Jan 27, 2012 | Hot Topics
The earnings news so far has been almost giddy, both retrospectively as PTC and SAP strong December quarters and looking forward as both companies project strong growth for 2012. AVEVA tamped that down a bit today, releasing an Interim Management Statement (no...Jan 26, 2012 | Hot Topics
PTC continues to roll, reporting solid results for its fiscal first quarter ended December 31, 2011 and raising its forecasts for fiscal 2012. For the quarter, PTC reported total revenue of $318 million, up 19% from a year ago, helped by $18.5 million contributions...
Jan 25, 2012 | Hot Topics
SAP today announced Q4 and full-year 2011 results that confirm its news release on January 13. In a nutshell, total revenue in 2011 was €14.2 billion, up 14%, while software revenue was just under €4 billion, up 22% from a year earlier (helped by the Sybase...Jan 19, 2012 | Hot Topics
Hexagon today announce that it has acquired MicroSurvey Software Inc., a Canadian developer of software used in the surveying, construction, and for forensic reconstruction. I first became aware of MicroSurvey more than 10 years ago, when I worked on my first Daratech...Jan 12, 2012 | Hot Topics
Ahh, earning season. Get ready, ‘cause here we go. By all accounts, 2011 wasn’t bad — global economies were tense, foreign exchange rates were unpredictable, wars continued and natural disasters too, but consumers kept buying because … that’s what they do....Jan 11, 2012 | Hot Topics
Earlier this week, Autodesk and Pitney Bowes Software announced a strategic alliance to “help infrastructure owners and architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) organizations make more informed decisions and drive greater efficiencies across the plan, design,...Dec 23, 2011 | Hot Topics
Earlier on Thursday, Autodesk announced that it was acquiring some of the assets of T-Splines, Inc., patent holder of the T-Splines surface modeling technology. The news release raised more questions than it answered, and we reached out to Autodesk to see if we...