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Centric Software Launches Centric DPP, Extending Decades of Product Lifecycle Expertise to Digital Product Passports

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Centric DPP connects and governs fragmented enterprise product data, creating a trusted foundation for product transparency, circular business models, customer engagement and future product intelligence.

CAMPBELL, Calif., Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Centric Software is pleased to announce the global availability of Centric DPP, a standalone Digital Product Passport solution for brands, retailers and manufacturers. Centric DPP extends Centric Software’s established product lifecycle and product data expertise into Digital Product Passport operations at scale. Centric Software provides AI-powered enterprise solutions that connect product development, supply chain and commerce, creating a trusted product data foundation from concept to commercialization.

Under the European Union’s Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), new Digital Product Passport requirements will introduce greater expectations for sharing trusted product, sustainability, circularity and supply chain information. But regulation is only the trigger. Product transparency represents a broader shift in how product information is governed, maintained and shared across the lifecycle.

That shift has implications far beyond compliance. The same structured, governed product information needed for DPP can also power repair, resale and take-back models, strengthen post-purchase customer experiences and create a trusted data foundation for future analytics and AI-driven product intelligence.

For many organizations, the challenge is not a lack of data. Product information already exists across PLM, ERP, supplier, sustainability, traceability and other enterprise systems, but it is often fragmented, inconsistent and difficult to mobilize for Digital Product Passports.

Centric DPP creates a governed digital layer for product transparency, connecting information from existing enterprise systems to create, register, publish and maintain Digital Product Passports. Its open architecture preserves existing technology investments while native connections to Centric PLM™ and Centric PXM™ extend trusted product information from product development through passport operations to customer-facing experiences.

“For PCNA, DPP readiness is about being proactive rather than reactive,” says Brennen Volbeda, Senior Director of Digital Experience and Data Strategy at PCNA. “We’re already seeing requests from some of our largest customers for more detailed product and sustainability information, and we expect those demands to grow. By putting the right product data foundation in place with Centric PLM and extending it through Centric DPP, we can make that information easier to manage, track and share, reduce the risk of scrambling later and be ready as requirements evolve.”

Centric DPP enables brands, retailers and manufacturers to meet emerging requirements and turn governed product information into a strategic asset:

Connect product, supplier, sustainability, traceability, compliance and commercial information from existing enterprise systems.Structure and govern DPP-ready information with controlled processes for ongoing passport management.Create, register, publish and maintain Digital Product Passports at scale, with persistent URLs and access through QR codes, NFC and other supported data carriers.Use trusted DPP data beyond compliance to power circular business models, enrich post-purchase customer experiences and feed analytics and AI-driven product intelligence.

“Digital Product Passports mark a long-term shift in how product information is created, governed and shared,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “DPP requires more than a QR code or a short-term compliance tool. It requires trusted product data, enterprise-scale operations and a technology that can evolve with products, regulations and business models. Centric DPP brings decades of product lifecycle expertise to this challenge, turning compliance into a long-term product data asset that strengthens transparency and creates a foundation for circular business models, richer digital experiences and AI-driven product intelligence.”

Centric DPP builds on more than two decades of experience managing the complex upstream product, material, supplier, certificate, sustainability and commercial information that Digital Product Passports depend on. Centric Software combines global enterprise scale with sustained investment in product data, AI and digital commerce to evolve Centric DPP as products, markets and regulatory requirements change.

For Centric customers, Centric PLM™ connects governed product, material, supplier, certificate and sustainability information with DPP operations, while Centric PXM™ extends enriched and localized content across customer-facing and commerce channels. Together, this ecosystem reduces duplicate data management across product creation, passport operations and customer experiences.

Learn more about Centric DPP

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About Centric Software® (www.centricsoftware.com) 

From its headquarters in Silicon Valley, Centric Software provides an innovative and AI-enabled product concept-to-commercialization platform for retailers, brands and manufacturers of all sizes. As experts in fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care as well as multi-category retail, Centric Software delivers best-of-breed solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, price, allocate, sell and replenish products.

Centric PLM™, the leading PLM solution for fashion, outdoor, footwear and private label, optimizes product execution from ideation to development, sourcing and manufacture, realizing up to 50% improvement in productivity and a 60% decrease in time to market.Centric Planning & Pricing™, a cloud-native solution powered by Centric AI that unifies planning, pricing and inventory optimization, enabling retailers and brands to increase sell-through, improve margins and optimize inventory efficiency from pre-season through in-season execution. Centric Market Intelligence™ is an AI-driven platform delivering insights into consumer trends, competitor offers and pricing to boost competitively and get closer to the consumer, driving up to a 12% increase in average initial price point. Centric Visual Boards™ pivot actionable data in a visual-first orientation to ensure robust, consumer-right assortments and product offers, dramatically decreasing assortment development cycle time.Centric DPP, a standalone, open solution, connects and governs enterprise product data to create, register, publish and maintain Digital Product Passports at scale, with native Centric PLM™ and Centric PXM™ connections extending product transparency from product creation through commercialization, customer engagement and circularity.Centric PXM™, AI-powered product experience management (PXM) encompasses PIM, DAM, content syndication and digital shelf analytics (DSA) to optimize the product commercialization lifecycle resulting in a transformed brand experience. Increase sales channels, boost sell through and drive margins. 

Centric Software’s market-driven solutions have the highest user adoption rate, customer satisfaction rate and fastest time to value in the industry. Centric Software has received multiple industry awards and recognition, appearing regularly in world-leading analyst reports and research. 

Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: FR0014003TT8, DSY.PA), the world leader in 3D design software, 3D digital mock-up and PLM solutions.

Centric Software is a registered trademark of Centric Software, Inc. in the US and other countries. Centric PLM™, Centric Planning & Pricing™, Centric Market Intelligence™, Centric Visual Boards™, Centric PXM™, Centric PIM™, Centric DAM™, Centric Shoppingfeed® and Centric DSA™ (including Centric Digital Shelf Analytics) are trademarks of Centric Software, Inc. All third-party trademarks are trademarks of their respective owners. 

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webAI Lands $30 Million AI Deal With Forge as Enterprise AI Services Race Accelerates

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Forge commits $30 million to webAI as the companies partner to build and deploy private, specialized AI systems inside enterprises.

AUSTIN, Texas, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — webAI today announced a strategic partnership with Forge AI Deployment, which is making a $30 million commitment to webAI to build and deploy private, specialized AI systems for enterprise customers.

The partnership pairs webAI’s collaborative intelligence platform with Forge’s enterprise deployment and services operation. Forge will work directly with customers to build AI systems around their proprietary data, workflows and operations, running on infrastructure those customers control.

The agreement comes as the AI market begins shifting from building increasingly capable general-purpose models to putting specialized intelligence to work inside businesses.

Forge is led by enterprise technology veterans, including founder and CEO John Ezzell, who previously built an Oracle-focused services and reseller business that was acquired by Deloitte. Forge is applying a similar playbook to AI: combining a new technology platform with the implementation, integration and operational expertise required to make it useful inside large organizations.

webAI provides the intelligence layer behind that effort.

Rather than relying solely on a general-purpose model, webAI enables organizations to deploy specialized models around their own data, people and operations. Those models can run across infrastructure the organization controls and collaborate as a system.

Forge will design, deploy and operate those systems for customers, from individual specialized AI Personas to company-wide deployments.

“A general model is only the beginning,” said David Stout, co-founder and CEO of webAI. “Individuals and organizations need intelligence deeply specialized to them. We believe the path to super intelligence (SI) isn’t one model that knows everything; it’s specialized intelligence working together. Collaboration gets us there faster.”

From AI models to AI infrastructure

webAI calls this emerging architecture the decision factory: intelligence built around the unique knowledge, expertise and workflows of an organization and deployed wherever decisions are made.

Instead of relying on a single general-purpose model, specialized AI Personas can operate as domain experts and work together across webAI’s Intelligence Delivery Network (IDN), a private network of compute controlled by the organization.

Forge will take responsibility for turning that technology into working enterprise systems, including architecture, secure deployment, model integration and optimization.

“Enterprises don’t need another AI demo,” said John Ezzell, founder and CEO of Forge AI Deployment. “They need AI that actually works inside their business. The opportunity is to take this technology from experimentation to production, and webAI gives us the infrastructure to do that.”

The partnership also expands webAI’s growing ecosystem of systems integrators, software companies and channel partners building, deploying and distributing specialized AI solutions on its platform across commercial and public-sector markets.

For enterprises, the shift is simple: AI stops being something they subscribe to and becomes intelligence they own.

About webAI
webAI is building collaborative intelligence: a private, local-first approach to AI in which specialized models run close to where work happens and collaborate with one another and the people they support. webAI enables individuals and organizations to create, own and deploy specialized intelligence across their own devices and environments. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, webAI’s mission is to make powerful AI accessible, personal and collaborative. Learn more at webai.com.

About Forge AI Deployment
Forge AI Deployment is an official webAI systems integrator that designs, installs and operates sovereign AI systems inside infrastructure customers control, including enterprise data centers, edge sites and air-gapped or disconnected enclaves. Combining more than two decades of work in high-consequence and Fortune 100 environments with webAI’s local-first platform, Forge provides end-to-end architecture, secure deployment, model integration and optimization while keeping institutional knowledge within the customer’s perimeter.

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NAIC Letter Details Proactive State Oversight of Evolving Insurance Landscape

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — In response to a letter from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), state insurance regulators leading the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) today detailed how the state-based regulatory framework is evolving alongside insurers’ changing investment strategies, ownership structures, and risk-transfer arrangements.  

“Rather than relying on a static regulatory framework, regulators have regularly updated capital requirements, reporting standards, supervisory tools, and analytical capabilities to address emerging risks while maintaining a consistent focus on insurer solvency and policyholder protection,” said NAIC leadership.

Among other actions, this work includes:

Strengthening asset-adequacy testing through Actuarial Guideline 53 (AG 53) to provide greater consistency in evaluating the risks associated with complex and higher-yielding assets supporting life insurance business.

Intensifying oversight of certain life insurance and annuity reinsurance transactions through Actuarial Guideline 55 (AG 55), including setting higher expectations for asset-adequacy analysis and reserve adequacy.

Instituting a 45% risk-based capital charge for residual interests in structured securities to ensure that capital requirements appropriately recognize investment risk.

Creating a formal process for evaluating whether credit rating providers’ methodologies and rating mappings remain appropriate for regulatory purposes.

As NAIC leaders noted, “State insurance regulators continually evaluate whether the solvency framework appropriately captures emerging and changing risks.”

This adaptive approach, built on collaboration and coordination, has enabled state-based insurance regulation to lead for more than 150 years and will continue to guide it in an ever-changing insurance landscape.

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Full Letter

NAIC Resource Center: Private Credit and Insurance Regulation

State-Based Regulatory Timeline for NAIC’s Solvency Oversight

About the National Association of Insurance Commissioners

As part of our state-based system of insurance regulation in the United States, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) provides expertise, data, and analysis for insurance commissioners to effectively regulate the industry and protect consumers. The U.S. standard-setting organization is governed by the chief insurance regulators from the 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories. Through the NAIC, state insurance regulators establish standards and best practices, conduct peer reviews, and coordinate regulatory oversight. NAIC staff supports these efforts and represents the collective views of state regulators domestically and internationally.

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INVESTOR ALERT: Pomerantz Law Firm Investigates Claims On Behalf of Investors of ServiceTitan, Inc. – TTAN

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NEW YORK, Sept. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Pomerantz LLP is investigating claims on behalf of investors of ServiceTitan, Inc. (“ServiceTitan” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: TTAN). Such investors are advised to contact Danielle Peyton at newaction@pomlaw.com or 646-581-9980, ext. 7980.

The investigation concerns whether ServiceTitan and certain of its officers and/or directors have engaged in securities fraud or other unlawful business practices. 

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On September 8, 2026, ServiceTitan reported second quarter 2027 earnings. Among other items, the Company reported that “[b]ecause Max” – ServiceTitan’s AI-powered enterprise software package – “requires substantial change management, we typically do not bill subscription fees for the first quarter of an upsell Max contract, and we have also elected not to charge existing customers an onboarding fee when transitioning to Max. As a result of these factors, we expect both our platform revenue and professional services revenue to grow at a slower pace for the remainder of fiscal 2027.” The Company further reported that “[w]e expect the mix shift to Max to lower professional services revenue by roughly an additional $2 million over the remainder of this fiscal year, which, of course, also flows through to professional services gross margin.”

On this news, ServiceTitan’s stock price fell $24.46 per share, or 29.98%, to close at $57.12 per share on September 9, 2026.

Pomerantz LLP, with offices in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and Tel Aviv, is acknowledged as one of the premier firms in the areas of corporate, securities, and antitrust class litigation. Founded by the late Abraham L. Pomerantz, known as the dean of the class action bar, Pomerantz pioneered the field of securities class actions. Today, more than 85 years later, Pomerantz continues in the tradition he established, fighting for the rights of the victims of securities fraud, breaches of fiduciary duty, and corporate misconduct. The Firm has recovered numerous multimillion-dollar damages awards on behalf of class members. See www.pomlaw.com.

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Pomerantz LLP
dpeyton@pomlaw.com
646-581-9980 ext. 7980

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