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...
Sep 30, 2022 | Hot Topics
Travel, tech adoption & news from Tech Soft 3D, Hexagon & Sandvik I’ve been traveling for work for the last two weeks. When time permits, I’ll write about ESI LIVE 2022 and Autodesk University (AU), but I owe you a little catchup. It’s been...
Sep 21, 2022 | Hot Topics
Schneider Electric to buy rest of AVEVA Schneider Electric announced today that it is going to go ahead with its plan to buy the 40% or so of AVEVA that it doesn’t already own. The company said that it will offer AVEVA shareholders £31 per share, which would...
Sep 14, 2022 | Hot Topics
3 on a Wednesday: Altair, Dassault Systèmes, and Trimble all acquire tech tuck-ins Venture funding may be drying up a bit, and valuations coming down just a little mean acquisition time. Three deals were announced in the last 40 hours or so: Altair announced that it...
Aug 24, 2022 | Hot Topics
Super-quick: Schneider Electric may buy the rest of AVEVA Morning news troll. AVEVA shares up 30% — why? A tiny bit of surfing tells me that Schneider Electric says it is considering a possible offer to acquire the 41% of outstanding shares in AVEVA that it does...
Aug 16, 2022 | Hot Topics
Graphisoft at 40: Looking forward What do you do when you’re no longer a teenager in a world that prizes newness and chases the next hot thing? If you’re Graphisoft, you celebrate your 40th birthday while simultaneously showing that you’re just as capable as the new...
Aug 11, 2022 | Hot Topics
Siemens DI software revenue up 14%, again led by EDA Siemens today reported decent results for its fiscal third quarter even with the stresses in component supply chains and the European energy markets. The part we care most about, Digital Industries, reported revenue...
Aug 10, 2022 | Hot Topics
Bentley reports solid, “straightforward” Q2 Many signs are positive for AEC companies right now. Public spending on infrastructure is up, there’s a renewed interest in oil and gas exploration and extraction, and we seem to have figured out how to do...
Jul 28, 2022 | Hot Topics
AVEVA’s CQ2 revenue down/flat cc but ARR up AVEVA released one of its quick-and-cryptic investor communications this morning. It said revenue in the June quarter declined at “a mid-single digit rate … on a constant currency basis” but was...
Jul 27, 2022 | Hot Topics
Hexagon’s Q2 revenue up 6% occ on strong demand across verticals and geos Hexagon reported results this morning that blew past analyst expectations. Total revenue in Q2 was €1,289 million, up 20% as reported and up 6% on an organic and constant currency basis...
Jul 26, 2022 | Hot Topics
Earnings recaps: Cadence & Dassault Systèmes report solid results and talk acquisitions Cadence reported results last night and offered more insight into its entry into the life sciences market. First, the results: Q2 revenue was $858 million, up 18%. By end...
Jul 25, 2022 | Hot Topics
4 on a Monday: Cadence acquires in bioscience, ESI sells some CFD (NOT OpenFOAM), MuM announces Q2, and Hexagon gets into 80s rock — not really A quick catch-up on some recent news as we get ready for a bumper crop of earnings this week: Cadence said it would...
Jul 18, 2022 | Hot Topics
5 on a Monday: Addnode & Sandvik report Q2, Cadence acquires Future Facilities, Matterport adds to its real estate offering & Siemens snaps up ZONA for aero simulation Yes, a quick catchup blog is unusual on a Monday, but I was traveling last week and am...
