Quickie: MuM announces most profitable quarter ever
What trough? As a reminder, we look at Mensch und Maschine to gauge how resellers are faring as Autodesk transitions to subscriptions — and MuM is on the upswing with its Q1 2018 report. Per its announcement, “While the [proprietary MuM] Software segment...
PTC’s FQ2 featured ‘strong’ CAD, PLM performance
PTC announced results on Wednesday that were, in a single word, impressive. Growth across most revenue categories, product lines, channels — and with positive outlook for the rest of 2018, too, which means no deals were pulled from the future into the fiscal second...
PLMish earnings kick off with solid reports from PTC and AVEVA
PTC started things off on Wednesday evening, with a report that exceeded expectations. Fiscal second quarter revenue was up nearly 10%, above the high end of the company’s guidance as well as Wall Street expectations. I’m working on a longer post for later...
Siemens shines at Chicago’s DMDII
Siemens held another one of its innovation days a few weeks ago, this time at the UI LABS DMDII facility in Chicago. I’ve attended several of these at Siemens HQ in Munich; this was the first I’ve been to at a neutral site and the focus was completely different. In...
Oracle + Aconex is a done deal
It was a long time coming because of all of the regulatory hurdles but Aconex is now a part of Oracle. A quick recap, and then why this matters even if you’re outside the typical AEC/construction world. Oracle has been acquiring to build out its AEC offering...
ANSYS gets aesthetic with its acquisition of OPTIS
ANSYS just announced that it is acquiring OPTIS, maker of software that simulates light and human vision and, increasingly, solutions that enabled users to visualize real-world effects in a virtual setting. What does that mean? Lots of things. To take just one...
ESI’s Q4 returns to license growth
You have spoken: you’re not fans of long blog posts that summarize a clump of earnings all at once, nor do you want to wait until the last of a bunch of companies publishes results to read the post. So we’re back to the old scheme, one company at a time....
Shipbuilding software provider SSI bought by exec team
This is cool — there aren’t that many providers of ship design software on the market and I’m a naval architect, soo it naturally caught my eye. This just hit the inbox, even though it reads as though it should have been sent a few weeks ago: As of...
