The perfect press release, 2011
We’re getting into earnings season and user group meetings are starting up again, which means it’s time for a press release bonanza. I last wrote about crafting the perfect press release in 2009, but the current crop show that the PLM world needs a refresher. Press...
Simplify, simplify
I’ve been talking with a lot of engineers and scientists outside the typical PLM realm about their work, the processes the use and the IT tools they rely on -- and the answers are forcing me to redefine how I see enabling tools.It’s all about perspective. I’m a naval...
Quick hits: Bentley, IBM
A few quick thoughts while I work through the pile in the inbox: Bentley to buy back Intergraph’s stake The Huntsville (AL) Times on Monday published a blog post about Bentley Systems buying back the shares that had been owned by Intergraph. In the dark ages,...
Altair expands into CFD
Altair Engineering yesterday announced the acquisition of ACUSIM Software, maker of the AcuSolve family of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) products. Altair develops and markets a broad set of CAE tools, including the RADIOSS solver and the HyperMesh suite of...
Shining the light on LIDAR
Laser scanning is hot. Process plant design software vendors such as AVEVA, Bentley Systems and Intergraph have long had partner programs to integrate LIDAR models into their design and operations workflows; Autodesk is now actively promoting it -- and last month...
Delcam says Q4 was “buoyant”
UK CAM software vendor Delcam issued a trading update today that characterized sales during the fourth quarter as “buoyant”. The December quarter is typically Delcam’s biggest revenue quarter, so this is very good news. The company reports that software license and...
Avatech officially becomes Rand
Avatech made it official: As of January 1, 2011 it will be known as Rand Worldwide, Inc. and change its ticker symbol to RWWI on the over the counter market in the US. This is the final step in the reverse merger closed last year and unifies two brands. As of 5PM on...
Notes from an MSC MD workshop
Happy New Year! 2011 is already shaping up to be an interesting year, so I hope you took a few days off to rest up ... Just before the holiday break, I attended an all-day MD Nastran workshop put on by MSC Software in suburban Boston. We began the day with a quick...
Season’s Greetings from Schnitger Corp.
Momentum continues in ESI’s Q3 results
ESI Group today released results for its fiscal third quarter, ended October 31, 2010 -- and they continue ESI’s upward trajectory. Total revenue for the third quarter of fiscal year was €16.0 million, up 16% from a year ago but down 6% sequentially, following the...
From the inbox
Today’s blog post is a mishmash -- none of it worthy of an entire post but all in answer to emails you’ve sent:Why doesn’t this blog allow comments?There is too much incivility on the web -- not that you, personally, would be rude or disruptive, but that guy over...
Update: Daimler chooses NX for Smaragd
Update: I’ve received a number of comments on this post, so am republishing with annotations. New material is in blue since italics seems to not work in some browsers/readers. Most significant are Daimler’s comments in the second paragraph.This week saw a rather...
Galileo describes infrastructure
I’ve been attending Autodesk University from the comfort of my little office, via the Autodesk Virtual conference at au.autodesk.com. While there are many, many things to blog about (such as: it’s super cool, but who really needs WiFi on the Pi bicycle shown during...
Daimler chooses NX for Smaragd
This week saw a rather strange battle of the press releases: Siemens PLM announced that Daimler AG will phase in NX as its standard for worldwide vehicle development starting in 2012. Dassault Systèmes followed a short while later with a press release that said this...
Strong license growth lifts Tekla
Tekla Group has announced that license growth of about 30% contributed to overall revenue growth of 14% for the year through September 2010, with total revenue of €41 million. Third quarter revenue was €13.62 million, an increase of 16% over a relatively weak Q3 2009....
GIS in a 3D explosion
There’s a lot going on in the GIS space but for those of you who don’t follow it, here’s a quick refresher. GIS stands for Geographic Information Systems; this technology is also often known as “geospatial”. GIS’ analytical tools enable uses to associate data and...
Avatech + Rand off to a solid start
Avatech Solutions reported results yesterday, the first time for the merged companies since Rand Worldwide acquired Avatech in a reverse merger back in August. Since the combined company files with the US GAAP rules, these results represent a full quarter for Rand and...
AVEVA details half-year, changes CFO
AVEVA Group last week gave more details on its performance for the six months ended September 30 2010. The company last month hinted that its end-markets are still recovering from the global economic meltdown, and that progress to a more normal economic state is...
Cimatron optimistic about recovery
Cimatron, the Israeli-American CAD/CAM supplier of solutions for mold design, die design, milling and tombstone machining, reported results for the September quarter that show that it, too, is seeing an uptick in demand: •Total revenue for the third quarter of 2010...
FloTHERM: Cool debottlenecking
I get to see a lot of interesting technology — some mega-packages, some more modest and some that just make me go “what a good idea!”. Today Dr. Erich Buergel, General Manager of Mentor Graphics Mechanical Analysis Division (formerly Flomerics), told me about the...
