Super-quick: Siemens acquires Avatar Integrated Systems to add to Mentor portfolio
Super-quick: Siemens acquires Avatar Integrated Systems to add to Mentor portfolio Siemens announced yesterday that it has will acquire Avatar Integrated Systems Inc., maker of place and route software for integrated circuit (IC) design. Avatar’s Aprisa is a...
Bentley’s been busy, creating the Acceleration Fund, building Virtuosity and buying a Maximo reseller
Bentley’s been busy, creating the Acceleration Fund, building Virtuosity and buying a Maximo reseller Did you know that Bentley has an Acceleration Fund? Me neither! But it, and the company, have been making newsworthy announcements over the last few days....
More good-ish PLMish news, this time from Hexagon
More good-ish PLMish news, this time from Hexagon Hexagon just announced that it will report BETTER results than the market expects for its June-ending quarter. Here’s what they said: Due to higher earnings than market expectations for the second quarter of...
Super quick: no PLMish pre-announcements yet, and PTC says things are … good
Super quick: no PLMish pre-announcements yet, and PTC says things are … good You probably know that a lot of companies’ financial quarters ended on June 30 and many of us have been waiting for announcements –good or bad– to give a preview of...
And it’s a wrap: Preventing virtual conference fatigue
And it’s a wrap: Preventing virtual conference fatigue At some point, I’ll muster the energy to write about what I learned but right now I’d like to tell you about the experience of sitting through online user events from Altair, ANSYS, AVEVA,...
Quickie: Siemens adds UltraSoC to its semiconductor design offering
Quickie: Siemens adds UltraSoC to its semiconductor design offering Siemens just announced that it will acquire UltraSoC Technologies Ltd., maker of instrumentation and analytics solutions that “put intelligent monitoring, cybersecurity, and functional safety...
Respond. Reset. Reimagine.
I’ve been talking to a lot of people about how Covid-19 has affected their work lives–often inseparable from their home lives, given the sudden explosion of home offices and homeschooling–and it generally comes down to these three phases. First, we...
AVEVA enters fiscal 2021 betting on digitalization
AVEVA enters fiscal 2021 betting on digitalization As foreshadowed back in April, AVEVA today reported revenue of £834 million up 9% (and up 7% on an organic, constant currency basis, cc). CEO Craig Hayman and Deputy CEO/CFO James Kidd gave a lot of great, additional...

