


4 on a Friday: AspenTech and FARO acquire, Autodesk reports, and OpenFOAM is (still) independent
4 on a Friday: AspenTech and FARO acquire, Autodesk reports, and OpenFOAM is (still) independent A lot of things to catch up on before the weekend: AspenTech announced that it will acquire Micromine, maker of (you guessed it) mine design and management solutions for...
4 on a Monday: Cadence acquires in bioscience, ESI sells some CFD (NOT OpenFOAM), MuM announces Q2, and Hexagon gets into 80s rock — not really
4 on a Monday: Cadence acquires in bioscience, ESI sells some CFD (NOT OpenFOAM), MuM announces Q2, and Hexagon gets into 80s rock — not really A quick catch-up on some recent news as we get ready for a bumper crop of earnings this week: Cadence said it would...
5 on a Monday: Addnode & Sandvik report Q2, Cadence acquires Future Facilities, Matterport adds to its real estate offering & Siemens snaps up ZONA for aero simulation
5 on a Monday: Addnode & Sandvik report Q2, Cadence acquires Future Facilities, Matterport adds to its real estate offering & Siemens snaps up ZONA for aero simulation Yes, a quick catchup blog is unusual on a Monday, but I was traveling last week and am...
Cadence still very happy with CAE offerings
Cadence still very happy with CAE offerings Last night Cadence announced results for the first fiscal quarter of 2022; you can read about them in much more detail here — they were overall very good and the company increased just about all forecasts for 2022....
Flow Science acquired by owner of MAGMA and SIGMA
Flow Science acquired by owner of MAGMA and SIGMA Dr. Flender Holding GmbH announced this week that it acquired 100% of the shares of Flow Science, Inc. in December 2021. Flow Science makes Flow3D, but Flender who, you might ask? (I certainly did.) Turns out that...
Cadence on CAE: delight and opportunity
Cadence on CAE: delight and opportunity Over the last few months, Cadence acquired NUMECA for its CFD and Omnis offerings, and Pointwise for its meshing capabilities. These took me by surprise since both are great CAE assets that I had no idea a Cadence would be...
Quickie: Siemens nabs Nextflow for meshless CFD
Quickie: Siemens nabs Nextflow for meshless CFD Siemens just announced that it has acquired Nextflow Software, maker of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers. Siemens says that Nextflow’s Smooth-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) solver doesn’t require the...
Pointwise acquired by Cadence
Pointwise acquired by Cadence It’s getting hard to keep up! Just in, an email from Pointwise, the CAE meshing experts: We are happy to report today that Pointwise, Inc. is being acquired by Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS), a pivotal leader in...