ANSYS gets aesthetic with its acquisition of OPTIS

ANSYS gets aesthetic with its acquisition of OPTIS

Mar 22, 2018 | Hot Topics

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

ESI’s Q4 returns to license growth

Mar 16, 2018 | Hot Topics

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

Shipbuilding software provider SSI bought by exec team

Mar 15, 2018 | Hot Topics

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...
ANSYS gets aesthetic with its acquisition of OPTIS

Hexagon moves further into construction tech

Mar 15, 2018 | Hot Topics

A couple of years ago, at a HxGN Live, Hexagon’s Process Power and Marine group announced its entry into BIM — but not BIM as the rest of the world understood it at the time, a design tool. No, PP&M was going to repurpose existing assets for the...
It’s Pi Day!

It’s Pi Day!

Mar 14, 2018 | Hot Topics

Yes, the Boston area is digging out from the third major storm in two weeks, much of the news is lousy and uncertain — but it’s Pi Day! Today is March 14, which the US writes as 3/14 or perhaps 3.14. Hmm. That looks suspiciously like the first few digits...
What the heck is CFIUS, anyway?

What the heck is CFIUS, anyway?

Mar 6, 2018 | Hot Topics

A few of you have written to ask why the approval of a US government agency called CFIUS held up the AVEVA/Schneider merger, and to ask why a US government body even cared about the combination of a UK-listed company and a Paris-listed company. Great questions;...
ANSYS gets aesthetic with its acquisition of OPTIS

Quickie: AVEVA+Schneider=DONE

Mar 1, 2018 | Hot Topics

Finally, finally: AVEVA announced today that at 8AM UK time on March 1, 2018 it more than doubled in size with the addition of Schneider Electric’s software people and products. Ex-PTCer Craig Hayman, as expected, took over as CEO last week and had this to say...
ESI’s Q4 returns to license growth

10 things: PLMish earnings show confidence and growth

Feb 27, 2018 | Hot Topics

I’ve been recapping earnings for you for years but with the ready availability of the source materials it seems silly to just reproduce it all and make you hunt for my commentary. To make this more productive for you and for me, we’re trying something new: I’m...