Simcenter Prague: towards digital twin maturity
Last month I spent time with the Siemens Simcenter team and a couple hundred of their top customers, talking all things CAE. We covered CFD, how AR/VR fits into simulation workflows, where optimization can and should be applied, how to leverage the intersection of...
More from the inbox: BIOVIA acquires plus news about Modelon, FINALCAD, Trimble, PTC + Frustum
The inbox is overflowing with news — perhaps as everyone clears the decks before heading out for year-end holidays. Here, a few more items: Dassault Systèmes announced this morning that its BIOVIA brand has acquired of COSMOlogic, maker of a predictive...
Quickie: Sad news from BETA CAE, plus updates from Altair, MuM and RIB
A quick catch-up on recent happenings, starting with the sad news that the Managing Director of BETA CAE Systems SA, Christos Kolovos, passed away on December 7. He was one of founders of BETA CAE and was a member of the Boards of Directors of several group...
Just in: Envenio becomes part of JUUL
Now this is interesting. Envenio, which offered cloud based, on-demand, GPU-powered CFD simulation, just sent out an email saying they’ve been acquired by JUUL and will cease independent operations at the end of December. Envenio’s EXN/Aero, is a...
ESI’s Q3 license revenue up 16% on a large early renewal
ESI Group just reported results for its fiscal third quarter that could signal a return to growth after a lackluster first six months of the year. The details: Total revenue was €28 million, up 12% as reported and up 12% in constant currencies (cc) License revenue...
PTC buys Frustum, as gen des heats up
Not sure what gen des is? Generative design is the use of assistive technologies to help refine a design. Need a chair to hold a certain sized person? Give a gen des tool a set of parameters, and let it design the chair for you — that’s called topology...
Altair + Datawatch = interesting opportunities
Yesterday, Altair announced that it wants to acquire/merge with Datawatch, prompting a lot of “who?” and “why?”. Since I hadn’t heard of Datawatch, I did a bit of research — here’s what I learned and why I think this...
Quickie: Altair to acquire Datawatch for analytics
Dashing out the door to an all-day meeting and this pops into the inbox: Altair is merging with really, acquiring) Datawatch, a company that makes data prep, data prediction, and high-volume data visualization technologies that Altair feels will enable it to...

