Feb 28, 2021 | Hot Topics
Bentley builds construction portfolio with E7 A couple of days ago, amid all of the earnings reports (and ahead of its own, on Tuesday), Bentley Systems announced that it has acquired E7, an Australia-based maker of project delivery software for heavy civil...
Feb 26, 2021 | Hot Topics
4 on a Friday: DS invests in AVSimulation, Newforma acquires, more on Cadence+Numeca, Siemens’ MindSphere on Red Hat OpenShift It’s been another busy week of earnings and other PLMish news. Here are some bits and pieces I didn’t have the time to...
Feb 24, 2021 | Hot Topics
Altair acquires Flow Simulator & Autodesk acquires Innovyze Goodness. Not even 7:30AM here on the US East Coast and the news is flying fast. Autodesk just announced it will acquire Innovyze, a leader in “water infrastructure software”, for $1 billion...
Feb 23, 2021 | Hot Topics
Hexagon’s 2020 showed sequential improvement — should continue in 2021 Continuing the earnings catchup, today we tune into Hexagon, the parent company of brands such as MSC Software, Leica, and PPM (fka Intergraph PPM). In all, 2020 was a mixed year for...
Feb 22, 2021 | Hot Topics
DS’s needle moved in 2020, mostly in life sciences — and SolidWorks is a billion-dollar brand! Earlier this month, Dassault Systèmes (DS) reported results for its fourth quarter and, therefore, the full year of 2020. First a quick recap, then a bit about...
Feb 19, 2021 | Hot Topics
5 on a Friday: Rescale, Lectra+Gerber, Hexagon’s R-evolution, C3D Labs’ 2020 results, and SAP’s no-code acquisition It’s been a week. Let’s wrap it up with a few newsy tidbits that didn’t make it into full blog posts. Rescale, the...
Feb 18, 2021 | Hot Topics
Why so many CADs? And can I switch between them? I am often asked, especially by people who are new to the CAD world, what the differences are between all of the CAD tools on the market. What’s the best? And what happens if I don’t like the product I...
Feb 11, 2021 | Hot Topics
Schneider Electric reports Q4, talks AVEVA Schneider Electric reported Q4 results today — you can see them in full here — that also touched on how important AVEVA is to the overall product menu. A couple of nuggets from the press release and investor call...
Feb 10, 2021 | Hot Topics
ESI’s 2020 results show continued improvement ESI yesterday announced preliminary results for its fiscal fourth quarter — and they show sequential improvement that leads CEO Cristel de Rouvray to moderate optimism for the year ahead. First, the results: In...
