Sep 18, 2025 | Hot Topics
Are CAD Tools Really That Cheap? During Bentley Systems’ recent earnings call, former CEO and current Chairman Greg Bentley told investors that his company could expand its total addressable market by enhancing its products and charging more for them. To make the...
Jul 10, 2025 | Hot Topics
Bloomberg: Autodesk thinking about buying PTC Late yesterday, Bloomberg reported that Autodesk Inc. is weighing an acquisition of rival engineering-software provider PTC Inc., according to people familiar with the matter.PTC is also drawing interest from other...
Apr 15, 2025 | Hot Topics
5 on a Tuesday: Hexagon, Siemens + Dotmatics, Nano + Desktop, Rescale, Chinese/Hungarian BIM — oh my There is a LOT going on, so it’s time for a catch up. Earnings season is about to start again, and we’ve already had one early report: Hexagon...
Jun 20, 2023 | Hot Topics
Realize LIVE 2023: Siemens says it’s shifting the conversation There’s something special about being at a user conference in person. The random encounters. A roomful of people nodding when they agree with a speaker — or the look of confusion when the room’s...
Jun 13, 2023 | Hot Topics
Dassault Systèmes in 2023: nothing but potential I recently spent a few days with the Dassault Systèmes team in Paris. I’m still digesting it all — there was a LOT, and since my job is to find patterns, make comparisons, and note contrasts, I still much to ponder— so...
May 26, 2023 | Hot Topics
It’s a wrap: A recap of PTC Liveworx 2023 Big user events are back! PTC’s Liveworx filled the Boston Convention Center, a full 12-minute walk from end to end. We had Creo users, Windchill admins, Codebeamer coders, Vuforia wizards, Servigitics partners,...
May 16, 2023 | Hot Topics
LiveWorx, the preview (notes from day 0) I loved set-up time at Daratech conferences. I would stand on a balcony or walkway and watch it all come together on the exhibit floor below me. Vendors building their booths, the service people laying down cables and bringing...
Apr 28, 2023 | Hot Topics
Hexagon’s Q1 showed growth –also in China– even as the company exited unprofitable US defense contracts Hexagon reported results this morning — and they tell a different story of the environment in China. Read on. Total revenue in Q1 was €1287...
