Accelerating Action at Altair’s Future.Industry 2025
Altair recently invited me to be on a panel at its Future.Industry 2025 event, focusing on how women in technology can align with this year's theme for International Women's Day. Go here to see the panel session's recording and to check out the rest of the event....
Apparently no new divestitures in Synopsys+Ansys
Synopsys just issued a press release about the UK's tacit approval of its intention to acquire Ansys. It's brief, and simply says We are pleased that the CMA has formally cleared the transaction in Phase 1 subject to previously...
UK regulator approves Synopsys+Ansys
Super quick while we wait for more details: Reuters just reported that the UK's Competition and Markets Authority won't seek further review of Synopsys' proposed acquisition of Ansys, in effect approving the deal. The article says that the regulator accepted "certain...
Hexagon to spin off ALI and SGI into NewCo in early 2026
Earnings season is almost over, and there's a lot to catch up on, but news just came into the inbox that Hexagon has decided that it will, indeed, spin off its ALI business. What is that, you ask, and what does it mean for longtime Smart[Plant] users? As it is right...
Catching up: AspenTech+Emerson, 3D printing, Geomagic
I've been neck-deep in earnings news lately —need to find the time to post longer recaps of PLMish ones— and the general sentiment isn't too upbeat. Nothing horrible, but a lot of spending sounds like it's on hold, with some recovery expected in the second half of the...
Super Quick: Sandvik snaps up 3 more CAM resellers
Sandvik just announced that it has acquired ShopWare, MCAM Northwest and the CAD/CAM solutions business line of OptiPro Systems. All three are US-based Mastercam resellers and bring to five the total of resellers folded into Sandvik's Manufacturing Solutions business...
Emerson to buy rest of AspenTech
Surprising … well, no one … Emerson announced today that it will acquire all outstanding shares of AspenTech for $265.00 per share in an all-cash offer. Emerson already owns roughly 57% of shares, so this will be quite a large cash outlay: the minority stake is worth...
Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my!
What did I see this morning? We're not even at the end of January, and it already feels like a very long year … something like that. You too? We'll get through it together! While the wider world swirls madly, our little PLMish corner has not been idle, oh no:...
Wishing you and yours …
… a holiday season as calm as an afternoon when all meetings are canceled. Thank you for your emails, comments, briefings, and questions. It was an honor to work with you in 2024 -- let's do it again in 2025! Above is the beautiful Belgian city of Bruges. My husband...
Q3 2024 earnings are finally done – what have we learned?
Yay! The PLMish earnings season finally ended last week. Rather than recap each individual set of results, I thought I'd take a bigger-picture look: What have we learned over the last six weeks of earnings releases? Q3 earnings releases are usually unexciting since...
voxeljet to be acquired by Anzu Partners – unless a better deal comes up
The additive manufacturing world continues to consolidate: voxeljet just announced that it has provisionally agreed to sell its entire business to funds affiliated with Anzu Partners via an asset deal. Who? Anzu is an investment firm that manages about $1 billion in...
Emerson offers $240/share in cash to buy up rest of AspenTech
The PLMish news flow is just insane right now --still trying to get to a longer post about Siemens acquiring Altair-- and now this: Last night, AspenTech announced what I'd call middling results for its typically weak first quarter; more on that later. But they were...
It’s official: Siemens buys Altair for $10 billion
From Siemens: Siemens strengthens leadership in industrial software and AI with acquisition of Altair Engineering ... Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering Inc., a leading provider of software in the industrial simulation and analysis market....
Synopsys + Ansys stalls in UK and South Korea
Yes, there's lots of earnings news to cover, but this just came across the inbox: the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will be investigating Synopsys' proposed acquisition of Ansys because "the Transaction meets the requirements of section 96(2) of the...
MuM starts PLMish earnings on a strong, but mixed, note
Mensch und Maschine reported its July/August/September results a few days ago. If you recall, Mensch und Maschine is both an Autodesk reseller and a supplier of its own software. As of mid-September, Autodesk changed the rules for its European resellers: Rather than...
Super-quick: additive manufacturing consolidation, this time for real
Do you remember last year's kerfuffle about Nano Dimensions acquiring and then not acquiring Desktop Metal, which itself wanted to merge with Stratasys, and then 3D Systems entered the mix? It was a confusing series of non-events that kept promising to reshape the...
Synopsys to sell optical assets to Keysight (maybe)
Last night, Synopsys announced that it has agreed to sell its Optical Solutions Group (OSG) to Keysight Technologies. You may recall that Synopsys is in the process of seeking approval to acquire Ansys and that Keysight last year acquired ESI Group … Anyway, Synopsys...
nTop secures investment from NVIDIA’s NVentures
(Yes, many Ns, but that's actually correct spelling and capitalization.) nTop, fka nTopology, just announced that it has received an unspecified investment from NVIDIA's venture capital arm, NVentures. The companies say these funds will be used to integrate NVIDIA's...
Bentley acquires Cesium to iTwin 3D GIS workflows
I am still trying to get caught up on earnings digests, but this just jumped to the head of the queue: Bentley Systems just announced that it had acquired Cesium, makers of a very cool platform for creating (and using) geospatial applications; its 3D Tiles is a de...
A wander through PLMish earnings so far
This has been an unusually long and somewhat fraught earnings season. We started with Dassault Systèmes' preannouncement, wandered through the drama around Autodesk's delayed publication of its fiscal 2024 (ended 31 January) annual report and subsequent Q1 filings...
