Channels, plants and innovation

Apr 19, 2011 | Hot Topics

I am on quite the road trip —won’t be back in the office for a few more days— and my head is spinning from all I’ve learned. The next few posts will be my attempt to recap and set it all into context for those of you not at the Autodesk Channel Summit,...

PTC embeds MKS

Apr 11, 2011 | Hot Topics

Last week PTC announced its intention to acquire MKS, Inc. of Waterloo, Ontario, a supplier of tools to manage the lifecycle of embedded mechatronics software, for CDN$26.20/share or CDN$292.5 million in total (about $304 million at current exchange rates). PTC will...

Autodesk: “We’re no longer a CAD company”

Mar 24, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk has had a very busy week. On Monday the company launched its 2012 line of products, concentrating on small, bigger and biggest bundles targeted at specific user functions. Today, the company’s Manufacturing group held a webinar to present this segment of...

DS update: offerings for a growing market

Mar 8, 2011 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes’ Al Bunshaft, Managing Director of DS America, today held the first of a series of update calls for industry analysts. The call reiterated DS’ focus on growing its brands and tweaking its sales channels to reach an ever-greater addressable market and...

Autodesk reports, investors like a lot

Feb 25, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk last night reported results that were nothing short of terrific. As CEO Carl Bass said during the earnings call, “After navigating through the biggest economic downturn in Autodesk history, we’re now experiencing a healthy recovery and achieving record...

Autodesk adds CFdesign to its quiver

Feb 17, 2011 | Hot Topics

Big news: Autodesk announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Blue Ridge Numerics, Inc., maker of the CFdesign computational fluid dynamics software, for approximately $39 million in cash. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions...

DS announces banner 2010, cautious for 2011

Feb 15, 2011 | Hot Topics

2010 was a big year for Dassault Systèmes as it tightened control on its distribution network by buying IBM PLM, closing the biggest acquisition in DS’ history. Did this distract management? Lead to complications in merging sales teams and assigning territories and...

Rand + Avatech showing results

Feb 14, 2011 | Hot Topics

Rand Worldwide, created by the reverse merger of Rand and Avatech, today announced results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2011. Rand’s published comparisons are between the merged entity for the period ended December 31, 2010 and Rand-alone for the period ended...

More good news: Tekla, CENIT

Feb 11, 2011 | Hot Topics

A Bank of America Merrill Lynch report arrived in my inbox this morning with the title “Do earnings never end” — how true. Here are two quick notes on today’s announcements to keep you up-to-date while I finish going over the results reported by Dassault...

MuM’s the (good) word

Feb 7, 2011 | Hot Topics

Last week German reseller Mensch und Maschine (MuM) disclosed preliminary results for 2010 that showed strong growth in revenue and operating profit for the fourth quarter and for the year as a whole. For the year, total sales were up up 19% to €195 million while Q4...