Feb 15, 2011 | Hot Topics
2010 was a big year for Dassault Systèmes as it tightened control on its distribution network by buying IBM PLM, closing the biggest acquisition in DS’ history. Did this distract management? Lead to complications in merging sales teams and assigning territories and...Feb 14, 2011 | Hot Topics
Rand Worldwide, created by the reverse merger of Rand and Avatech, today announced results for the second quarter of its fiscal 2011. Rand’s published comparisons are between the merged entity for the period ended December 31, 2010 and Rand-alone for the period ended...Feb 11, 2011 | Hot Topics
A Bank of America Merrill Lynch report arrived in my inbox this morning with the title “Do earnings never end” — how true. Here are two quick notes on today’s announcements to keep you up-to-date while I finish going over the results reported by Dassault...Jan 19, 2011 | Hot Topics
A few quick thoughts while I work through the pile in the inbox: Bentley to buy back Intergraph’s stake The Huntsville (AL) Times on Monday published a blog post about Bentley Systems buying back the shares that had been owned by Intergraph. In the dark ages,...Nov 26, 2010 | Hot Topics
This week saw a rather strange battle of the press releases: Siemens PLM announced that Daimler AG will phase in NX as its standard for worldwide vehicle development starting in 2012. Dassault Systèmes followed a short while later with a press release that said this...Oct 28, 2010 | Hot Topics
Lots going on today — PTC makes its big announcement (and, I think, slipped up a bit on some timing), DS reports that Q3 was really good, Altair acquires SimLab and Hexagon closes on Intergraph. Briefly, before I flit off to the PTC event: •PTC’s been so loudly...Jul 29, 2010 | Hot Topics
Dassault Systèmes reported total revenue of €386 million on an IFRS basis (think GAAP, but in Europe), up 24% from a year ago on strong software revenue growth of 28%. Favorable exchange rates contributed roughly 6% of growth across the board. IBM’s contributions are...Jun 23, 2010 | Hot Topics
Amid all of the buzz on the latest version of V6, this one almost got lost: Dassault Systèmes yesterday announced the acquisition of its latest technology tuck-in: Geensoft, provider of embedded systems development solutions, for €5.5 million. Geensoft delivers tools...
