May 19, 2015 | Hot Topics
For those of you who are wondering: AVEVA still hasn’t been acquired. In fact, CEO Richard Longdon told CNBC and told that reporter that “there’s nothing to say” about a possible acquisition and that AVEVA is not talking with Schneider, GE or...
May 18, 2015 | Hot Topics
People, breathe. The Financial Times yesterday ran a story about AVEVA, saying that several companies were in the running to acquire it. That led to all sorts of speculation in the media, which sent AVEVA’s share price up 10% or so today on the London Stock...
Apr 20, 2015 | Hot Topics
AVEVA releases periodic updates, really little more than place holders, to tell investors how things are going and what they can expect to hear in the upcoming formal earnings release. Today, AVEVA’s Trading Update said that the fiscal year ended March 31...
Jan 26, 2015 | Hot Topics
Surprising, well, no one, AVEVA Group today said that parts of its business are “significantly more challenging due to the well-documented budget constraints among Owner Operator customers in the Oil & Gas industry”. On the plus side, its Engineering...
Nov 10, 2014 | Hot Topics
AVEVA today announced fiscal H1 2015 revenue of £86 million, down 21% year/year — basically as announced in October. The good news: no new bad news. I still need to parse the details, but at a high level: The company reported strength in China, India and parts...
Oct 22, 2014 | Hot Topics
I was in Berlin last week, a fascinating city to host one of the plant/marine engineering world’s premier events: the AVEVA World Summit. The Summit brings together designers, constructors, operators and owners from across the world and across industries, to...
Sep 15, 2014 | Hot Topics
AVEVA issues periodic trading updates in between the more formal and detailed announcements every six months. These interim press releases typically don’t say much — but every so often something interesting slips through. This time, the nuggets...
Jul 22, 2014 | Hot Topics
PLMish results start in earnest this week, as both PTC and Dassault Systèmes talk about their June quarter results. But AVEVA kicked things off in their uniquely British way last week, updating us on how things are going so far in fiscal 2015 — and all seems to...