MuM sees recovery continuing

Jul 26, 2010 | Hot Topics

Mensch und Machine, one of Autodesk’s largest resellers in Europe, announced second quarter results today that show a continuing economic recovery — slowly but surely. Total sales for the second quarter (ended June 30) were €45.6 million, up 23% from a year ago,...

Highlights from Autodesk’s Investor Day

Jun 24, 2010 | Hot Topics

Update: Autodesk held its annual Investor Day today. The event was 4 hours long, so these are some of the tidbits I found most interesting: • Autodesk says that FQ2 business is good and is raising the bottom end of its second quarter business outlook from revenue of...

Autodesk surprises with a solid FQ1

May 20, 2010 | Hot Topics

Autodesk reported results on Wednesday that continue the trend of positive comparative data for the PLM space. Overall revenue was up $475 million, up 11% from a year ago, blowing away analysts’ estimates of about $435 million.Taken geographically, these results...

Avatech reports “economy improving”

May 17, 2010 | Hot Topics

Avatech Solutions reported results today that show times may be getting better for the vast majority of users of engineering software.This announcement was a few days ahead of Wednesday’s report by Autodesk, and I wonder why there aren’t more people on the call...

Silver & gold: Autodesk’s new channel program

Apr 26, 2010 | Hot Topics

Autodesk recently announced a number of changes to its channel partner program, designed to make Autodesk easier to do business with and to give Autodesk’s 1900 VARs a competitive edge in the marketplace. Since Autodesk gets around 85% of revenue from the reseller...

Autodesk expands assistance program to veterans

Apr 12, 2010 | Hot Topics

Autodesk has extended its Assistance Program to veterans, according to the Wounded Artist Project. The Project contacted Autodesk to garner its support for a YouTube video on, of all things, BIM (Building Information Management); Autodesk was so impressed that it...

News bites

Mar 29, 2010 | Hot Topics

Lots of things come over the transom that I find very interesting but don’t have time to do much about. But they’re too cool to keep to myself, so … CFD on a Mac Sympscape (aka Caedium) was mentioned in this blog a while back for making CFD results available via...

PLM vendors have some success helping displaced workers

Mar 25, 2010 | Hot Topics

Over the last year I’ve written a number of posts about vendors offering free or low-cost software and training to laid-off engineers and designers to help them better position themselves for the job market. How has that worked and how many people were actually...

Smaller vendors matter too

Mar 4, 2010 | Hot Topics

We get so caught up in the earnings releases of the major PLM vendors that we forget that other companies in the PLM universe also release information, much of it more closely tied to specific geographies or subsegments. Their results help round out the picture of the...

Is it all good news?

Feb 24, 2010 | Hot Topics

A couple of people have emailed about yesterday’s posts on Autodesk’s Q4 results, asking if there were any negative aspects to the earnings data released. That’s a fair question since I focused on the bright spots in what really was a dismal year for the engineering...