Exa ends year on weak note, looks to growth in F2014

Exa ends year on weak note, looks to growth in F2014

Mar 28, 2013 | Hot Topics

Exa Corporation reported lackluster results for the quarter that ended January 31, 2013, but says that business has already picked up, leading to optimism for fiscal 2014. CEO Steve Remondi told investors that the budget delays seen in FQ4 are largely behind them and...
CD-adapco’s STAR conference: space, smoke & more space

CD-adapco’s STAR conference: space, smoke & more space

Mar 21, 2013 | Hot Topics

As is usually the case, CD-adapco’s annual STAR Global Conference aims to teach much more than one human can absorb in a few days. I usually walk away with my brain spinning, but energized and excited by the potential of CD-adapco’s solutions to help...
Exa ends year on weak note, looks to growth in F2014

ANSYS revenue up 11% in Q4, looks at 10%-13% in 2013

Feb 28, 2013 | Hot Topics

ANSYS today reported results for Q4 and full-year 2012 that, while good, highlight the slow growth in Q4 of the company’s non-Apache products. Since ANSYS has been such an aggressive aggregator of simulation technologies, it wouldn’t surprise me to see...
CAE competence management: are we ready?

CAE competence management: are we ready?

Feb 22, 2013 | Hot Topics

There’s an apocryphal story in CAE: A number of years ago, an auto company decided to see how consistently CAE was applied across its organization. Management asked a number of individual analysts to solve the same problem using the same code. Lo and behold,...
Exa ends year on weak note, looks to growth in F2014

Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE

Sep 14, 2012 | Hot Topics

CFD has been hopping lately, with Exa announcing results from its first quarter as a public company, while ESI acquired OpenCFD from SGI and announced its own results for the most recent quarter. Here’s a quick overview of the recent activity: Exa’s July...
Exa Corp. may IPO this week

Exa Corp. may IPO this week

Jun 25, 2012 | Hot Topics

There’s been a lot of investment and acquisition activity among engineering software companies, but very little of the “going public” hoopla that recently surrounded Facebook’s IPO. Will this week’s possible IPO of CFD maker Exa change...

CD-adapco users validate, automate to success

May 21, 2012 | Hot Topics

In part 1 of my report on the CD-adapco Global User Conference, I wrote about plans for STAR-CCM+, a new iPad app and my adventures in a STAR-CCM+ hands-on session. There were so many excellent user presentations, that I’d like to give a quick recap of what I...

CD-adapco: Bikes, cars and so much more

Apr 3, 2012 | Hot Topics

Did you know that the weight of a bicycle becomes relevant only when the grade of the road you’re riding on is 8% or higher? The bike’s aerodynamics come into play on flats, uphills and downhills and, it turns out, have a significantly greater impact on a...

Mentor Graphics hits a billion

Feb 29, 2012 | Hot Topics

Mentor reported that revenue was up 4% $320 million for FQ4 ended January 31, 2011. For the quarter, systems and software revenue was up just 2%, while service and support revenue was up 10% to $100 million. For the year, the company reported revenue of $1,015...

ANSYS Q4 was solid, also cautious for 2012

Feb 24, 2012 | Hot Topics

ANSYS reported revenue yesterday for the fourth quarter and all of 2011. In a nutshell, Q4 was terrific by pretty much any measure and only in part due to the contribution of the Apache acquisition. Wall Street was less impressed as tax adjustments lowered net income...