Totally OT: If it’s too good to be true …

Totally OT: If it’s too good to be true …

As you probably know, this website runs on Wordpress, a nifty content management tool that powers something like 1/3 of the world’s websites. WordPress uses themes to organize content and plugins to make those themes (and the base WordPress platform) more fit...
Out of the Inbox: reality capture & 3D printing stalls?, BIM grows, VARs do too

Update: DS and Modelon, not a total acquisition

Dassault Systèmes yesterday announced that it had acquired Modelon Gmbh but wasn’t really clear about the details. A number of you emailed and tweeted to ask for more information; here’s what I’ve learned: DS acquired Modelon AB’s 45% stake in...
Out of the Inbox: reality capture & 3D printing stalls?, BIM grows, VARs do too

Quickie: DS rocks Q1, acquires Modelon

Heading out to day 2 of the Siemens Oil and Gas Innovations Conference but wanted to take a quick peek at Dassault Systèmes Q1 results, reported early this morning. On the surface, DS knocked Q1 out of the park, soundly beating its total revenue target €615 million or...
STAR Global highlights optimization & possibilities

STAR Global highlights optimization & possibilities

Did I see you at CD-adapco’s STAR Global conference in San Diego a few weeks ago? No? That’s too bad — it was a dynamite event, with presentations galore, a beach party and even cake and champagne. It was a jam-packed event, culminating in hands-on and lecture-style...
Out of the Inbox: reality capture & 3D printing stalls?, BIM grows, VARs do too

AVEVA teases that fiscal 2015 wasn’t as bad as feared

AVEVA releases periodic updates, really little more than place holders, to tell investors how things are going and what they can expect to hear in the upcoming formal earnings release. Today, AVEVA’s  Trading Update said that the fiscal year ended March 31...
Out of the Inbox: reality capture & 3D printing stalls?, BIM grows, VARs do too

Oh dear. FARO preannounces Q1

Despite all of the (deserved, accurate) hoopla about reality computing, FARO, one of the leading capture vendors, today announced preliminary results for Q1. Is it a harbinger of things to come or an isolated case? Probably more the former, as currency, regional...
Out of the Inbox: reality capture & 3D printing stalls?, BIM grows, VARs do too

ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

Add together acquisitive leanings and the trend to all things cloud, and what do you get? ESI yesterday announced that it has acquired Ciespace, which appears to have figured out a way to get around performance , scalability and real-time collaboration issues to...
Out of the Inbox: reality capture & 3D printing stalls?, BIM grows, VARs do too

Altair scales up with Multiscale Design Systems

Acquisition news continues to roll. Yesterday, Altair announced that it has acquired Multiscale Design Systems, makers of the MDS suite of products that enable modeling, simulation, testing and optimization using multiple spatial and temporal scales. I know, I...
Out of the Inbox: reality capture & 3D printing stalls?, BIM grows, VARs do too

PTC sort of preannounces FQ2, workforce realignment

PTC just announced that revenue for the quarter ended April 4 will be slightly above the midpoint of prior guidance of $305 million to $320 million, with license and subscription revenue slightly below the mid-point of the $80 million to $95 million...