Accelerating Action at Altair’s Future.Industry 2025
Altair recently invited me to be on a panel at its Future.Industry 2025 event, focusing on how women in technology can align with this year’s theme for International Women’s Day. Go here to see the panel session’s recording and to check out the rest...
Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my!
Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my! What did I see this morning? We’re not even at the end of January, and it already feels like a very long year … something like that. You too? We’ll get through it together! While the wider world...
It’s official: Siemens buys Altair for $10 billion
It’s official: Siemens buys Altair for $10 billion From Siemens: Siemens strengthens leadership in industrial software and AI with acquisition of Altair Engineering … Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Altair Engineering Inc., a leading provider of...
A wander through PLMish earnings so far
A wander through PLMish earnings so far This has been an unusually long and somewhat fraught earnings season. We started with Dassault Systèmes’ preannouncement, wandered through the drama around Autodesk’s delayed publication of its fiscal 2024 (ended 31...
So much news: acquisitions, divestitures, non-deals and an appreciation
So much news: acquisitions, divestitures, non-deals and an appreciation Last week, I was in the Cotswolds in England. It was gorgeous; I’ll tell you more about it some other time — but, oh my goodness, the PLMish world kept going! Yes, there’s lots of earnings news,...
Altair acquires OmniQuest, maker of Genesis
Altair acquires OmniQuest, maker of Genesis Just across the newswire (here), Altair announced that it has acquired OmniQuest, a company you may know by its former name, Vanderplaats R&D, maker of the Genesis structural analysis and optimization solution. Altair...
Deal roundup: Extension not reinvention at Bentley, Hexagon, Altair, Nemetschek, and Trimble
Deal roundup: Extension not reinvention at Bentley, Hexagon, Altair, Nemetschek, and Trimble There has been so much earnings news –generally good retrospectively with varying degrees of caution looking ahead– that I’ve lost sight of one of the...
3 on a Wednesday: Altair, Dassault Systèmes, and Trimble all acquire tech tuck-ins
3 on a Wednesday: Altair, Dassault Systèmes, and Trimble all acquire tech tuck-ins Venture funding may be drying up a bit, and valuations coming down just a little mean acquisition time. Three deals were announced in the last 40 hours or so: Altair announced that it...

