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La Vie en Rose Group Unifies Planning and Achieves Near-100% Data Accuracy with Centric Planning

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Leading lingerie and swimwear retailer leans on Centric Software to modernize merchandise and key-item planning with greater data granularity

CAMPBELL, Calif., June 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — The la Vie en Rose Group, a leading Canadian lingerie and swimwear retailer, has gone live with Centric Planning & Pricing™, part of Centric Software’s market-leading portfolio of solutions for fashion and specialty retail. Centric Software® provides the most innovative enterprise solutions to plan, design, develop, source, comply, buy, make, allocate, assort and sell fashion, luxury, footwear, outdoor, home, cosmetics & personal care products as well as multi-category retail, to achieve strategic and operational digital transformation goals.

Founded in 1985 and headquartered in Montreal, the organization operates two distinct yet complementary brands: la Vie en Rose and Bikini Village. La Vie en Rose offers lingerie, bras, sleepwear, and swimwear collections focused on comfort, quality, and accessibility. Acquired in 2015, Bikini Village positions itself as a specialized destination for swimwear, beachwear, and accessories, featuring a curated selection of well‑known brands for women and men. Under these banners, la Vie en Rose Group now operates more than 400 stores in 20 countries.

Before Centric Planning & Pricing, la Vie en Rose Group’s merchandise and key-item planning processes were fragmented across multiple systems. Christopher Plant, Director of Merchandise Planning for la Vie en Rose and Bikini Village says, “There was always a question around the validity of the data due to manual error.” In addition, it would take the planning team several days during the first week of every month to manually gather and reconcile the data.

A thorough search for a planning system resulted in la Vie en Rose Group selecting Centric Planning & Pricing for its flexible, integrated approach, deep retail expertise. The solution’s item planning capabilities and ability to support the company’s planning processes across its retail operations were key factors in the decision.

The company decided to slow implementation to drive up accuracy. Plant notes, “I’m glad we took the extra time; our data is over 99% accurate to our source systems.”

“Now with Centric Planning & Pricing, store/channel planning, merchandise financial planning/open-to-buy and key-item planning are all together; we can do everything in one system,” says Plant. He continues, “The real benefit of Centric Planning & Pricing is that you can see your different plans all together and reconcile them.”

Automation has drastically reduced manual effort. Plant says, “Those days we used to spend at the beginning of each month collecting data to then balance and reconcile? Gone. Now, we walk in on Monday morning and the weekend loads have gone through; all of our data is loaded directly for us. So that’s a huge time-savings!”

The tool is highly configurable. “Centric Planning & Pricing is very flexible and dynamic. We collaborated closely with the Centric team to give us the exact functionality we wanted. We’re also able to filter like a pivot table and can drill the plans down lower in our hierarchy than before.”

Key-item planning is now quicker and more comprehensive. “It’s significantly faster to plan key items in Centric Planning & Pricing, than with what we were using previously,” says Plant. The granularity has soared. “We can do selling-size curves and order curves at the week-level. Before, we were only able to do one curve for the entire year.”

This leads to another big advantage with using the new solution. “Even though pre-season and in-season planning are separate entities, they are linked in Centric Planning & Pricing so that data from one feeds into the other,” Plant explains. By keeping the pre-season baseline forecasts, targets, margins intact, teams can make fast, mid-season, data-driven decisions on buys and allocations. The teams are then set up for next season, where reviews of performance inform the next planning cycle.

Of the working partnership, Plant states, “The Centric Planning & Pricing team is phenomenal—very quick to respond, always open to adapt to what we need. Overall, it’s been a positive experience and has definitely moved our planning to the next level.”

“We are happy that la Vie en Rose Group has gone live, opening up the door to modern planning and a unified, data-driven view of the business,” says Fabrice Canonge, CEO of Centric Software. “The la Vie en Rose Group’s commitment to data quality and continuous improvement exemplifies how leading retailers are using Centric Planning & Pricing to drive agility and profitable growth.”

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La Vie en Rose Group (lavieenrose.com)

A Canadian leader in lingerie, sleepwear, and swimwear, the la Vie en Rose Group is headquartered in Montreal and operates two complementary brands: la Vie en Rose and Bikini Village. The Group has a network of more than 400 stores across Canada, the United States, and 18 international markets. Supported by a team of more than 5,800 employees, la Vie en Rose Group continues to execute its growth strategy and expand the reach of both brands worldwide.

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 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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Goldman Edwards Wins $18M FAA Designee Management System (DMS) Prime Task Order Through GET Joint Venture on FAA ITIPSS

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BETHESDA, Md., June 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Goldman Edwards, serving as the Prime Contractor and Managing Partner through the Goldman Edwards Tantus (GET) Joint Venture, today announced the award of an $18 million Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Designee Management System (DMS) support task order under the FAA Information Technology Innovative Procurement for Strategic Sourcing (ITIPSS) contract vehicle.

The five-year task order supports the mission of the Federal Aviation Administration to modernize and enhance the Designee Management System, a critical platform supporting FAA operational and aviation safety oversight functions. The award was highlighted by OrangeSlices AI.

The award represents another major milestone for Goldman Edwards as the company continues expanding its portfolio of FAA and Department of Transportation modernization programs and reinforces the company’s growing reputation as a trusted prime contractor across the federal transportation sector.

“This award is another strong example of the trust and confidence the FAA and Department of Transportation continue to place in Goldman Edwards and our team,” said Jerrod Moton, Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Edwards. “Winning this FAA DMS task order as a prime through our Joint Venture further validates our ability to deliver mission-critical modernization, cybersecurity, and enterprise IT solutions in highly complex operational environments.”

Moton added, “Goldman Edwards brings deep FAA and DOT experience that allows us to understand the operational, technical, and mission challenges agencies face across the transportation ecosystem. Our team has supported major initiatives involving FAA modernization, DOT enterprise IT operations, cybersecurity, digital transformation, cloud modernization, and mission support services. That experience gives our customers confidence that we can deliver solutions aligned with real operational outcomes and long-term modernization goals.”

The company noted that its experience supporting enterprise IT operations and modernization initiatives across the transportation sector uniquely positions Goldman Edwards to help agencies modernize faster while improving operational consistency, governance, customer experience, and mission delivery.

“The FAA is entering a transformative era of modernization and innovation across aviation systems, digital infrastructure, and operational technology,” Moton continued. “Goldman Edwards is proud to support that mission through scalable, secure, and forward-looking technology solutions that improve operational performance, strengthen safety systems, and support the future of aviation.”

The Designee Management System plays an important role within the FAA by supporting oversight, management, and operational coordination of FAA designees who help carry out critical aviation safety and certification activities across the national aviation ecosystem.

“This was truly a team effort and reflects the strength of the partnership between Goldman Edwards and Tantus,” Moton said. “Our teams continue to demonstrate a shared commitment to innovation, operational excellence, customer success, and mission delivery.”

The award further strengthens Goldman Edwards’ growing position within the FAA and broader transportation sector, where the company continues supporting initiatives involving enterprise modernization, cybersecurity, cloud transformation, AI-enabled operations, data modernization, and digital service delivery.

The task order was awarded under the FAA’s $2.4 billion ITIPSS contract vehicle, a major modernization vehicle supporting non-National Airspace System (non-NAS) IT mission requirements across the agency.

“At Goldman Edwards, we continue to invest in elite talent, proven partnerships, and emerging technologies that allow us to bridge the gap between commercial innovation and government mission delivery,” Moton said. “Our customers trust us because we understand how to deliver modernization initiatives that are practical, scalable, secure, and aligned to operational outcomes.”

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Goldman Edwards is an SBA-certified 8(a) small business and Maryland MBE providing enterprise IT, modernization, cybersecurity, cloud, engineering, and mission support services to federal and state government customers. The company supports agencies across transportation, healthcare, public safety, civilian, and infrastructure sectors with a focus on innovation, rapid delivery, and operational excellence.

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Jamf launches AI Governance, a first-of-its-kind native AI control plane for Mac

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New capability gives enterprises visibility, control and governance for AI tools running across managed Mac fleets, addressing today’s gap between usage and confidence

SINGAPORE, July 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Jamf, the standard in managing and securing Apple at work, today announced general availability of AI Governance, a new capability within Jamf for Mac that enables IT and security teams to discover actively-used AI tools, enforce policy controls, and generate audit-ready reporting. This move makes Jamf first-to-market to deliver native, OS-level AI governance controls for Mac. Jamf will be showcasing this new capability at its Jamf Nation events taking place in Sydney, Kuala Lumpur and Hong Kong in August 2026.

Many organizations struggle to confidently audit and report on AI tool usage across their device fleet, including both sanctioned applications and unsanctioned or prohibited tools. AI Governance provides comprehensive visibility into which AI applications are in use, along with detailed insights into how they behave on the endpoint. This enables organizations to understand AI activity at a level that network- and cloud-based reporting solutions alone cannot provide, helping security teams identify risk, support compliance, and make informed governance decisions.

With launch support for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and OpenAI Codex, the capability provides deep governance coverage across model access, tenancy, network permissions, file system controls, MCP server restrictions, and other vendor-specific AI configurations. A vendor control tracking engine continuously monitors supported AI platforms for new or updated controls, helping organizations keep governance policies current as AI tools rapidly evolve.  All of these policies are in place offline and before a user’s first login to an AI agent, enforcing a foundational day-zero and tamper-resistant policy baseline.

The only native Mac control plane for enterprise AI

AI tools run natively on Apple Silicon and operate as processes that existing network proxies and cloud-based tooling cannot fully see or govern. No existing tool unifies platform-native device management, deep AI tool configuration coverage, and a workflow that translates governance intent into vendor-correct configuration on macOS.

Jamf AI Governance closes that gap by enabling visibility of Shadow AI and providing granular AI configurations natively, deployed in minutes, through the same endpoint management control plane that admins use today, offering:

Visibility: AI application visibility and shadow AI discovery surface AI tools, agents, and LLM runtime across the fleet (including CLI-based developer tools and background agents) using Jamf’s existing telemetry agent, which uses native and high-performance macOS frameworks. No new agent is required.Control: AI access policy controls let IT define sanctioned tools, deploy access policy at scale, and scope different postures to different teams. Vendor-correct configurations can be applied automatically at scale.Governance: An executive AI posture report provides CIOs and CISOs with a snapshot-in-time summary of AI usage. The capability offers SIEM compatibility and is designed to assist companies in reporting against their existing compliance frameworks.

“AI adoption across the enterprise is moving faster than existing technology policies can keep up,” said Beth Tschida, CEO at Jamf. “Organizations need governance that matches the way AI tools actually operate on Mac. This means visibility into what’s running, policy controls enforced directly on the endpoint, and reporting that helps security teams demonstrate compliance. Our AI Governance capability delivers that natively from the same platform customers already trust to manage and secure Apple devices.”

“Like many organizations, we want to enable teams to use AI tools productively while maintaining appropriate governance and oversight,” said Sam Lalli, Security Engineering & SOC Manager at Eventbrite “What impressed us about Jamf’s AI Governance was how quickly we could apply policy across our Mac fleet without adding another point solution or creating friction for developers. Having this critical capability built into the same device management platform we already use, really simplifies AI governance for our team.”

AI governance urgency is accelerating

The need for enterprise AI governance is accelerating as organizations rapidly adopt AI-powered tools across employee workflows. Jamf’s recently released AI Governance Survey found that organizations with deeply integrated AI are 40% more likely to report an incident than those still in the exploration phase, suggesting AI governance is quickly becoming an operational requirement rather than a future planning exercise.

Gartner® mentions, “With spending on AI governance expected to reach $492 million in 2026 and surpass $1 billion by 2030, organizations are reassessing the tools and strategies needed to stay ahead of both regulatory and operational risk.” Further, in its Top Cybersecurity Trends for 2026 report, Gartner also says that, “Cybersecurity leaders must identify both sanctioned and unsanctioned AI agents, enforce robust controls for each and develop incident response playbooks to address potential risks.”

Jamf’s AI Governance capability is now available in Jamf for Mac with immediate support for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, and OpenAI Codex. Learn more about Jamf AI Governance at: https://www.jamf.com/solutions/ai-governance

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Jamf’s purpose is to simplify work by helping organizations manage and secure Apple devices while delivering an experience end users love and organizations trust. Built for the AI-enabled Apple enterprise, the Jamf platform provides a complete management and security solution with autonomous endpoint management and AI governance across cloud and on-device models. Today, Jamf helps over 78,000 organizations across 100 countries manage and secure over 35 million devices. To learn more, visit www.jamf.com.

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Agoda rolls out suite of new features focused on real-time updates and smarter trip planning

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SINGAPORE, July 1, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Digital travel platform Agoda today announced a series of new features designed to help travelers plan and manage their trips with greater confidence. The latest updates include real-time flight visibility, an enhanced hotel browser, and AI-powered tools that make choosing the right property faster and more intuitive.

Travelers booking flights through Agoda on iOS and Android can now receive real-time updates throughout their journey. Once a booking is confirmed, Agoda automatically sends updates on flight status, gate and terminal information, check-in counters, and baggage carousels, averaging two to three notifications per booking.

On the hotel side, Agoda introduced Gallery View on its iOS app, giving users a photo-forward way to browse search results. A new AI-powered feature also automatically pairs hotel images with relevant guest reviews, so when users look at a room type, a pool, or a restaurant, they can immediately see what other guests have said about that specific feature.

Ittai Chorev, Chief Product Officer at Agoda, said: “Travel is always a little stressful, so having the right information at the right time is both useful and reduces stress. Whether that means seeing the reviews that matter to you alongside relevant images when booking a hotel, or knowing your gate number before even reaching the airport when booking a flight, these updates help travelers make better decisions at every step of their journey.”

Agoda also expanded its language support for Flights-related chat queries to support Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Thai, Indonesian, and Hong Kong-based users across five additional languages, connecting travelers to assistance in their preferred language.

Rounding out this quarter’s Product Update, Agoda’s multi-product booking engine now allows travelers to book hotels, flights, and activities in a single transaction, with all trip components consolidated in the ‘My Trips’ section of the app and website for easy reference. More information on this enhanced experience can be read here.

Travelers can explore Agoda’s full range of over 6 million holiday properties, more than 130,000 flight routes, and over 300,000 activities at agoda.com and in the Agoda app.

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