Siemens makes $5 billion life sciences R&D acquisition
Siemens makes $5 billion life sciences R&D acquisition Never boring. The ink is barely dry on the paperwork that finally closed the Altair deal, and today, Siemens announced that it will acquire Dotmatics, a leader in life sciences R&D software, for $5.1...
Siemens + Altair = done deal
Siemens + Altair = done deal Finally! This morning, Siemens announced that it completed the acquisition of Altair Engineering for an enterprise value of $10 billion. Siemens’ CEO Roland Busch said, “We welcome the Altair community of customers, partners...
Accelerating Action at Altair’s Future.Industry 2025
Altair recently invited me to be on a panel at its Future.Industry 2025 event, focusing on how women in technology can align with this year’s theme for International Women’s Day. Go here to see the panel session’s recording and to check out the rest...
Apparently no new divestitures in Synopsys+Ansys
Synopsys just issued a press release about the UK’s tacit approval of its intention to acquire Ansys. It’s brief, and simply says We are pleased that the CMA has formally cleared the transaction in Phase 1 subject to previously announced divestitures. We...
UK regulator approves Synopsys+Ansys
UK regulator approves Synopsys+Ansys Super quick while we wait for more details: Reuters just reported that the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority won’t seek further review of Synopsys’ proposed acquisition of Ansys, in effect approving the deal....
Hexagon to spin off ALI and SGI into NewCo in early 2026
Hexagon to spin off ALI and SGI into NewCo in early 2026 Earnings season is almost over, and there’s a lot to catch up on, but news just came into the inbox that Hexagon has decided that it will, indeed, spin off its ALI business. What is that, you ask, and what...
Catching up: AspenTech+Emerson, 3D printing, Geomagic
Catching up: AspenTech+Emerson, 3D printing, Geomagic I’ve been neck-deep in earnings news lately —need to find the time to post longer recaps of PLMish ones— and the general sentiment isn’t too upbeat. Nothing horrible, but a lot of spending sounds like...
Super Quick: Sandvik snaps up 3 more CAM resellers
Super Quick: Sandvik snaps up 3 more CAM resellers Sandvik just announced that it has acquired ShopWare, MCAM Northwest and the CAD/CAM solutions business line of OptiPro Systems. All three are US-based Mastercam resellers and bring to five the total of resellers...
Emerson to buy rest of AspenTech
Emerson to buy rest of AspenTech Surprising … well, no one … Emerson announced today that it will acquire all outstanding shares of AspenTech for $265.00 per share in an all-cash offer. Emerson already owns roughly 57% of shares, so this will be quite a large cash...
Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my!
Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my! What did I see this morning? We’re not even at the end of January, and it already feels like a very long year … something like that. You too? We’ll get through it together! While the wider world...
Wishing you and yours …
… a holiday season as calm as an afternoon when all meetings are canceled. Thank you for your emails, comments, briefings, and questions. It was an honor to work with you in 2024 — let’s do it again in 2025! Above is the beautiful Belgian city of Bruges....
Q3 2024 earnings are finally done – what have we learned?
Q3 2024 earnings are finally done – what have we learned? Yay! The PLMish earnings season finally ended last week. Rather than recap each individual set of results, I thought I’d take a bigger-picture look: What have we learned over the last six weeks of...
voxeljet to be acquired by Anzu Partners – unless a better deal comes up
voxeljet to be acquired by Anzu Partners – unless a better deal comes up The additive manufacturing world continues to consolidate: voxeljet just announced that it has provisionally agreed to sell its entire business to funds affiliated with Anzu Partners via an...
Emerson offers $240/share in cash to buy up rest of AspenTech
Emerson offers $240/share in cash to buy up rest of AspenTech The PLMish news flow is just insane right now –still trying to get to a longer post about Siemens acquiring Altair– and now this: Last night, AspenTech announced what I’d call middling...
It’s official: Siemens buys Altair for $10 billion
It’s official: Siemens buys Altair for $10 billion From Siemens: Siemens strengthens leadership in industrial software and AI with acquisition of Altair Engineering … Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering Inc., a leading provider of...
Synopsys + Ansys stalls in UK and South Korea
Synopsys + Ansys stalls in UK and South Korea Yes, there’s lots of earnings news to cover, but this just came across the inbox: the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will be investigating Synopsys’ proposed acquisition of Ansys because...
MuM starts PLMish earnings on a strong, but mixed, note
MuM starts PLMish earnings on a strong, but mixed, note Mensch und Maschine reported its July/August/September results a few days ago. If you recall, Mensch und Maschine is both an Autodesk reseller and a supplier of its own software. As of mid-September, Autodesk...
Super-quick: additive manufacturing consolidation, this time for real
Super-quick: additive manufacturing consolidation, this time for real Do you remember last year’s kerfuffle about Nano Dimensions acquiring and then not acquiring Desktop Metal, which itself wanted to merge with Stratasys, and then 3D Systems entered the mix? It...
