Nemetschek’s Build offerings contribute to strong Q3

Nemetschek’s Build offerings contribute to strong Q3

Nov 1, 2018 | Hot Topics

Nemetschek Group, the holding company for brands like Allplan, Graphisoft, VectorWorks and Bluebeam, announced results this week that show continued progress in digitizing the AEC world. The details: Group revenue for Q3 was €115 million, up 20% as reported and up 20%...
Nemetschek’s Build offerings contribute to strong Q3

PTC’s F18 closed strong as reinvention continues

Oct 31, 2018 | Hot Topics

PTC’s Q4 and fiscal 2018 results, released last week, were solid yet investors were displeased because the forecasts for F19 presupposed a faster transition to subscriptions than many expected. Remember: subs mean lower initial revenue but a longer tail, so...
Quickie: SigmaTEK acquired by Battery Ventures

Quickie: SigmaTEK acquired by Battery Ventures

Oct 30, 2018 | Hot Topics

Super quick because I’m knee-deep in earnings news: Battery Ventures announced yesterday that it has acquired SigmaTEK Systems, makers of the SigmaNEST nesting solution. Nesting is the process of taking the flattened versions of 3D parts like sheetmetal...
Bentley’s AEC digital twin combines BIM, CAD and more

Bentley’s AEC digital twin combines BIM, CAD and more

Oct 29, 2018 | Hot Topics

The Year in Infrastructure (YII) is Bentley Systems’ annual media fest, where new product releases, customer successes and acquisitions vie for attention. We’ll cover more of those over the next several blog posts, but today we’ll focus on one of the big product...
Very sad news: Chuck Grindstaff has died

Very sad news: Chuck Grindstaff has died

Oct 26, 2018 | Hot Topics

I’m sorry to tell you that Chuck Grindstaff, former CEO of Siemens PLM and long-time PLMer, has died. To the left is Siemens’ stock photo of Chuck but it’s so formal and posed — and Chuck never was. He was usually pacing and gesturing,...
Quickie: SigmaTEK acquired by Battery Ventures

Quickie: Arena acquires Onmify as PLM consolidates

Oct 25, 2018 | Hot Topics

Arena Solutions announced via Twitter that it has acquired Omnify Software. Arena’s PLM and quality management solutions target high tech and medical device companies, offering everything from bill of material (BOM, where the company started) to collaboration...
Nemetschek’s Build offerings contribute to strong Q3

AVEVA says H1 went well

Oct 25, 2018 | Hot Topics

Oh so many earnings this week! So far, the news has been mostly positive as customers are buying to plan. PTC continues its march to subscriptions (and caused endless kerfuffles on the earnings call because it’s adopting a new accounting standard). Dassault...
Nemetschek’s Build offerings contribute to strong Q3

MuM’s Q3 “happy” results look good for Autodesk

Oct 24, 2018 | Hot Topics

Germany’s Mensch und Maschine (MuM) reported results earlier this week and, as usual, we look at them to see what they might mean for Autodesk and for its broader VAR network. In case you’re unaware, MuM is probably Autodesk’s largest European...
Quickie: SigmaTEK acquired by Battery Ventures

Hexagon acquires Bricsys for AEC workflows

Oct 23, 2018 | Hot Topics

Hexagon just announced that it has acquired Bricsys, a company that’s been around a long time and keeps reinventing itself — most recently, as a provider of open, collaborative solutions for the construction CAD market with BricsCAD. BricsCAD today is a...