Autodesk & Pitney Bowes partner for AEC

Jan 11, 2012 | Hot Topics

Earlier this week, Autodesk and Pitney Bowes Software announced a strategic alliance to “help infrastructure owners and architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) organizations make more informed decisions and drive greater efficiencies across the plan, design,...

ADSK supports T-Splines for Rhino/SolidWorks

Jan 5, 2012 | Hot Topics

Just before the year-end, Autodesk announced that it had acquired the technology assets of T-Splines, Inc., patent holder of the T-Splines surface modeling technology. Many people emailed and blogged their fears that this would spell the end of the popular T-Splines...

Quick Update: Autodesk’s T-Splines

Dec 23, 2011 | Hot Topics

Earlier on Thursday, Autodesk announced that it was acquiring some of the assets of T-Splines, Inc., patent holder of the T-Splines surface modeling technology. The news release raised more questions than it answered, and we reached out to Autodesk to see if we...

Autodesk acquires T-Spline tech

Dec 22, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk’s buying binge is not over yet for 2011, as the company announced early today that it has acquired “certain technology-related assets from T-Splines Inc., a privately-held surface modeling software company … Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.”...
AU Innovation Forum: Everything Changes

AU Innovation Forum: Everything Changes

Dec 6, 2011 | Hot Topics

Last week, right about now, Autodesk was unveiling its PLM solution for the manufacturing market in an Autodesk University session called “Everything Changes”. I was fortunate to have been invited to speak at the session, along with Oleg Shilovitsky, Randi Zuckerberg...

Quick notes from Autodesk University

Nov 30, 2011 | Hot Topics

If you follow my twitter feed (@monica_schnitge), you’ll know that I’m one of 9,000 attending the 2011 edition of Autodesk University in Las Vegas. Days are crammed, so this has to be brief, but there’s a lot going on: • Autodesk formally entered the PLM fray, after...

Bentley showcases ‘extreme infrastructure’

Nov 23, 2011 | Hot Topics

Earlier in November, I was fortunate enough to attend Bentley Systems’ Be Inspired event in Amsterdam, where Bentley showcases the customer finalists in what could be termed “extreme infrastructure” –plants, buildings, roads, construction, utilities–...

Autodesk Q3 revenue up 15%

Nov 21, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk’s FQ3 earnings announcement yesterday surprised a lot of people, coming in well ahead of analyst estimates and near the top of its own earlier guidance. There had been concerns over Europe, the channel and how buyers would react to the suites offerings,...

RAND focuses on profit

Sep 29, 2011 | Hot Topics

Rand Worldwide yesterday reported fiscal 2011 revenue of $89.2 million and net income of $1.8 million. Since this is the first year of reporting after the reverse merger of Rand and Avatech, along with a change in the fiscal year-end, it is difficult to draw...

Acquisition mania

Sep 27, 2011 | Hot Topics

I’ve been working on a mid-year update of my market numbers for CAE (which show better than expected growth to date in 2011) and am stunned by the rapid pace of acquisitions we’ve seen this year. It’s one thing to note them as they happen, but when...