Quickie: PTC’s Q4 revenue up 7%
This is going to be very quick, because I haven't had time to listen to the earnings call replay -- but I can report that PTC saw total revenue up 7% (up 9% in constant currencies) in its fiscal Q4 to $335 million, beating Wall Street's expectations. That, plus the...
Quickie: PTC acquires Onshape
PTC and Onshape just announced that they're teaming up to, as Onshape founder Jon Hirschtick puts it "broaden the scope of what we deliver to [customers[, and broaden our reach in the market to bring Onshape to more users even faster." In a letter to customers, Mr....
Quickie: MuM says Q3 revenue up 38%
Mensch and Machine Software just announced Q3 results that show revenue was up 38% on a combination of high organic growth boosted by "strong figures" from SOFiSTiK, in which MuM recently increased its stake. Why does this matter? MuM is probably Autodesk's largest...
Bentley adds traffic modeling to Digital Cities offering
Bentley Systems today announced two acquisitions that will extend its Digital Cities offering to traffic modeling, analytics and planning -- what digital cities types call mobility. By adding Citilabs and Geospatial Technologies to the company's current offerings, CEO...
Altair, more than the sum of its parts
Quick: What do you think of when I say Altair? HyperMesh? OptiStruct? SolidThinking? Datawatch? Tokens/subscriptions/Units? Yeah - me, too. But I learned at Altair’s global Technology Conference last week that it’s much, much more than that. Yes, the company buys a...
Altair says PollEx bridges the gap between mechanical and electrical
As I noted earlier today, Altair will be acquiring Polliwog to expand its EDA portfolio to printed circuit board (PCB) design and analysis. We learned a bit more about Polliwog (though not why the whimsical name, which is of course the most important part of this...
Altair gets further into EDA, acquiring Polliwog
It's early early in Detroit (the sun's not even glimmer on the horizon) and we're already seeing news come out of Altair's Technology Conference --its annual user event-- that, I'm sure we'll learn a lot more about as the day goes on. Anyway, Altair announced that it...
Trimble snaps up Cityworks for asset management
I am often asked what municipalities and other owners of bigger/older/not-all-digital assets can do to get in on the whole digital twin thing that the media (and I, to be fair) keep going on about. My usual message: start somewhere, with what you have. Figure out what...
AVEVA is all in on digital transformation
If we believe Harvard Business Review (and they usually know what they're talking about), "the failure rate for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sits between 70 percent and 90 percent." [The original article is behind a paywall; go here for a synopsis.] Lots of...
ESI’s first half shows progress
ESI Group, the French CAE company, last week reported results for the quarter and half-year ended 31 July. For the half, revenue was up 3% as reported and up 0.4% in constant currencies (cc) to €55 million; for the quarter, total revenue was €28 million, up 5% (up 2%...