{"id":244053,"date":"2018-05-11T16:34:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T14:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=244053"},"modified":"2018-05-14T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:14:13","slug":"ansys-to-change-its-name-to-etion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/244053\/ansys-to-change-its-name-to-etion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys to change its name to Etion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ansys, a diversified digital technology solutions provider listed on the Alt-X, has undergone a name change, to Etion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ansys Limited Group has been implementing a bold new market repositioning and growth strategy over the past two years. The company identified the evolving technological landscape to which it must adapt, as a driver for continuous change in the company, in order to remain competitive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The company recognises the need to constantly move, to reinvent itself and to create new solutions,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Ansys is a digital provider of technology-based solutions to improve customer safety and productivity, connectivity, original design manufacturing, cyber security and digital defence needs.<\/p>\n<p>It said that as a consequence of the growth strategy, and to align the objectives of the various business units within the company, it embarked on a re-branding exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Ansys said its board decided that the current name no longer reflects the vision of the company, nor the continuing evolving technological landscape. &#8220;This transition requires energy and action, which can be captured into a single word, Etion,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/it-services\/213623\/ansys-interim-revenue-slides-on-constrained-trading-conditions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ansys interim revenue slides on constrained trading conditions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ansys, a diversified digital technology solutions provider listed on the Alt-X, has undergone a name change, to Etion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":61643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2672],"class_list":["post-244053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-it-services","tag-ansys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244341,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244053\/revisions\/244341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}