STAR Global highlights optimization & possibilities
Did I see you at CD-adapco’s STAR Global conference in San Diego a few weeks ago? No? That’s too bad — it was a dynamite event, with presentations galore, a beach party and even cake and champagne. It was a jam-packed event, culminating in hands-on and lecture-style...
AVEVA teases that fiscal 2015 wasn’t as bad as feared
AVEVA releases periodic updates, really little more than place holders, to tell investors how things are going and what they can expect to hear in the upcoming formal earnings release. Today, AVEVA's Trading Update said that the fiscal year ended March 31 was "in...
Oh dear. FARO preannounces Q1
Despite all of the (deserved, accurate) hoopla about reality computing, FARO, one of the leading capture vendors, today announced preliminary results for Q1. Is it a harbinger of things to come or an isolated case? Probably more the former, as currency, regional...
ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses
Add together acquisitive leanings and the trend to all things cloud, and what do you get? ESI yesterday announced that it has acquired Ciespace, which appears to have figured out a way to get around performance , scalability and real-time collaboration issues to...
Altair scales up with Multiscale Design Systems
Acquisition news continues to roll. Yesterday, Altair announced that it has acquired Multiscale Design Systems, makers of the MDS suite of products that enable modeling, simulation, testing and optimization using multiple spatial and temporal scales. I know, I...
PTC sort of preannounces FQ2, workforce realignment
PTC just announced that revenue for the quarter ended April 4 will be slightly above the midpoint of prior guidance of $305 million to $320 million, with license and subscription revenue slightly below the mid-point of the $80 million to $95 million...
ESI goes big — data, that is
ESI Group is on a roll, announcing two acquisitions in less than a week. Today, the company said it is acquiring the assets of Picviz Labs, which creates data-mining and cyber-security technologies. Picviz Inspector enables users to examine large, complex datasets...
Exa’s Q4 revenue up 11%, won’t quiet activist shareholders
Exa, the Burlington MA-based CFD supplier, recently reported Q4 results (ended January 31) that saw revenue rise 18% year/year (y/y) in constant currencies (cc) to $16.9 million. The details: Total revenue in Q4 was $17 million, up 11% y/y as reported and up 18% cc...
Hexagon acquires Q-DAS for factory optimization
Two acquisitions in a weekend -- consolidation continues as engineering software suppliers broaden their reach, hunt for new customers and deepen their hold on existing clients. We wrote on Saturday about ESI's acquisition of CIVITEC, which will enable it to...
ESI gets deeper into automotive controls
ESI announced today that it is acquiring CIVITEC, maker of Pro-SiVIC, a platform for the modeling and simulation of sensors in what it calls "perception assistance systems". You've seen the commercial for the car that parallel parks itself: how does it know where it...
Very quick: Intergraph acquires Visual Vessel Design
Dashing to the airport (from warm and lovely San Diego, to a cold and possibly snowy Boston -- what am I thinking?!) and just got an email announcing that Intergraph has acquired Ohmtech, makers of Visual Vessel Design, an analytical tool to design pressure vessels,...
ESI reports strong close to 2014, ends with growth
ESI last week reported results for Q4 and the fiscal year ended January 31, 2015 that were surprisingly strong, with Q4 total revenue up 8% as reported to €49 million, boosting full year revenue to €110 million, up 1.5%. That's quite a reversal, given that revenue...
Q&A: Which is better?
I get asked this a lot: Which is better, NX or CATIA? ANSYS or Nastran? Which Nastran? Onshape or Fusion 360? PDMS or SmartPlant? As with the last Q&A post, I see that search engines deposit you at Schnitger Corp as you try to discover what others recommend. I...
ASNE highlights need for affordable, flexible ships
It's ASNE time again, when the US naval engineering community gets together to figure out how to better spend the scarce resource that is taxpayer money in the defense of the nation. I wrote last year about the dynamics of the US shipbuilding industry—mostly military,...
Trimble’s Fifth Element for the Connected Forest
AEC acquisitions have been all the rage so far this year -- and Trimble keeps the ball rolling with today's announcement that it's bought Fifth Element (no, that was a movie; this is forestry), based in Finland. Financial terms were not disclosed. Fifth...
Onshape’s here! Finally, we can talk about it …
Onshape, the latest CAD company founded by Jon Hirschtick, John McEleney and other names you likely recognize, took the wraps off this morning to finally let us talk about the worst-kept secret in the CAD world. To skip right to the part you probably care about: What...
Trimble acquires Linear project to boost corridor planning
Trimble today announced that it has acquired Linear project GMBH, a privately-held provider of scheduling software for linear or corridor infrastructure projects --that's highways, railways, pipelines, tunnels, transmission lines and similar built assets that need to...
FARO snaps up kubit
Well, well, well. Another independent, gobbled up. FARO, maker of laser scanners for metrology (very tight tolerances) and infrastructure applications (huge data sets, accurate, often outdoors) just acquired kubit, a German company that has been a leader in developing...
REAL 2015 showcases opportunities in capture, compute & create
What do custom-made dresses for Dita Von Teese, military airfield runways, Ebola containment/patient care and museum displays have in common? Thinking … thinking … At as first glance, not much. But all were prominently featured at last week’s REAL 2015, a gathering to...
ANSYS Q4 2014: SpaceClaim isn’t cute or little, but isn’t material either
Ansys reported record sales for the fourth quarter and full fiscal 2014 last week. Total revenue for Q4 was $254 million, up 8% year/year (y/y) as reported and up 12% in constant currencies (cc), ahead of both the company’s forecast and analyst consensus. Software...
