Oct 22, 2012 | Hot Topics
Hope your seat belt is buckled, because we’re off to a fast start with earnings for the quarter that ended September 30. Today we heard from Mensch und Maschine; later in the week SAP, Dassault Systemes, 3D Systems, Cybernet Systems and Hexagon tell us what...
Oct 17, 2012 | Hot Topics
For months, AVEVA has been blanketing the virtual airwaves with messaging around its new plant design product, dubbed “the future of plant design” or FoPD for short. Many users were at AVEVA World Summit last week in Paris to take back answers to: Would...
Oct 15, 2012 | Hot Topics
AVEVA today gave a quick update on results for its most recent six-month period: the company made “good progress” in the period ended September 30, 2012. As has been the case recently, the oil and gas vertical drove sales in the company’s Engineering...
Oct 13, 2012 | Hot Topics
A couple of weeks ago, Rand Worldwide reported results for its fiscal fourth quarter and for the year ended June 30, 2012. FQ4 revenue was $22.6 million, down 3% from last year, with net income of $5.3 million. For the year, revenue was $89.4 million, essentially flat...
Oct 10, 2012 | Hot Topics
Last week, I mused that acquisitions in the engineering software world are coming fast and furious — and, today, we need to add at least two more to the list. On Monday, Siemens PLM announced that it has acquired the French company Kineo CAM, whose...
Sep 25, 2012 | Hot Topics
Get this: we’re using Teamcenter to visualize a car, trying to assess the impact of a design change. First, we zoom in on the components that are in a specific area a foot forward of the steering wheel. Then we shift from a location-based view to a system view,...
Sep 24, 2012 | Hot Topics
Autodesk recently announced the availability of Simulation 360, its cloud-based CAE solution for designers, engineers and architects. This is the latest offering to take advantage of what CEO Carl Bass has called infinite computing, where unlimited CPU capacity is out...
