Nemetschek adds Solibri to its BIM offering
Do you BIM? If so, you've probably heard of Solibri, soon to be a Nemetschek company. Solibri makes what could be called quality assurance solutions for BIM, validating that models meet specific country/region and project standards and performing various...
AVEVA and Schneider break up
Word just came that AVEVA and Schneider Electric have decided to break off talks to merge/acquire one another's software businesses. No real reason was given, just "unable to reach agreement and discussions have been terminated by mutual consent". Since the deal...
AU 2015 – something for everyone, even Star Wars fans
By any measure, Autodesk University is big. 800+ sessions. 10,000 attendees in Las Vegas and a lot more watching the web-streamed sessions from home, during and after the event. The Venetian and Palazzo complex filled to overflowing with design techies of all sorts,...
ESI Q3 revenue up 10%, secures new credit line for acquisitions
ESI Group announced a couple of significant things over the last few weeks. First, the company announced that it has restructured debt and signed new lines of credit to bring the total available borrowing to €49 million. CEO Alain de Rouvray said this would create...
Exa’s Q3 up 6% as reported on strong US performance
CFD company Exa reported results today that show how well recent investments in R&D are paying off: The company had solid, 16% constant currency (cc) growth in license revenue that lead to overall 14% cc revenue growth. The details: Total revenue for Q3 was $17...
AU 2015 pregame: what I want to know
It's the week after Thanksgiving so it must be time for Autodesk University, the almost-week-long festival of all things Autodesk with a lot of maker thrown in. This year is special, in that a lot of things are changing for Autodesk's business and for the business of...
Siemens acquires Polarion, gets further into ALM
Siemens just announced that its PLM unit is acquiring Polarion, makers of the eponymous Polarion ALM, Polarion QA and other solutions in a browser-based platform used by at makers of the myriad products that include software. Syncing software versions with...
Happy Thanksgiving!
It's a crazy time here in the US. Tomorrow, we celebrate the fact that immigrants came to North America and survived, yet our politicians are talking about not admitting new immigrants (and never mind all of the fallacies in the original Thanksgiving story)....
Autodesk and ZWSoft settle IP suit
Autodesk and ZWSoft, maker of ZWCAD, just announced that they have settled their dispute over who improperly used what intellectual property (IP). According to Autodesk, ZWSoft "discovered that an employee had ... improperly used AutoCAD intellectual property...
AVEVA H1 results show possible bounceback
AVEVA announced results for the first half of its fiscal 2015/2016 fiscal year that aren't nearly as bad as some had suggested, given the company's weighting towards upstream oil and gas. Lots more after I have a chance to listen to the earnings call replay, but:...