Monica Schnitger

DEAL! AVEVA+Schneider, sorta

Jul 20, 2015 | Hot Topics

While you and I were at the beach or in the mountains, the lads and lasses at AVEVA have been busily negotiating a merger with Schneider Electric, one of the suitors that kept cropping up over the last couple of years. It’s a very complicated deal –and it...

Aconex snaps up Worksite to boost construction efficiency

Jul 15, 2015 | Hot Topics

I don’t write about the smaller companies in our PLMish universe often enough — yet they create valuable solutions that are used successfully and profitably by customers around the world. One reason they fascinate me: they compete against suppliers who...

AVEVA’s trading update: all going as planned

Jul 14, 2015 | Hot Topics

AVEVA issued another one of its periodic trading updates last week: In a very brief statement, AVEVA said that it hasn’t seen any change in the business climate since its May report and that the continued strengthening of the British pound continues to drag down...

PTC starts earnings with a warning, deals slipping

Jul 13, 2015 | Hot Topics

PTC last week said that its fiscal third quarter (ended June 30) would be a bit light, as it expects to report GAAP revenue of $303 million, short of its own forecasts and analysts consensus of $310 million and down about 10% from a year ago. Not surprising, then,...

Bentley Systems files preliminary paperwork for an IPO

Jul 8, 2015 | Hot Topics

Not to be all-Bentley-all-the-time, but … this is big news. This morning Bentley Systems announced that it’s filed preliminary documents with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for an initial public offering (IPO) of its class B shares. This...

Bentley Systems at 30 — no slowing down

Jul 6, 2015 | Hot Topics

Who are these handsome young men and women? None other than the founders and first employees of Bentley Systems, the AECO company, taken in 1986 in front of what must have been a very sweet ride: Bentley Systems turned 30 last year, a milestone celebrated in the...

Siemens Automation Summit: Big data is a big goal

Jun 24, 2015 | Hot Topics

I’m in hot hot hot Las Vegas for the 20th annual Siemens Automation Summit and hear it’s the best yet. The typical “we’re all getting older” grumbling is mixed with quite a bit of “I used to know everyone, but I don’t...

Q&A: AVEVA AVEVA AVEVA, revenue recognition and more

Jun 18, 2015 | Hot Topics

Once again, we’re opening the Google and answering questions that led searchers to the Schnitger Corp. website. It’s not clear that there’s a theme or even a pattern, but it’s certainly an interesting mix of business- and product-related...

HxGN Live: where software, data, sensors meet

Jun 16, 2015 | Hot Topics

Hexagon shepherds to market such diverse offerings as Vero’s CAM software, Intergraph Process, Power and Marine’s SmartPlant, CADWorx and plant-specific simulation solutions, Leica laser scanners and Hexagon Metrology optical probes (for manufacturing tolerance...

Siemens PLM CONX ties together users, systems and products

Jun 15, 2015 | Hot Topics

I’ve been on a quest to find out where designs come from and one thing is clear: nothing is ever created in a vacuum. A good industrial designer will look at what else the prospective buyer might have on his desk, so that the new ergonomic mouse fits into the...