AVEVA strengthens its board

Apr 6, 2010 | Hot Topics

AVEVA Group today announced the appointment of Hervé Couturier as a Non-Executive Director, replacing the retiring David Mann on its board of directors.M. Couturier is a software industry veteran and is currently Executive Vice President of the Technology Group at...

CD-adapco: strong growth seeding the cloud

Apr 5, 2010 | Hot Topics

CD-adapco announced at its London user event that it was growing very nicely in spite of a global recession, has a succession plan in place and is adding additional licensing options to its StarCCM+ offering.Steve MacDonald, President and co-founder of CD-adapco, has...

Done deal: DS now owns IBM PLM

Apr 1, 2010 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes announced today that it has completed its acquisition of IBM’s PLM sales and support organization has been completed. The $600 million transaction includes customer contracts and related assets and allows DS to present a single “face” to its PLM...

Unrest at Avatech

Mar 31, 2010 | Hot Topics

You may recall that Avatech Solutions, like many companies in the engineering software space, had a difficult 2008/2009 in response to the economic realities faced by its government, AEC and manufacturing customers. The company rebounded a bit in its last reported...

Delcam optimistic about 2010

Mar 29, 2010 | Hot Topics

Delcam plc, a UK-based developer of CAM solutions, reported on Monday that revenue for 2009 declined 3% to £31.8 million but, as the company points out “still represented the second-best turnover in the company’s history and stood 7% higher than sales in 2007”. Delcam...

News bites

Mar 29, 2010 | Hot Topics

Lots of things come over the transom that I find very interesting but don’t have time to do much about. But they’re too cool to keep to myself, so … CFD on a Mac Sympscape (aka Caedium) was mentioned in this blog a while back for making CFD results available via...

PLM vendors have some success helping displaced workers

Mar 25, 2010 | Hot Topics

Over the last year I’ve written a number of posts about vendors offering free or low-cost software and training to laid-off engineers and designers to help them better position themselves for the job market. How has that worked and how many people were actually...

VC funds trickling back into PLM

Mar 23, 2010 | Hot Topics

Comet Solutions back in January announced that it had closed on a $2 million series B round of investment led by Athenian Venture Partners together with Tri-State Growth Capital Fund and Kentucky Co-Investment Partners. The company will use the funds to expand its...

It costs too much to grow?

Mar 22, 2010 | Hot Topics

Autodesk UK recently announced the results of a survey of “more than 100 senior decision-makers, primarily working for mainstream manufacturing companies in the UK” that highlighted a problem I thought we had long overcome: the impression that design solutions are...

Mentor Graphics acquires Valor

Mar 18, 2010 | Hot Topics

Taking a page from the PLM playbook, Mentor Graphics announced on March 18 that it had acquired Valor Computerized Systems, extending its reach from design into manufacturability. The net price paid was about $50 million. Valor did not report revenue for the fourth...