May 28, 2019 | Hot Topics
ESI just announced results for the first three months of its 2019 financial year and they were, aside from Services, pretty good. Remember that Q1 is usually ESI’s weakest quarter, it’s hard to grow a subscription business, and that the company is...
May 28, 2019 | Hot Topics
Welcome back — to me, at least, if you’ve been hard at work the last couple of weeks. I’ve been wandering in England, through old villages, new towns, Garden Cities, woods and fields. I’ve talked to lots of people about all sorts of things,...
May 23, 2019 | Hot Topics
You might remember that ESI has a new CEO, Cristel de Rouvray. Since February, Ms. de Rouvray and CFO Olfa Zorgati have been on a listening tour, talking to investors, customers and employees to learn what they think will help drive ESI to new levels of revenue,...
May 13, 2019 | Hot Topics
[Note: I’m traveling and so wrote this based on advance materials provided by Bentley. They are hosting a conference call today and I’ll update, if warranted, when I can listen to the replay. The report I reference is now available for you to download. Go...
May 10, 2019 | Hot Topics
The good news keeps rolling, as Altair reported Q1 revenue of $128 million, up 13% and around $2 million ahead of expectations. CEO Jim Scapa said that the guidance beat was powered by software product sales — not surprising, given the portfolio buildout and...
Apr 30, 2019 | Hot Topics
Nemetschek and RIB continued the PLMish roll this earnings season, with both companies reporting stellar growth in Q1. You may recall that Nemetschek started out as the provider of building information (BIM) solutions Allplan and Graphisoft, but has recently been...
Apr 29, 2019 | Hot Topics
— and that’s a good thing for Autodesk, too. Mensch und Maschine said today that it had “a fantastic start to fiscal year 2019”, with revenue up for in proprietary software business, its new SOFiSTiK acquisition and its Autodesk reseller...
