Rand Q3 revenue down y/y, profit too

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...

PTC: Pothole repair underway

Apr 26, 2012 | Hot Topics

PTC today gave more details on its financial performance in the March quarter (its fiscal Q2) and a glimpse into the year ahead. The high points: a positive spin on the revenue miss in FQ1, much more cautious outlook for the rest of the year (but the potential for...

AVEVA’s fiscal 2012: “strong finish”

Apr 16, 2012 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today offered a sneak preview of its performance during the September 2011 – March 2012 portion of their fiscal year. Full results will be announced on May 28. The wording of the announcement makes it a bit difficult to parse, with not-particularly-glowing...

Autodesk: MFG reports record; is AEC back?

Feb 27, 2012 | Hot Topics

Autodesk reported results last week for the fourth quarter and full year ended January 31, 2011 that pretty much blew past expectations and continued the strong trends seen over the last several quarters, albeit with a bit of deceleration in many of the individual...
10 takeaways from SWW12

10 takeaways from SWW12

Feb 21, 2012 | Hot Topics

SolidWorks World 2012 started off last week with NAO (pronounced “now”) — an utterly adorable 57 cm (just under 2 feet) tall robot from Aldebaran that that seems almost human — breakdancing on screen and on the stage. And it only got better from there. I...

UPDATE: DS ends strong, cautious about 2012

Feb 13, 2012 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes (DS) reported really good results for its fourth quarter and for fiscal 2011 yet the share price fell, as investors expected a more positive outlook. But let’s close 2011 first, shall we? For Q4: • Total revenue was €512 million, up 11% as reported...

DS ends strong, cautious about 2012

Feb 12, 2012 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes (DS) reported really good results for its fourth quarter and for fiscal 2011 yet the share price fell, as investors expected a more positive outlook. But let’s close 2011 first, shall we? For Q4: • Total revenue was €512 million, up 11% as reported...

ADSK supports T-Splines for Rhino/SolidWorks

Jan 5, 2012 | Hot Topics

Just before the year-end, Autodesk announced that it had acquired the technology assets of T-Splines, Inc., patent holder of the T-Splines surface modeling technology. Many people emailed and blogged their fears that this would spell the end of the popular T-Splines...

Quick Update: Autodesk’s T-Splines

Dec 23, 2011 | Hot Topics

Earlier on Thursday, Autodesk announced that it was acquiring some of the assets of T-Splines, Inc., patent holder of the T-Splines surface modeling technology. The news release raised more questions than it answered, and we reached out to Autodesk to see if we...

Autodesk acquires T-Spline tech

Dec 22, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk’s buying binge is not over yet for 2011, as the company announced early today that it has acquired “certain technology-related assets from T-Splines Inc., a privately-held surface modeling software company … Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.”...