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Update: Autodesk held its annual Investor Day today. The event was 4 hours long, so these are some of the tidbits I found most interesting: • Autodesk says that FQ2 business is good and is raising the bottom end of its second quarter business outlook from revenue of...Jun 23, 2010 | Hot Topics
Amid all of the buzz on the latest version of V6, this one almost got lost: Dassault Systèmes yesterday announced the acquisition of its latest technology tuck-in: Geensoft, provider of embedded systems development solutions, for €5.5 million. Geensoft delivers tools...Jun 16, 2010 | Hot Topics
ESI Group reported yesterday that sales for the first quarter of FY2011 were €16 million, down 3% from a year ago on a decline in services revenue that was not offset by slightly higher license sales. License revenue was €11 million euros, essentially flat when...Jun 15, 2010 | Hot Topics
AVEVA today announced that Philip Dayer, a member of its board of directors, has been named a non-executive director of JSC KazMunaiGas EP, the Kazakh onshore exploration and production company.Why is this significant? Mr. Dayer (whom I’ve never met) is an investment...May 26, 2010 | Hot Topics
AVEVA today gave a lot of additional color on its results for the year ended March 31, 2010. Some of the news was good (strength in recurring revenue and in the Americas), some not-so-good (overall revenue decline of 10%) and some downright tantalizing. Read on...May 26, 2010 | Hot Topics
As I wrote a few weeks ago, private companies choose to share information in unique ways.Bentley Systems creates an “annual report” that is a mix of company-provided data, market analysts’ charts and customer testimonials. This year’s report was published at the Be...