Jun 30, 2026 | Hot Topics
Schneider Electric to acquire Cognite for $3.1billion Well, well, well. Schneider Electric just announced that it will acquire Cognite Holding in an all-cash transaction valued at $3.1 billion, and will “integrate the industrial artificial intelligence software...
Sep 22, 2025 | Hot Topics
Quick catchup: Ajai Gopal to join Procore, Desktop Metal finds a home, CAE partners merge, more AI A lot is going on (is there ever not?), so here are a few bits and pieces you might find interesting: I don’t usually write about executive transitions, but this...
May 20, 2025 | Hot Topics
Siemens, Graitec, Trace One, Procore all do deals; Synopsys+Ansys still not closed I’m still digging out from under the news that accumulated while I was on vacation. Still, I already see that there were (of course) more PLMish deals announcemed over the last...
Apr 15, 2025 | Hot Topics
5 on a Tuesday: Hexagon, Siemens + Dotmatics, Nano + Desktop, Rescale, Chinese/Hungarian BIM — oh my There is a LOT going on, so it’s time for a catch up. Earnings season is about to start again, and we’ve already had one early report: Hexagon...
Feb 10, 2025 | Hot Topics
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...
Jun 12, 2024 | Hot Topics
Autodesk’s FQ1 overshadowed by accounting – but it was actually really good Before we get into it: I titled my last blog about Autodesk’s earnings “Nothing to see here” — meaning, literally, nothing to see here, since Autodesk said its accounting review...
