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...
Jan 19, 2022 | Hot Topics
Catchup: PTC ends fiscal 2021 on a high note, invests in SaaS for the future We’re about to get into earnings season when public companies talk about the quarter or year that ended in December. This is a ritual every quarter, of course, but many of the...
Jan 14, 2022 | Hot Topics
5 on a Friday: Aras, Hexagon, Sandvik acquire; Nemetschek invests and earnings are a GO One year ends and another begins … pretty much as the old one left off. While we were eating too many cookies in late December, Nemetschek and Sandvik announced deals; Aras...
Jan 12, 2022 | Hot Topics
Really? Are AI & CAE tied for impact on design over the next 5 years? Digital Engineering magazine surveyed its readers late last year about the future of design and came up with a slew of interesting findings. You can read their summary of the overall results...
Dec 18, 2021 | Hot Topics
… be filled with health, happiness, joy, and success. We’ll see you then! This lovely dawn was photographed by ErikTanghe. You can see more of their work here.
Dec 16, 2021 | Hot Topics
Quickie: Autodesk adds more estimating, Nemetschek adds digital sculpting It feels a bit like a year-end flush of deal pipelines, with Nemetschek and Autodesk announcing the fourth and fifth acquisitions just this week in our PLMish world: First, Autodesk said that it...
Dec 15, 2021 | Hot Topics
Quickie: Altair and Trimble acquire to expand their reaches Super quick, since it’s a busy day: Altair announced this morning that it has acquired World Programming, a company that makes data analytics software used in financial services and insurance. Altair...
Dec 14, 2021 | Hot Topics
Bentley adds geostatistics with AR2Tech acquisition Bentley Systems last night announced that its Seequent business acquired Advanced Resources and Risk Technology (aka AR2Tech), makers of geostatistical software applications. Remember that Seequent makes 3D...
Nov 24, 2021 | Hot Topics
We have so much to be thankful for. There are the usual food, friends, family, and shelter — never to be taken for granted. This year, we need to add the scientists, inventors, and manufacturers behind the COVID vaccines and treatments; the healthcare workers...
Nov 24, 2021 | Hot Topics
The last word? PTC+Rockwell=BFFs for … ever? After yesterday’s kerfuffle about an S-3 filing (where I interpreted intentions incorrectly here and tried to fix it all here), PTC and Rockwell came out with a statement that reads, in part … Rockwell has...
Nov 23, 2021 | Hot Topics
More on Rockwell/PTC — there actually may be nothing to see here This morning, I saw the notification of PTC’s filing of an S-3, an intention to facilitate the sale of shares owned by a third party — in this case, Rockwell. The blog I wrote (here)...
Nov 23, 2021 | Hot Topics
Rockwell is selling some? of its $1 billion stake in PTC UPDATE: I am told that the SEC filing is notifying of an intention to sell up to all of the shares Rockwell owns — it’s not notifying us of sold shares. Am trying to learn the nuances and will add...
Nov 22, 2021 | Hot Topics
Investments aplenty: AutoForm to change hands, nTop gets funding A couple of things I didn’t have time to write about last week, both investments in PLMish companies. And, stunningly, we’re talking about billions of dollars changing hands — and this...
Nov 17, 2021 | Hot Topics
Quickie: Bentley adds to utility offering, acquires Power Line Systems Bentley Systems last night announced that it will acquire Power Line Systems, maker of tools for the design of overhead electric power transmission lines and towers, for $700 million in cash or a...
Oct 28, 2021 | Hot Topics
ESI reported results today — results that mostly confirm a strong start to the three-year plan the company laid out at its investor event earlier this month: Focus on its existing customers, bringing them new products and expanding installations — check...
Oct 27, 2021 | Hot Topics
AVEVA’s trading update says H1 revenue up 9% cc AVEVA just issued another one of its periodic, very brief business updates, saying that AVEVA’s revenue grew by approximately 9% in the first half of the financial year on a pro forma organic constant...
Oct 21, 2021 | Hot Topics
MuM says 2021 is pleasing so far, expects a strong Q4 Autodesk reseller and software developer Mensch und Maschine Software (MUM) just reported results that basically shout, we’re back! Says the company’s press release, “Compared to the pre-crisis...
