DS reports Q4 revenue up 19%, software up 16%

DS reports Q4 revenue up 19%, software up 16%

Feb 5, 2015 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes just reported a Q4 that should make investors quite happy. In Paris, the share price is up around 5% at mid-day local time. Total IFRS revenue was €673 million, up 19% as reported and up 16% in constant currency (cc), right in the middle of guidance,...
Q&A: Pre-announcing earnings, good and bad

Q&A: Pre-announcing earnings, good and bad

Feb 4, 2015 | Hot Topics

People wind up on the Schnitger Corp. website for all sorts of reasons: links from other sites, search engines, the fact that an ancestor was a famous organ builder in German (yup. Didn’t inherit that gene.) … For some reason, today’s visitors got...
DS reports Q4 revenue up 19%, software up 16%

So much news — so little time: ADSK, ANSS, SSYS

Feb 4, 2015 | Hot Topics

Wow – what a day. And it’s not even 9AM! First up, Autodesk says that most new commercial seats of standalone software will be sold via subscription beginning on February 1, 2016. From the company’s perspective, this move creates revenue stability and...

Nemetschek Q4 up 26%, F14 up 18%, ahead of forecasts

Feb 3, 2015 | Hot Topics

Nemetschek Group, parent company of Nemetschek, Graphisoft, VectorWworks and other brands, just announced that it blew past forecasts to close out 2014 on a very high note. Q4 revenue was up 25.7% to €65.0 million on organic growth of 12.6%. Total revenue for the year...
DS reports Q4 revenue up 19%, software up 16%

PTC’s FQ1 conference call was a masterpiece

Jan 31, 2015 | Hot Topics

PTC’s fiscal first quarter wasn’t perfect and it wasn’t a disaster — but the company’s handling of its conference call with analysts was truly masterful. As teenagers, we all learned that if we didn’t want to tell our parents something, we needed to direct the...
DS reports Q4 revenue up 19%, software up 16%

PTC paints a mixed picture for FQ1

Jan 28, 2015 | Hot Topics

It wasn’t the best possible Q1 but it could have been a lot worse. PTC reported that total revenue was basically flat with last year at $325 million, as it encourages customers to switch to subscriptions and copes with a discouraging manufacturing economy. On a...
DS reports Q4 revenue up 19%, software up 16%

Graphisoft consolidates its hold on Italy

Jan 23, 2015 | Hot Topics

Graphisoft just announced that it has acquired the ArchiCAD distribution unit of Italy’s Cigraph, a long-time in-country reseller. The deals led to the opening of the Graphisoft’s first Italian office, made up of Cigraph people who will work with...
DS reports Q4 revenue up 19%, software up 16%

ANSYS tunes its channel

Jan 19, 2015 | Hot Topics

(I know. Terrible pun. But it’s a holiday!) ANSYS announced today that it’s launching the ANSYS Elite channel partner program — in essence, ramping up the certification program for partners who want to move beyond “Standard” and into...
Shakeup at SolidWorks: Sicot out, Bassi in

Shakeup at SolidWorks: Sicot out, Bassi in

Jan 15, 2015 | Hot Topics

Well, this is big (and surprising): Dassault Systèmes just announced that Gian Paolo Bassi has been appointed CEO of SOLIDWORKS, replacing Bertrand Sicot. M. Sicot moves on to become DS’ VP Sales of the Value Solutions sales channel, the indirect sales...