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AVEVA continues to roll, we think

Schneider Electric released earnings this morning which now means that AVEVA also does, sort of. AVEVA says that it "made a solid start to the financial year" and that it "maintains a strong balance sheet and saw good cash generation in the...

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MSC + Hexagon: “Where Simulation Gets Real”

"This is where simulation gets real." That’s what Paolo Guglielmini, the CEO of MSC Software, told users in his standing room only keynote at last month’s HxGN LIVE conference in Las Vegas. You might remember that Hexagon acquired MSC in 2017, with the...

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ESI’s FQ1 hints at upward momentum for H2

ESI reported results back at the end of May --travel and US holidays sometimes get in the way of timely blogging-- and they were, at best, mediocre as reported. Currency movements, customers opting for subscriptions and not perpetual licenses, and changes...

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Bentley steps up 4D, acquires Synchro

Bentley just announced that it has acquired Synchro Software to boost its 4D construction offerings. Think of Synchro as software for virtual design and construction, enabling visual planning, scheduling, and project management. This lets asset...

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Quick update on PTC + Rockwell

I'm at PTC's LiveWorx user conference this week. Yesterday, CEO Jim Heppelmann gave a bit more detail on the partnership with Rockwell Automation, announced last week. A quick recap: Rockwell is buying 8.4% of PTC's shares for around $1 billion. PTC will...

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DS takes majority position in Centric Software

Dassault Systèmes just announced that it will acquire a majority stake in Centric Software, the privately-held maker of PLM solutions for the fashion, apparel, luxury and retail sectors. DS said that, "with this investment, Dassault Systèmes aims to accelerate the...

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Quickie: Historic AVEVA surged in FY18

AVEVA had an awesome fiscal 2018 (ended March 31). You'll recall that the AVEVA merged with Schneider Electric Software earlier this year to create a much bigger company with software that reaches from plant design to operations. That combined...

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A few implications of PTC+Rockwell

Yesterday, all I had time to do was tell you about Rockwell Automation's $1 billion stock buy of newly issued shares of PTC, but not to muse on the implications. To be clear, PTC says it will use the proceeds to buy back shares so that the...

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