Nov 30, 2022 | Hot Topics
YII 2022: Bentley’s evolution nudges a data revolution Earlier this month, I was lucky enough to attend the 2022 edition of Bentley Systems’ Year in Infrastructure. While much was similar to prior years’ in-person YIIs, a lot was different. There was certainly the...
Oct 30, 2022 | Hot Topics
AU 2022: a joyous in-person extravaganza Last month, Autodesk held its first Autodesk University (AU) in person since the whole COVID drama began. It was both a very familiar event and completely new. New: New Orleans instead of Las Vegas! Being handed a COVID test...
Oct 25, 2022 | Hot Topics
4 on a Tuesday: Stratasys and AspenTech acquire, Samp gets funding, SAP reports It’s only Tuesday, and it’s already been quite a week. Here, in no particular order, are newsy bits that I think are interesting: Stratasys, the 3D printer company and owner...
Sep 21, 2022 | Hot Topics
Schneider Electric to buy rest of AVEVA Schneider Electric announced today that it is going to go ahead with its plan to buy the 40% or so of AVEVA that it doesn’t already own. The company said that it will offer AVEVA shareholders £31 per share, which would...
Aug 16, 2022 | Hot Topics
Graphisoft at 40: Looking forward What do you do when you’re no longer a teenager in a world that prizes newness and chases the next hot thing? If you’re Graphisoft, you celebrate your 40th birthday while simultaneously showing that you’re just as capable as the new...
Aug 10, 2022 | Hot Topics
Bentley reports solid, “straightforward” Q2 Many signs are positive for AEC companies right now. Public spending on infrastructure is up, there’s a renewed interest in oil and gas exploration and extraction, and we seem to have figured out how to do...
Jul 28, 2022 | Hot Topics
AVEVA’s CQ2 revenue down/flat cc but ARR up AVEVA released one of its quick-and-cryptic investor communications this morning. It said revenue in the June quarter declined at “a mid-single digit rate … on a constant currency basis” but was...