DS’ Q3 shows the challenges in the perpetuals-to-subs transition If you look at the financial news, you’ll probably see headlines about today’s earnings announcement by Dassault Systèmes that focus on how license revenue was below expectations — and that’s true....
AVEVA has big Q4 but subs transition to slow F23 before picking up steam AVEVA today gave a more extensive-than-usual financial update on fiscal 2022, the year ended March 31. We’ll get the full earnings release in early June, but the company disclosed today...
Ansys to acquire OnScale Do you do your simulation in the cloud? Do you want to? Ansys is betting you do … Ansys just announced that it is acquiring OnScale, providers of a cloud-first simulation platform that, according to OnScale CEO Ian Campbell,...
Altair gets into PLM with Cassini acquisition Altair just announced that it has acquired Cassini Systems, a cloud-native PLM platform. Cassini does many of the things you’d expect a PLM to do — vault, manage collaboration, etc.– but perhaps a...
5 on a Friday: Aras, Hexagon, Sandvik acquire; Nemetschek invests and earnings are a GO One year ends and another begins … pretty much as the old one left off. While we were eating too many cookies in late December, Nemetschek and Sandvik announced deals; Aras...
Autodesk takes minority stake in Aurigo, for infrastructure project delivery Here’s an interesting one that I didn’t see coming: rather than acquiring, Autodesk is taking a minority stake in the privately-held AEC-focused firm, Aurigo Software....
SAP pre-announces, still sees growth for 2020 SAP became the latest company in our PLMish universe to pre-announce results for the quarter ended March 31, and offer some glimpses into how other companies may have fared — and to what the rest of 2020 may hold....
Nemetschek and RIB continued the PLMish roll this earnings season, with both companies reporting stellar growth in Q1. You may recall that Nemetschek started out as the provider of building information (BIM) solutions Allplan and Graphisoft, but has recently been...
Yesterday, I wrote about the continuing buying spree in CAE. Then came the news that OnScale has secured $10 million in Series A funding led by Intel Capital and Gradient Ventures, Google’s investment fund, along with Thornton Tomasetti, Stage 2 Capital, Cultivation...
If you’ve ever watched the news in the US, at some point you will have seen a company ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange (Wall Street) or the Nasdaq (further up the island of Manhattan, in Times Square). I’ve never given much thought to who or...
