Here we go again: AVEVA + Schneider
While many of us Yanks were off celebrating the unofficial end of summer, the British and French were apparently hard at work. The Financial Times and other media report that AVEVA and Schneider Electric are about to announce yet another attempt at a merger...
Autodesk’s Q2 signals we may be on the upswing — finally
Autodesk investors are probably a pretty happy bunch today, as last night’s earnings release held mostly good news and offered an upbeat look ahead. One word: bottomed. Second word: Maybe. Some of the details (and many more are here): Total revenue in FQ2 was...
Nemetschek’s Q2 shows AEC demand for tech continues to grow
Nemetschek today reported results that show how the AEC world continues to grow into advanced design and engineering solutions — though building operations continues to lag behind the rest of the industry. The company says that continued digitalization, the...
Quickie: AVEVA + Schneider unlikely right now
There’s so much going on right now, between earnings, acquisitions and other news-worthy stuff, that I keep starting posts and having to move on before I can finish them. I will, I will! When, though … But many of you are asking about possible acquisition...
Here we go again: AVEVA+Schneider?
A couple of UK media outlets reported yesterday that Schneider Electric is considering once again making an offer for AVEVA. This is one such report, repeating what was in a Sunday Times (paywall) article. As before, such a deal would make a lot of sense: Schneider...
Hexagon’s Q1: PPM revenue down 11% — are we poised for an uptick?
Hexagon today reported Q1 results that showed that strength in other markets couldn’t offset continued sluggishness in oil and gas. The details: Total revenue of €778 million was up 7% as reported and up 3% in constant currencies and a comparable organizational...
Read this: Where oil rigs go to die
The world of offshore oil has seen cycles of boom and bust, huge investments in risky locations followed by project cancellations and layoffs. There’s the human cost, for sure, but there’s also a fleet of unused assets. What happens to them? How do we go...
Q1 in AEC: looks like 2017 is a breakout year
You (and investors and entrepreneurs and many others) often ask me how the AEC market is accepting the technologies that discrete manufacturing has long relied on: 3D design, using a model as reference and not just drawings, managing those models and related...
