Hexagon acquires Luciad for real-time sensor integration
Hexagon today announced that it has acquired Luciad, a Belgian software company that makes solutions for visualizing and analyzing real-time geospatial data. Luciad was spun out of the University KU Leuven (like LMS and countless others) in 1999 as an open solution...
Quickie: Altair files an S-1, preparing for an IPO
What a week. Acquisitions, user conferences and, now, Altair Engineering files for an IPO. You can read the filing paperwork here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1701732/000119312517299201/d290748ds1.htm A very, very quick read of the highlights shows that...
Super quickie: AVEVA shareholders approve Schneider deal
Over 99% of AVEVA shares voted in favor of the combination with Schneider Electric’s Software Business, the entity that includes SimSci, WonderWare and other software assets of Schneider Electric SE. According to the plan outlined earlier this month, that leaves...
Quickie: DS acquiring Exa for $400 million
Well, well, well. Dassault Systèmes (DS) and Exa Corporation announced early this morning that DS is acquiring Exa for $24.25 per share, or around $400 million. You may recall that Exa is a publicly traded company in the US, making the PowerFLOW CFD suite based on the...
Autodesk Accelerate – so much more than PLM
“Sometimes you have to wear a shirt” isn’t a typical theme at a PLMish conference, but it perfectly describes the ethos of this year’s Autodesk Accelerate. Morphing from a PDM-centric conference four years ago to something straddling Fusion 360...
Quickie: Siemens’ Mentor business buys Infolytica
Siemens announced today that it expects to acquire Infolytica Corporation, adding MagNet and Motorsolve low-frequency electromagnetics (EMAG) simulation to its arsenal, in support of electric motor, generator and electromagnetic device design. Siemens says that...
Quickie: ESI reports slump in H1, boosts R&D investment
ESI Group today released results for the second quarter of fiscal 2018 (ending January 31, 2018, but which the company sometimes refers to as fiscal 2017). Overall, the results aren’t awful — the company suffered from both a touch comparable over a year...
Siemens all in on digitalization and the digital twin
I spent most of a week with Siemens –the PLM team plus an assortment of colleagues from across the AG and maybe 150 media and analysts– to learn more about the PLM business, the recent Mentor Graphics and TASS acquisitions, and to try to gauge how the AG...
