NIO’s next-generation EVs, like the ET7 sedan, will feature the latest AI-enabled capabilities, which are perpetually upgradable after the point of sale.
NVIDIA Orin is the world’s highest-performance AV and robotics processor. This scalable supercomputer-on-a-chip family delivers an unprecedented 254
trillions of operations per second (TOPS) while also being able to scale down to entry-level ADAS/Level 2 use cases (10 TOPS/5 watts). NIO will feature
four high-performance Orin SoCs in each of its EVs to achieve an industry-leading performance of 1,000+ TOPS — delivering the redundancy and diversity
necessary for safe autonomous operation. As the first of NIO’s EVs to feature Orin, the flagship ET7 is a high-performance vehicle that accelerates from zero
to 100km in only 3.9 seconds. It also features a new 150kw battery for extended mileage range.

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Honeywell Delivers 225 Million N95 and Surgical Masks in December for
Health Care and Government Use
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Honeywel achieved a significant milestone by delivering more than 225 million face masks in the month of December to help protect workers in response to the
increased demand for respiratory protection products. Honeywell delivered the N95 respirators and disposable, surgical face masks to multiple locations in the U.S.
for health care systems, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. In addition, the company
shipped millions of masks to state and local governments in support of their response to COVID-19 and for their personal protective equipment (PPE) stockpiles.
Honeywell produces a range of respiratory protection products for workers, including NIOSH-certified N95 masks, flat-fold single-use masks and elastomeric
half-masks with replaceable cartridges. By steadily increasing production capacity, the company has the ability to produce hundreds of millions of face masks for
health care and other critical needs. In April, Honeywell rapidly started up new N95 mask production operations at multiple facilities in the U.S. The company was
able to begin operations in just five weeks by accelerating a process that could normally take up to nine months. The operations were initially capable of producing
20 million masks per month, and Honeywell has steadily increased capacity throughout the year. Honeywell Safety and Productivity Solutions (SPS) provides
products, software and connected solutions that improve productivity, workplace safety and asset performance for our customers across the globe. We deliver on
this promise through industry-leading mobile devices, software, cloud technology and automation solutions, the broadest range of personal protective equipment
and gas detection technology, and custom-engineered sensors, switches and controls.
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Homeplus Co. Switches to Rimini Street Support for its Oracle Applications
and Database Software
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Korean grocery and outlet retailer transitions from self-support to third-party support for high-quality service, long-term cost reduction and ability to focus IT resources on
infrastructure modernization, Rimini Street, Inc., a global provider of enterprise software products and services, the leading third-party support provider for Oracle and SAP
software products and a Salesforce partner, announced that Homeplus Co. Ltd, a leading Korean grocery and outlet retailer based in Seoul, has switched to Rimini Street Support
for its Oracle eBusiness Suite, Oracle Retail Warehouse Management and Oracle Database software. In addition to saving 50% of its annual maintenance costs that they were
previously paying the vendor, the company can now maintain its core mission-critical Oracle system for a minimum of 15 years from the time that they switched to Rimini
Street Support. The company plans to divert its significant cost savings and liberated IT resources to invest in the modernization of its hardware infrastructure. Homeplus Co.
Ltd. was founded in 1997 and now has more than 140 branches and 25,000 employees in South Korea. The company operates its supermarket chain “Homeplus Express,”
convenience store “365 Plus” and online shopping services for everything from groceries to clothes and appliances. In 2019, the company’s CIO began to look for ways to
optimize costs after reviewing the high costs of the organization’s Oracle maintenance and support compared to the low quality of support received in return. Additionally, the
company has heavily customized its Oracle EBS and Retail Warehouse Management applications, and needed a much higher level of support, including support for custom
code, than what was being provided by the vendor. Homeplus Co. began self-supporting its Oracle system to save on costs but realized it needed technical support beyond its
IT department’s skill set. After doing a thorough review of their options, including returning to expensive vendor support, Homeplus ultimately switched to Rimini Street
Support after confirming the high-quality support and expertise they would receive from their dedicated primary support engineer and the Rimini Street team’s technical experts.
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Adam and EV: NIO Selects NVIDIA for Intelligent, Electric Vehicles
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Chinese automaker builds new Adam supercomputer based on NVIDIA DRIVE Orin to power automated driving and AI features. Chinese electric automaker NIO will use NVIDIA DRIVE for
advanced automated driving technology in its future fleets, marking the genesis of truly intelligent and personalized NIO vehicles. During a global reveal event, the EV maker took the wraps off its
latest ET7 sedan, which starts shipping in 2022 and features a new NVIDIA-powered supercomputer, called Adam, that uses NVIDIA DRIVE Orin to deploy advanced automated driving technology.
Chinese electric automaker NIO will use NVIDIA DRIVE for advanced automated driving technology in its future fleets, marking the genesis of truly intelligent and personalized NIO vehicles. During
a global reveal event, the EV maker took the wraps off its latest ET7 sedan, which starts shipping in 2022 and features a new NVIDIA-powered supercomputer, called Adam, that uses NVIDIA DRIVE
Orin to deploy advanced automated driving technology. The announcement marks a major step toward the widespread adoption of intelligent, high-performance electric vehicles, improving standards
for both the environment and road users. NIO has been a pioneer in China’s premium smart electric vehicle market. Since 2014, the automaker has been leveraging NVIDIA for its seamless
infotainment experience. And now, with NVIDIA DRIVE powering automated driving features in its future vehicles, NIO is set to redefine mobility with continuous improvement and personalization.
Software-defined and intelligent vehicles require a centralized, high-performance compute architecture to power AI features and continuously receive upgrades over the air. The new NIO Adam
supercomputer is one of the most powerful platforms to run in a vehicle. With four NVIDIA DRIVE Orin processors, Adam achieves more than 1,000 TOPS of performance. n is the world’s
highest-performance, most-advanced AV and robotics processor. This supercomputer on a chip is capable of delivering up to 254 TOPS to handle the large number of applications and deep neural
networks that run simultaneously in autonomous vehicles and robots, while achieving systematic safety standards such as ISO 26262 ASIL-D. By using multiple SoCs, Adam integrates the redundancy
and diversity necessary for safe autonomous operation. The first two SoCs process the 8 gigabytes of data produced by the vehicle’s sensor set every second. The third Orin serves as a backup to ensure
the system can still operate safely in any situation, while the fourth enables local training, improving the vehicle with fleet learning as well as personalizing the driving experience based on individual
user preferences. With high-performance compute at its core, Adam is a major achievement in the creation of automotive intelligence and autonomous driving.
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Major maintenance breakthroughs are being delivered by Dingo in the midst
of COVID-19
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COVID-19 has acted as a catalyst for companies in the mine maintenance game, such as Dingo and its Trakka® maintenance software. The company recently signed a global
agreement with Newmont that saw the leading gold miner expand the use of Trakka to manage the workflow generated from its Operations Support Hubs in Perth, Western
Australia, and Denver, Colorado. Dingo will provide continuous support to seven connected sites and hundreds of users, the company said in the press release. While Dingo has
a partnership with Newmont that dates back more than 20 years, the global Trakka pact is a sign the miner has confidence in the Brisbane headquartered company’s ability to
not only deliver condition monitoring solutions for its fleet of mobile and fixed machinery, but also advanced predictive maintenance insights for its operations. Discussing the
wider issues associated with fixed and mobile machinery maintenance, Chuck Tollman, Dingo’s VP of Customer Success, said condition monitoring of haul trucks continues
to be a focus area for miners. Whereas in the fixed plant environment, monitoring solutions are employed to increase production and reduce downtime, the focus for mobile
machinery operators is typically about how to reduce sustaining capital spend. The number of companies able to provide fixed plant digital maintenance solutions are vast, but
the mobile equipment monitoring market is far less crowded, according to Tollman. Dingo has historically been known for its fluid analysis on mobile machinery, but in the last
decade it has taken a more holistic view of mine maintenance, according to Tollman, providing dynamic monitoring of onboard machine health data, operational data, visual
inspections, and work history. It is this dynamic monitoring expertise that is differentiating Dingo from the rest of the market, according to Tollman. This agility goes beyond
just its monitoring capabilities. Dingo has also been able to adapt to the new environment created by COVID-19. With a string of Trakka implementations across the Spanish
speaking market, Tollman estimates the company has already surpassed the growth expectations set out at the start of 2020. Dingo is continuing to adapt to the reality of minimal
staff at site, recognising the need to create more remote and mobile tools for its customers.
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Public-Private Partnership Targets 1 Million Vaccinations by July 4
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Honeywell, Atrium Health, Tepper Sports & Entertainment and the Charlotte Motor Speedway have announced a unique public-private partnership with the
State of North Carolina, and backed by Gov. Roy Cooper, to support the goal of 1 million COVID-19 vaccinations by July 4, 2021. In collaboration with the
North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, these organizations aim to unleash their
combined strength to vaccinate as many frontline workers, members of the general public and of underserved communities as quickly and efficiently as
possible. They announcement aligns with Gov. Cooper’s Jan. 12 announcement at a news conference in Raleigh that several mass vaccination sites are being
established across the state to boost the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. The governor and Secretary of DHHS Dr. Mandy Cohen announced Atrium Health
as the health system to offer mass vaccination events in Charlotte and surrounding counties. To meet the goal of 1 million vaccinations, the partners will work
together to administer the vaccine, provide logistics and operations support and offer a venue for an efficient and safe initiative. Bank of America Stadium,
Charlotte Motor Speedway and a soon to be determined location in the Winston-Salem area will serve as initial venues to contribute to this public-private
initiative. More details will be shared in the coming days on the process and timing for each of the mass vaccination events. Getting a COVID-19 vaccine is
the best way for people to protect themselves, their families and their community. As larger portions of the population are vaccinated, the whole community
becomes better protected. More information about Atrium Health’s vaccination plans for the public, including frequently asked questions and scheduling
vaccine, can be found at AtriumHealth.org/COVID19Vaccine.
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Honeywell Joins IWBI Membership Program as a Cornerstone Member
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Honeywel has announced its involvement in the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) membership program as a Cornerstone member. Honeywell
joins like-minded companies from across the globe that are committed to enhancing buildings and communities to help people thrive. The membership
program at IWBI convenes, celebrates and fosters collaboration with companies and organizations who are leading the movement to advance human health
in buildings and communities around the world. This dynamic framework allows Honeywell to tap into IWBI’s expansive resources and knowledge and
demonstrates the company’s alignment with IWBI’s mission. Creating a healthier building environment to enhance the occupant experience has long been
an area of focus for Honeywell Building Technologies (HBT), which recently launched an integrated set of Healthy Buildings solutions to help building
owners improve the health of building environments, operate more cleanly and safely, comply with social distancing policies, and help reassure occupants
that it is safer to return to the workplace. The Honeywell Healthy Buildings solutions can support the needs of any building and features specific solutions
for premium commercial buildings, airports, hospitality, healthcare, stadia and education sectors. Honeywell plans to leverage the multiple IWBI
membership benefits, which include opportunities for industry collaborations and access to market updates and quarterly briefings that provide insights into
developments at IWBI and the broader industry. Honeywell’s Healthy Buildings Solutions integrate air quality, safety and security technologies along with
advanced analytics to help building owners minimize potential risks of contamination and improve business continuity by monitoring both the building
environment and building occupants’ behaviors.
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On the Road Again: GeForce NOW Alliance Expanding to Turkey, Saudi
Arabia and Australia
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Bringing more games to more gamers, our GeForce NOW game-streaming service is coming soon to Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Australia. Turkcell, Zain KSA and Pentanet are the latest telcos
to join the GeForce NOW Alliance. By placing NVIDIA RTX Servers on the edge, GeForce NOW Alliance partners deliver even lower latency gaming experiences. And this gives partners
an opportunity to show the value of their broadband and 5G infrastructure to customers. Gamers get more games, in more places, faster. Ericsson recently published their 2020 mobility report,
noting, “5G population coverage is estimated to reach 15 percent, equivalent to over 1 billion people.” Meanwhile, DFC Intelligence reports, “there are now over 3 billion video game
consumers around the world.” Cloud gaming is at the intersection of these two trends. And GeForce NOW is the world’s leading cloud-gaming platform for PC gamers, offering hundreds of
games from NVIDIA’s own data centers in North America and Europe. The service brings real-time ray tracing to today’s biggest blockbusters to underpowered PCs, Macs, Chromebooks,
Android and iOS devices. It also offers an opportunity for the world’s leading telecommunications firms to deliver high-quality, low-latency PC gaming to nearly any device from the cloud.
These partners form the GeForce NOW Alliance, a partnership of operators using RTX Servers and NVIDIA cloud-gaming software to expand and improve cloud gaming globally. It’s our
commitment to deliver the best cloud-gaming experience around the world. The newest GeForce NOW Alliance members join a growing group of telecommunications experts that includes
SoftBank, KDDI, LG Uplus, Taiwan Mobile and GFN.RU. Bringing cloud gaming to Turkey, in collaboration with their new gaming platform, Turkcell recently announced GeForce NOW
Powered by GAMEPLUS. Gamers who want to get a leg up can visit the GAME+ page to pre-register. Zain KSA, the leading 5G telecom operator in Saudi Arabia, is nearing a formal launch
of its GeForce NOW service. The launch will bring GeForce NOW into the country for the first time. Founded by a group of avid gamers, Pentanet has built Perth, Australia’s largest and
fastest-growing fixed wireless network, delivering high-bandwidth internet services to the Perth metro area as well as fiber throughout Western Australia. Australian gamers can look forward
to PC gaming on nearly any device later this year. Stay tuned as we work with additional partners to bring cloud gaming to new regions throughout 2021 and beyond.
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Uptake Partners with RCI to Strengthen Reliability-Centered Maintenance
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Uptake announced that it has signed a partnership agreement with Reliability Center, Inc. (RCI) to strengthen Reliability-Centered Maintenance in an effort to advance
equipment and plant reliability for the process and asset-intensive industries, including chemical, oil & gas, pulp & paper, and power. The strategic partnership joins
RCI’s root cause analysis investigation methodology of equipment defects through its application EasyRCA with Uptake’s Industrial AI and extensive Asset Strategy
Library (ASL) of 800 asset types and 58,000+ failure modes to generate cost-optimized maintenance strategies for process companies that mitigate risk, enhance safety,
assure productivity, and increase plant profitability. The combined offerings of RCI and Uptake enable process companies to pinpoint primary reasons for declines in a
production line’s quality or the decrease in the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of an asset. Specifically, RCI’s EasyRCA tool allows maintenance and reliability
practitioners in process industries to formally conduct root cause analysis and identify factors that cause failures, defects, or quality deviations in a manufactured product.
As plants address complicated root causes and identify productivity losses in these process systems, Uptake and RCI help empower reliability teams to avoid downtime
costs and increase profitability. Uptake’s Asset Strategy Library (ASL) is a comprehensive knowledge base of failure information, generating maintenance strategies for
specific equipment failure modes. The ASL, in turn, powers the maintenance strategy engine, Uptake Compass, which enables users to optimize maintenance spend and
eliminate low-value tasks. Through the ingestion of work-order and sensor data, Uptake Compass delivers asset-specific, component-level reliability analysis including
part survival curves, mean-time between failures, risk scenarios, and bad actors. All translated into financial impact, key performance metrics in Uptake Compass
provide a single source of industrial information to track, manage, and improve plant performance.
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Out of This World Graphics: ‘Gods of Mars’ Come Alive with NVIDIA RTX
Real-Time Rendering
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The journey to making the upcoming film Gods of Mars changed course dramatically once real-time rendering entered the picture. The movie, currently in production, features a mix
of cinematic visual effects with live-action elements. The film crew had planned to make the movie primarily using real-life miniature figures. But they switched gears once they
experienced the power of real-time NVIDIA RTX graphics and Unreal Engine. Director Peter Hyoguchi and producer Joan Webb used an Epic MegaGrant from Epic Games to bring
together VFX professionals and game developers to create the film. The virtual production started with scanning the miniature models and animating them in Unreal Engine. yoguchi
and team produced rich, photorealistic worlds in 4K to create rich, intergalactic scenes using a combination of NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 GPU-powered Lenovo ThinkStation P920
workstations, ASUS ProArt Display PA32UCX-P monitors, Blackmagic Design cameras and DaVinci Resolve, and the Wacom Cintiq Pro 24. Gods of Mars tells the tale of a fighter
pilot who leads a team against rebels in a battle on Mars. The live-action elements of the film are supported by LED walls with real-time rendered graphics created from Unreal Engine.
Actors are filmed on-set, with a virtual background projected behind them. To keep the set minimal, the team only builds what actors will physically interact with, and then uses the
projected environment from Unreal Engine for the rest of the scenes. One big advantage of working with digital environments and assets is real-time lighting. When previously working
with CGI, Hyoguchi and his team would pre-visualize everything inside a grayscale environment. Then they’d wait hours for one frame to render before seeing a preview of what an
image or scene would look like. With Unreal Engine, Hyoguchi can have scenes ray-trace rendered immediately with lights, shadows and colors. He can move around the environment
and see how everything would look in the scene, saving weeks of pre-planning. Real-time rendering also saves money and resources. Hyoguchi doesn’t need to spend thousands of
dollars for render farms, or wait weeks for one shot to complete rendering. The RTX-powered ThinkStation P920 renders everything in real time, which leads to more iterations,
making way for a much more efficient, flexible and faster creative workflow.
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