Nemetschek Q4 up 26%, F14 up 18%, ahead of forecasts
Nemetschek Group, parent company of Nemetschek, Graphisoft, VectorWworks and other brands, just announced that it blew past forecasts to close out 2014 on a very high note. Q4 revenue was up 25.7% to €65.0 million on organic growth of 12.6%. Total revenue for the year...
PTC’s FQ1 conference call was a masterpiece
PTC’s fiscal first quarter wasn’t perfect and it wasn’t a disaster — but the company’s handling of its conference call with analysts was truly masterful. As teenagers, we all learned that if we didn’t want to tell our parents something, we needed to direct the...
PTC paints a mixed picture for FQ1
It wasn't the best possible Q1 but it could have been a lot worse. PTC reported that total revenue was basically flat with last year at $325 million, as it encourages customers to switch to subscriptions and copes with a discouraging manufacturing economy. On a...
AVEVA sees challenges in oil & gas, growth in power vertical
Surprising, well, no one, AVEVA Group today said that parts of its business are "significantly more challenging due to the well-documented budget constraints among Owner Operator customers in the Oil & Gas industry". On the plus side, its Engineering & Design...
Graphisoft consolidates its hold on Italy
Graphisoft just announced that it has acquired the ArchiCAD distribution unit of Italy's Cigraph, a long-time in-country reseller. The deals led to the opening of the Graphisoft's first Italian office, made up of Cigraph people who will work with the Italian ArchiCAD...
ANSYS tunes its channel
(I know. Terrible pun. But it's a holiday!) ANSYS announced today that it's launching the ANSYS Elite channel partner program -- in essence, ramping up the certification program for partners who want to move beyond "Standard" and into "Elite". ANSYS says "Elite...
Shakeup at SolidWorks: Sicot out, Bassi in
Well, this is big (and surprising): Dassault Systèmes just announced that Gian Paolo Bassi has been appointed CEO of SOLIDWORKS, replacing Bertrand Sicot. M. Sicot moves on to become DS' VP Sales of the Value Solutions sales channel, the indirect sales...
Bentley adds C3global’s Amulet for IoT asset management
Bentley Systems just announced that it has acquired C3global, maker of the web-based Amulet suite software for operational analytics. Amulet will be added to Bentley's AssetWise offering, expanding on the Ivara acquisition by adding configurable predictive and...
PLM, the Resource Revolution and you (yes, you)
I gave a talk last week over at PI Live, Market Key's online platform for all things PLM. When the Market Key team and I were brainstorming the topic for that session, they asked me to focus on something a bit “bigger picture” than implementation stories or best...
AVEVA snaps up 8over8 for contract execution management
Happy new year! It's always exciting to start afresh and AVEVA gets 2015 off to a roaring start with the first PLMish acquisition of the year: it snapped up 8over8 Limited for its ProCon capital project risk management software platform. 8over8 says it's helped...