Tag Archives: Bentley
Quickies: Hexagon, Bentley – oh, and Yale wins hockey crown
I’d normally be writing this week about COFES, the annual engineering software gathering in the Arizona desert, but I didn’t attend this year. Shocking, right? Instead, I played hookey to watch the best collegiate athletes in the US play hockey. … Continue reading
Bentley & Siemens tie plant design & automation
Earlier today, at the Hannover Fair, Bentley Systems and Siemens Industry Automation Division announced an extension of their collaboration — this time for the process industries. Last November, the two companies signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate “digital product … Continue reading
Bentley ‘hits stride’ and $550m in revenue
Bentley Systems today gave a glimpse into how the company fared in 2012 and what it thinks 2013 will hold. Bentley is privately held so this disclosure is unusual but, as CEO Greg Bentley told us, his customers prefer a … Continue reading
Public infrastructure: what happens if we don’t invest?
Last weekend a huge storm dumped as much as 3 feet of snow on New England. Many municipalities put in place driving bans, which kept people off the roads and sped up snow removal. But when we all hit the … Continue reading
Quickies: Aras, Autodesk, AVEVA, Bentley Pointools, Delcam, Hexagon, PTC
Hi, everybody! I have something like 5 blog posts in various states of completion but last week’s SolidWorks World, followed by 3 days of hanging out with adorable but sneezy munchkins at Disney and Universal and then a quick high … Continue reading
Bentley Inspires and announces – a LOT
Come with me to a ballroom in Amsterdam. Candelabras, fancy place settings, soft lighting. The Bentley Systems team is all dressed up while the rest of us look pretty darned good, too. There’s a glittering stage and a buzz … Continue reading
Trimble snaps up Vico for 4D/5D
Trimble Navigation (an ever-greater misnomer) announced on Friday that it has acquired the assets of privately-held Vico Software, Inc., a provider of 4D and 5D architectural modeling software and consulting services. Trimble says this acquisition “extends Trimble’s solutions for building construction and … Continue reading
Buy, buy, buy: DDD, Autodesk, Bentley, MSC, The Foundry
I go away for a couple of days, and what happens: merger mania. We’ll dive into a one or two of these in more detail as the week goes on, but here are the high points: 3D Systems acquires a company … Continue reading
Bentley focuses on infrastructure
I spent a few hours last week at Bentley Systems’ annual Be Together user conference. Analysts and journalists are typically not at this event but I was invited to moderate a session on the use of standards in the process … Continue reading
Book review: Bentley Annual Report
Bentley Systems is an unusual company, in that it’s privately held yet gives an annual update on how the business is doing. The company held a conference call last month (blogged about here) and recently published its Annual Report which … Continue reading
