PLMish ideas on whiling away social isolation
Right up front: I'm not qualified to give medical advice so you won't see any of that here. Go to cdc.gov, who.int, or another reputable source for the protocols that will ensure your safety and that of elders and those with compromised immune systems. That said, why...
Hexagon adds CAEfatigue to simulation portfolio
Coronavirus or not, business seems to crank along, even if at a slower level. Hexagon today announced that it is acquiring CAEfatigue Limited, a provider of fatigue simulation solutions. Hexagon's explanation of why fatigue matters is interesting: they use an...
Quickie: Autodesk extends sale of multi-user subs to August, pushes back named user start date
I wrote last week that Autodesk was going to start transitioning customers to named user licenses in May. A couple of readers shared a change to that policy from Autodesk's CEO Andrew Anagnost, in a note about the company's response in the time of Covid-19: [W]e are...
Bentley ups the ante on BIM CDEs, acquires UK’s GroupBC
Bentley Systems just announced that it has acquired GroupBC, the UK-based maker of the BC Projects and BC Enterprise SaaS solutions. You may know that the UK leads the world in BIM focus and implementations, which has spawned a lot of tools to help projects reach...
Autodesk’s anti-piracy efforts finally pay off – oh, and the looming end of maintenance
We've had a bit of an earnings bottleneck here at Schnitger Corp. HQ, but let's see if we can get caught up before more news rocks our world. You are washing your hands while humming Happy Birthday twice or the chorus from Stayin' Alive, right? You could do CPR to...
Ansys acquires Lumerical for photonics ICs
Ansys just announced that it will acquire Lumerical, maker of the DEVICE suite of component-level simulation products for modeling the optical, electrical and thermal effects in the performance of photonic integrated circuits. What's a photonic integrated circuit?...
Super-quick, the VIX volatility index is … crazy
I wrote about Bentley's potential IPO a few weeks ago and mentioned that the company had, in its last possible IPO, told me that it looked at the VIX index to help determine the exact timing of a sale of its shares. Not going into that again, but this week's sell-off...
Hexagon adds Romax for electric drivetrain MBSE
Hexagon just announced that it will acquire Romax Technology Limited, maker of the Romax Nexus suite of solutions for concept design, durability, NVH and other simulations for electromechanical drivetrain design and simulation. Nexus is a cloud-enabled model-based...
Schneider Electric reports 2019 revenue up 6%, growing focus on digital offerings
Schneider Electric is a massively complicated company, making everything from home energy management solutions to software to operate production facilities. And, as we saw last week, looking to get into building construction with its proposed acquisition of RIB...
Tech Soft 3D secures backing from Battery Ventures
Investor interest in out little PLMish world remains strong. Tech Soft 3D yesterday announced that it has closed a "significant" investment from Battery Ventures and that Battery General Partner Morad Elhafed and Vice President Satoshi Harris-Koizumi will join the...
AVEVA says Q4 pipeline solid
AVEVA says Q4 pipeline "solid"Schneider Electric reported results today which mean that AVEVA also released a teeny earnings announcement. More on Schneider Electric later; AVEVA said it had seen revenue growth in the "high single-digits" on an organic, constant...
Bentley maybe inching towards an IPO again?!
Bentley issued a terse press release yesterday, saying in its entirety EXTON, Pa., U.S.A. – February 13, 2020 – Bentley Systems, Incorporated today announced that it has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on form S-1 with the Securities and...
ESI reports revenue up 8% in 2019
ESI reported results yesterday for the 12 months ended 31 December 2019 and for the 11 months from 1 February 2019 to 31 December 2019. Since ESI is shifting its financial year to reflect the calendar, we'll just focus on the 12 month pro forma results. As a side...
Schneider Electric gets into construction, buys RIB
How interesting: Schneider Electric just announced that it is buying RIB Software, the German maker of cloud and desktop solutions for AEC/construction projects, for €1.4 billion (a 6.5x revenue multiple). Why? According to Schneider Electric Chairman and CEO,...
MuM’s prelim results for 2019 show organic revenue up 25%
Mensch und Maschine, Autodesk's largest European reseller and a software company in its own right, announced preliminary results for 2019 today. MuM said that it saw 25% organic revenue growth; add that to the revenue it recognized from SOFiSTiK, and we get to total...
Dassault Systèmes pivots further to life sciences but industrial still dominates revenue
Dassault Systèmes announced results this morning that are generally seen as a bit "light", meaning below analyst consensus even though they were at the top end of the company's own guidance. No acquisitions were announced, but there is a pretty major move on the...
Koch Equity buys rest of Infor
It's not as though this is a slow news week ... here's one more, super quick: Infor, the ERP vendor, is being acquired by Koch Equity Development LLC, the investment subsidiary of Koch Industries, the huge conglomerate founded by Charles and David Koch. Koch...
Hexagon puts 2019 in the rearview, cautiously optimistic about 2020
Hexagon is such a diverse company these days that it's hard to draw a simple set of conclusions from its earnings reports. After all, it operates in the process industries with the former Intergraph PPM, in a fledgling BIM way with Bricscad -- but also in mechanical...
Nemetschek reports revenue up 21% in 2019
It's a big day for PLMish earnings, with Siemens, Hexagon and Nemetschek all announcing results for the year ending quarter, so let's get right to it. Nemetschek issued preliminary results which include only big-picture numbers -- and they're pretty amazing: Total...
Hexagon adds to its GIS CaaS offering
You could be forgiven for not realizing that Hexagon, besides offering lots of design, engineering and manufacturing technology, also sells data. In fact, that was a major feature of Hexagon's Capital Markets Day back in 2014 or 2015, right after it acquired North...
