AspenTech feels the pain of license transition
Aspen Technology, a company you don’t usually see me writing about, today announced results for its first quarter of fiscal 2010. AspenTech creates chemistry, process management and supply chain solutions for the oil and gas, chemical and other industries and is...
Season’s greetings from Schnitger Corporation
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Boston Scientific gets innovative
A couple of weeks ago, I was fortunate to hear Boston Scientific speak about how it sought to build a culture of invention and discovery that leads its various businesses to successful new products. Randy Schiestl, VP R&D, and Jude Currier, cardiovascular...
ESI reports Q3 sales up 3% on strong growth in services
ESI Group reported reasonably good results for the third quarter today, as total revenue grew 3.2% to €13.8 million in what is typically the company’s weakest quarter. License revenue declined almost 6% to €8.5 million when compared to a year ago, slowing the steep...
Holiday Greetings: Efficiency, personalization, environment
This blog post on the Harvard Business Review site got me thinking. They point out that this time of year is hectic, and that holiday cards have a way of getting lost in the shuffle. Either we spend too many hours personalizing greetings, leading clients to wonder...
The SEC, ANSYS and deal ethics 101
My browse of the morning news turned up a Wall St. Journal story that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking at how brokers, hedge funds and others dealt with information about, among a dozen other deals, ANSYS’ acquisition of Ansoft.Before we all...
Hmm … CFD results via Twitter
Every so often, someone comes along and does something I honestly would not have thought of: Symscape, a UK CAE vendor, announced recently that release 2.0.1 of its Caedium product includes “the world's first automated simulation telemetry system for posting images to...
2102: Reliable Plant says manufacturing returns to the US
Reliable Plant, an industry magazine for the manufacturing community, just came out with predictions for 2010. It’s a provocative piece and the predictions have interesting implications for the PLM community: 1) Production will return to the United States. The author...
Siemens AG has a tough quarter; what about PLM?
Siemens AG on December 3 announced dismal results for its fiscal fourth quarter, ended September 30, with total revenue down 9% to €19.714 billion. According to the company, “While the global economy showed increasing signs of stabilizing, capital investment was still...
AU Virtual: just like being there?
I’ve been to a number of Autodesk University events in Las Vegas, and can tell you that they are HUGE. Last year, around 10,000 people crammed into the convention center attached to the Palazzo and Venetian Hotels, attending the handful of keynotes, dozens of...