Spectris in talks to acquire Oxford Instruments

Spectris in talks to acquire Oxford Instruments

Spectris in talks to acquire Oxford Instruments Spectris said today that it is in discussion to acquire Oxford Instruments. Spectris, you may remember, is the parent company of HBM nCode, makers of durability and performance analysis software; ReliaSoft, makers of...
AVEVA gives trading update: all to plan

AVEVA gives trading update: all to plan

AVEVA gives trading update: all to plan AVEVA issued another one of its terse trading updates, saying that revenue declined “in the low single digits” from a year ago in the fiscal third quarter of 2022 (ended December 31, 2021), “given a very strong...
Spectris in talks to acquire Oxford Instruments

Altair gets into PLM with Cassini acquisition

Altair gets into PLM with Cassini acquisition Altair just announced that it has acquired Cassini Systems, a cloud-native PLM platform. Cassini does many of the things you’d expect a PLM to do — vault, manage collaboration, etc.– but perhaps a...
AVEVA gives trading update: all to plan

Siemens orders ahead of plan, SaaS booming

Siemens orders ahead of plan, SaaS booming Ah, Siemens. If you thought Hexagon was complicated, buckle in. Siemens AG just reported fiscal Q1 2022 results, and we’re going to roll that into a recap of fiscal 2021. There’s a lot of ground to cover, so...
AVEVA gives trading update: all to plan

Hexagon’s solid Q4 sets up digital reality focus for 2022

Hexagon’s solid Q4 sets up digital reality focus for 2022 Hexagon announced its fiscal 2021 results last week and some management changes this week. A quick recap of the news, then some thoughts: For Q4, Total revenue was €1,217 million, up 7% on an organic...
AVEVA gives trading update: all to plan

Nemetschek gets AEC earnings off to a strong start

Nemetschek gets AEC earnings off to a strong start Nemetschek reported last week that its Q4 and fiscal 2021 results exceeded the guidance it gave for 2021 — which had already been raised in July after a boffo first half. Final results for 2021 will be announced...
Spectris in talks to acquire Oxford Instruments

Flow Science acquired by owner of MAGMA and SIGMA

Flow Science acquired by owner of MAGMA and SIGMA Dr. Flender Holding GmbH announced this week that it acquired 100% of the shares of Flow Science, Inc. in December 2021. Flow Science makes Flow3D, but Flender who, you might ask? (I certainly did.) Turns out that...
Can the auto industry change to build-to-order?

Can the auto industry change to build-to-order?

Can the auto industry change to build-to-order? Happy New Year! I hope you were able to chill at least a little in that magic time between “got to get it all done”, “oops, too late” and “it’s a brand new year of...
May your 2022 …

May your 2022 …

… 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.
Spectris in talks to acquire Oxford Instruments

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...
Spectris in talks to acquire Oxford Instruments

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...