Did you feel it? Amazon web services were down yesterday

Did you feel it? Amazon web services were down yesterday

Mar 1, 2017 | Hot Topics

— and for something like four hours, from 1 PM ET to 5PM ET or so. I wasn’t using any cloud solutions as my primary tools at that time but did feel occasional hiccups in email or web things that were peripherally affected. Bottom line: I was able to work,...
ESI acquires Scilab, a numerical computation platform

ESI acquires Scilab, a numerical computation platform

Feb 27, 2017 | Hot Topics

ESI Group today announced that it has acquired Scilab Enterprises SAS, which publishes and offers professional services for Scilab, the open source software for numerical computation that’s an alternative to MATLAB from The Mathworks. This is ESI’s second...
ESI acquires Scilab, a numerical computation platform

Autodesk sells Moldflow’s US lab to Beaumont

Feb 24, 2017 | Hot Topics

Unless you’re a plastics guy, you may not know this, but one of Moldflow’s key differentiators is its material testing laboratories. Plastics are tricky, with fibers and layers and temperatures and shrinkage rates … designing a mold that can fill and...
ESI acquires Scilab, a numerical computation platform

ANSYS realigns to go from $1B to $2B

Feb 23, 2017 | Hot Topics

ANSYS held its first earnings call under the leadership of new CEO Ajei Gopal today to discuss Q4 and full-year 2016 results and to offer investors a glimpse into where Mr. Gopal believes he can take ANSYS. One clear takeaway from the call: the goals are ambitious, as...
ESI acquires Scilab, a numerical computation platform

MuM sees subs growth resuming in H2 2017

Feb 16, 2017 | Hot Topics

Earlier this week, Germany’s Mensch und Maschine Software announced preliminary results for 2016 — and they were solid, even with the perpetual to subscription transition it and its customers are working through. Total revenue in 2016 was €167 million, up...
Autodesk’s Carl Bass to step down as CEO

Autodesk’s Carl Bass to step down as CEO

Feb 7, 2017 | Hot Topics

Autodesk today announced that Carl Bass will step down as CEO effective February 8. The company also said that the board has started a CEO search and has “formed an Interim Office of the Chief Executive to oversee the company’s day-to-day...
ESI acquires Scilab, a numerical computation platform

Hexagon adds MSC to its stable, for $834 million

Feb 2, 2017 | Hot Topics

Now we know. The sale of MSC Software has been rumored for a while but always seemed to mention financial buyers. It turns out that a strategic buyer has stepped up — and I think it’s a perfect match. First, the background: Hexagon AB, for those who...
ESI acquires Scilab, a numerical computation platform

Quickie: Nemetschek hit record revenue in 2016

Jan 27, 2017 | Hot Topics

Nemetschek just announced preliminary results for 2016 — and they’re solid. Revenue was around €337 million, at the low end of the company’s earlier guidance but still up 18% over 2015. We don’t have any real detail about Q4 but through the...
ESI acquires Scilab, a numerical computation platform

PTC’s FQ1 shows strength across the board

Jan 19, 2017 | Hot Topics

PTC last night gave us our first glimpse into how 2016 ended for PLMish companies — and the news was solid. Demand for PTC’s CAD products was up and the company’s “land and expand” strategy in IoT seems to be working. Not so awesome: the...