Quickie: ANSYS acquires to add to EMAG offering

Quickie: ANSYS acquires to add to EMAG offering

Sep 2, 2015 | Hot Topics

A quick update since I’m still at Accelerate, Autodesk’s PLM360 user event: ANSYS just announced that it has acquired the assets of Delcross Technologies to add to its electromagnetic simulation and radio frequency system analysis offering. Not something I know much...
Quickie: ANSYS acquires to add to EMAG offering

Autodesk’s Q2 highlights that change is hard

Aug 31, 2015 | Hot Topics

Autodesk reported results on Thursday that highlight exactly how hard it is to predict the transition from boxes/perpetual to subscriptions/ratable. Given all the moving pieces, the Q2 results weren’t awful but the share was still down nearly 5% in...
PTC invests in ServiceMax to expand ops, R&D

PTC invests in ServiceMax to expand ops, R&D

Aug 27, 2015 | Hot Topics

PTC is putting more of its money into building a thriving Service Lifecycle Management business, taking part in an $82 million Series-F round of funding for ServiceMax. ServiceMax, which makes cloud-based field service management apps, has now raised a total of $202...
Pardon our appearance …

Pardon our appearance …

Aug 24, 2015 | Hot Topics

You may have noticed that the Schnitger Corp. website looks a little …. different …. today. We’re redesigning it to make it cleaner and neater, and easier to use as a reference. Please bear with us during these changes, and let us know if you can’t find...
Hexagon rides diversification wave, Q2 up 5%cc

Hexagon rides diversification wave, Q2 up 5%cc

Aug 11, 2015 | Hot Topics

Hexagon, the parent company of Intergraph, Leica, Vero and other brands you know, reported Q2 revenue of €781 million, up 23% as reported (hold on — the devil is in the details) and a tad ahead of expectations. On an organic, constant currency basis (cc),...
Hexagon rides diversification wave, Q2 up 5%cc

ANSYS’ Q2 shows steady pace

Aug 5, 2015 | Hot Topics

ANSYS today reported Q2 revenue of $235.5 million, smack in the middle of its prior forecast of  $230 million to $238 million and about $1 million ahead of Wall Street consensus. That’s good, and the news sent the share price up about 2%; after the earnings...
Hexagon rides diversification wave, Q2 up 5%cc

Nemetschek’s Q2 up 34%, boosted by Bluebeam

Jul 31, 2015 | Hot Topics

Earnings season continues to roll, with many IT and industrial companies reporting this week. So far, foreign exchange seems the dominant factor for many: fluctuations can cause companies to miss their targets purely because of the math and it can make goods and...
Hexagon rides diversification wave, Q2 up 5%cc

PTC’s FQ3 a story of big deal misses and IoT growth

Jul 30, 2015 | Hot Topics

As PTC announced a few weeks ago, fiscal third quarter (FQ3) revenue was $304 million, below the company forecast of $306 million to $311 million. What happened in the quarter to cause revenue to be below expectations? It comes down to two things: PTC’s reliance on...
Hexagon rides diversification wave, Q2 up 5%cc

Quickie: DS blows by Q2 forecast

Jul 23, 2015 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes reported today that Q2 revenue was €716 million, up 29% as reported (and up 16% in constant currency) year/year. The company had forecast non-IFRS total revenue of around €675 million and just reported non-IFRS Q2 revenue of €723 million. Some of...
Hexagon rides diversification wave, Q2 up 5%cc

MuM reports H1 up 15%, VAR up 10% or so ex-fx

Jul 22, 2015 | Hot Topics

German reseller and software developer Mensch und Maschine (MuM) releases its earnings shortly before other PLM companies and often signals whether the market is doing well — if the company’s Q2 report is anything to go by, it should be a decent earnings...