Autodesk ramps up its plant offering

Sep 2, 2011 | Hot Topics

Earlier this week, Autodesk announced the release of the Autodesk Plant Design Suite, 3 flavors of integrated apps that support multidisciplinary plant design. You can go here for the details of what is in the standard, premium and ultimate suites packages or to...

What you might have missed, 1 Sept

Sep 1, 2011 | Hot Topics

A lot happened while I was on vacation, and I’m still trying to catch up. A couple more headline-y bits from the overflowing inbox:Spaceclaim 2011+Spaceclaim last week announced the 2011+ release of its eponymous software. This release has a heavy focus on building...

What you might have missed, 23 August

Aug 23, 2011 | Hot Topics

So I went on vacation last week. And the world of engineering software kept going, perhaps even ramped up a bit even though I wasn’t around to pay attention. Here are a few of the news bits I found most compelling from my time away:SGI acquires OpenCFDLast week SGI...

News roundup for August 12

Aug 12, 2011 | Hot Topics

Last week’s earnings fever has died down, but there were still a couple of items of note this week when much of the northern hemisphere is on vacation: CENIT CENIT reported this week that it saw “increased demand … especially from the manufacturing industry and...

Makers, the new super geeks?

Aug 1, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk’s acquisitive ways continue as the company today announced its purchase of Instructables, a website that lets people share their do-it-yourself ("DIY") project ideas. There are many interesting aspects to this acquisition – not the least of...

MuM all according to plan

Jul 25, 2011 | Hot Topics

The engineering software public reporting season starts in earnest this week, with Mensch und Maschine (MuM), PTC, Dassault Systemes and Nemetschek releasing information on their second quarter performance and their view of the year still to come.MuM kicked things off...

Acquisition happy!

Jul 19, 2011 | Hot Topics

I spent much of today trying to find a way to write about today’s two pieces of news in a unifying, compare-and-contrast kind of way and I couldn’t come up with anything. Nada. In both cases, these acquisitions fill technology gaps for their buyers, but...

Autodesk revenue up 11% in Q1

May 22, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk reported on Thursday that revenue grew 11% in its fiscal first quarter, led by a 14% increase in sales from the Manufacturing business and by strong sales of its new Autodesk Design Suites, which contributed to 35% growth in Platform suites revenue. On a geo...

Rand reports growth, shareholders like

May 16, 2011 | Hot Topics

Rand Worldwide, the entity created last year by the reverse merger of Rand and Avatech, today reported total third quarter revenue of $27.4 million, up handily from the $13.5 million reported by Rand alone a year ago. My notes show that Avatech reported revenue of...

M+M Q1 on target, too

May 2, 2011 | Hot Topics

Mensch und Maschine Software (M+M) announced Q1 results today that show that its diversification strategy is working: building up a VAR channel and focusing on the “value add” component is paying off. First quarter revenue was up 14% to €59 million, as all parts of...