Jan 14, 2022 | Hot Topics
5 on a Friday: Aras, Hexagon, Sandvik acquire; Nemetschek invests and earnings are a GO One year ends and another begins … pretty much as the old one left off. While we were eating too many cookies in late December, Nemetschek and Sandvik announced deals; Aras...
Dec 16, 2021 | Hot Topics
Quickie: Autodesk adds more estimating, Nemetschek adds digital sculpting It feels a bit like a year-end flush of deal pipelines, with Nemetschek and Autodesk announcing the fourth and fifth acquisitions just this week in our PLMish world: First, Autodesk said that it...
Dec 14, 2021 | Hot Topics
Bentley adds geostatistics with AR2Tech acquisition Bentley Systems last night announced that its Seequent business acquired Advanced Resources and Risk Technology (aka AR2Tech), makers of geostatistical software applications. Remember that Seequent makes 3D...
Oct 27, 2021 | Hot Topics
AVEVA’s trading update says H1 revenue up 9% cc AVEVA just issued another one of its periodic, very brief business updates, saying that AVEVA’s revenue grew by approximately 9% in the first half of the financial year on a pro forma organic constant...
Oct 21, 2021 | Hot Topics
MuM says 2021 is pleasing so far, expects a strong Q4 Autodesk reseller and software developer Mensch und Maschine Software (MUM) just reported results that basically shout, we’re back! Says the company’s press release, “Compared to the pre-crisis...
Oct 13, 2021 | Hot Topics
6 on a Wednesday: Bentley buys more rail asset management, Hexagon completes Infor EAM deal, Velo3D trading as VLD, Dassault Systèmes partners with Synopsys, more on Emerson+AspenTech and SAP pre-announces A quick roundup of just a bit of the recent PLMish news:...
Oct 11, 2021 | Hot Topics
Last week, there was much speculation that Emerson Electric and AspenTech were in merger talks–that was real, and a deal has been reached. The headline is “Emerson to Accelerate Software Strategy to Capitalize on High Growth Industry Verticals and...
Sep 14, 2021 | Hot Topics
Bentley adds to mining offering with Minalytix acquisition Bentley just announced that its Seequent business has acquired Minalytix, a Canadian company that makes the MX Deposit suite of products. Minalytix was already partly owned by Seequent, though the press...
Aug 18, 2021 | Hot Topics
Bentley saw a rebound in infrastructure in Q2 but is cautious about China Bentley continues to grow its deep expertise in various AEC disciplines — most recently, expanding its focus in underground resource mapping and analysis. This diversity serves it well; read on....
Aug 18, 2021 | Hot Topics
AspenTech is cautious about F2022, citing end-market uncertainty We still have to hear from Autodesk, but there’s been a lot of AECish earnings news over the last few weeks. This post starts a modest series as we try to catch up on those results. AspenTech reported...