As I noted earlier today, Altair will be acquiring Polliwog to expand its EDA portfolio to printed circuit board (PCB) design and analysis. We learned a bit more about Polliwog (though not why the whimsical name, which is of course the most important part of this...
It’s early early in Detroit (the sun’s not even glimmer on the horizon) and we’re already seeing news come out of Altair’s Technology Conference –its annual user event– that, I’m sure we’ll learn a lot more about as the...
I am often asked what municipalities and other owners of bigger/older/not-all-digital assets can do to get in on the whole digital twin thing that the media (and I, to be fair) keep going on about. My usual message: start somewhere, with what you have. Figure out what...
If we believe Harvard Business Review (and they usually know what they’re talking about), “the failure rate for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sits between 70 percent and 90 percent.” [The original article is behind a paywall; go here for a...
ESI’s first half shows progress ESI Group, the French CAE company, last week reported results for the quarter and half-year ended 31 July. For the half, revenue was up 3% as reported and up 0.4% in constant currencies (cc) to €55 million; for the quarter, total...
So much news these days: TechCrunch reported yesterday that Siemens AG has participated in a $33 million Series B financing round at Built Robotics via its Next47 investment division, joining other investors Building Ventures, Founders Fund, Presidio Ventures, Lemnos...
If you pay attention to the process industries (oil and gas, chemicals, and so on), you’ll know that much of the economic decision-making rests on the design of the chemical processes that transform crude into heating oil or petroleum by-products into commodity...
Technically, ANSYS will acquire Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), maker of LS-DYNA but, ya know … And it’s a BIG bucks deal: ANSYS will pay a purchase price $775 million, 60% cash and 40% via the issuance of ANSYS common stock to the...
If you’re Siemens, apparently it’s plenty. If you tuned into the PLMish news last week, you’ll likely know that Siemens PLM Software is now Siemens Digital Industries Software and that the overarching umbrella brand for that software is Xcelerator....
Now this is interesting: RIB, the German maker of the iTWO/MTWO* BIM-focused solution set for the construction industry, just announced that it has acquired a 60% share of U.S. CAD, an Autodesk reseller based in California and with offices across the Western US....
