Nov 13, 2012 | Hot Topics
Dassault Systèmes invited several hundred of its best customers to Orlando last week, to learn about the company’s latest efforts to vault out of providing solutions and into delivering experiences. Over two days, we heard from CEO Bernard Charlès, EVP Monica...
Oct 17, 2012 | Hot Topics
For months, AVEVA has been blanketing the virtual airwaves with messaging around its new plant design product, dubbed “the future of plant design” or FoPD for short. Many users were at AVEVA World Summit last week in Paris to take back answers to: Would...
Sep 25, 2012 | Hot Topics
Get this: we’re using Teamcenter to visualize a car, trying to assess the impact of a design change. First, we zoom in on the components that are in a specific area a foot forward of the steering wheel. Then we shift from a location-based view to a system view,...
Jul 27, 2012 | Hot Topics
Dassault Systèmes yesterday reported on its second quarter results and raised its guidance for the full year to €2 billion — quite a milestone. But much of the content of the presentation and conference calls wasn’t about last quarter, but about how DS...Jun 18, 2012 | Hot Topics
Overheard last week at Solid Edge University: Customer: ‘This is the best assembly environment I’ve seen.’ Solid Edge guy: ‘Here’s what we’re doing to make it better.’ A lot of similar conversations took place last week at...May 15, 2012 | Hot Topics
A real fast update today — I’m at the Bentley Systems user conference — but this is important, too. Rand Worldwide today announced that revenue in its fiscal third quarter was down 18% from last year to $22.4 million but basically flat sequentially. Tight...