Intergraph acquires COADE

Huge news: Intergraph, a supplier of high-end plant design and data management tools, announced today that it had acquired COADE, a privately-held supplier of AutoCAD-based plant design and stress analysis tools. Terms of the deal were not disclosed; the COADE team...

Update: SAP Isn’t raising maintenance – yet

Through much of 2009 SAP wrangled with customers over a proposed increase in maintenance fees. In December, the software giant announced that the hike was on hold until at least early 2010 as the company awaits results of benchmarking by SAP and user groups to...

Live or virtual: analyst events

2009 was a busy year for us here at Schnitger Corp. I attended a number of analyst events, some live and some virtual. SageCircle, “an advisory resource that delivers AR strategic planning” published a piece during the break that predict that vendors’ analyst...

Happy New Year!

If you poke around the Schnitger Corp. website, you’ll note that we’ve changed the way blog posts are archived. This should speed up page loads and, someday, searches. Until search engine crawlers catch up, you may find that Google and other search engines offer up...

AspenTech feels the pain of license transition

Aspen Technology, a company you don’t usually see me writing about, today announced results for its first quarter of fiscal 2010. AspenTech creates chemistry, process management and supply chain solutions for the oil and gas, chemical and other industries and is...

Boston Scientific gets innovative

A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to hear Boston Scientific speak about how it sought to build a culture of invention and discovery that leads its various businesses to successful new products. Randy Schiestl, VP R&D, and Jude Currier, cardiovascular...

ESI reports Q3 sales up 3% on strong growth in services

ESI Group reported reasonably good results for the third quarter today, as total revenue grew 3.2% to €13.8 million in what is typically the company’s weakest quarter. License revenue declined almost 6% to €8.5 million when compared to a year ago, slowing the steep...

Holiday Greetings: Efficiency, personalization, environment

This blog post on the Harvard Business Review site got me thinking. They point out that this time of year is hectic, and that holiday cards have a way of getting lost in the shuffle. Either we spend too many hours personalizing greetings, leading clients to wonder...

The SEC, ANSYS and deal ethics 101

My browse of the morning news turned up a Wall St. Journal story that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking at how brokers, hedge funds and others dealt with information about, among a dozen other deals, ANSYS’ acquisition of Ansoft.Before we all...