Makers, the new super geeks?
Autodesk’s acquisitive ways continue as the company today announced its purchase of Instructables, a website that lets people share their do-it-yourself ("DIY") project ideas. There are many interesting aspects to this acquisition - not the least of which is...
Nemetschek: Web, international key to growth
Not to be left out of the good news bubble in the engineering software world, Nemetschek today reports that revenue grew 11% in the first half of 2011, to €79 million on double-digit increases in license and maintenance revenues. Based on this performance, the company...
DS: balanced growth in Q2
The first thing to note about Dassault Systèmes’ earnings release is that it is a complicated, day-long affair that involves face-to-face meetings with analysts in Paris, interviews with Bloomberg news and other outlets and an analyst earnings telephone call -- all...
PTC Q2 beats – and it’s not due to MKS
Parametric Technology Corp. (PTC) reported fiscal third quarter revenue of $292 million, nicely ahead of earlier guidance of revenue between $275 million and $285 million and up 20% from a year ago. Some of the upside came from MKS, which contributed $6 million in the...
MuM all according to plan
The engineering software public reporting season starts in earnest this week, with Mensch und Maschine (MuM), PTC, Dassault Systemes and Nemetschek releasing information on their second quarter performance and their view of the year still to come.MuM kicked things off...
Acquisition happy!
I spent much of today trying to find a way to write about today's two pieces of news in a unifying, compare-and-contrast kind of way and I couldn't come up with anything. Nada. In both cases, these acquisitions fill technology gaps for their buyers, but that's the...
GPS + drills = Trimble’s vision
Back in May, Trimble Navigation announced that it wanted to acquire Tekla Corporation to build out its vision of a connected construction site. Yesterday the company said that its Finnish subsidiary had acquired over 99% of Tekla's outstanding shares, meaning that the...
FIRST builds the next generation
Friday’s launch of the last NASA space shuttle mission made me think of many things -- not the least of which is just how much people of my generation were motivated by the space program to become engineers, scientists and astronaut-wannabees. (C’mon - it’s OK to...
AVEVA making steady progress
AVEVA released an interim statement today, in which it briefly goes over business trends seen in the June quarter (AVEVA reports in more detail twice a year). The statement used words such as “further growth”, “strengthening” and “steady progress” -- so while no...
1 2 3 4 User conferences
If you've been following this blog over the last few months, you'll have noticed that I've been traveling. A LOT. In all, I attended 4 user conferences and 3 other meetings in 5 weeks. Aside from the surreality of bouncing between Orlando, Las Vegas and Orlando again...