Spectris announces CAE ambitions, acquires VI-grade
The news came into my inbox this morning: Spectris has acquired VI-grade. Who? I know, me too. Background: Spectris is a big UK company, listed with over $2 billion in revenue in 2017. It currently does a lot of the physical parts of a test-and-simulate program:...
ANSYS & SAP create insights across engineering & operations
In all of the noise a few weeks ago about PTC’s partnership with ANSYS to embed ANSYS Discovery Live into Creo, you might have missed the news that ANSYS has also partnered with SAP to bring physics-based analytics to the foreground in manufacturing operations. ANSYS...
MSC + Hexagon: “Where Simulation Gets Real”
“This is where simulation gets real.” That’s what Paolo Guglielmini, the CEO of MSC Software, told users in his standing room only keynote at last month’s HxGN LIVE conference in Las Vegas. You might remember that Hexagon acquired MSC in 2017, with the...
ESI’s FQ1 hints at upward momentum for H2
ESI reported results back at the end of May –travel and US holidays sometimes get in the way of timely blogging– and they were, at best, mediocre as reported. Currency movements, customers opting for subscriptions and not perpetual licenses, and changes in...
PTC’s LiveWorx foreshadows digital transformations
PTC’s LiveWorx foreshadows digital transformations Technology. Business partnerships. Longtime customers, dragged forward. New customers to be wooed. PTC’s annual user conference, now called LiveWorx, is barely over and there is so much to digest and to...
Altair tops targets in Q1, acquires rest of FluiDyna
Altair made several significant announcement over the last week, culminating yesterday with its first quarter results. Quickly, Altair reported Q1 revenue that beat expectations, sending its share price up a couple of percentage points after the announcement hit the...
Siemens FQ2 results highlight sharp growth in PLM
Siemens released its fiscal Q2 results this morning — and PLM software continues to be a bright spot, with frequent mentions of integration into other areas of the business and the opportunities ahead. Siemens said revenue from the PLM software business...
Hexagon’s diversity helped offset PP&M’s lackluster Q1
Hexagon, another big company getting bigger via acquisitions, announced results last Friday. Hexagon is the parent company of brands such as Leica Geosystems, (Intergraph but now) Hexagon Process, Power and Marine (PP&M), Vero and MSC Software — and is...
