PTC’s Q1 call blends caution, excitement
PTC kicked off earnings in style last night, providing more details on the barebones announcement made in December with the acquisition of ThingWorx. The Internet of Things (IoT) was a big topic on the investor call as PTC continues to educate its investors about the...
Quickies: CFD, chocolate, collaborating & manufacturing — oh my!
Some headlines to get your week going, if you had yesterday off for the MLK remembrance. Of course, if you’re somewhere else in the world, you’re already well into your week, but let’s get you caught up anyway: I’ve written a lot about the...
Totally OT: Honoring MLK
Today the US stops (mostly) to remember and honor Martin Luther King, Jr. –known as MLK– for his work and legacy, redefining what it means to fight for the right to be equal. I was too little to remember Dr. King’s speeches from when he was alive but...
Quickies: DS/Realtime & ADSK/Delcam inch closer; Softech, Stratasys earnings news
So much news, so little time. A quick listing of what’s captured our imagination lately. On the acquisition front, two deals have moved forward a bit. If you remember, Dassault Systèmes announced back in December that it was acquiring a controlling stake...
Google buys Nest for a cool $3.2 billion
I’ve been nattering on about the Internet of Things (IoT) lately, in part because PTC snapped up ThingWorx last month. But I’m far from alone in finding the IoT interesting: yesterday, Google announced that it was acquiring Nest Labs, the people who...
Your dishwasher talks to the IoT; now what?
PTC last month announced that it was acquiring ThingWorx, a company that develops and markets platforms to connect things to the Internet, an important step that enables makers of cars, dishwasher, industrial equipment and so on to monitor usage and better serve their...
Autodesk gets in on deal action with Circuits.io
If you’re keeping score, Autodesk didn’t make the first PLMish acquisition of 2014 –that was 3D Systems, last week– but the company didn’t wait long to get back in the game. Today, at the Consumer Electronics Show, Autodesk announced that...
Quickies: new year’s news round-up
Happy New Year and welcome back! So much happened as we swapped 2013 calendars for 2014 (and dealt with blizzards, ships stuck in the ice and goodness-knows-what) that we all need a bit of a recap. In no particular order: PTC made the last acquisition in the PLMish...
PTC closes year with an IoT acquisition
Well, that’s cool. PTC may have won the prize for last acquisition in 2013, snapping up ThingWorx for $112 million plus a possible earn-out of up to $18 million. PTC’s press release says that ThingWorx, which markets a platform that enables companies to...
2014 is just around the corner so let’s recap
Hope you’re enjoying your year-end holidays! Skiing? Sunning? Playing? We’re still trying to unplug (but failing miserably) and recharge (naps, lots of naps) before 2014 arrives, so this blog is going to be short and sweet. 2013 was a year when some of the...
Happy holidays!
Phew. What a year! Exciting technology, interesting people and places, and lots of cool stories. We are grateful that you shared 2013 with us and look forward to working with you in the new year. May you and yours be happy and healthy next year and always. This photo...
Siemens acquires TESIS PLMware, connects PLM & ERP
Siemens just announced that it is acquiring TESIS PLMware, known for integrating Siemens’ Teamcenter PLM solution with the alphabet soup of enterprise software: ERP, MES, CRM and SCM. (That’s enterprise resource planning, manufacturing execution systems,...
Quickies: CAE earnings show fx, momentum effects
It’s been a busy Fall — and Winter is creeping up fast while there are still Q3 earnings to write about. Crazy, right?! We’re tackling them one PLM-subgroup at a time. Last up, AEC; this time, CAE. ESI reported yesterday that Q3 (which for them ended...
AU: Intersection of CAM, clouds and reality
Autodesk University 2013 was a huge, loud, in-your-face explosion of all things related to making stuff. In this context, “stuff” could be manufactured goods, buildings, bridges, movies or just about anything else you could imagine. I’ve written a...
Altair adds EMSS to its portfolio
Altair Engineering just announced that it is acquiring EM Software & Systems (EMSS), developer of the FEKO electromagnetic simulation suite. EMSS has actually been around since the 1990s but, as a South African company, has struggled to be known on an...
Quickies: DS, 3D Systems, Hexagon buy; Exa reports
While I’m at AU with 10,000 of my dearest friends, the PLMish world keeps rolling with acquisitions and earnings. Early this morning, Dassault Systèmes announced that it has acquired an 84% controlling interest in Realtime Technology AG (RTT), a provider of what...
Quickie: ANSYS to acquire Reaction Design
A very quick update to share some news I think is really exciting: ANSYS is merging with Reaction Design, maker of solutions for modeling and simulating certain types of chemical reactions. CHEMKIN, Reaction Design’s flagship products, is used by designers in...
Autodesk U — complete with dancing robots!
Autodesk University is awash in superlatives: biggest, loudest, most diverse … And it really is. Nearly 10,000 people here in Las Vegas and another 20,000 or 30,000 tuning in online. Manufacturing, construction, architecture, movie-making, robots, drawings, oh...
