Quickie: Exa’s Q2 revenue up 7% but cautious

Quickie: Exa’s Q2 revenue up 7% but cautious

Exa Corp. today reported fiscal Q2 revenue of $12.7 million, up 7% as reported and up 10% in constant currencies. CEO Steve Remondi said in the press release that “the return to customer spending that we started to see at the beginning of the year continued in...
Quickie: Exa’s Q2 revenue up 7% but cautious

Quickie: DS acquires Safe Tech

DS just announced that it has acquired Safe Technology Ltd., for its fatigue simulation technology, fe-safe. From the press release, “Safe Technology has been working closely with Dassault Systèmes and its SIMULIA applications for more than 15 years and in that...
Quickie: Exa’s Q2 revenue up 7% but cautious

Trimble’s Connected Farm brings IT to ag

Trimble is going to have to change its name at some point, as its portfolio becomes less and less about Navigation. Yesterday, the company announced a pile of acquisitions and the début of the Connected Farm, all intended to help farmers optimize their businesses....
Solid Edge online store goes LIVE

Solid Edge online store goes LIVE

A quick update on a story that started at Solid Edge U earlier this summer: In order offer customers more choice in the way they buy their CAD software, Solid Edge today opened its online store. There, you can buy monthly subscriptions to several flavors of Solid...
Quickie: Exa’s Q2 revenue up 7% but cautious

3D Printing Earnings: up Up UP

Things are jumping in the world of 3D printing. We’ve got earnings, partnerships, acquisitions and boosters so let’s get right to it. If you’re a veteran, be sure to read the last paragraph. Some are predicting that the market for 3D printing is...
Quickie: Exa’s Q2 revenue up 7% but cautious

Autodesk Q2 revenue down, AEC investments pay off

So this is interesting: I’m watching Autodesk’s share price the morning after the company announced relatively dismal results for its second quarter — and the price is climbing. Last night, after the market closed and Autodesk released its earnings...
Quickie: Exa’s Q2 revenue up 7% but cautious

Quickie: CROSS makes offer for rest of TRIPLAN shares

TRIPLAN is one of many companies in our PLMish universe and it often gets lost in the deluge of news. Since there’s interesting stuff happening, let’s look a bit more closely, shall we? You may be more familiar with TRIPLAN’s ITandFactory brand, the...
CAM Earnings: Manufacturing the future

CAM Earnings: Manufacturing the future

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....
Quickie: Exa’s Q2 revenue up 7% but cautious

ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility

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...