CAM Earnings: Manufacturing the future

CAM Earnings: Manufacturing the future

Aug 14, 2013 | Hot Topics

While some of us are on a beach, sipping drinks with little umbrellas, others are busily telling Wall Street (or London City) what’s going on in their businesses. Today, we’ll take a quick look at recent earnings from CAM vendors Cimatron and Delcam....
ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility

ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility

Aug 1, 2013 | Hot Topics

ANSYS struggled in Q1 and, apparently, at the start of Q2 but seems to have ended the quarter with a bang. CEO Jim Cashman told investors that Q2 saw strong contributions from all parts of the business, across all product areas and from software license, maintenance...
ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility

DS’ Q2 ahead on some metrics, not on others

Jul 30, 2013 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes’ earnings announcements keep getting more complex, mixing lots of different revenue metrics, acquisitions, currency and abstruse international accounting. FQ2 2013 was no exception. Let’s see what we can figure out. The most obvious point from...
ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility

PTC: FQ3 challenging with pockets of strength

Jul 24, 2013 | Hot Topics

Earlier this evening, PTC  reported fiscal third quarter (ended June 30) results that were at the bottom end of expectations — but the headline is that the company sees a tough economic outlook and decided to lower its Q4 forecast. Again. CEO Jim Heppelmann said...
ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility

Quickies: PTC acquires, DS closes, Hexagon sells

Jul 23, 2013 | Hot Topics

There’s a lot of acquisition news coming out of the PLMish universe, so let’s catch up a bit while we wait for earnings to really heat up later this week. PTC last week announced that it acquired Enigma, a company whose products aggregate and deliver...
ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility

MuM says slow Q2, but demand picking up

Jul 22, 2013 | Hot Topics

A few weeks ago, AVEVA teased that it had seen “good” conditions in the market for its engineering and enterprise solutions, but without giving any numbers. European company Mensch und Maschine (MuM) today painted a slightly different picture,...
Autodesk Fusion 360 – it’s here!

Autodesk Fusion 360 – it’s here!

Jul 17, 2013 | Hot Topics

A couple of weeks ago, Autodesk formally released Fusion 360, the not-at-all secret CAD product the company has worked on for the last couple of years. If you remember, the company showed off a pre-Beta version of the product at a Design Slam contest at AU about 6...
ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility

AVEVA kicks off earnings in high style

Jul 10, 2013 | Hot Topics

AVEVA announced yesterday that the June quarter was a “good start” to its fiscal 2014; happy investors sent its share price up 14% for the day. These interim announcements don’t include many actual numbers, so AVEVA uses qualifiers to describe...
CD-adapco brings HEEDS in-house

CD-adapco brings HEEDS in-house

Jul 9, 2013 | Hot Topics

CD-adapco today announced that it has acquired Red Cedar Technology, maker of HEEDS Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) software and SHERPA, a search method to find optimum designs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is big, in that it takes CD-adapco...
#SEU13: YouTube, GrabCAD, 1300 enhancements — oh my

#SEU13: YouTube, GrabCAD, 1300 enhancements — oh my

Jul 2, 2013 | Hot Topics

Solid Edge University is a treat. These are serious, hardcore CAD guys who don’t have time for a lot of the other stuff that’s crept in around the edges of CAD for the last 20 years. Give them surfacing enhancements, and they’re happy. Give them ways...