Feb 26, 2021 | Hot Topics
4 on a Friday: DS invests in AVSimulation, Newforma acquires, more on Cadence+Numeca, Siemens’ MindSphere on Red Hat OpenShift It’s been another busy week of earnings and other PLMish news. Here are some bits and pieces I didn’t have the time to...
Jul 27, 2020 | Hot Topics
What do you do when your customers revolt, publicly? If you’re outside the world of AEC (or lucky enough to be on vacation) you might have missed it: Seventeen of Autodesk’s most influential AEC customers wrote an open letter to CEO Andrew Anagnost,...
Jul 26, 2019 | Hot Topics
Nemetschek announced today that Q2 revenue was up 15% on an organic basis and 21% overall to €138 million. That’s very, very good but investors will likely focus on the fact that Q1 growth was 27% as reported (23% cc) and 21% on an organic basis. The details:...
Nov 21, 2018 | Hot Topics
What does almost one billion US dollars buy? In Autodesk’s case, PlanGrid. Yesterday, as part of its quarterly earnings, Autodesk announced that it will acquire the privately-held PlanGrid for $875 million, net of acquired cash. That’s a heck of a lot of...
Oct 29, 2018 | Hot Topics
The Year in Infrastructure (YII) is Bentley Systems’ annual media fest, where new product releases, customer successes and acquisitions vie for attention. We’ll cover more of those over the next several blog posts, but today we’ll focus on one of the big product...
Oct 23, 2018 | Hot Topics
Hexagon just announced that it has acquired Bricsys, a company that’s been around a long time and keeps reinventing itself — most recently, as a provider of open, collaborative solutions for the construction CAD market with BricsCAD. BricsCAD today is a...
Oct 11, 2018 | Hot Topics
The key to this acquisition is in the name of the company being acquired: anywhere. Procore makes cloud-based applications for the construction industry, offering a single platform that enables project stakeholders to share information. BIM, building information...
Jan 16, 2018 | Hot Topics
I wrote recently about the need to start looking at data from a lifecycle perspective, anticipating future needs and uses as well as likely integrations. This brings me back to one of the big announcements at November’s Autodesk University: the closer...
Jul 28, 2017 | Hot Topics
Nemetschek today reported results that show how the AEC world continues to grow into advanced design and engineering solutions — though building operations continues to lag behind the rest of the industry. The company says that continued digitalization, the...
