Autodesk: “We’re no longer a CAD company”

Mar 24, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk has had a very busy week. On Monday the company launched its 2012 line of products, concentrating on small, bigger and biggest bundles targeted at specific user functions. Today, the company’s Manufacturing group held a webinar to present this segment of...

MuM sees significant improvement in profit

Mar 21, 2011 | Hot Topics

Mensch und Maschine Software (MuM) today provided final, audited financial data for 2010 and updated guidance for 2011 and 2012. Nothing much changed in the data for 2010 (blog post on preliminary results), but the company’s share price is up almost 10% on the news,...

Quick Hits: Intercim, AVEVA and SofTech

Mar 18, 2011 | Hot Topics

Lots going on this week, so here’s a quick roundup – I hope to get to longer posts on some of these next week. Dassault Systèmes acquires Intercim LLC Intercim, maker of manufacturing operations management systems software for the aerospace and defense industry,...

ESI: 2010 was “buoyant”

Mar 14, 2011 | Hot Topics

ESI Group reported unaudited results today that highlight 30% growth in new business intake in the fourth quarter and what the company described as a “surge” in the emerging BRIC markets. In all, ESI described 2010 as exhibiting “buoyant” growth.The details: • Total...

DS update: offerings for a growing market

Mar 8, 2011 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes’ Al Bunshaft, Managing Director of DS America, today held the first of a series of update calls for industry analysts. The call reiterated DS’ focus on growing its brands and tweaking its sales channels to reach an ever-greater addressable market and...

Bentley growing for the future

Mar 3, 2011 | Hot Topics

Bentley Systems, a privately held company focused on creating solutions for the AEC market, took the unusual step yesterday of holding a conference call to discuss some aspects of their 2010 results. The highlights are revenue growth of 6%, a return to 2008 revenue...

Mentor: great results, takeover speculation

Mar 2, 2011 | Hot Topics

In the flurry of earnings releases last week came the following from Mentor Graphics: For the full year that ended on January 31, 2011 Mentor reported revenue of $915 million, up 14%, and for the fiscal fourth quarter, the company reported revenue of $307 million, up...

Intergraph PP&M thrives

Mar 1, 2011 | Hot Topics

There are a lot more than six sides to Hexagon AB, the Swedish holding company that last year added Intergraph to its portfolio. Hexagon’s network of nearly 50 subsidiaries focus on measurement and design of objects as small as microchips and as large as power plants...
ANSYS: We’re optimistic and hiring

ANSYS: We’re optimistic and hiring

Feb 28, 2011 | Hot Topics

[Note: ANSYS provided additional information on its results last week; below is a hybrid of my original post and the updates. Many thanks to Annette Arribas, Investor Relations and Global Insurance Officer for ANSYS, for her quick response to my questions. —...

Autodesk reports, investors like a lot

Feb 25, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk last night reported results that were nothing short of terrific. As CEO Carl Bass said during the earnings call, “After navigating through the biggest economic downturn in Autodesk history, we’re now experiencing a healthy recovery and achieving record...