How you can help: Join MIT’s Beat the Pandemic hackathons
Just over the transom: MIT is hosting two hackathons THIS WEEKEND to tackle specific problems related to the COVID-19 epidemic. They're calling this Beat the Pandemic, and say that The Challenge is a 48-hour sprint beginning on Friday afternoon (4/3) and ending on...
PTC and Ansys DON’T preannounce
What a strange time, when it's notable that companies just go ahead and schedule their earnings releases as per normal, like PTC did today (for April 29), or craft a special letter to investors that ends with the earnings date, as Ansys just did. PTC's news said...
How you can help: support businesses that make PPEs
You don't come here for politics, so we'll leave all that aside, and point out that many businesses that are working to make personal protective equipment (PPEs), often without knowing if or how they'll be paid. I found this article in the Boston Globe, which...
DS announced Q1 will be 2.5-5% below guidance
And so it starts (continues, depending on your perspective); After the stock market in Paris closed, Dassault Systèmes announced that it expects Q1 revenue to be 2.5% to 5% below the low end of its previous guidance, which was for 20% revenue growth. Not all of that...
How you can help: Join the GrabCAD ventilator challenge
This just came in from Stratasys -- can you help? A dozen Boston area anesthesiology residents have launched an eight-week hackathon hosted on GrabCAD.com to design a rapidly deployable, minimum viable mechanical ventilator for patients with COVID-19-related...
Hexagon’s take on 2020? Less confident than in February
Just yesterday I posted a quick note on Nemetshek's muted optimism for 2020 and RIB's lack thereof. Then, later in the day, Hexagon announced that it plans to delay a decision on paying a dividend, in an effort to keep cash on hand in case it's needed. What does THAT...
At least in AEC, 2020 looks … OK
European companies report preliminary results for a financial year in February and then follow up with a final report at the end of March. Nemetschek and RIB Software reported on schedule (see the reports here and here, respectively) --and 2019 was a very, very good...
How you can help: print PPEs with Carl Bass
I'll add this to the master list in a moment, but don't want this to get lost (and I haven't figured out how to make that post stay on top, and and and): Ray Kurland emailed me to say that Carl Bass (former CEO of Autodesk and maker extraordinaire) is printing...
How your tech skills can help in the pandemic
The world may be a sucky place right now, but people are (mostly) awesome. Protocol just published a list of projects that can use your/my/everyone's tech wizardry. That inspired me to go through my inbox and pick out all of the other ones I've been emailed about so...
AVEVA adds production accounting toolset
AVEVA just announced that it has acquired accounting software from MES Enter to, as the company puts it, "complete AVEVA’s value chain optimization solution". The new AVEVA Production Accounting (fka MES ENTER ErrorSolver) becomes part of AVEVA's Value Chain...