Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

Aug 13, 2012 | Hot Topics

Last week had a slew of earnings news, some of which was good and some, not so great. We learned a bit more about how Cimatron’s revenue stacks up, and heard about SGI’s plans for reinvention (again). Read on … Cimatron’s growth driven by...
Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

PTC bolsters SLM offering with Servigistics

Aug 8, 2012 | Hot Topics

PTC today announced that it will acquire Servigistics for $220 million in cash to further fill out its offering for the very long services tail of a product’s life — an area where manufacturers are increasingly looking for revenue opportunities....
Gemcom and GEOVIA, a tale of two brands

Gemcom and GEOVIA, a tale of two brands

Aug 6, 2012 | Hot Topics

During its earnings call last week, Dassault Systèmes (DS) continued to explain its vision of  moving beyond “product experience” (engineering and design), to the larger concept of 3DEXPERIENCE, which adds business intelligence and other apps to its offering in...
Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

ANSYS customers “receptive to LT vision”, boost Q2

Aug 2, 2012 | Hot Topics

ANSYS reported results today that were at worst in line with and often ahead of expectations, causing shareholders to drive the stock price up 12% in early trading. CEO Jim Cashman summed it up this way: “All key metrics of our business were strong, including...
Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

Quickies: 3D Systems, CENIT, FARO & Stratasys

Aug 1, 2012 | Hot Topics

While you’re undoubtedly thinking “beach”, earnings news continues to roll. In general, Q2 seems to have been quite strong but there is concern about the rest of the year, with some companies reporting that activity in Europe started to drop off...
Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

DS’ great Q2 – a step closer to €2 billion

Jul 27, 2012 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes yesterday reported on its second quarter results and raised its guidance for the full year to €2 billion — quite a milestone. But much of the content of the presentation and conference calls wasn’t about last quarter, but about how DS...
Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

PTC: refreshing candor, good results

Jul 26, 2012 | Hot Topics

At the end of the March earnings call, we were left with a couple of questions about PTC. First, can the company improve its sales methodology — forecasting through closing — so that the missed opportunities that bedeviled last quarter don’t...
Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

Nemetschek also sees Europe slowing

Jul 25, 2012 | Hot Topics

Nemetschek’s earnings release today did  little to calm concerns about a slide in engineering software sales in Europe, as it sees customers dealing with a projected economic slowdown. Second quarter results were good, as revenue rose 6% to €43 million to lift...
Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

Quickies: DDD acquires, SAP beats

Jul 24, 2012 | Hot Topics

It’s earnings season, so there’s all sorts of news coming out. Two quick items to note: 3D Systems announced that has acquired Viztu Technologies, the developer of an online platform that turns pictures and videos into printable 3D objects. DDD plans to...
Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings

MuM scales back acquisitions

Jul 23, 2012 | Hot Topics

A quick update: German company Mensch und Maschine Software (MuM) announced today that a “solid Q2” build on the success of a “strong Q1” to lead to a “good first half of fiscal year 2012”. Recall that MuM sold its distribution...