Siemens to acquire FORAN marine design solutions
Siemens just announced that it is acquiring the FORAN software business from SENER, a Spanish engineering, procurement, and construction firm. FORAN's solutions are used in the design and construction of ships of all sorts, and marine structures like offshore oil...
3 on a Tuesday: Autodesk walks away from Altium deal; MarkForged is a public company; DS 3DX moves beyond CAD in AEC
I know - it's not Friday, no matter how much we might wish it to be. But there's a lot to catch up on, so let's get right to it: Remember last month, when news broke that Autodesk was interested in acquiring Altium, the maker of EDA solutions? Seems like a long time...
Hexagon adds location to AR, snaps up Immersal
What’s new: Hexagon acquires Immersal, which makes an SDK that adds spatial location to AR solutions. Why it matters: Sometimes, the location of an AR experience is irrelevant (doing maintenance on a unique item, for example), but in other cases, knowing that this...
Quickie: Bentley expands underground modeling with acquisition of Aarhus
I'm watching the UEFA Cup, so this will be brief: Bentley just announced that the Seequent business unit Bentley just acquired is, in turn, acquiring the Danish company, Aarhus GeoSoftware. Aarhus GeoSoftware makes AGS Workbench, SPIA, Res2DInv, and Res3DInv for the...
Hexagon to acquire Infor’s EAM business for $2.75 billion
Much more to come on this, but news broke earlier today that, pending regulatory approvals, Hexagon will acquire Infor’s EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) business, for approximately $2.75 billion in cash and newly issued securities. That's not this year's largest...
Gamma Technologies acquires to add power converter tech to GT-SUITE
CAE consolidation continues -- and it isn't just at the big-company level. Gamma Technologies (GT) just announced that it has acquired Power Design Technologies SAS (PDT), maker of the PowerForge SaaS solution for power converter design. You might not recognize the GT...
3 on a Friday: Bentley goes for more debt, Rockwell acquires Plex, FARO grabs HoloBuilder
A quick recap of a few things I didn't have time to write about this week: Bentley Systems announced this week that it was launching a second private convertible debt offering of $500 million, after doing the first in January 2021. The first $500 million was used to...
Cadence on CAE: delight and opportunity
Over the last few months, Cadence acquired NUMECA for its CFD and Omnis offerings, and Pointwise for its meshing capabilities. These took me by surprise since both are great CAE assets that I had no idea a Cadence would be interested in. So I've been digging into it...
Quickie: FeedBurner’s going away – maybe – so Schnitger Corp email subscriptions are changing
A while ago, I wrote about the fact that Google put its FeedBurner service into maintenance mode. When we started the site, we used FeedBurner to get Hot Topics blog posts into people's inboxes and blog rolls and it worked great. A couple of years ago we added the...
Bentley ramps up utility pole management offering with SPIDA acquisition
You may know that, over the years, I've judged various categories for Bentley's Year in Infrastructure Awards and learned so much in the process. One year, an entry was all about utility poles -- we drive by them, rely on them without thinking about them unless...