ANSYS Q1 boosted by biggest-ever deal

ANSYS Q1 boosted by biggest-ever deal

ANSYS reported Q1 results last week that blew past most estimates and forecasts because the company is starting to reap the benefits of its big-ness. Recall that It has gone from mechanical FEA (ANSYS) to adding CFD (Fluent) to including EMAG (Apache and Ansoft) and...
Altair acquires, extends its Carriots IoT the the edge

Altair acquires, extends its Carriots IoT the the edge

The pace of news this week … Altair Engineering just announced that it has acquired the intellectual property of CANDI Controls, Inc. and hired CANDI’s software and technology team. I hadn’t heard of CANDI Controls before, so did a little digging. CANDI,...
Altair acquires, extends its Carriots IoT the the edge

Siemens + Sarokal > 5G. And, what’s 5G?

A while ago, Siemens announced that its Mentor Graphic business was buying Sarokal, makers of software and hardware used in developing and testing 4G and 5G telecomms infrastructure. I didn’t know what that meant and so the good folks at Mentor gave me a crash...
Altair acquires, extends its Carriots IoT the the edge

Quickie: Trimble acquires Viewpoint for $1.2 billion

Just into my inbox: Trimble, makers of all sorts of software and hardware targeted at the broader AEC market is acquiring Viewpoint, which makes construction management software. More on this tomorrow, but Viewpoint fits perfectly (with some overlap) into...
ANSYS Q1 boosted by biggest-ever deal

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...
ANSYS Q1 boosted by biggest-ever deal

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...