PTC has released version 11 of PTC FlexPLM, the vendor's product lifecycle management (PLM) application for retail, fashion, footwear, apparel and consumer products.

Logility, Inc. has opened offices in Dusseldorf, Germany; Malmö, Sweden; São Paulo, Brazil, and Sydney, Australia.

Vistex Inc., a provider of applications for pricing, contract and incentive management, has integrated the pricing capabilities of the SAP Data Maintenance application for ERP [Enterprise Resource Planning] by Vistex with SAP Hybris Commerce.

Oracle Corp. has released a series of new Oracle Cloud services, covering software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) applications.

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