PTC acquires IncQuery Group for ALM business

PTC acquires IncQuery Group for ALM business

PTC acquires IncQuery Group for ALM business PTC also announced an acquisition today, one that appears more of a tuck-in than a new-industry-maker: It has acquired IncQuery Group, which offers application lifecycle management (ALM) and systems engineering products and...
PTC acquires IncQuery Group for ALM business

Siemens makes $5 billion life sciences R&D acquisition

Siemens makes $5 billion life sciences R&D acquisition Never boring. The ink is barely dry on the paperwork that finally closed the Altair deal, and today, Siemens announced that it will acquire Dotmatics, a leader in life sciences R&D software, for $5.1...
Siemens + Altair = done deal

Siemens + Altair = done deal

Siemens + Altair = done deal Finally! This morning, Siemens announced that it completed the acquisition of Altair Engineering for an enterprise value of $10 billion. Siemens’ CEO Roland Busch said, “We welcome the Altair community of customers, partners...
Accelerating Action at Altair’s Future.Industry 2025

Accelerating Action at Altair’s Future.Industry 2025

Altair recently invited me to be on a panel at its Future.Industry 2025 event, focusing on how women in technology can align with this year’s theme for International Women’s Day. Go here to see the panel session’s recording and to check out the rest...
Siemens + Altair = done deal

Apparently no new divestitures in Synopsys+Ansys

Synopsys just issued a press release about the UK’s tacit approval of its intention to acquire Ansys. It’s brief, and simply says We are pleased that the CMA has formally cleared the transaction in Phase 1 subject to previously announced divestitures. We...
Siemens + Altair = done deal

UK regulator approves Synopsys+Ansys

UK regulator approves Synopsys+Ansys Super quick while we wait for more details: Reuters just reported that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority won’t seek further review of Synopsys’ proposed acquisition of Ansys, in effect approving the deal....
PTC acquires IncQuery Group for ALM business

Hexagon to spin off ALI and SGI into NewCo in early 2026

Hexagon to spin off ALI and SGI into NewCo in early 2026 Earnings season is almost over, and there’s a lot to catch up on, but news just came into the inbox that Hexagon has decided that it will, indeed, spin off its ALI business. What is that, you ask, and what...
Catching up: AspenTech+Emerson, 3D printing, Geomagic

Catching up: AspenTech+Emerson, 3D printing, Geomagic

Catching up: AspenTech+Emerson, 3D printing, Geomagic I’ve been neck-deep in earnings news lately —need to find the time to post longer recaps of PLMish ones— and the general sentiment isn’t too upbeat. Nothing horrible, but a lot of spending sounds like...
PTC acquires IncQuery Group for ALM business

Super Quick: Sandvik snaps up 3 more CAM resellers

Super Quick: Sandvik snaps up 3 more CAM resellers Sandvik just announced that it has acquired ShopWare, MCAM Northwest and the CAD/CAM solutions business line of OptiPro Systems. All three are US-based Mastercam resellers and bring to five the total of resellers...
PTC acquires IncQuery Group for ALM business

Emerson to buy rest of AspenTech

Emerson to buy rest of AspenTech Surprising … well, no one … Emerson announced today that it will acquire all outstanding shares of AspenTech for $265.00 per share in an all-cash offer. Emerson already owns roughly 57% of shares, so this will be quite a large cash...