Nov 23, 2020 | Hot Topics
Schneider Electric to acquire a controlling stake in ETAP Super quick: Schneider Electric announced that it will acquire a controlling stake in ETAP Automation Inc. You may be familiar with ETAP: their platform for modeling electrical power systems is integrated with...
Nov 17, 2020 | Hot Topics
Aspen Tech acquires Camo Analytics for … analytics It’s been a bit quiet on the acquisition front lately but Aspen Technology (AspenTech) just announced that it has acquired Camo Analytics AS, a provider of industrial analytics solutions. Camo Analytics...
Sep 23, 2020 | Hot Topics
Bentley shares started trading under the BSY symbol at around 11:15 on Wednesday. Someone told me that the bookmaker, the brokerage firm that handles trading of the shares, had to determine the opening price, which I thought would be the price Bentley set last night,...
Sep 17, 2020 | Hot Topics
Quickies: Bentley sets IPO price, Altair acquires for HPC I go away for a couple of days, and what happens? Yup. Newsy things! Here are two items of interest: Bentley issued another update to its IPO filing, this time with prices for the shares. You can see it here....
Sep 10, 2020 | Hot Topics
Bentley’s S-1 shines a light on how private companies grow, “with engineers in charge” As you probably know, Bentley filed to go public a few weeks ago. I put up a quick blog about the filing that evening and promised to read the whole thing and...
Aug 31, 2020 | Hot Topics
More details on AVEVA + OSIsoft — including about that rights offer We’ve learned a bit more about the proposed combination of AVEVA and OSI since the announcement early last Tuesday. Much more will come out in six weeks or so when the official paperwork...
Aug 26, 2020 | Hot Topics
Autodesk’s Q2 revenue up 15%, comes out swinging on AEC Autodesk has lost none of its swagger, yesterday reporting that total revenue was up 15%, with results across the metrics that investors look at ahead of consensus estimates. Even so, the company’s...
Aug 25, 2020 | Hot Topics
AVEVA did it: reaches deal to acquire OSIsoft for $5 billion Remember how AVEVA said it was in talks to acquire OSISoft? Appears they were successful: AVEVA just announced that it has reached agreement on the terms of an acquisition of OSIsoft at an enterprise value...
Aug 21, 2020 | Hot Topics
Bentley files its IPO — again. Finally. So much S-1 to read … so little time. You can see the filing for yourself here. A couple of quick highlights from the front of the document: This is an IPO for shares owned by others, as a way of creating a liquid...
Aug 17, 2020 | Hot Topics
AspenTech continues good PLMish news trend We’re learning a lot about what works and what doesn’t when a global pandemic hits — there’s no guarantee that this will work next time but, so far: low-touch subscriptions sales and renewals, anything...
