Hexagon to acquire Infor’s EAM business for $2.75 billion
Much more to come on this, but news broke earlier today that, pending regulatory approvals, Hexagon will acquire Infor’s EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) business, for approximately $2.75 billion in cash and newly issued securities. That's not this year's largest...
Gamma Technologies acquires to add power converter tech to GT-SUITE
CAE consolidation continues -- and it isn't just at the big-company level. Gamma Technologies (GT) just announced that it has acquired Power Design Technologies SAS (PDT), maker of the PowerForge SaaS solution for power converter design. You might not recognize the GT...
3 on a Friday: Bentley goes for more debt, Rockwell acquires Plex, FARO grabs HoloBuilder
A quick recap of a few things I didn't have time to write about this week: Bentley Systems announced this week that it was launching a second private convertible debt offering of $500 million, after doing the first in January 2021. The first $500 million was used to...
Cadence on CAE: delight and opportunity
Over the last few months, Cadence acquired NUMECA for its CFD and Omnis offerings, and Pointwise for its meshing capabilities. These took me by surprise since both are great CAE assets that I had no idea a Cadence would be interested in. So I've been digging into it...
Quickie: FeedBurner’s going away – maybe – so Schnitger Corp email subscriptions are changing
A while ago, I wrote about the fact that Google put its FeedBurner service into maintenance mode. When we started the site, we used FeedBurner to get Hot Topics blog posts into people's inboxes and blog rolls and it worked great. A couple of years ago we added the...
Bentley ramps up utility pole management offering with SPIDA acquisition
You may know that, over the years, I've judged various categories for Bentley's Year in Infrastructure Awards and learned so much in the process. One year, an entry was all about utility poles -- we drive by them, rely on them without thinking about them unless...
Quickie: Siemens adds proFPGA for hardware verification
Super quick, as I (virtually) run between events: Siemens Digital Industries Software just announced that it has signed an agreement with PRO DESIGN Electronic GmbH to acquire its proFPGA product family of Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) desktop prototyping...
Autodesk wants Altium’s PCB design but, so far, no deal
Last night in the US // early Monday in Australia, Altium and Autodesk announced that a deal may be in the offing. Autodesk has offered AUD38.50 (Australian dollars) per share for Altium, the maker of EDA solutions for printed circuit board designers, but Altium's...
Quickie: Siemens nabs Nextflow for meshless CFD
Siemens just announced that it has acquired Nextflow Software, maker of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers. Siemens says that Nextflow’s Smooth-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) solver doesn't require the analyst to create a mesh, making it suitable for non-experts...
4 on a Thursday: 3D Systems divests, Autodesk talks Upchain roadmap, Luxion gains investor & new CEO, Panasonic buys Blue Yonder
So much news, so little time! 3D Systems continues to reinvent itself, announcing this week that it sold off its on-demand manufacturing service to Trilantic North America, a private equity firm, for $82 million, subject to certain closing conditions and adjustments....