Quickies: Autodesk acquires & Dassault Systèmes updates guidance
Quickies: Autodesk acquires, Dassault Systèmes updates guidance Autodesk University starts today, virtually, so expect a lot of news. First up, Autodesk announced that it is acquiring Spacemaker, a company that makes artificial intelligence (AI) and generative design...
It’s good to be a CAE supplier: notes on Ansys and Altair earnings
It’s good to be a CAE supplier: notes on Ansys and Altair earnings Altair and Ansys reported results for the quarter ended September 30, 2020, a few weeks agoand it’s time to catch up. First, a quick recap of the individual results, then what investment...
Tech Soft 3D continues buildout, acquires Visual Kinematics
Tech Soft 3D continues buildout, acquires Visual Kinematics Tech Soft 3D today announced that it has acquired Visual Kinematics (VKI), which makes DevTools, a suite of component software development kits (SDKs) for CAE applications. This comes just a few weeks after...
PTC’s Q4 ends fiscal year on a strong note
PTC’s Q4 ends fiscal year on a strong note PTC announced fiscal Q4 and 2020 results a week ago and I haven’t had time for a full write-up — and now the earnings are starting to pile up. So here’s a quick recap of what we learned during the PTC...
Hexagon acquires PAS Global for its OT, cybersecurity expertise
Hexagon acquires PAS Global for its OT, cybersecurity expertise Hexagon just announced that it will acquire PAS Global, a maker of operations technology (OT) and cybersecurity solutions that are used across industries to prevent, detect, and remediate cyber threats,...
Battery Ventures buys Cimatron & GibbsCAM from 3D Systems
Battery Ventures buys Cimatron & GibbsCAM from 3D Systems It was just announced that Battery Ventures, an investor across our PLMish universe and most recently in Tech Soft, will buy the Cimatron and GibbsCAM software businesses from 3D Systems Corporation. But...
Siemens adds computational chemistry modeling to Simcenter
Siemens adds computational chemistry modeling to Simcenter This is interesting. Maybe ten years ago, innovation was all about electrifying mechanical systems. Today, it seems to rely on material science: what can we create that’s lighter, stronger, conductive,...
Quickie: Hexagon snaps up ESPRIT CAM solutions
Quickie: Hexagon snaps up ESPRIT CAM solutions Remember just yesterday, when Hexagon CEO Ola Rollén told investors to stay tuned, that there was significant acquisition activity, even in a time of Covid? Welp. Today, Hexagon announced that it will acquire D.P....
Hexagon’s Q3 was flat year/year on an organic, constant currency basis!!
Hexagon’s Q3 was flat year/year on an organic, constant currency basis!! Is that awesome? No, but in the current economy, we’ll take it. Hexagon reported results today that continue the theme of less-bad-than-before, though not yet upward trending. Total...
ESI’s Q3 shows slowing declines — no upturn just yet, though
ESI’s Q3 shows slowing declines — no upturn just yet, though ESI Group just reported its Q3 results — and they pretty much reflect the patterns seen so far this year but hint that things may soon improve. Total Q3 revenue was €22 million, down 12% as...
Ansys to acquire Analytical Graphics for $700 million
Ansys to acquire Analytical Graphics for $700 million Ansys just announced that it will acquire Analytical Graphics (AGI), maker of electronics simulation solutions for space applications, for a whopping $700 million, 2/3 of which will be paid in cash and the rest,...
A mixed bag: Schneider Electric and Dassault Systèmes announce very different Q3s
A mixed bag: Schneider Electric and Dassault Systèmes announce very different Q3s There’s much to parse with both of these companies, so this is a brief recital of facts while I figure out what, if anything it all means. Press releases and recaps were in the...
MuM’s Q3 down 7% — but that’s better than Q2
MuM’s Q3 down 7% — but that’s better than Q2 One of the earnings bellwethers in our PLMish universe, Mensch und Maschine (MuM), reported this morning that its Q3 was … not as bad as Q2 … and that it expects Q4 to start ramping back up....
CGTech to be acquired by Sandvik
CGTech to be acquired by Sandvik Sandvik, a global engineering company with about 40,000 employees, has announced that it will acquire CGTech, the company you probably know best as the maker of VERICUT, the CNC verification and optimization software. Sandvik is a...
Tech Soft acquires Ceetron for CAE visualization
Tech Soft acquires Ceetron for CAE visualization Now this is interesting. Just into the inbox: Tech Soft 3D, the leading provider of engineering software development toolkits, today announces that it has acquired Ceetron AS, experts in developing 3D visualization...
Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure dives deep into digital twins
Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure dives deep into digital twins Depending on whom you’re speaking with, digital twins are either unfathomably complex and therefore out of reach, self-serving vendor-babble, or a really useful way of thinking about assets and...
AVEVA reports H1 revenue down 12% cc
AVEVA reports H1 revenue down 12% cc I thought we weren’t going to get an update on AVEVA earnings until Schneider Electric reports Q3 results — but, no, it came sooner. Yesterday, AVEVA said that revenue for its April to September half-year would be...
Altair acquires M-Base for plastics
Altair acquires M-Base for plastics Altair just announced that is has acquired M-Base Engineering + Software GmbH, supplier of the Material Data Center materials database and material information system, targeted at the makers and users of plastics. Altair says this...
