Quick update: DS beats expectations in Q3
Dassault Systèmes announced results today that beat expectations on many fronts. I'm at the PLM Innovation Americas conference so will have to get the conference call replays when I can, but here's a quick update: total revenue was €499.5 million as reported (IFRS),...
SAP closes Ariba deal, focuses on cloud
SAP announced earlier today that it was raising its full-year revenue target as a result of strong software sales of its own products and with an extra boost from its acquisition of Ariba, which closed on October 1. All executives on the earnings call said that the...
Ready, Set, Go! MuM revenue, profit up
Hope your seat belt is buckled, because we're off to a fast start with earnings for the quarter that ended September 30. Today we heard from Mensch und Maschine; later in the week SAP, Dassault Systemes, 3D Systems, Cybernet Systems and Hexagon tell us what they've...
AVEVA unveils E3D to intrigued customers
For months, AVEVA has been blanketing the virtual airwaves with messaging around its new plant design product, dubbed "the future of plant design" or FoPD for short. Many users were at AVEVA World Summit last week in Paris to take back answers to: Would FoPD replace...
AVEVA’s H1 showed “good progress”
AVEVA today gave a quick update on results for its most recent six-month period: the company made "good progress" in the period ended September 30, 2012. As has been the case recently, the oil and gas vertical drove sales in the company's Engineering & Design...
Rand: new business area “exhilarating”
A couple of weeks ago, Rand Worldwide reported results for its fiscal fourth quarter and for the year ended June 30, 2012. FQ4 revenue was $22.6 million, down 3% from last year, with net income of $5.3 million. For the year, revenue was $89.4 million, essentially flat...
And buy more: 3D Systems buys Rapidform, Siemens buys Kineo,
Last week, I mused that acquisitions in the engineering software world are coming fast and furious -- and, today, we need to add at least two more to the list. On Monday, Siemens PLM announced that it has acquired the French company Kineo CAM, whose offerings are used...
MSC’s Digimat opens up use of advanced materials
MSC Software last month announced that it had acquired e-Xstream engineering, most known for its Digimat products for advanced materials simulation. This acquisition follows on the heels of a partnerships between MSC and HBM-nCode for fatigue testing, giving MSC what...
Buy some more: AspenTech and Siemens announce acquisitions
Yesterday, I marveled at how many acquisitions have gone down in the engineering software world in the last 10 days or so -- and today, we add two more to that list. The Siemens Industry Automation Division announced that it has acquired VRcontext, whose Walkinside...
Buy, buy, buy: DDD, Autodesk, Bentley, MSC, The Foundry
I go away for a couple of days, and what happens: merger mania. We'll dive into a one or two of these in more detail as the week goes on, but here are the high points: 3D Systems acquires a company with the coolest name ever: TIM, The Innovative Modelmakers B.V., a...
Siemens on PLM, Mars, shipbuilding and so much more
Get this: we're using Teamcenter to visualize a car, trying to assess the impact of a design change. First, we zoom in on the components that are in a specific area a foot forward of the steering wheel. Then we shift from a location-based view to a system view, as we...
Autodesk unveils cloud-y simulation
Autodesk recently announced the availability of Simulation 360, its cloud-based CAE solution for designers, engineers and architects. This is the latest offering to take advantage of what CEO Carl Bass has called infinite computing, where unlimited CPU capacity is out...
Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE
CFD has been hopping lately, with Exa announcing results from its first quarter as a public company, while ESI acquired OpenCFD from SGI and announced its own results for the most recent quarter. Here's a quick overview of the recent activity: Exa's July quarter was...
Quickies: Autodesk Sim, MSC, Siemens
Once again, news is flowing faster than normal human beings can keep up. More on each of these as time permits, but for now: Autodesk finally took the wraps off its Simulation 360 offering, which lets customers run flow, thermal, and stress analysis in the cloud with...
Quickies: AVEVA and Hexagon
It's not even 8AM here on the East Coast of the US, and we've already had a boatload of news to get the week off to a running start. First up, AVEVA announced that it is partnering with Infosys to speed delivery of its AVEVA NET engineering information management...
Quickies: Siemens, Autodesk, SolidWorks & Exa
I spent much of this week with Siemens PLM at their annual analyst meeting. My head is reeling from talk of ships, Mars laboratories, cars, furniture, NX, Teamcenter, Solid Edge, Synchronous Technology and much more. While I figure out how to explain it all to you,...
Trimble keeps moving with partnerships, acquisitions
Last Friday, Trimble Navigation and FARO announced that they signed an OEM and distribution agreement for FARO's 3D laser scanners. Under the agreement, FARO will provide Trimble with a differentiated product based upon the FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D. Trimble will...
Delcam hits a record — again
Delcam last week reported its fifth consecutive half-year of record revenue. For the first half of 2012, revenue was up 15% to £23 millon. If the second half continues the pattern, Delcam should see revenue up 14% to 15% for the year. The details:...
Autodesk grew 4% in FQ2, accelerating to the cloud
First things first, everybody: Breathe. Now do it again. Yes, Autodesk's FQ2 results weren't full of awesome goodness, but they weren't horrible. Like PTC's "pothole" earlier this year, yesterday's announcement serves as a wakeup call. In Autodesk's case, we learned...
AspenTech revenue up 23% in F12
AspenTech, maker of aspenONE for chemical process and plant optimization, yesterday announced that fourth quarter revenue was $64 million, up 22% from a year ago, leading to total revenue for fiscal 2012 of $243 million, up 23% over last year. Mark Fusco, CEO, said...
