May 13, 2019 | Hot Topics
[Note: I’m traveling and so wrote this based on advance materials provided by Bentley. They are hosting a conference call today and I’ll update, if warranted, when I can listen to the replay. The report I reference is now available for you to download. Go...
Apr 24, 2019 | Hot Topics
This morning started strong, with news from SAP and Dassault Systèmes announcing nice revenue growth, highlighting customer adoption of their newer offerings. I’ll have more on those later, but here’s a quick snapshot fo the highlights. Now we’re...
Apr 18, 2019 | Hot Topics
AVEVA issued one of its periodic trading updates — they don’t really say much but seem to be required to coincide with parent company Schneider Electric’s earnings releases. Schneider Electric is on a December year-end, quarterly pattern while AVEVA...
Apr 16, 2019 | Hot Topics
If you’re like me, you wanted to tune out the destruction of Paris’ Cathedral of Notre Dame yesterday, but just couldn’t. It’s a place of spiritual significance to many, an iconic Paris tourist destination to others. To me, it’s also a...
Apr 11, 2019 | Hot Topics
I was speaking to a group of AEC professionals a while back about the technologies they should be investigating. I covered everything from 0D to 6D, from conceptual sketches to advanced BIM, conceptual design to operations — but, as is often the case today, we...
Feb 14, 2019 | Hot Topics
Schneider Electric announced results today, which means that we have a hint about how things are going at AVEVA. AVEVA says that it “delivered low double-digit revenue growth in the first nine months of the financial year”, meaning the period ended...
Feb 12, 2019 | Hot Topics
I live on a street with the popular girl’s name, Kathleen. Every so often a boy, hoping to impress a girl (likely named Kathleen), steals our street sign. I’ve often wondered how someone monitors those thefts and then causes replacements to be made —...