ESI set for reinvention with 2021 up on all metrics
I've been telling you over the last few years that ESI is working on reinventing itself -- going from a services-oriented, our-people-will-find-us mentality to a company that's more outward-facing and market-responsive. That's embodied in ESI's OneESI 2024 strategy,...
Totally OT — but perhaps useful: World Central Kitchen
I've been horrified by the news coming out of Ukraine and truly hate the fact that news outlets never tell you what you can actually DO to help the people featured in the stories they publish. A little bit of internetting leads to all sorts of efforts to donate to...
Spectris in talks to acquire Oxford Instruments
Spectris said today that it is in discussion to acquire Oxford Instruments. Spectris, you may remember, is the parent company of HBM nCode, makers of durability and performance analysis software; ReliaSoft, makers of reliability engineering software and VI-grade, a...
Hexagon goes big, spends $1.2 billion on ETQ, maker of quality & compliance solutions
Hexagon just announced its intention to acquire ETQ, makers of SaaS-based quality (QMS), environment, health and safety (EHS), and compliance management software. I am most familiar with the ETQ solution, Reliance, which manufacturers use to automatically collect and...
5 on a Tuesday: Quick updates on Autodesk, Cadence, Dassault Systèmes, Lectra and Trimble
Autodesk sometimes makes small technology acquisitions known via its various blog platforms -- and did so again, saying that it has acquired Prodsmart, a "maker of software for optimizing manufacturing processes with automation and digitization from the shop floor...
AVEVA gives trading update: all to plan
AVEVA issued another one of its terse trading updates, saying that revenue declined "in the low single digits" from a year ago in the fiscal third quarter of 2022 (ended December 31, 2021), "given a very strong comparator in the prior year that included the benefit of...
Altair gets into PLM with Cassini acquisition
Altair just announced that it has acquired Cassini Systems, a cloud-native PLM platform. Cassini does many of the things you'd expect a PLM to do -- vault, manage collaboration, etc.-- but perhaps a deciding factor was its modern architecture and compliance with...
Siemens orders ahead of plan, SaaS booming
Ah, Siemens. If you thought Hexagon was complicated, buckle in. Siemens AG just reported fiscal Q1 2022 results, and we're going to roll that into a recap of fiscal 2021. There's a lot of ground to cover, so let's get going. Siemens AG reported fiscal 2021 results...
Hexagon’s solid Q4 sets up digital reality focus for 2022
Hexagon announced its fiscal 2021 results last week and some management changes this week. A quick recap of the news, then some thoughts: For Q4, Total revenue was €1,217 million, up 7% on an organic constant currency (occ) basis and up 17% as reportedBy business...
Nemetschek gets AEC earnings off to a strong start
Nemetschek reported last week that its Q4 and fiscal 2021 results exceeded the guidance it gave for 2021 -- which had already been raised in July after a boffo first half. Final results for 2021 will be announced on March 22, but here's what we know and can guess...