CAM Earnings: Manufacturing the future
While some of us are on a beach, sipping drinks with little umbrellas, others are busily telling Wall Street (or London City) what's going on in their businesses. Today, we'll take a quick look at recent earnings from CAM vendors Cimatron and Delcam. Cimatron earlier...
ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility
ANSYS struggled in Q1 and, apparently, at the start of Q2 but seems to have ended the quarter with a bang. CEO Jim Cashman told investors that Q2 saw strong contributions from all parts of the business, across all product areas and from software license, maintenance...
DS’ Q2 ahead on some metrics, not on others
Dassault Systèmes’ earnings announcements keep getting more complex, mixing lots of different revenue metrics, acquisitions, currency and abstruse international accounting. FQ2 2013 was no exception. Let's see what we can figure out. The most obvious point from the...
PTC: FQ3 challenging with pockets of strength
Earlier this evening, PTC reported fiscal third quarter (ended June 30) results that were at the bottom end of expectations -- but the headline is that the company sees a tough economic outlook and decided to lower its Q4 forecast. Again. CEO Jim Heppelmann said...
Quickies: PTC acquires, DS closes, Hexagon sells
There's a lot of acquisition news coming out of the PLMish universe, so let's catch up a bit while we wait for earnings to really heat up later this week. PTC last week announced that it acquired Enigma, a company whose products aggregate and deliver technical content...
MuM says slow Q2, but demand picking up
A few weeks ago, AVEVA teased that it had seen "good" conditions in the market for its engineering and enterprise solutions, but without giving any numbers. European company Mensch und Maschine (MuM) today painted a slightly different picture, reporting that it had...
Autodesk Fusion 360 – it’s here!
A couple of weeks ago, Autodesk formally released Fusion 360, the not-at-all secret CAD product the company has worked on for the last couple of years. If you remember, the company showed off a pre-Beta version of the product at a Design Slam contest at AU about 6...
AVEVA kicks off earnings in high style
AVEVA announced yesterday that the June quarter was a "good start" to its fiscal 2014; happy investors sent its share price up 14% for the day. These interim announcements don't include many actual numbers, so AVEVA uses qualifiers to describe progress. The company...
CD-adapco brings HEEDS in-house
CD-adapco today announced that it has acquired Red Cedar Technology, maker of HEEDS Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) software and SHERPA, a search method to find optimum designs. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. This is big, in that it takes CD-adapco...
#SEU13: YouTube, GrabCAD, 1300 enhancements — oh my
Solid Edge University is a treat. These are serious, hardcore CAD guys who don't have time for a lot of the other stuff that's crept in around the edges of CAD for the last 20 years. Give them surfacing enhancements, and they're happy. Give them ways to make drawings...
MakerBot + Stratasys = Mainstream to Industrial
Back on June 19, Stratasys ended weeks of speculation and announced that it was acquiring MakerBot, merging the business and DIY/maker markets for 3D printing. We all could see this coming, right? The only question was when and how and who. MakerBot was founded in...
Hey – Google Readers, listen up!
It's almost time to say goodbye to Google Reader, that oh-so-modern equivalent of a local, town newspaper. As you may know, it’s shutting down on July 1st, and when it goes, it’s taking your subscriptions with it! If you read this blog via Google Reader, you have a...
Hot guitar riffs & cool announcements from PTC Live
PTC has spent the last, well, decade redefining itself. For a long time, it was the feature-based modeling powerhouse in a direct-modeling CAD world. Then it decided CAD was passé and devoted itself to building a PLM platform. Most recently, PTC entered the brave new...
Trimble adds more automation to the job site
Have you ever wondered how a construction site works? It's much more complicated -- and way higher-tech -- than most people realize. Trimble has been on a mission over the last 5 years or so to bring technology to the job site, since that's often the part of the...
ESI Q1: buoyed by BRIC and OpenCFD
Still working to catch up on what happened while you were at PTC Live? Me too! Honestly, it would be so much simpler if everything just went on hold while we're these things, right?! Not gonna happen, so catch-up it is. In addition to 3D Systems trying to acquire...
3D Systems moves into metal, snaps up Phenix
Not surprisingly, while a lot of us were at PTC's Live Global user conference in Anaheim this week, everyone else was doing ... whatever they were doing. And that, it turns out was quite a bit. 3D Systems Acquires (Most of) Phenix Systems 3D Systems makes what are...
Couldn’t get to Vienna? Recap of SIMULIA conference
Picture this: we're in an ancient city of castles, cathedrals and really good cake, meeting to talk about advancements in cutting-edge technology: simulation. It's a little like the picture to the right, of St. Stephen's cathedral reflected in a modern office...
Exa’s Q1 is back on track
Exa Corporation just announced results for its first quarter of fiscal 2014, which ended April 30, 2013. CEO Steve Remondi said that "revenue for the quarter was at the high end of our guidance, increasing 11%, or 14% on a constant currency basis, from a year ago....
AVEVA very happy with F13 results, has “a lot more in the tank”
CEOs lead interesting lives. In an interview with the CNBC Squawk Box team in the UK, AVEVA's CEO Richard Longdon was asked if the company's new Everything 3D (E3D) product was "CAD for smart people". Well, yes -- but the point of E3D is to make advanced design...
Earnings update, AEC edition — a mixed bag
This earnings season has been incredibly busy and I have fallen far, far behind in summarizing the highlights. To try to catch up a bit, I’ll be grouping these companies by general product category for you, since that’s so much more useful than chronologically by...
