PTC World, day 1: Creo and more

Jun 14, 2011 | Hot Topics

PTC users have gathered in Las Vegas for PTC World 2011 to hear from the company and other users how to use PTC products for competitive advantage. After a long day of presentations and meetings, here are a few impressions on what I’ve learned; more to come in the...

PP&M: Solving Complex Problems

Jun 8, 2011 | Hot Topics

My head is spinning after 2+ days at Hexagon’s first user conference since the close of the Intergraph acquisition. This is one complicated company!  First, a couple of general impressions, then some detail from the PP&M keynotes. I attended Monday’s investor...

Hexagon: €3.5 Billion by 2015

Jun 6, 2011 | Hot Topics

Hexagon held a Capital Markets Day for investors today and laid out its goals for the next 5 years — they’re ambitious but the company says they are attainable. And CEO Ola Rollén has a plan if there’s another recession. But before the financials, a bit of what...

Bentley shows what’s possible

Jun 3, 2011 | Hot Topics

Let’s just get it out there: I love user conferences. The marketing hype, neat stuff in the vendor/sponsor area, new product announcements, a motivational speaker … the whole thing. The best part, though, is hanging out with users. I talk to users all year long...

AVEVA has a banner F2011

May 25, 2011 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today announced that revenue for the year ended March 31, 2011 grew 17% to a record £174 million, with strong performance in the oil and gas vertical and in Asia. Three percent of growth came from acquisitions (ADB and Logimatic’s MARS business last June), which...

MSC gets into CFD – in a big way

May 24, 2011 | Hot Topics

I’m on the road –so this needs to be brief– but you need to know that MSC announced today that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Next Limit Technologies (you likely know of their Maxwell Render product for visualization and effects) to market,...

Autodesk revenue up 11% in Q1

May 22, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk reported on Thursday that revenue grew 11% in its fiscal first quarter, led by a 14% increase in sales from the Manufacturing business and by strong sales of its new Autodesk Design Suites, which contributed to 35% growth in Platform suites revenue. On a geo...

Rand reports growth, shareholders like

May 16, 2011 | Hot Topics

Rand Worldwide, the entity created last year by the reverse merger of Rand and Avatech, today reported total third quarter revenue of $27.4 million, up handily from the $13.5 million reported by Rand alone a year ago. My notes show that Avatech reported revenue of...

Cimatron profitable in Q1

May 16, 2011 | Hot Topics

Cimatron last week announced that it, too, was seeing the benefits of an economic rebound, reporting that fist quarter revenue was up 12% on new license revenue growth of 24% in constant currency. Maintenance, which represents 50% of total revenue, was up 5% in...

CENIT: good Q1, cautious about year

May 12, 2011 | Hot Topics

CENIT, the Germany-based reseller and developer of PLM solutions, announced results yesterday for Q1. Like many in the engineering software space, it saw “clear growth” over 2010, continuing the upward trend that started in the latter half of last year. In fact, in...