Webinars 2.0 – we’re not there yet

Webinars 2.0 – we’re not there yet

I tune into a lot of webinars, whether product announcements, investor updates or the occasional training session and, while things are much better since I first mused on the state of the art in 2008 and 2010 (here and here), it’s time for a refresher on how to...
Quickie: Schnitger Corp website changes

Quickie: Schnitger Corp website changes

Always trying to make things better … A while ago, web browsers started identifying unsafe websites, and put www.schnitgercorp.com in that category because we didn’t have a valid SSL certificate. We got that sorted but the site was still deemed unsafe....
MuM reports rebound in Autodesk sales

MuM reports rebound in Autodesk sales

We are nearing the end of earnings season, but still have a few biggies to go. One of those is Autodesk, and we use its largest European reseller, Mensch und Maschine (MuM) as a preview since MuM reports preliminary results a couple of weeks before Autodesk. Like...
MuM reports rebound in Autodesk sales

AVEVA cruises along, positive about FY2019

Schneider Electric announced results today, which means that we have a hint about how things are going at AVEVA. AVEVA says that it “delivered low double-digit revenue growth in the first nine months of the financial year”, meaning the period ended...
#SWW19 takeaways from afar

#SWW19 takeaways from afar

For the first time in years I’m not at SolidWorks World, happening right now in Dallas, TX. Too much travel, too many time zones — it just didn’t fit. So I’ve been following from afar, on Dassault Systèmes’ live broadcasts here....
Bentley gets into street signs

Bentley gets into street signs

I live on a street with the popular girl’s name, Kathleen. Every so often a boy, hoping to impress a girl (likely named Kathleen), steals our street sign. I’ve often wondered how someone monitors those thefts and then causes replacements to be made —...
Quickie: DS acquires elecworks

Quickie: DS acquires elecworks

Dassault Systèmes said today that it will acquire Trace Software’s elecworks electrical and automation design software product line in an asset transfer. Trace has been a SolidWorks applications partner since 1997; in 2012, Trace became a strategic partner so that the...
MuM reports rebound in Autodesk sales

Quickie: Lots of good PLM earnings news

It’s a big earnings day and I’m about to settle in for a long (wifi-free) flight, so a quick recap will have to hold us until I can dig into the earnings in more detail — but it sure looks like the PLMish universe is doing very well, indeed. Dassault...