A mixed bag: Schneider Electric and Dassault Systèmes announce very different Q3s

MuM’s Q3 down 7% — but that’s better than Q2

MuM’s Q3 down 7% — but that’s better than Q2 One of the earnings bellwethers in our PLMish universe, Mensch und Maschine (MuM), reported this morning that its Q3 was … not as bad as Q2 … and that it expects Q4 to start ramping back up....
CGTech to be acquired by Sandvik

CGTech to be acquired by Sandvik

CGTech to be acquired by Sandvik Sandvik, a global engineering company with about 40,000 employees, has announced that it will acquire CGTech, the company you probably know best as the maker of VERICUT, the CNC verification and optimization software. Sandvik is a...
CGTech to be acquired by Sandvik

Tech Soft acquires Ceetron for CAE visualization

Tech Soft acquires Ceetron for CAE visualization Now this is interesting. Just into the inbox: Tech Soft 3D, the leading provider of engineering software development toolkits, today announces that it has acquired Ceetron AS, experts in developing 3D visualization...
A mixed bag: Schneider Electric and Dassault Systèmes announce very different Q3s

AVEVA reports H1 revenue down 12% cc

AVEVA reports H1 revenue down 12% cc I thought we weren’t going to get an update on AVEVA earnings until Schneider Electric reports Q3 results — but, no, it came sooner. Yesterday, AVEVA said that revenue for its April to September half-year would be...
CGTech to be acquired by Sandvik

Altair acquires M-Base for plastics

Altair acquires M-Base for plastics Altair just announced that is has acquired  M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH, supplier of the Material Data Center materials database and material information system, targeted at the makers and users of plastics. Altair says this...
An appreciation: SolidWorks’ Vic Leventhal

An appreciation: SolidWorks’ Vic Leventhal

An appreciation: SolidWorks’ Vic Leventhal My social feeds lit up this weekend with the sad news that Vic Leventhal has died. If you use Solidworks, think of Vic. If you work for or rely on a CAD reseller, think of Vic. If you’ve ever built a PLMish sales...

BSY rings the Nasdaq bell last week

I had promised you a photo of Bentleys ringing the opening bell at the Nasdaq, but can go one better — a video! The first 3:30 minutes or so are of the big LED pilar billboard in Times Square, showing pictures of Bentley employees (“colleagues” in...
Bentley’s IPO. Done. Finally.

Bentley’s IPO. Done. Finally.

Bentley shares started trading under the BSY symbol at around 11:15 on Wednesday. Someone told me that the bookmaker, the brokerage firm that handles trading of the shares, had to determine the opening price, which I thought would be the price Bentley set last night,...