Nov 21, 2011 | Hot Topics
Autodesk’s FQ3 earnings announcement yesterday surprised a lot of people, coming in well ahead of analyst estimates and near the top of its own earlier guidance. There had been concerns over Europe, the channel and how buyers would react to the suites offerings,...Nov 15, 2011 | Hot Topics
AVEVA today announced results for the six months ended September 30 that were both true to the the upbeat tone of last month’s interim statement’s and cautiously optimistic about the future. The results mirror what we’ve come to expect in the engineering software...Nov 14, 2011 | Hot Topics
Rand Worldwide today reported results for its first fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2011, with revenue of $22 million coming in slightly below expectations, but up from $17 million last year (though not an apples-to-apples comparison due to the closing of the...Nov 14, 2011 | Hot Topics
I was away from the office all of last week, attending Bentley’s Be Inspired event in Amsterdam (more on that soon) and sitting in on meetings in London, but the world of engineering software kept going. Here’s news you might have missed: Siemens PLM to...Oct 31, 2011 | Hot Topics
Day 2 of no power here in the Merrimack Valley of New England, resulting in no WiFi and spotty 3G coverage, so this has to be quick — more soon on PTC and DS. PTC has boffo Q4, cautious about 2012 PTC last week announced results for Q4 and fiscal 2011 that...Oct 27, 2011 | Hot Topics
Hexagon reported a solid third quarter 2011, with total revenue of €521 million, up a whopping 55% as reported and up 13% excluding acquisitions and foreign exchange effect — meaning Intergraph and other recent acquisitions accounted for about €150 million in...Oct 24, 2011 | Hot Topics
It’s going to be a busy week, with earnings news coming from Mensch und Maschine (MuM), PTC, Dassault Systemes, Hexagon and Nemetschek. Let’s get right to it, with good news from MuM. You probably recall that MuM is reinventing itself, buying up VARs and selling its...
