Solid Edge online store goes LIVE
A quick update on a story that started at Solid Edge U earlier this summer: In order offer customers more choice in the way they buy their CAD software, Solid Edge today opened its online store. There, you can buy monthly subscriptions to several flavors of Solid...
3D Printing Earnings: up Up UP
Things are jumping in the world of 3D printing. We've got earnings, partnerships, acquisitions and boosters so let's get right to it. If you're a veteran, be sure to read the last paragraph. Some are predicting that the market for 3D printing is poised to explode when...
Autodesk Q2 revenue down, AEC investments pay off
So this is interesting: I'm watching Autodesk's share price the morning after the company announced relatively dismal results for its second quarter -- and the price is climbing. Last night, after the market closed and Autodesk released its earnings info, the price...
Quickie: CROSS makes offer for rest of TRIPLAN shares
TRIPLAN is one of many companies in our PLMish universe and it often gets lost in the deluge of news. Since there's interesting stuff happening, let's look a bit more closely, shall we? You may be more familiar with TRIPLAN's ITandFactory brand, the joint venture...
CAM Earnings: Manufacturing the future
While some of us are on a beach, sipping drinks with little umbrellas, others are busily telling Wall Street (or London City) what's going on in their businesses. Today, we'll take a quick look at recent earnings from CAM vendors Cimatron and Delcam. Cimatron earlier...
ANSYS Q2 revenue up 10%, sees some volatility
ANSYS struggled in Q1 and, apparently, at the start of Q2 but seems to have ended the quarter with a bang. CEO Jim Cashman told investors that Q2 saw strong contributions from all parts of the business, across all product areas and from software license, maintenance...
DS’ Q2 ahead on some metrics, not on others
Dassault Systèmes’ earnings announcements keep getting more complex, mixing lots of different revenue metrics, acquisitions, currency and abstruse international accounting. FQ2 2013 was no exception. Let's see what we can figure out. The most obvious point from the...
PTC: FQ3 challenging with pockets of strength
Earlier this evening, PTC reported fiscal third quarter (ended June 30) results that were at the bottom end of expectations -- but the headline is that the company sees a tough economic outlook and decided to lower its Q4 forecast. Again. CEO Jim Heppelmann said...
Quickies: PTC acquires, DS closes, Hexagon sells
There's a lot of acquisition news coming out of the PLMish universe, so let's catch up a bit while we wait for earnings to really heat up later this week. PTC last week announced that it acquired Enigma, a company whose products aggregate and deliver technical content...
MuM says slow Q2, but demand picking up
A few weeks ago, AVEVA teased that it had seen "good" conditions in the market for its engineering and enterprise solutions, but without giving any numbers. European company Mensch und Maschine (MuM) today painted a slightly different picture, reporting that it had...