Jan 31, 2015 | Hot Topics
PTC’s fiscal first quarter wasn’t perfect and it wasn’t a disaster — but the company’s handling of its conference call with analysts was truly masterful. As teenagers, we all learned that if we didn’t want to tell our parents something, we needed to direct the...
Jan 28, 2015 | Hot Topics
It wasn’t the best possible Q1 but it could have been a lot worse. PTC reported that total revenue was basically flat with last year at $325 million, as it encourages customers to switch to subscriptions and copes with a discouraging manufacturing economy. On a...
Jan 26, 2015 | Hot Topics
Surprising, well, no one, AVEVA Group today said that parts of its business are “significantly more challenging due to the well-documented budget constraints among Owner Operator customers in the Oil & Gas industry”. On the plus side, its Engineering...
Jan 23, 2015 | Hot Topics
Graphisoft just announced that it has acquired the ArchiCAD distribution unit of Italy’s Cigraph, a long-time in-country reseller. The deals led to the opening of the Graphisoft’s first Italian office, made up of Cigraph people who will work with...
Jan 19, 2015 | Hot Topics
(I know. Terrible pun. But it’s a holiday!) ANSYS announced today that it’s launching the ANSYS Elite channel partner program — in essence, ramping up the certification program for partners who want to move beyond “Standard” and into...
