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Siemens AG’s FQ4 boosted by Digital Factory, admiration for Bentley

Nov 9, 2017 | Hot Topics

Siemens AG reported FQ4 and fiscal 2017 earnings earlier today. It’s a confusing picture of a huge company, with acquisitions and divestitures, but here’s what matters: The AG grew total revenue by 4% to €83 billion. The Digital Factory segment (where PLM...

AVEVA World Summit focuses on digitalization, in all its forms

Nov 7, 2017 | Hot Topics

Q: What does it take to become a digital business? A1: It’s easy-peasy if you’re a newish company, with a digitally savvy workforce. Make some apps, roll them out to people who are used to doing everything on a tiny screen. Collect lots of data, quickly...

Quickie: ANSYS’ Q3 well ahead of expectations

Nov 2, 2017 | Hot Topics

We’re on day 4 of no power here in our little slice of (New England) paradise, so this must be short, if there’s any hope of uploading it. More after the earnings call and once Net access is back to normal. ANSYS reported a Q3 that basically blew past its...

Quickie: PTC’s FQ4 revenue up 6%, with strong CAD performance –w00t!

Oct 26, 2017 | Hot Topics

It’s tough to keep up right now! A very quick recap of PTC’s results: FQ4 revenue was $306 million, up 6% That means total FY’17 revenue was $1,164 million, up 2% From the non-GAAP, color materials provided by the company, “CAD bookings grew 14%, far...

Quickie: DS acquires No Magic for MBSE, has mixed Q3

Oct 25, 2017 | Hot Topics

I’m at AVEVA World Summit this week, so this has to be brief: DS announced earnings today, and as part of that package of news said that it intends to acquire No Magic, a maker of model-based systems engineering and architecture modeling solutions for software...

MuM says things are looking up in Autodesk-land

Oct 23, 2017 | Hot Topics

Germany’s Mensch und Maschine kicked off the PLMish Q3 earnings this morning. Total revenue was €32 million, down 20% as reported, as the company works through the shift from perpetuals to subscriptions in its Autodesk-related business. For the year to date,...

Nemetschek acquires RISA structural engineering software

Oct 14, 2017 | Hot Topics

The deals just keep coming — and I think AEC may be leading in volume for the year so far. Yesterday, Nemetschek SE announces that it will acquire the assets of RISA Technologies, makers of the eponymous RISA suite of structural engineering software, for $25...

Bentley acquires environmental water modeling software

Oct 10, 2017 | Hot Topics

I’m at Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure conference in Singapore and there’s so much news to cover. At some point. Right now, I need to tell you that CEO Greg Bentley has announced the acquisition of the water modeling software business of...

Hexagon doubles up, announces 2nd acquisition in a week

Oct 6, 2017 | Hot Topics

In between flights, so this may not even rise to the level of a quickie: Hexagon just announced the acquisition of the dimensional data management, quality planning and analytics technology, called eMMA, from Kronion GmbH. Not surprising, the Kronion team and the eMMA...

Hexagon acquires Luciad for real-time sensor integration

Oct 4, 2017 | Hot Topics

Hexagon today announced that it has acquired Luciad, a Belgian software company that makes solutions for visualizing and analyzing real-time geospatial data. Luciad was spun out of the University KU Leuven (like LMS and countless others) in 1999 as an open solution...

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