Quickie: Autodesk adds more estimating, Nemetschek adds digital sculpting
Quickie: Autodesk adds more estimating, Nemetschek adds digital sculpting It feels a bit like a year-end flush of deal pipelines, with Nemetschek and Autodesk announcing the fourth and fifth acquisitions just this week in our PLMish world: First, Autodesk said that it...
Quickie: Altair and Trimble acquire to expand their reaches
Quickie: Altair and Trimble acquire to expand their reaches Super quick, since it’s a busy day: Altair announced this morning that it has acquired World Programming, a company that makes data analytics software used in financial services and insurance. Altair...
Bentley adds geostatistics with AR2Tech acquisition
Bentley adds geostatistics with AR2Tech acquisition Bentley Systems last night announced that its Seequent business acquired Advanced Resources and Risk Technology (aka AR2Tech), makers of geostatistical software applications. Remember that Seequent makes 3D...
3 on a Thursday: Gamma and Xometry acquire (not each other), sad news from VRandD
3 on a Thursday: Gamma and Xometry acquire (not each other), sad news from VRandD The calendar is racing towards the end of 2021 — and it actually feels like that, doesn’t it? Normally there’s a sense of slowing down, of coasting into the year-end,...
3+1 on a Friday: Centric acquires, Rescale gets more funding, Sandvik expands its software offerings
3+1 on a Friday: Centric acquires, Rescale gets more funding, Sandvik expands its software offerings A busy week or so to catch up on: Centric Software, the majority-owned-by-Dassault Systèmes maker of PLM solutions for fashion, retail and similar industries has...
Happy Thanksgiving!
We have so much to be thankful for. There are the usual food, friends, family, and shelter — never to be taken for granted. This year, we need to add the scientists, inventors, and manufacturers behind the COVID vaccines and treatments; the healthcare workers...
The last word? PTC+Rockwell=BFFs for … ever?
The last word? PTC+Rockwell=BFFs for … ever? After yesterday’s kerfuffle about an S-3 filing (where I interpreted intentions incorrectly here and tried to fix it all here), PTC and Rockwell came out with a statement that reads, in part … Rockwell has...
More on Rockwell/PTC — there actually may be nothing to see here
More on Rockwell/PTC — there actually may be nothing to see here This morning, I saw the notification of PTC’s filing of an S-3, an intention to facilitate the sale of shares owned by a third party — in this case, Rockwell. The blog I wrote (here)...
