Rounding out earnings: Delcam and MuM set records
We're just about done with companies reporting earnings for the year ended December 31, 2012, and it was, by all appearances, a solid year. Lots of uncertainty about what lies ahead but, in general, most companies saw an increase in the numbers and types of customers...
CD-adapco’s STAR conference: space, smoke & more space
As is usually the case, CD-adapco's annual STAR Global Conference aims to teach much more than one human can absorb in a few days. I usually walk away with my brain spinning, but energized and excited by the potential of CD-adapco's solutions to help explain the world...
Quickie: Autodesk acquires Firehole Composites
We interrupt our stream of tweets for a news bulletin .... I'm at the CD-adapco user conference so this has to be quick (so far, we've had great company and user presentations, been challenged to be better leaders by Mr. Gene Kranz himself and seen, from afar, a...
ESI’s FY13 revenue up 16%, minor contribution from OpenCFD
ESI Group reported yesterday that revenue for the 2013 fiscal year (ended January 31) was €109 million, up 16% from last year. This includes a contribution of €343,000 from OpenCFD, acquired in September. Excluding acquisitions, organic revenue growth for the year was...
A bit of business: Google to kill its Reader app
Quite a few of you read this blog via Google Reader and, since I'm beyond grateful that we talk every couple of days, you need to know that Google will be dropping support for Reader this summer. That means that if you do nothing, we'll stop talking and neither one of...
P3: Infrastructure wave of the future?
Imagine you're a town manager with aging infrastructure and a growing population: How do you build enough schools to meet projected demand? Boost the capacity of your water and wastewater treatment facilities? Revamp bridges that now carry twice as much traffic as...
Additive manufacturing roars into 2013
Additive manufacturing (aka 3D printing) is hot right now, making appearances in the US President's State of the Union speech, popular crime-fighting TV shows and all over social media. But is it just hype over something about-to-happen, or are companies actually...
Box.com tries cloud end-run for the AEC market
I use cloud storage for all of the usual reasons: always-on access makes it easy for me to work wherever I am. I can collect the files relevant to a project in one place, create a backup of important works-in-progress and collaborate with others without emailing large...
ANSYS revenue up 11% in Q4, looks at 10%-13% in 2013
ANSYS today reported results for Q4 and full-year 2012 that, while good, highlight the slow growth in Q4 of the company's non-Apache products. Since ANSYS has been such an aggressive aggregator of simulation technologies, it wouldn't surprise me to see more deals as...
Quickie: 3D Systems closes Geomagic acquisition
As expected, 3D Systems today announced that the Geomagic deal has closed. To recap, 3D Systems paid $55 million in cash to add Geomagic's 3D design, sculpting and inspection scan processing solutions to its portfolio. Geomagic is expected to be accretive to earnings...