Mar 29, 2020 | Hot Topics
How your tech skills can help in the pandemic The world may be a sucky place right now, but people are (mostly) awesome. Protocol just published a list of projects that can use your/my/everyone’s tech wizardry. That inspired me to go through my inbox and pick...
Jul 20, 2021 | Hot Topics
Siemens just announced that it is acquiring the FORAN software business from SENER, a Spanish engineering, procurement, and construction firm. FORAN’s solutions are used in the design and construction of ships of all sorts, and marine structures like offshore...
Jul 20, 2021 | Hot Topics
I know – it’s not Friday, no matter how much we might wish it to be. But there’s a lot to catch up on, so let’s get right to it: Remember last month, when news broke that Autodesk was interested in acquiring Altium, the maker of EDA solutions?...
Jul 16, 2021 | Hot Topics
Hexagon adds location to AR, snaps up Immersal What’s new: Hexagon acquires Immersal, which makes an SDK that adds spatial location to AR solutions. Why it matters: Sometimes, the location of an AR experience is irrelevant (doing maintenance on a unique item, for...
Jun 25, 2021 | Hot Topics
3 on a Friday: Bentley goes for more debt, Rockwell acquires Plex, FARO grabs HoloBuilder A quick recap of a few things I didn’t have time to write about this week: Bentley Systems announced this week that it was launching a second private convertible debt...
Jun 24, 2021 | Hot Topics
Cadence on CAE: delight and opportunity Over the last few months, Cadence acquired NUMECA for its CFD and Omnis offerings, and Pointwise for its meshing capabilities. These took me by surprise since both are great CAE assets that I had no idea a Cadence would be...
Jun 18, 2021 | Hot Topics
Quickie: FeedBurner’s going away – maybe – so Schnitger Corp email subscriptions are changing A while ago, I wrote about the fact that Google put its FeedBurner service into maintenance mode. When we started the site, we used FeedBurner to get Hot...
Jun 14, 2021 | Hot Topics
Bentley ramps up utility pole management offering with SPIDA acquisition You may know that, over the years, I’ve judged various categories for Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure Awards and learned so much in the process. One year, an entry was all about...
May 25, 2021 | Hot Topics
AVEVA says demand improved in H2, leading to FY2021 pro forma revenue up 2% occ — it’s complicated There’s a lot going on at AVEVA, with the close of the OSIsoft acquisition, the end of a fiscal year, a new CEO, a global pandemic, and the recovery...
May 24, 2021 | Hot Topics
Bentley’s Q1 revenue up 14%, cites SMB progress Bentley reported results way back on May 11 but I haven’t had time to finish a deeper analysis — so here’s a quick piece on those results and a little bit on what it all means. Even more quickly:...
May 21, 2021 | Hot Topics
Procore finally IPOs; valued at $8.5 billion No doubt about it: the market for makers of IT solutions targeted at the construction industry is HOT. Procore finally completed its initial public offering yesterday, raising $635 million by selling 9.5 million shares at...
May 17, 2021 | Hot Topics
Siemens to acquire Supplyframe for EDA supply chain, broader digital marketplace I just noticed that Siemens today announced that it will acquire Supplyframe for $700 million, in a deal that is expected to close sometime before the end of September 2021. I am not...
May 17, 2021 | Hot Topics
Ansys acquires Phoenix Integration & its ModelCenter Ansys just announced that it has acquired Phoenix Integration, maker of ModelCenter, a tool used by many who apply the principles of model-based engineering (MBE) and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). The...
May 12, 2021 | Hot Topics
4 on a Wednesday: AspenTech mulls partial sale; Siemens, 3D Systems, and Procore acquire (not each other) There’s so much going on that it’s time for a mid-week news roundup: You saw that Autodesk completed its Upchain acquisition, so we won’t cover...
