Quickie: Autodesk adds more estimating, Nemetschek adds digital sculpting
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...
Quickie: Altair and Trimble acquire to expand their reaches
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...
Bentley adds geostatistics with AR2Tech acquisition
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...
3 on a Thursday: Gamma and Xometry acquire (not each other), sad news from VRandD
3 on a Thursday: Gamma and Xometry acquire (not each other), sad news from VRandD The calendar is racing towards the end of 2021 — and it actually feels like that, doesn’t it? Normally there’s a sense of slowing down, of coasting into the year-end,...
3+1 on a Friday: Centric acquires, Rescale gets more funding, Sandvik expands its software offerings
3+1 on a Friday: Centric acquires, Rescale gets more funding, Sandvik expands its software offerings A busy week or so to catch up on: Centric Software, the majority-owned-by-Dassault Systèmes maker of PLM solutions for fashion, retail and similar industries has...
Happy Thanksgiving!
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...
The last word? PTC+Rockwell=BFFs for … ever?
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...
More on Rockwell/PTC — there actually may be nothing to see here
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)...
Rockwell is selling some? of its $1 billion stake in PTC
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...
Investments aplenty: AutoForm to change hands, nTop gets funding
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...
Quickie: Bentley adds to utility offering, acquires Power Line Systems
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...
5 on a Friday — what a week! Autodesk, ESI, PTC, Shapr3D, and more
5 on a Friday — what a week! Autodesk, ESI, PTC, Shapr3D, and more Oh my goodness, what a week. We’ve had events, earnings, non-earnings news … I feel like a sponge that simply cannot absorb one more thing. We’ll get back to earings in more...
ESI’s Q3 revenue up 11% in a solid start to the plan announced at its CMD
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...
AVEVA’s trading update says H1 revenue up 9% cc
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...
MuM says 2021 is pleasing so far, expects a strong Q4
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...
Quickie: Changes afoot at Aras
Quickie: Changes afoot at Aras PLM watchers: Aras just announced that founder and long-time CEO Peter Schroer has ceded day-to-day CEO duties to Roque Martin, but will retain his role on Aras’ Board of Directors. Mr. Martin comes to Aras from PTC, where, says...
6 on a Wednesday: Bentley buys more rail asset management, Hexagon completes Infor EAM deal, Velo3D trading as VLD, Dassault Systèmes partners with Synopsys, more on Emerson+AspenTech and SAP pre-announces
6 on a Wednesday: Bentley buys more rail asset management, Hexagon completes Infor EAM deal, Velo3D trading as VLD, Dassault Systèmes partners with Synopsys, more on Emerson+AspenTech and SAP pre-announces A quick roundup of just a bit of the recent PLMish news:...
Emerson is acquiring 55% of AspenTech for $6 billion + stock
Last week, there was much speculation that Emerson Electric and AspenTech were in merger talks–that was real, and a deal has been reached. The headline is “Emerson to Accelerate Software Strategy to Capitalize on High Growth Industry Verticals and...
