Hexagon preannounces, cites weakness in China
And so it begins. Hexagon announced today that "the impact of increased geopolitical uncertainties on global trade, especially within the electronics business of the Manufacturing Intelligence" (MI) leads Hexagon to believe total revenue for the June quarter will be...
Super-quick: Hexagon’s Rollén acquitted — again
Hexagon just issued this announcement: Ola Rollén acquitted from all charges for the second time 2019-06-26 20:15 GMT+02 Ola Rollén, Hexagon’s President and CEO, was today acquitted for the second time from the insider trading allegations by the Norwegian economic...
Carbon raises another $260 million to advance 3DP
And one more bit of 3D printing news: Carbon, a company that's billed as a "3D printing poster child" by Venturebeat says it has raised $260 million in venture round led by Madrone Capital Partners and Baillie Gifford, with other partners Sequoia Capital, Adidas...
ExOne and Siemens partner for IoT-enabled 3DP
Siemens and ExOne, maker of sand and metal 3D printers, just announced a partnership targeted at bringing its binder jetting technology to prospects in the foundry, aerospace, automotive, energy and other markets. According to the announcement, Siemens’ MindSphere is...
Hexagon adds to its additive bench
One of the things I learned at Hexagon's HxGN LIVE conference (but haven't had time to write about yet, sorry) is that the company is on a mission regarding 3D printing (3DP). Planning, prepping, simulating, doing. Today, Hexagon announced that it is acquiring...
Quickie: DS invests in BioSerenity telehealth startup
Hot on the heels of its planned acquisition of Medidata, Dassault Systèmes announced that it is the lead investor in a €65 million Series B financing round for BioSerenity, a startup developing telehealth solutions. BioSerenity combines textiles, wearable sensors and...
DS + Medidata = PLMish for Life Science
Last week, Dassault Systèmes (DS) announced that it was buying the US firm Medidata for $5.7 billion. It's a deal that has a lot of people in the automotive and aerospace industries, long DS' sweet spot, wondering, why? First, though, DS' why. DS says Medidata will...
One more: PTC acquires AR agency TWNKLS
When so many conferences happen at the same time, news blizzards also happen. PTC announced today that it has acquired PTC TWNKLS, a European company that creates tailor-made augmented reality (AR) applications and offers related services. PTC says the acquisition...
Siemens acquires South African distributor ESTEQ
And the news keeps rolling: Siemens Digital Industries Software (fka Siemens PLM Software) just announced that it will acquire select assets of ESTEQ, a PLMish distributor in South Africa. [Not in the deal is ESTEQ's Test and Measurement business; it remains...
HxGN aims to help us save ourselves
Back in Vegas! I'm at Hexagon's user conference, HxGN LIVE, most of this week--so yes, not at PTC LiveWorx or Siemens Realize LIVE (so much LIVE, no?)-- with a daunting schedule of meetings and sessions. I hope to learn what makes this agglomeration of software,...
DS buys Medidata clinical trial software
Super quick: Dassault Systèmes announced that it is buying Medidata Solutions for $5.8 billion in cash. Medidata is publicly traded in the US and makes software used in clinical drug trials. This had been rumored for a while, with DS CEO Bernard Charlès telling...
Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners
Missler Software announced in April (yes, I know it's old news, but it is important news, nonetheless) that it will now be known as TOPSOLID. It's not as random as it sounds: the Topsolid CAM product has a great (if expensive) reputation and few knew that it was made...
RIB takes majority stake in BSD to aid AEC collab, gain access to US market
Yesterday, RIB Software and Building Systems Design (BSD) announced that RIB is acquiring a majority in BSD. RIB, you may recall, makes desktop and cloud solutions for the construction industry that harness the data in BIM models and uses it to enable construction...
Wipro snaps up ITI
This is a really big deal: Wipro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire International TechneGroup Incorporated (probably better known as ITI), maker of the interoperability solutions that make the PLMish world possible. I saw the news from the Economic Times of...
Bentley’s 2019 corporate update: again no drama, solid growth
Bentley's spring business update call turned out to be an interesting view into the company and its products -- but we learned few new details about how the company is doing. A couple of weeks ago, Bentley released its "annual report", the key points of which I...
Autodesk’s FQ1 was led by AEC, up 37%
Autodesk last Thursday announced results for its fiscal first quarter. Were they trying to go under the news radar just before the Memorial Day holiday? (Am I really that cynical?) I dunno but the share price fell 9% at one point, and was down 5% before the stock...
AVEVA’s F19 revenue up 12% on reinvention & execution
It's always hard to pick out one factoid from a company's earnings release, but I think this one says much about how AVEVA is doing: 13 months after swallowing / being swallowed by the larger Schneider Electric Software (SES), the company reported total pro forma...
ESI: SaaS before that was even a thing
ESI just announced results for the first three months of its 2019 financial year and they were, aside from Services, pretty good. Remember that Q1 is usually ESI's weakest quarter, it's hard to grow a subscription business, and that the company is transforming itself...
Totally OT: Walking and the week ahead
Welcome back -- to me, at least, if you've been hard at work the last couple of weeks. I've been wandering in England, through old villages, new towns, Garden Cities, woods and fields. I've talked to lots of people about all sorts of things, none of it deep or...
ESI’s 2019 is focused on amplifying what works
You might remember that ESI has a new CEO, Cristel de Rouvray. Since February, Ms. de Rouvray and CFO Olfa Zorgati have been on a listening tour, talking to investors, customers and employees to learn what they think will help drive ESI to new levels of revenue,...
