Bentley ups its game in geotechnics with Plaxis, SoilVision acqs
For much of the last 25 years, Boston was a construction site. The Big Dig project put an elevated highway under ground, to improve traffic flow and create green space where the roadway had once divided the city. What many people didn't...
DS: Industrie 4.0 is old news; makers and innovators will rule tomorrow
Dassault Systèmes just announced Q1 results, and they are mostly positive. As with each release, there are various accounting treatments, as-reported and constant currency, grouped-together buckets of revenue ... I suggest that you dig through...
Quickie: Trimble acquires Viewpoint for $1.2 billion
Just into my inbox: Trimble, makers of all sorts of software and hardware targeted at the broader AEC market is acquiring Viewpoint, which makes construction management software. More on this tomorrow, but Viewpoint fits perfectly (with some overlap) into...
Quickie: MuM announces most profitable quarter ever
What trough? As a reminder, we look at Mensch und Maschine to gauge how resellers are faring as Autodesk transitions to subscriptions -- and MuM is on the upswing with its Q1 2018 report. Per its announcement, "While the [proprietary MuM]...
PTC’s FQ2 featured ‘strong’ CAD, PLM performance
PTC announced results on Wednesday that were, in a single word, impressive. Growth across most revenue categories, product lines, channels — and with positive outlook for the rest of 2018, too, which means no deals were pulled from the future...
PLMish earnings kick off with solid reports from PTC and AVEVA
PTC started things off on Wednesday evening, with a report that exceeded expectations. Fiscal second quarter revenue was up nearly 10%, above the high end of the company's guidance as well as Wall Street expectations. I'm working on a longer...
Siemens shines at Chicago’s DMDII
Siemens held another one of its innovation days a few weeks ago, this time at the UI LABS DMDII facility in Chicago. I’ve attended several of these at Siemens HQ in Munich; this was the first I’ve been to at a neutral site and the focus was completely...
Oracle + Aconex is a done deal
It was a long time coming because of all of the regulatory hurdles but Aconex is now a part of Oracle. A quick recap, and then why this matters even if you're outside the typical AEC/construction world. Oracle has been acquiring to build out...
ANSYS gets aesthetic with its acquisition of OPTIS
ANSYS just announced that it is acquiring OPTIS, maker of software that simulates light and human vision and, increasingly, solutions that enabled users to visualize real-world effects in a virtual setting. What does that mean? Lots of things. To take just...
ESI’s Q4 returns to license growth
You have spoken: you're not fans of long blog posts that summarize a clump of earnings all at once, nor do you want to wait until the last of a bunch of companies publishes results to read the post. So we're back to the old scheme, one company...
Shipbuilding software provider SSI bought by exec team
This is cool -- there aren't that many providers of ship design software on the market and I'm a naval architect, soo it naturally caught my eye. This just hit the inbox, even though it reads as though it should have been sent a few weeks ago:...
Hexagon moves further into construction tech
A couple of years ago, at a HxGN Live, Hexagon's Process Power and Marine group announced its entry into BIM -- but not BIM as the rest of the world understood it at the time, a design tool. No, PP&M was going to repurpose existing assets...
It’s Pi Day!
Yes, the Boston area is digging out from the third major storm in two weeks, much of the news is lousy and uncertain -- but it's Pi Day! Today is March 14, which the US writes as 3/14 or perhaps 3.14. Hmm. That looks suspiciously like the first few digits...
What the heck is CFIUS, anyway?
A few of you have written to ask why the approval of a US government agency called CFIUS held up the AVEVA/Schneider merger, and to ask why a US government body even cared about the combination of a UK-listed company and a Paris-listed company....
Quickie: AVEVA+Schneider=DONE
Finally, finally: AVEVA announced today that at 8AM UK time on March 1, 2018 it more than doubled in size with the addition of Schneider Electric's software people and products. Ex-PTCer Craig Hayman, as expected, took over as CEO last week and...
10 things: PLMish earnings show confidence and growth
I’ve been recapping earnings for you for years but with the ready availability of the source materials it seems silly to just reproduce it all and make you hunt for my commentary. To make this more productive for you and for me, we're trying something new:...
Quickie: Topcon acquires ClearEdge3D to move into software
Topcon announced earlier this week that it has acquired ClearEdge3D, a maker of 3D modeling and construction verification software. Unless you're into AECish topics, you may not have heard of Topcon. Topcon is a Japanese company that makes...
10 things: Digitalization at AVEVA World Conference, Houston edition
I spent the last week with AVEVA at its North American user conference. I haven’t attended one of these in years, mostly going to the international Summit events (here, here … search the site for more). The Summit is strategic; it’s about IT and economic...
Quickie: Altair nabs ElectroFlo CFD for electronics cooling
Altair just announced that it has acquired TES International’s technology and intellectual property and hired founder Ben Zandi to lead its thermal solutions software development efforts. Dr. Zandi founded TES to address electronics cooling and today...
10 things I think I think: SOLIDWORKS World 2018
SOLIDWORKS World is always a spectacle of maker-ness, designers competing to out-SOLIDWORKS one another in design competitions and learn from one another. It's, as one speaker put it, nerd-heaven. This year was the twentieth anniversary event and many...
