Nov 27, 2019 | Hot Topics
Hot Topics tThe marAutodesk’s Q3 beat expectations (at least by a little in most categories) but less-than-stellar outlook for Q4 caused investors to push the share price down by as much as 4% after the earnings release hit the newswires. Some of the details of...
Nov 22, 2019 | Hot Topics
Hot Topics Hexagon just announced that it will acquire Volume Graphics, maker of the VGSTUDIO suite of industrial computed tomography (CT) software. VGSTUDIO and related products let a quality engineer take the mesh created via a laser scan, touch scan or other...
Nov 20, 2019 | Hot Topics
Hot Topics ESI yesterday released Q3 results that show … no real change. The company’s reinvention continues. Revenue in Q3 was €28.6 million, up 2% as reported and down 1% in constant currencies (cc). Software license revenue was up 1% (but down 3% cc) to...
Nov 18, 2019 | Hot Topics
Hot Topics Schneider Electric reported results a couple of weeks ago that caused AVEVA (partly owned by SE) to say that everything was going to plan — optimistic but basically content-free. Last week, AVEVA remedied that by offering a flood of detail about its first...
Nov 17, 2019 | Hot Topics
CAE Altair reported results last week for its fiscal Q3 and, while they weren’t awful, they didn’t do much to reassure investors about the rest of the year. The details and then some thoughts: GAAP revenue for Q3 was $100 million, up 18% and up 17% in constant...
Nov 15, 2019 | Hot Topics
CAE Goodness: Two acquisitions in one week. They have been busy! Siemens just announced that it will acquire MultiMechanics, Inc., maker of the MultiMech suite of material analysis tools. MultiMech uses finite element methods to do microstructural analysis,...
Nov 13, 2019 | Hot Topics
Blog Siemens announced yesterday that it will acquire Atlas 3D, Inc. before then end of November. Atlas 3D makes Sunata, software that helps designers optimize print orientation and support structures for direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) printers via sophisticated...
Oct 30, 2019 | Hot Topics
Hexagon Hexagon just reported results for the third quarter — and they’re not awesome: Total revenue was up 1% as reported to €956 million but down 3% in constant currencies/on an organic basis (cco). That’s about 1% slower growth than expected,...
Oct 24, 2019 | Hot Topics
Blog ANSYS just announced that it is will acquire long-time partner Dynardo, maker of optiSLang, a process integration and design optimization (PIDO) tool. I first became aware of Dynardo years ago, when it presented at a conference about the work it was doing in...
