Autodesk’s Q2 highlights that change is hard
Autodesk reported results on Thursday that highlight exactly how hard it is to predict the transition from boxes/perpetual to subscriptions/ratable. Given all the moving pieces, the Q2 results weren't awful but the share was still down...
PTC invests in ServiceMax to expand ops, R&D
PTC is putting more of its money into building a thriving Service Lifecycle Management business, taking part in an $82 million Series-F round of funding for ServiceMax. ServiceMax, which makes cloud-based field service management apps, has...
Pardon our appearance …
You may have noticed that the Schnitger Corp. website looks a little …. different …. today. We’re redesigning it to make it cleaner and neater, and easier to use as a reference. Please bear with us during these changes, and let us know if you can’t find...
Hexagon rides diversification wave, Q2 up 5%cc
Hexagon, the parent company of Intergraph, Leica, Vero and other brands you know, reported Q2 revenue of €781 million, up 23% as reported (hold on -- the devil is in the details) and a tad ahead of expectations. On an organic, constant currency basis (cc),...
ANSYS’ Q2 shows steady pace
ANSYS today reported Q2 revenue of $235.5 million, smack in the middle of its prior forecast of $230 million to $238 million and about $1 million ahead of Wall Street consensus. That's good, and the news sent the share price up about 2%; after the earnings call, it...
Nemetschek’s Q2 up 34%, boosted by Bluebeam
Earnings season continues to roll, with many IT and industrial companies reporting this week. So far, foreign exchange seems the dominant factor for many: fluctuations can cause companies to miss their targets purely because of the math and it can make goods and...
PTC’s FQ3 a story of big deal misses and IoT growth
As PTC announced a few weeks ago, fiscal third quarter (FQ3) revenue was $304 million, below the company forecast of $306 million to $311 million. What happened in the quarter to cause revenue to be below expectations? It comes down to two things: PTC’s reliance on...
Quickie: DS blows by Q2 forecast
Dassault Systèmes reported today that Q2 revenue was €716 million, up 29% as reported (and up 16% in constant currency) year/year. The company had forecast non-IFRS total revenue of around €675 million and just reported non-IFRS Q2 revenue of €723 million. Some of...
MuM reports H1 up 15%, VAR up 10% or so ex-fx
German reseller and software developer Mensch und Maschine (MuM) releases its earnings shortly before other PLM companies and often signals whether the market is doing well -- if the company's Q2 report is anything to go by, it should be a decent earnings season. MuM...
DEAL! AVEVA+Schneider, sorta
While you and I were at the beach or in the mountains, the lads and lasses at AVEVA have been busily negotiating a merger with Schneider Electric, one of the suitors that kept cropping up over the last couple of years. It's a very complicated deal --and it make sense...