Quickie: PTC’s Q4 revenue up 7%
Day: October 24, 2019 This is going to be very quick, because I haven’t had time to listen to the earnings call replay — but I can report that PTC saw total revenue up 7% (up 9% in constant currencies) in its fiscal Q4 to $335 million, beating Wall...
Quickie: PTC acquires Onshape
Day: October 23, 2019 PTC and Onshape just announced that they’re teaming up to, as Onshape founder Jon Hirschtick puts it “broaden the scope of what we deliver to [customers[, and broaden our reach in the market to bring Onshape to more users even...
Quickie: MuM says Q3 revenue up 38%
Hot Topics Mensch and Machine Software just announced Q3 results that show revenue was up 38% on a combination of high organic growth boosted by “strong figures” from SOFiSTiK, in which MuM recently increased its stake. Why does this matter? MuM is...
Bentley adds traffic modeling to Digital Cities offering
Hot Topics Bentley Systems today announced two acquisitions that will extend its Digital Cities offering to traffic modeling, analytics and planning — what digital cities types call mobility. By adding Citilabs and Geospatial Technologies to the company’s...
Altair, more than the sum of its parts
Hot Topics Quick: What do you think of when I say Altair? HyperMesh? OptiStruct? SolidThinking? Datawatch? Tokens/subscriptions/Units? Yeah – me, too. But I learned at Altair’s global Technology Conference last week that it’s much, much more than that. Yes, the...
Altair says PollEx bridges the gap between mechanical and electrical
As I noted earlier today, Altair will be acquiring Polliwog to expand its EDA portfolio to printed circuit board (PCB) design and analysis. We learned a bit more about Polliwog (though not why the whimsical name, which is of course the most important part of this...
Altair gets further into EDA, acquiring Polliwog
It’s early early in Detroit (the sun’s not even glimmer on the horizon) and we’re already seeing news come out of Altair’s Technology Conference –its annual user event– that, I’m sure we’ll learn a lot more about as the...
Trimble snaps up Cityworks for asset management
I am often asked what municipalities and other owners of bigger/older/not-all-digital assets can do to get in on the whole digital twin thing that the media (and I, to be fair) keep going on about. My usual message: start somewhere, with what you have. Figure out what...
AVEVA is all in on digital transformation
If we believe Harvard Business Review (and they usually know what they’re talking about), “the failure rate for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) sits between 70 percent and 90 percent.” [The original article is behind a paywall; go here for a...
ESI’s first half shows progress
ESI’s first half shows progress ESI Group, the French CAE company, last week reported results for the quarter and half-year ended 31 July. For the half, revenue was up 3% as reported and up 0.4% in constant currencies (cc) to €55 million; for the quarter, total...
Quickie: Siemens invests in Built Robotics
So much news these days: TechCrunch reported yesterday that Siemens AG has participated in a $33 million Series B financing round at Built Robotics via its Next47 investment division, joining other investors Building Ventures, Founders Fund, Presidio Ventures, Lemnos...
Siemens snaps up partner PSE for process design
If you pay attention to the process industries (oil and gas, chemicals, and so on), you’ll know that much of the economic decision-making rests on the design of the chemical processes that transform crude into heating oil or petroleum by-products into commodity...
Quickie: ANSYS to acquire LS-DYNA
Technically, ANSYS will acquire Livermore Software Technology Corporation (LSTC), maker of LS-DYNA but, ya know … And it’s a BIG bucks deal: ANSYS will pay a purchase price $775 million, 60% cash and 40% via the issuance of ANSYS common stock to the...
What’s in a name?
If you’re Siemens, apparently it’s plenty. If you tuned into the PLMish news last week, you’ll likely know that Siemens PLM Software is now Siemens Digital Industries Software and that the overarching umbrella brand for that software is Xcelerator....
Quickie: RIB invests in US Autodesk reseller
Now this is interesting: RIB, the German maker of the iTWO/MTWO* BIM-focused solution set for the construction industry, just announced that it has acquired a 60% share of U.S. CAD, an Autodesk reseller based in California and with offices across the Western US....
AI hits the commercial mainstream
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about AI –what is it, how do I use it, what data do I need to gather to feed the machine, what does it even MEAN?? (very angsty, usually in an “am I already behind” panic)– and thought I’d try to...
Altair’s Q2 solid, Q3? Hmmm
Altair has had a rough time since announcing their Q2 results earlier this month, with the stock down 10% since the news hit the wires. Why? Investors were seemed OK with the Q2 report but were underwhelmed by the company’s guidance for Q3 and the year as a...
ANSYS hit Q2 out of the park
One giant deal, several large deals and new accounting rules helped ANSYS report a Q2 that knocked most metrics out of the park**. Details are below, but the main takeaway, for me, of ANSYS’ Q2 is this: being a one-stop shop matters. Having the ability to...
