The perfect press release, 2011

Jan 26, 2011 | Hot Topics

We’re getting into earnings season and user group meetings are starting up again, which means it’s time for a press release bonanza. I last wrote about crafting the perfect press release in 2009, but the current crop show that the PLM world needs a refresher. Press...

Simplify, simplify

Jan 24, 2011 | Hot Topics

I’ve been talking with a lot of engineers and scientists outside the typical PLM realm about their work, the processes the use and the IT tools they rely on — and the answers are forcing me to redefine how I see enabling tools.It’s all about perspective. I’m a...

Quick hits: Bentley, IBM

Jan 19, 2011 | Hot Topics

A few quick thoughts while I work through the pile in the inbox: Bentley to buy back Intergraph’s stake The Huntsville (AL) Times on Monday published a blog post about Bentley Systems buying back the shares that had been owned by Intergraph. In the dark ages,...

Altair expands into CFD

Jan 12, 2011 | Hot Topics

Altair Engineering yesterday announced the acquisition of ACUSIM Software, maker of the AcuSolve family of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) products. Altair develops and markets a broad set of CAE tools, including the RADIOSS solver and the HyperMesh suite of...

Shining the light on LIDAR

Jan 10, 2011 | Hot Topics

Laser scanning is hot. Process plant design software vendors such as AVEVA, Bentley Systems and Intergraph have long had partner programs to integrate LIDAR models into their design and operations workflows; Autodesk is now actively promoting it — and last month...

Delcam says Q4 was “buoyant”

Jan 4, 2011 | Hot Topics

UK CAM software vendor Delcam issued a trading update today that characterized sales during the fourth quarter as “buoyant”. The December quarter is typically Delcam’s biggest revenue quarter, so this is very good news. The company reports that software license and...

Avatech officially becomes Rand

Jan 3, 2011 | Hot Topics

Avatech made it official: As of January 1, 2011 it will be known as Rand Worldwide, Inc. and change its ticker symbol to RWWI on the over the counter market in the US. This is the final step in the reverse merger closed last year and unifies two brands. As of 5PM on...

Notes from an MSC MD workshop

Jan 3, 2011 | Hot Topics

Happy New Year! 2011 is already shaping up to be an interesting year, so I hope you took a few days off to rest up … Just before the holiday break, I attended an all-day MD Nastran workshop put on by MSC Software in suburban Boston. We began the day with a quick...

Momentum continues in ESI’s Q3 results

Dec 14, 2010 | Hot Topics

ESI Group today released results for its fiscal third quarter, ended October 31, 2010 — and they continue ESI’s upward trajectory. Total revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year was €16.0 million, up 16% from a year ago but down 6% sequentially, following...