AVEVA confident of a successful F12

Jan 27, 2012 | Hot Topics

The earnings news so far has been almost giddy, both retrospectively as PTC and SAP strong December quarters and looking forward as both companies project strong growth for 2012. AVEVA tamped that down a bit today, releasing an Interim Management Statement (no...

PTC has great FQ1; realigns for future

Jan 26, 2012 | Hot Topics

PTC continues to roll, reporting solid results for its fiscal first quarter ended December 31, 2011 and raising its forecasts for fiscal 2012. For the quarter, PTC reported total revenue of $318 million, up 19% from a year ago, helped by $18.5 million contributions...
SAP has great 2011, but cloud is tiny

SAP has great 2011, but cloud is tiny

Jan 25, 2012 | Hot Topics

SAP today announced Q4 and full-year 2011 results that confirm its news release on January 13. In a nutshell, total revenue in 2011 was €14.2 billion, up 14%, while software revenue was just under €4 billion, up 22% from a year earlier (helped by the Sybase...

More acquisitions: Hexagon’s turn

Jan 19, 2012 | Hot Topics

Hexagon today announce that it has acquired MicroSurvey Software Inc., a Canadian developer of software used in the surveying, construction, and for forensic reconstruction. I first became aware of MicroSurvey more than 10 years ago, when I worked on my first Daratech...

SofTech: sequential increase

Jan 12, 2012 | Hot Topics

Ahh, earning season. Get ready, ‘cause here we go. By all accounts, 2011 wasn’t bad — global economies were tense, foreign exchange rates were unpredictable, wars continued and natural disasters too, but consumers kept buying because … that’s what they do....

Autodesk & Pitney Bowes partner for AEC

Jan 11, 2012 | Hot Topics

Earlier this week, Autodesk and Pitney Bowes Software announced a strategic alliance to “help infrastructure owners and architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) organizations make more informed decisions and drive greater efficiencies across the plan, design,...

Now THAT’s customer service

Jan 9, 2012 | Hot Topics

Most of you know that I’m an Apple fangirl. I’ve admired their product design concepts, ease of use and ability to make mundane tasks more fun ever since the first Macs hit the market back in the 1980s. I’ve never had much to do with the company other than at the...

ADSK supports T-Splines for Rhino/SolidWorks

Jan 5, 2012 | Hot Topics

Just before the year-end, Autodesk announced that it had acquired the technology assets of T-Splines, Inc., patent holder of the T-Splines surface modeling technology. Many people emailed and blogged their fears that this would spell the end of the popular T-Splines...

SofTech’s reinvention continues

Jan 4, 2012 | Hot Topics

Welcome back! I love how quiet the world gets around the end of each year, with even junk email slowing to a trickle. Then the new year starts, full of bustle and purpose. A lot of news tends to get lost in that transition so I’ll try to get us all caught up over the...

Quick Update: Autodesk’s T-Splines

Dec 23, 2011 | Hot Topics

Earlier on Thursday, Autodesk announced that it was acquiring some of the assets of T-Splines, Inc., patent holder of the T-Splines surface modeling technology. The news release raised more questions than it answered, and we reached out to Autodesk to see if we...