Mar 15, 2010 | Hot Topics
I’m updating market models for 2010 and beyond and got to wondering: How long will it take the PLM vendor group to return to 2007, pre-recession, revenue levels? (Comparisons with 2008 are easier but won’t work, since many of the vendors started feeling the slowdown...Mar 10, 2010 | Hot Topics
I’ve been blogging a lot about webinars and for good reason: they are an effective way to get the message out to an interested audience at a very user-friendly cost. But what happens if no one shows up? As so often happens, the conversation started about something...Feb 25, 2010 | Hot Topics
ANSYS reported mixed results today: on the one hand, the company reported Q4 revenue of $150.4 million, handily beating the projected $136 million to $142 million and sweeping it to a 2009 revenue total of $517 million, up 8%. It should be noted that this includes...Feb 24, 2010 | Hot Topics
A couple of people have emailed about yesterday’s posts on Autodesk’s Q4 results, asking if there were any negative aspects to the earnings data released. That’s a fair question since I focused on the bright spots in what really was a dismal year for the engineering...Feb 23, 2010 | Hot Topics
Autodesk offered more information during its Q4 earnings call, the most startling of which was that it closed 22 deals over $1 million in Q4 — a staggering 3x the total of the first 9 months added together. A number of these were in AEC and in North America and...Feb 23, 2010 | Hot Topics
I am fascinated by the varying types of spin put on earnings releases. Autodesk released what are really quite positive year-end results but one media headline read only “Autodesk FY10 revenue down 26%.” True, but not even the tip of the news iceberg and reflecting...Feb 18, 2010 | Hot Topics
PTC held their annual media and analyst day on the day “Snowmaggedon” was supposed to hit the Boston area. It amounted to not much of anything but did keep a few participants and a speaker or two away, and sent several people scurrying by mid-afternoon. Those of us...
