Lectra and WGSN Celebrate Partnership at Sketch, London
(Paris and London, 16 May 2012) Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—textiles, leather, industrial fabrics and composite materials—and WGSN—the world’s leading trend forecaster—celebrated their recent partnership with an event at Sketch in central London.



(Gloucester, Mass, May 15, 2012) TradeStone Software, delivering Merchandise Lifecycle Management (MLM) solutions that unify the design, sourcing, ordering and delivery of retail goods, today announced it has partnered with MicroStrategy to introduce TradeStone Business Intelligence.
(Paris, May 10, 2012) Lectra, the world leader in integrated technology solutions dedicated to industries using soft materials—textiles, leather, industrial fabrics, and composite materials—is pleased to announce the appointment of Bruno Mattia as Director, Strategic Accounts Fashion.
(PARIS, May 10, 2012) Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA), the 3DEXPERIENCE Company, world leader in 3D design software, 3D Digital Mock Up and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) solutions, has announced that Jonathan Riss, artistic director of the JAY AHR fashion brand, has been selected as a 2012 Top Innovator by Apparel Magazine. By working with the FashionLab, Dassault Systèmes’ technology incubator dedicated to fashion designers, Riss is creating luxurious embroidery and jewelry that is intricate and innovative and created in a way that is more environmentally conscious than traditional methods.
(ANDOVER, Mass. and Munich, Germany – May 9, 2012) Aras®, the leading enterprise open source Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software solution provider, today announced the availability of the Aras Innovator® platform and solution suite on Microsoft Corp.’s SQL Server 2012. Aras enabled on SQL Server 2012 offers a new level of scalability with high availability, including on-demand scaling, next-generation performance capabilities and the ability to extend data from on-premise implementations to cloud deployments.
In this instalment of his weekly column, our Editor, Ben Hanson rounds up the best of WhichPLM from the past seven days. With exclusive interviews, detailed event reporting and more featuring over the coming weeks (along with the latest news and developments from around the world), WhichPLM remains the premiere online destination for news, opinion and insight relating to product development for the fashion industry.
In the first instalment of a fascinating, brand-new series, business process expert Kilara Le examines the place of Core PLM in the product lifecycle, and looks at how integration with a growing number of supporting solutions (those that we describe as E-PLM, and that take in everything from CAD/CAM to merchandise planning) has become such a vital part of many implementations.










