MuM’s prelim results for 2019 show organic revenue up 25%
Mensch und Maschine, Autodesk's largest European reseller and a software company in its own right, announced preliminary results for 2019 today. MuM said that it saw 25% organic revenue growth; add that to the revenue it recognized from SOFiSTiK, and we get to total...
Dassault Systèmes pivots further to life sciences but industrial still dominates revenue
Dassault Systèmes announced results this morning that are generally seen as a bit "light", meaning below analyst consensus even though they were at the top end of the company's own guidance. No acquisitions were announced, but there is a pretty major move on the...
Koch Equity buys rest of Infor
It's not as though this is a slow news week ... here's one more, super quick: Infor, the ERP vendor, is being acquired by Koch Equity Development LLC, the investment subsidiary of Koch Industries, the huge conglomerate founded by Charles and David Koch. Koch...
Hexagon puts 2019 in the rearview, cautiously optimistic about 2020
Hexagon is such a diverse company these days that it's hard to draw a simple set of conclusions from its earnings reports. After all, it operates in the process industries with the former Intergraph PPM, in a fledgling BIM way with Bricscad -- but also in mechanical...
Nemetschek reports revenue up 21% in 2019
It's a big day for PLMish earnings, with Siemens, Hexagon and Nemetschek all announcing results for the year ending quarter, so let's get right to it. Nemetschek issued preliminary results which include only big-picture numbers -- and they're pretty amazing: Total...
Hexagon adds to its GIS CaaS offering
You could be forgiven for not realizing that Hexagon, besides offering lots of design, engineering and manufacturing technology, also sells data. In fact, that was a major feature of Hexagon's Capital Markets Day back in 2014 or 2015, right after it acquired North...
A bit more on the ANSYS / Aras OEM deal
I had a number of questions about the new / upgraded relationship between ANSYS and Aras that was announced last week and reached out to both companies for more details. ANSYS VP Strategy and Partnerships Sin Min Yap told me the following; his comments are preceded by...
PLM goes green?
I believe in science. In the null hypothesis. In finding the root cause. And science says we are not doing nearly enough to reverse the damage already done to our planet by our homes, factories, cars, ships and planes, and to prevent further climate change. So when I...
Simcenter Amsterdam: making simulation a routine part of design
Last December I went to Amsterdam to attend Siemens' Simcenter Symposium. It's one of my favorite events because it brings together so many different … everythings: auto talks to aero, who talk to marine; STAR-CCM+ people learn about Amesim; and we all learned that...
Aras & ANSYS team up but no acquisition
This just came into the inbox: Aras Licenses Platform to ANSYS in Strategic OEM Deal Partnership will enable better processes and data management of simulations for digital thread traceability across the lifecycle You know Aras, the open source PLM platform, and you...