How you can help: lend your compute power to Folding@Home
Here's one that requires literally no effort on your part, after you download the app to your PC tower: Lend your CPU and GPU to scientists who are trying to discover how to block the Coronavirus from infecting human cells. Folding@Home (F@H for the cool kids) is a...
Autodesk takes minority stake in Aurigo, for infrastructure project delivery
Here's an interesting one that I didn't see coming: rather than acquiring, Autodesk is taking a minority stake in the privately-held AEC-focused firm, Aurigo Software. Aurigo's cloud-first software is used to plan, build, maintain and operate AEC projects, much as...
SAP pre-announces, still sees growth for 2020
SAP became the latest company in our PLMish universe to pre-announce results for the quarter ended March 31, and offer some glimpses into how other companies may have fared -- and to what the rest of 2020 may hold. You can read the full announcement here; these are...
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...