Are you social?

Jan 14, 2010 | Hot Topics

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged about PLM’s efforts to engage in social media, so it’s time for an update. On a somewhat depressing note, not that much has changed. Yet. And that’s the good news: a number of PLM companies are still in the watching phase, trying...

CAE to rebound in 2010, up 8%

Jan 13, 2010 | Hot Topics

Forrester Research yesterday gave a rosy forecast for tech spending in 2010, saying in a press release that “global IT spending, which dropped 8.9 percent last year, will rise 8.1 percent in 2010 to more than $1.6 trillion.” Forrester sees spending on computer...

Autodesk tucking in

Jan 11, 2010 | Hot Topics

I missed it at the time, so perhaps you did too: Back in December, it was announced that Autodesk had acquired PlanPlatform (also known as Visual Tao) for about $25 million, according to the Haaretz (Israeli) newspaper. PlanPlatform was formed in 2007 by former...

Webinars 102

Jan 8, 2010 | Hot Topics

Do you follow up? Your competition does. A year ago, in Webinars 101, I listed 7 things companies could do to improve the effectiveness of their webinar-based marketing campaigns. Unfortunately, many companies using webinars to reach out to customers and prospects...

Intergraph acquires COADE

Jan 6, 2010 | Hot Topics

Huge news: Intergraph, a supplier of high-end plant design and data management tools, announced today that it had acquired COADE, a privately-held supplier of AutoCAD-based plant design and stress analysis tools. Terms of the deal were not disclosed; the COADE team...

Update: SAP Isn’t raising maintenance – yet

Jan 6, 2010 | Hot Topics

Through much of 2009 SAP wrangled with customers over a proposed increase in maintenance fees. In December, the software giant announced that the hike was on hold until at least early 2010 as the company awaits results of benchmarking by SAP and user groups to...

Live or virtual: analyst events

Jan 4, 2010 | Hot Topics

2009 was a busy year for us here at Schnitger Corp. I attended a number of analyst events, some live and some virtual. SageCircle, “an advisory resource that delivers AR strategic planning” published a piece during the break that predict that vendors’ analyst...

Happy New Year!

Dec 31, 2009 | Hot Topics

If you poke around the Schnitger Corp. website, you’ll note that we’ve changed the way blog posts are archived. This should speed up page loads and, someday, searches. Until search engine crawlers catch up, you may find that Google and other search engines offer up...

AspenTech feels the pain of license transition

Dec 21, 2009 | Hot Topics

Aspen Technology, a company you don’t usually see me writing about, today announced results for its first quarter of fiscal 2010. AspenTech creates chemistry, process management and supply chain solutions for the oil and gas, chemical and other industries and is...