Quickie: Altair to acquire Datawatch for analytics
Dashing out the door to an all-day meeting and this pops into the inbox: Altair is merging with really, acquiring) Datawatch, a company that makes data prep, data prediction, and high-volume data visualization technologies that Altair...
Eek – schnitgercorp.com not secure???
You may have noticed that your browser throws up a little warning that Schnitger Corp's website is not secure. That's currently true because we've run into an IT-gremlin issue related to SSL certificates. We're working on a fix and hope to turn...
Nemetschek’s Build offerings contribute to strong Q3
Nemetschek Group, the holding company for brands like Allplan, Graphisoft, VectorWorks and Bluebeam, announced results this week that show continued progress in digitizing the AEC world. The details: Group revenue for Q3 was €115 million, up...
PTC’s F18 closed strong as reinvention continues
PTC's Q4 and fiscal 2018 results, released last week, were solid yet investors were displeased because the forecasts for F19 presupposed a faster transition to subscriptions than many expected. Remember: subs mean lower initial revenue but a...
Quickie: SigmaTEK acquired by Battery Ventures
Super quick because I'm knee-deep in earnings news: Battery Ventures announced yesterday that it has acquired SigmaTEK Systems, makers of the SigmaNEST nesting solution. Nesting is the process of taking the flattened versions of 3D parts like...
Bentley’s AEC digital twin combines BIM, CAD and more
The Year in Infrastructure (YII) is Bentley Systems’ annual media fest, where new product releases, customer successes and acquisitions vie for attention. We’ll cover more of those over the next several blog posts, but today we’ll focus on one...
Very sad news: Chuck Grindstaff has died
I'm sorry to tell you that Chuck Grindstaff, former CEO of Siemens PLM and long-time PLMer, has died. To the left is Siemens' stock photo of Chuck but it's so formal and posed -- and Chuck never was. He was usually pacing and gesturing, passionately...
Quickie: Arena acquires Onmify as PLM consolidates
Arena Solutions announced via Twitter that it has acquired Omnify Software. Arena's PLM and quality management solutions target high tech and medical device companies, offering everything from bill of material (BOM, where the company started)...
AVEVA says H1 went well
Oh so many earnings this week! So far, the news has been mostly positive as customers are buying to plan. PTC continues its march to subscriptions (and caused endless kerfuffles on the earnings call because it's adopting a new accounting...
MuM’s Q3 “happy” results look good for Autodesk
Germany's Mensch und Maschine (MuM) reported results earlier this week and, as usual, we look at them to see what they might mean for Autodesk and for its broader VAR network. In case you're unaware, MuM is probably Autodesk's largest European...