How your tech skills can help in the pandemic

How your tech skills can help in the pandemic

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...
Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition

Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition

Sep 14, 2021 | Hot Topics

Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition Bentley just announced that its Seequent business has acquired Minalytix, a Canadian company that makes the MX Deposit suite of products. Minalytix was already partly owned by Seequent, though the press...
ESI sets the stage with a decent Q2

ESI sets the stage with a decent Q2

Sep 9, 2021 | Hot Topics

ESI sets the stage with a decent Q2 ESI reported results today for the quarter ended 30 June that were … decent. As you may know, ESI is in the middle of a transformation from a company that was somewhat random in its execution and communication with customers...
Sandvik building CAM powerhouse by acquisition

Sandvik building CAM powerhouse by acquisition

Aug 30, 2021 | Hot Topics

Sandvik building CAM powerhouse by acquisition Last year Sandvik acquired CGTech, makers of Vericut. I, like many people, thought “well, that’s interesting” and moved on. Then in July, Sandvik announced it was snapping up the holding company for Cimatron, GibbsCAM...
Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition

Mastercam will be independent no more

Aug 25, 2021 | Hot Topics

Mastercam will be independent no more CNC Software and its Mastercam have been a mainstay among CAM providers for decades, marketing its solutions as independent, focused on the workgroup and individual. That is about to change: Sandvik, which bought CGTech late last...
Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition

More consolidation: Desktop Metal to acquire ExOne

Aug 11, 2021 | Hot Topics

Just off the newswire: Desktop Metal, a publicly-traded company, will acquire ExOne, also public, in a deal valued at $575 million. Each ExOne shareholder will get $8.50 in cash and $17 in Desktop Metal stock for each ExOne share, which implies a 48% premium to the...
Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition

Altair adds S-FRAME for AEC structural designers

Aug 10, 2021 | Hot Topics

Super-quick, because it’s that kind of day: Altair just announced that it has acquired S-FRAME Software, a structural analysis tool used by architects, engineers, and designers to evaluate a structure’s ability to withstand loads like wind, water, and...
ESI sets the stage with a decent Q2

Altair beats Q2 forecasts and raises 2021 guidance

Aug 9, 2021 | Hot Topics

Altair reported results last week — and like others in our PLMish universe, they were better than expected. The details: Total revenue in Q2 was $120 million, up 22% and $8 million ahead of expectations. Altair doesn’t do the constant currency thing for...
ESI sets the stage with a decent Q2

Ansys has a great Q2 and expects the momentum to continue

Aug 5, 2021 | Hot Topics

Ansys reported pretty awesome Q2 results last night, and this morning on its earnings call, said that growth was due to three things: increased optimism among its customers that end-market demand will come back post-pandemic, its own efforts to stay close to those...
Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition

Quickie: Bentley acquires Imago for image management

Aug 3, 2021 | Hot Topics

That’s a simplified headline — what Imago really does is enable users to catalog and review drilling core and chip (in other words, rock sample) images. A key point in the acquisition: Imago’s machine learning technology that “will lead to a step...
ESI sets the stage with a decent Q2

AVEVA says revenue up 11% in CQ2, excluding OSI

Jul 30, 2021 | Hot Topics

AVEVA gave one of its minimalist earnings updates today, likely because its largest shareholder, Schneider Electric, announced its Q2 results this morning. (Schneider Electric is on a quarterly calendar, with the year ending in December; AVEVA’s fiscal year ends...
ESI sets the stage with a decent Q2

PTC saw FQ3 momentum in Creo, Windchill; not so much in IoT

Jul 29, 2021 | Hot Topics

PTC reported fiscal third quarter results last night that were … Okay. You can read/see/hear all of the details here. PTC offers data on overall product buckets, geos, etc. that you should go check out. A few of the things I thought most relevant and then some...
Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition

Siemens to acquire FORAN marine design solutions

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...
Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition

Hexagon adds location to AR, snaps up Immersal

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...