Siemens acquires TESIS PLMware, connects PLM & ERP
Siemens just announced that it is acquiring TESIS PLMware, known for integrating Siemens' Teamcenter PLM solution with the alphabet soup of enterprise software: ERP, MES, CRM and SCM. (That's enterprise resource planning, manufacturing execution systems, customer...
Quickies: CAE earnings show fx, momentum effects
It's been a busy Fall -- and Winter is creeping up fast while there are still Q3 earnings to write about. Crazy, right?! We're tackling them one PLM-subgroup at a time. Last up, AEC; this time, CAE. ESI reported yesterday that Q3 (which for them ended October 31) was...
AU: Intersection of CAM, clouds and reality
Autodesk University 2013 was a huge, loud, in-your-face explosion of all things related to making stuff. In this context, "stuff" could be manufactured goods, buildings, bridges, movies or just about anything else you could imagine. I've written a bit about it...
Altair adds EMSS to its portfolio
Altair Engineering just announced that it is acquiring EM Software & Systems (EMSS), developer of the FEKO electromagnetic simulation suite. EMSS has actually been around since the 1990s but, as a South African company, has struggled to be known on an...
Quickies: DS, 3D Systems, Hexagon buy; Exa reports
While I'm at AU with 10,000 of my dearest friends, the PLMish world keeps rolling with acquisitions and earnings. Early this morning, Dassault Systèmes announced that it has acquired an 84% controlling interest in Realtime Technology AG (RTT), a provider of what are...
Quickie: ANSYS to acquire Reaction Design
A very quick update to share some news I think is really exciting: ANSYS is merging with Reaction Design, maker of solutions for modeling and simulating certain types of chemical reactions. CHEMKIN, Reaction Design's flagship products, is used by designers in auto,...
Autodesk U — complete with dancing robots!
Autodesk University is awash in superlatives: biggest, loudest, most diverse ... And it really is. Nearly 10,000 people here in Las Vegas and another 20,000 or 30,000 tuning in online. Manufacturing, construction, architecture, movie-making, robots, drawings, oh...
3DX: going for business value, delighted users & simpler processes
Do you know what Dassault Systèmes means when it refers to its solutions as "experiences"? No? Well, DS is trying hard to explain its vision and clear up confusion around the difference between V6, the experiences and the brands (CATIA, DELMIA, ENOVIA, SolidWorks and...
Appreciating the good things
Have you felt things slowing down this week? Yes, there's news being made and lots we probably should be doing, but the email stream is slowing and the phone is ringing a bit less. The US celebrates Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November; the midweek holiday...
Quickies: Deal, partnership and more
So much going on! Today is the 50th anniversary of the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, the internet is abuzz with a very polite puppy and our PLMish world is cranking through the news cycles. It's raining and cold here in Boston, so a good time to...
Quickies: AEC earnings show upswing in construction
Time to catch up! Nearly 15 companies reported September quarter earnings while I was away, so to get a the general sense of what they're reporting I'm going to be summarizing them all over the next few weeks. Today, we're looking at AEC, the world of Architecture,...
AVEVA’s H1 shows strength in design
AVEVA yesterday announced results for the six months ended September 30 that were both in keeping with the upbeat tone of the interim statement released at the end of the June quarter and the more cautious economic sentiments we've heard elsewhere, especially among...
PTC’s 2013 — what a difference a Q makes!
Sometimes you can hear glee over the phone wire, can't you? At roughly the same time that Dassault Systèmes announced that it missed its September quarter objectives, PTC's CEO Jim Heppelmann was telling Wall Street that total revenue for the quarter was up 6% to $345...
CAE Symposium highlights NX & LMS
The past two weeks could not have been more different. Last week, Cincinnati's working-class vibe; this week, Las Vegas' glitz. The nuts and bolts of product design with a smattering of vision versus a lot of vision with the barest mention of product design. We'll get...
Totally OT: Las Vegas, love it or ??
As you know, I travel a lot for work and most often wind up in Las Vegas since that's where many companies seem to hold user conferences and sales kickoffs. I can certainly see the attraction for the hosting company: lots of hotel rooms, convention space of apparently...
AVEVA’s World Summit focused on E3D & vis
At last year's World Summit, AVEVA unveiled its vision for the future of plant design, Everything 3D, aka E3D. This year's event didn't have that big a moment, but had a series of smaller moments all centered around the visual impact of information. Whether for...
Autodesk goes CAM!
Autodesk announced this week that it is offering £20.75 per share (for a total of about £172.5 million) to acquire Delcam, the publicly traded UK-based vendor of CAM-specific CAD, manufacturing and inspection solutions. Delcam reported 2012 revenue of £47.1 million,...
Hexagon’s Q3, Shell & rentals
While I was wandering in East and North Yorkshire, 3D Systems, Accelrys, FARO, Hexagon, Nemetschek and other companies announced results for the September quarter. Time for recaps so, first up, in keeping with the Plant/Infrastructure theme we have going, let's focus...
Autodesk acquires class-A sufacing from VSR
Autodesk announced on Monday that it has acquired "certain technology assets" from Virtual Shape Research GmbH (VSR), a developer of class-A surface modeling and conceptual design software. In an always-awkward turn of phrase, the company said that "[a]s part of the...
Bentley Inspired by Infrastructure
Bentley Systems' Be Inspired awards felt different this year. It's always a showcase of tough, complex infrastructure problems like righting the Costa Concordia, bringing clean water to underserved populations, or building a massive rail structure under a vibrant city...
