Trimble keeps moving with partnerships, acquisitions
Last Friday, Trimble Navigation and FARO announced that they signed an OEM and distribution agreement for FARO's 3D laser scanners. Under the agreement, FARO will provide Trimble with a differentiated product based upon the FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D. Trimble will...
Delcam hits a record — again
Delcam last week reported its fifth consecutive half-year of record revenue. For the first half of 2012, revenue was up 15% to £23 millon. If the second half continues the pattern, Delcam should see revenue up 14% to 15% for the year. The details:...
Autodesk grew 4% in FQ2, accelerating to the cloud
First things first, everybody: Breathe. Now do it again. Yes, Autodesk's FQ2 results weren't full of awesome goodness, but they weren't horrible. Like PTC's "pothole" earlier this year, yesterday's announcement serves as a wakeup call. In Autodesk's case, we learned...
AspenTech revenue up 23% in F12
AspenTech, maker of aspenONE for chemical process and plant optimization, yesterday announced that fourth quarter revenue was $64 million, up 22% from a year ago, leading to total revenue for fiscal 2012 of $243 million, up 23% over last year. Mark Fusco, CEO, said...
Hexagon on track to hit €3.5B by 2015
For a company that very few people have heard of, Hexagon is doing quite well. Its engineering-related brands include Leica Geosystems, Intergraph, CADWorx and its customers include process plants operators, EPCs, surveyors, NASA, auto makers and aircraft...
What is an industry analyst, anyway?
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Quickies: Cimatron and SGI earnings
Last week had a slew of earnings news, some of which was good and some, not so great. We learned a bit more about how Cimatron's revenue stacks up, and heard about SGI's plans for reinvention (again). Read on ... Cimatron's growth driven by GibbsCAM Cimatron announced...
PTC bolsters SLM offering with Servigistics
PTC today announced that it will acquire Servigistics for $220 million in cash to further fill out its offering for the very long services tail of a product's life -- an area where manufacturers are increasingly looking for revenue opportunities. Servigistics was...
Gemcom and GEOVIA, a tale of two brands
During its earnings call last week, Dassault Systèmes (DS) continued to explain its vision of moving beyond “product experience" (engineering and design), to the larger concept of 3DEXPERIENCE, which adds business intelligence and other apps to its offering in order...
ANSYS customers “receptive to LT vision”, boost Q2
ANSYS reported results today that were at worst in line with and often ahead of expectations, causing shareholders to drive the stock price up 12% in early trading. CEO Jim Cashman summed it up this way: "All key metrics of our business were strong, including our...