Monica Schnitger

Quick update: DS beats expectations in Q3

Oct 25, 2012 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes announced results today that beat expectations on many fronts. I’m at the PLM Innovation Americas conference so will have to get the conference call replays when I can, but here’s a quick update: total revenue was €499.5 million as...

SAP closes Ariba deal, focuses on cloud

Oct 24, 2012 | Hot Topics

SAP announced earlier today that it was raising its full-year revenue target as a result of strong software sales of its own products and with an extra boost from its acquisition of Ariba, which closed on October 1. All executives on the earnings call said that the...

Ready, Set, Go! MuM revenue, profit up

Oct 22, 2012 | Hot Topics

Hope your seat belt is buckled, because we’re off to a fast start with earnings for the quarter that ended September 30. Today we heard from Mensch und Maschine; later in the week SAP, Dassault Systemes, 3D Systems, Cybernet Systems and Hexagon tell us what...

AVEVA unveils E3D to intrigued customers

Oct 17, 2012 | Hot Topics

For months, AVEVA has been blanketing the virtual airwaves with messaging around its new plant design product, dubbed “the future of plant design” or FoPD for short. Many users were at AVEVA World Summit last week in Paris to take back answers to: Would...

AVEVA’s H1 showed “good progress”

Oct 15, 2012 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today gave a quick update on results for its most recent six-month period: the company made “good progress” in the period ended September 30, 2012. As has been the case recently, the oil and gas vertical drove sales in the company’s Engineering...

Rand: new business area “exhilarating”

Oct 13, 2012 | Hot Topics

A couple of weeks ago, Rand Worldwide reported results for its fiscal fourth quarter and for the year ended June 30, 2012. FQ4 revenue was $22.6 million, down 3% from last year, with net income of $5.3 million. For the year, revenue was $89.4 million, essentially flat...

And buy more: 3D Systems buys Rapidform, Siemens buys Kineo,

Oct 10, 2012 | Hot Topics

Last week, I mused that acquisitions in the engineering software world are coming fast and furious — and, today, we need to add at least two more to the list. On Monday, Siemens PLM announced that it has acquired the French company Kineo CAM, whose...

MSC’s Digimat opens up use of advanced materials

Oct 9, 2012 | Hot Topics

MSC Software last month announced that it had acquired e-Xstream engineering, most known for its Digimat products for advanced materials simulation. This acquisition follows on the heels of a partnerships between MSC and HBM-nCode for fatigue testing, giving MSC what...

Buy some more: AspenTech and Siemens announce acquisitions

Oct 2, 2012 | Hot Topics

Yesterday, I marveled at how many acquisitions have gone down in the engineering software world in the last 10 days or so — and today, we add two more to that list. The Siemens Industry Automation Division announced that it has acquired VRcontext, whose...

Buy, buy, buy: DDD, Autodesk, Bentley, MSC, The Foundry

Oct 1, 2012 | Hot Topics

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 with the coolest name ever: TIM, The Innovative Modelmakers...