AVEVA says all OK
Plant and marine design software supplier AVEVA Group on Friday issued an Interim Trading update in which it said that business from November through January continues more or less to plan, leading the company’s board to “remains confident of a successful outturn for...
PTC reports an Optima Q1
(Sorry. The Optima is a model of Kia automobile. Bad pun, I know, but hard to resist.) PTC is usually the first PLM company to report results and is therefore seen as a bit of the canary in a coal mine (send in the canary; if it dies, there’s not enough oxygen for...
The perfect press release, 2011
We’re getting into earnings season and user group meetings are starting up again, which means it’s time for a press release bonanza. I last wrote about crafting the perfect press release in 2009, but the current crop show that the PLM world needs a refresher. Press...
Simplify, simplify
I’ve been talking with a lot of engineers and scientists outside the typical PLM realm about their work, the processes the use and the IT tools they rely on -- and the answers are forcing me to redefine how I see enabling tools.It’s all about perspective. I’m a naval...
Quick hits: Bentley, IBM
A few quick thoughts while I work through the pile in the inbox: Bentley to buy back Intergraph’s stake The Huntsville (AL) Times on Monday published a blog post about Bentley Systems buying back the shares that had been owned by Intergraph. In the dark ages,...
Altair expands into CFD
Altair Engineering yesterday announced the acquisition of ACUSIM Software, maker of the AcuSolve family of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) products. Altair develops and markets a broad set of CAE tools, including the RADIOSS solver and the HyperMesh suite of...
Shining the light on LIDAR
Laser scanning is hot. Process plant design software vendors such as AVEVA, Bentley Systems and Intergraph have long had partner programs to integrate LIDAR models into their design and operations workflows; Autodesk is now actively promoting it -- and last month...
Delcam says Q4 was “buoyant”
UK CAM software vendor Delcam issued a trading update today that characterized sales during the fourth quarter as “buoyant”. The December quarter is typically Delcam’s biggest revenue quarter, so this is very good news. The company reports that software license and...
Avatech officially becomes Rand
Avatech made it official: As of January 1, 2011 it will be known as Rand Worldwide, Inc. and change its ticker symbol to RWWI on the over the counter market in the US. This is the final step in the reverse merger closed last year and unifies two brands. As of 5PM on...
Notes from an MSC MD workshop
Happy New Year! 2011 is already shaping up to be an interesting year, so I hope you took a few days off to rest up ... Just before the holiday break, I attended an all-day MD Nastran workshop put on by MSC Software in suburban Boston. We began the day with a quick...