PTC Live: CAD, PLM, Services, IoT – lots of IoT
PTC had a tough balancing act last week at its Live Global event: act like a CAD and PLM company for the majority of the attendees, help a smaller but vibrant community of manufacturers develop their services delivery capabilities while also pulling us towards the...
GrabCAD’s PDM Workbench: design collaboration in minutes
I know you're all looking for posts on this week's PTC Live Global and PTC Live Service Exchange, and I'll get to those, but I need to fill you in on a little shindig GrabCAD threw on Tuesday. You know about GrabCAD, right? It's a library of nearly 500,000 CAD parts,...
How do you know when it’s time to update?
I'm at PTC Live Global in Boston right now and we've had no lack of news: PTC announced an acquisition (Atego, more soon), Creo 3.0 and Creo Elements/Direct 19.0, agreements and collaborations galore. In today's post over at the PTC Creo blog, I pick my favorites from...
Morning coffee: patents, deals and Björk
Welcome to a shiny new week! I'll be at PTC Live Global, the first user conference that will feature PTC's combo of CAD + PLM + ALM + SLM+ IoT + well, whatever other initials come out of it. Last year, we all learned about "servitization", creating bundles that...
ESI’s Q1 down year/year, partly due to planned change in services
ESI Group reported today that fiscal Q1 2014/5 revenue was down 7% to €20.1 million, in part because of the company's intention focus on high value services engagements that are likely to lead to future license sales. Had services revenue held constant with last year,...
They did it again: HXGN acquires data & content database provider
Hexagon continues its acquisitive ways, adding North West Geomatics Ltd. (aka North West Group) to its quiver of geospatial data providers. North West also created Valtus, a database that enables the integration of content through a hosting service. Valtus appears to...
Quickie: Autodesk acquires Bitsquid, adds real-time 3D vis to design
What a day! Autodesk just announced that it has acquired Bitsquid, the Swedish creator of the Bitsquid game engine. Not surprising, this bolsters Autodesk's offering for the game development industry but it also has potential in other markets that can benefit from...
Quickie: Autodesk’s Derrek Cooper on NEi acquisition
If you recall, Autodesk didn't really say that it had acquired certain assets of NEi Software last month -- the news leaked out as customers found out from NEi partners and resellers. Last week, Autodesk's Derrek Cooper blogged about it and gave some hints about...
Mining heats up: Trimble acquires MIS
As you know, I was at Hexagon's user conference, HxGN LIVE, last week, where mining was featured as an emerging market for Hexagon's offerings. Hexagon's team told investors that mining is an underserved industry, technologically, and that even in times when new mines...
SIMULIA SCC highlights simulation in an enterprise context
It took an entire day, but Dassault Systèmes (DS) finally got its point across during the last session of day one at the SIMULIA Customer Conference 2014: the 3DExperience platform may be new, but is comprised of the same Abaqus CAE, iSIGHT, Tosca and other products...