Sep 21, 2009 | Hot Topics
Last week I attended my first virtual conference: Powering the Computational Ecosystem. From a technological, gee-whiz aspect, it was very cool: On24, an online event producer, created a virtual conference venue, complete with lobby, exhibit hall and auditorium....
Sep 16, 2009 | Hot Topics
So you’re a CAD company without an analysis capability or a CAE vendor without strong ties to any one 3D modeling engine. How do you compete with the integrated suites offered by vendors such as Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes, PTC and Siemens? You partner. Last week,...
Aug 27, 2009 | Hot Topics
One of the questions I am most frequently asked is the rate of CAE penetration: how many possible users are there for CAE applications? How many of these are actually using CAE today? How is this likely to grow? Investors ask because they don’t necessarily understand...
Jul 14, 2009 | Hot Topics
CAE data management has become a critical topic for many CAE departments — after all, tying together which CAD models were used as the basis for an analysis, the meshing technique and resulting mesh, the loads and constraints and the resulting data and...
Jul 13, 2009 | Hot Topics
I’ve been wrong so often on pre-announcements that I waited this time until companies announce their earnings dates: ANSYS and PTC both announced today the dates and times of their June quarter earnings calls, which means that neither is likely to announce results...