Bentley’s been busy, creating the Acceleration Fund, building Virtuosity and buying a Maximo reseller
Did you know that Bentley has an Acceleration Fund? Me neither! But it, and the company, have been making newsworthy announcements over the last few days. Yesterday, Bentley announced that its Acceleration Fund has acquired Cohesive Solutions, the largest North...
More good-ish PLMish news, this time from Hexagon
Hexagon just announced that it will report BETTER results than the market expects for its June-ending quarter. Here's what they said: Due to higher earnings than market expectations for the second quarter of 2020, Hexagon is today publishing its preliminary results....
Super quick: no PLMish pre-announcements yet, and PTC says things are … good
You probably know that a lot of companies' financial quarters ended on June 30 and many of us have been waiting for announcements --good or bad-- to give a preview of what to expect when the financial news starts flying later this month. So far, the news isn't awful....
And it’s a wrap: Preventing virtual conference fatigue
At some point, I'll muster the energy to write about what I learned but right now I'd like to tell you about the experience of sitting through online user events from Altair, ANSYS, AVEVA, Bentley, Hexagon, PTC, SAP, SAS, Siemens, and Tech Soft 3D -- in addition to...
Quickie: Siemens adds UltraSoC to its semiconductor design offering
Siemens just announced that it will acquire UltraSoC Technologies Ltd., maker of instrumentation and analytics solutions that "put intelligent monitoring, cybersecurity, and functional safety capabilities into the core hardware of system-on-chip (SoC)". UltraSoC...
Respond. Reset. Reimagine.
I've been talking to a lot of people about how Covid-19 has affected their work lives--often inseparable from their home lives, given the sudden explosion of home offices and homeschooling--and it generally comes down to these three phases. First, we went a little...
AVEVA enters fiscal 2021 betting on digitalization
As foreshadowed back in April, AVEVA today reported revenue of £834 million up 9% (and up 7% on an organic, constant currency basis, cc). CEO Craig Hayman and Deputy CEO/CFO James Kidd gave a lot of great, additional information on how the world and their business...
Bentley buys voice-based construction app maker
Bentley Systems just announced that it has acquired NoteVault, which makes voice-based solutions for construction management. Start NoteVault on your mobile device, speak into it, and the app's construction-specific machine learning (backed by human transcription)...
Stratasys announces a 10% workforce reduction
I just put up the post about no PLMish layoffs -- and Stratasys puts out a press release that says that it will cut its global workforce by about 10%, mostly before the end of June and all by the end of the summer. CEO Yoav Zeif says, “This reduction in force is a...
Q1 2020 earnings are done –phew– what did we learn?
Well, that's a wrap. All PLMish companies have announced earnings, and it's time to look back, summarize and look ahead. Writers call that a through-line, finding the theme that unifies a narrative. And, for once, we have quite a few of through-lines in our PLMish...