Quickie: Hexagon’s Q3 dragged down by electronics woes

Quickie: Hexagon’s Q3 dragged down by electronics woes

Oct 30, 2019 | Hot Topics

Hexagon Hexagon just reported results for the third quarter — and they’re not awesome: Total revenue was up 1% as reported to €956 million but down 3% in constant currencies/on an organic basis (cco). That’s about 1% slower growth than expected,...
Quickie: ANSYS snaps up Dynardo for PIDO

Quickie: ANSYS snaps up Dynardo for PIDO

Oct 24, 2019 | Hot Topics

Blog ANSYS just announced that it is will acquire long-time partner Dynardo, maker of optiSLang, a process integration and design optimization (PIDO) tool. I first became aware of Dynardo years ago, when it presented at a conference about the work it was doing in...
Quickie: Hexagon’s Q3 dragged down by electronics woes

Quickie: AVEVA reports positive momentum in CQ3

Oct 24, 2019 | Hot Topics

AEC Schneider Electric reported Q3 results today, so AVEVA (partly owned by Schneider Electric) also issued a quick statement about its progress in the six months ended September 30. The company said that it “achieved low double-digit” (constant currency)...
Quickie: Hexagon’s Q3 dragged down by electronics woes

Quickie: PTC’s Q4 revenue up 7%

Oct 24, 2019 | Hot Topics

Day: October 24, 2019 This is going to be very quick, because I haven’t had time to listen to the earnings call replay — but I can report that PTC saw total revenue up 7% (up 9% in constant currencies) in its fiscal Q4 to $335 million, beating Wall...
Quickie: ANSYS snaps up Dynardo for PIDO

Quickie: PTC acquires Onshape

Oct 23, 2019 | Hot Topics

Day: October 23, 2019 PTC and Onshape just announced that they’re teaming up to, as Onshape founder Jon Hirschtick puts it “broaden the scope of what we deliver to [customers[, and broaden our reach in the market to bring Onshape to more users even...
Quickie: Hexagon’s Q3 dragged down by electronics woes

Quickie: MuM says Q3 revenue up 38%

Oct 21, 2019 | Hot Topics

Hot Topics Mensch and Machine Software just announced Q3 results that show revenue was up 38% on a combination of high organic growth boosted by “strong figures” from SOFiSTiK, in which MuM recently increased its stake. Why does this matter? MuM is...
Bentley adds traffic modeling to Digital Cities offering

Bentley adds traffic modeling to Digital Cities offering

Oct 21, 2019 | Hot Topics

Hot Topics Bentley Systems today announced two acquisitions that will extend its Digital Cities offering to traffic modeling, analytics and planning — what digital cities types call mobility. By adding Citilabs and Geospatial Technologies to the company’s...
Altair, more than the sum of its parts

Altair, more than the sum of its parts

Oct 20, 2019 | Hot Topics

Hot Topics Quick: What do you think of when I say Altair? HyperMesh? OptiStruct? SolidThinking? Datawatch? Tokens/subscriptions/Units? Yeah – me, too. But I learned at Altair’s global Technology Conference last week that it’s much, much more than that. Yes, the...