Quick news roundup: AVEVA has great H1, ESI buys VDOT
I'm off to Autodesk University shortly, so this will be brief; more coming after I'm back. AVEVA announced terrific results for their half-year ended September 30, 2008 -- and their shares fell like a stone. The results: revenue increased 32% to £74.8 million (up 31%...
Autodesk talks product portfolio changes, credit crunch
Two more interesting bits of information from the Autodesk’s third quarter 2009 earnings call:Carl Bass, CEO, said right up front that the economy is affecting Autodesk’s customers, buthas a plan to help at least North American customers in the short term. Said Bass,...
Italian supercomputer proves 1 billion cells can be solved
ANSYS announced last week that an Italian research team successfully conducted a1-billion cell simulation to investigate the aerodynamics of an America's Cup yacht, reachinga milestone in the simulation world. To give context, a typical ANSYS Multiphysicsbenchmark for...
Autodesk sees tough times ahead
Autodesk reported good results for the quarter ended October 31, 2008 but spoke ofuncertainty ahead. Since the earnings release happened at the same time as the AutodeskManufacturing group’s industry analyst event described below, I was unable to participate inthe...
Digital prototyping, Autodesk style
Autodesk’s Manufacturing group, headed by Buzz Kross, hosted an industry analyst day inLake Oswego, Oregon this week. Kross and his staff presented Autodesk’s “democratizing”vision for the manufacturing space, tying together industrial design, engineering,...
Webinars 101
I get to/choose to attend lots of webinars, seminars hosted on-line to demonstrate technology, inform participants of new releases or teach attendees about a particular subject. Webinars are invariably interesting, but some organizations are FAR better than others at...
The rest of the story: ANSYS post-conference call
ANSYS held an unusually-long Q3 conference call, as a lot of Wall Street types who wereunfamiliar with the company tuned in for the first time since ANSYS joined several newindices. The company took questions for close to an hour, following the typical presentationby...
What economy? ANSYS turns in another solid performance
ANSYS reported another strong quarter this morning, leading to the preliminary thought thatanalysis tools may not be as affected by the overall economic downturn as other technologyareas. ANSYS reported both GAAP and non-GAAP data, to reflect the affects of the...
MSC beats expectations
MSC Software posted good results today, with total revenue up 11% from last year to $63.7million. Revenue from large deals was up significantly, as both the size of the average largedeal and the number of large deals increased markedly. MSC reports that a year ago...
Uh-oh: Autodesk warns for Q3
Autodesk this morning issued a terse press release saying that preliminary results showthat revenue will be in the range of $604 million to $607 million -- far below the earlierforecast of $630 million.The press release contains the following from Carl Bass, CEO:...
PTC not for sale?
On today's earnings call, PTC CEO Dick Harrison was asked to comment on thewidely-circulated rumor that PTC was for sale. Replied Harrison, "We're not shopping thecompany." So there.
Earnings: so far, so good
Here we go! The PLM earnings season starts today: so far, 2 of 2 companies have reportedsolid calendar Q3 results but see rocky times ahead. Quick hits:- MSC did not announce earnings (that's next Tuesday) but did file a series of forms with theSEC about changes in...
PLM vs the unions — maybe
There is absolutely nothing I can add to the reams of information and speculation publishedabout the "demise" of the US automobile industry. But an excellent article in the Wall StreetJournal simply cries out for PLMish commentary. The piece, How Detroit...
Siemens Exiderdome meets Boston harbor — Brrr
I spent much of the last two days with Siemens Energy and Automation -- part of theSiemens division that now houses Siemens PLM. Siemens brought its exiderdome toBoston for the week, inviting customers, prospects and analysts to tour what is, in essence,a barge full...
Oracle acquires Primavera
On October 8, 2008, Oracle announced it was acquiring Primavera Software, the developer of the eponymous Primavera project management application as well as other solutions related to managing contracts and disputes, billing and sourcing. The deal is expected to close...
DASTY to DSY
Sorry about that. Yes, you still can follow Dassault Systèmes shares as they trade on theParis Euronext exchange. Each tracking system will have a slightly different syntax, but thesymbol will be some variant on Paris:DSY. For example, DS' symbol on Euronext inGoogle...
From the Nasdaq to Paris
If, like me, you have a little stock chart on your browser screen, you'll notice a lot of zeroesnext to the DASTY symbol. No reason to panic. Dassault Systèmes (DS) stopped trading onthe Nasdaq as of today, October 16, 2008. That's not a surprise: the company...
CAE bottlenecks are moving
I've recently been focusing on CAE: who is using cutting-edge tools, why, where they seeimprovements, where they still have issues. One theme that keeps coming up is that thebottlenecks are no longer where they used to be. As compute power increases to the pointwhere...
Solid shipbuilding
Say you want to build a yacht and, since you're a competitive person, you want to be able togloat at Larry Ellison the next time you run into him in Cannes. That means your yachtneeds to be bigger and better than his -- or, according to Wikipedia, have at least 82...
PLM stocks battered on Wall Street — why?
So everyone knows that the US Congress on Monday failed to vote to pass a $700 billion billto bail out the financial markets. Whether you're for or against the bill is irrelevant; its failureto pass cost investors $1.1 trillion. Almost twice what the bill would have...
