Quickies: Bentley Day 1, some catch-up and more sheep!

Quickies: Bentley Day 1, some catch-up and more sheep!

Oct 28, 2013 | Hot Topics

A lot happened while I was walking around Yorkshire and we need to cover Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure Day 1, too, so let’s get right to it: ESI Group announced that it has acquired 75% of the equity of CyDesign Labs, a Silicon Valley company that many...
The ups & downs of license model choice

The ups & downs of license model choice

Oct 17, 2013 | Hot Topics

We learned earlier this week what can happen when customers are offered a choice and pick something unexpected: Dassault Systèmes announced that it failed to meet its third quarter 2013 revenue goals, in part, because more customers opted for rentals/subscription than...
The ups & downs of license model choice

Quickies: DS preannounces Q3 miss, Hexagon acquires

Oct 14, 2013 | Hot Topics

It’s a holiday for some here in the US, but the PLMish world hardly slows down! First up, Dassault Systèmes announced that it had missed its Q3 targets, with preliminary data showing non-IFRS revenue of €496 million, €24 million short of the company’s...
The ups & downs of license model choice

Quickie: DS acquires Safe Tech

Sep 4, 2013 | Hot Topics

DS just announced that it has acquired Safe Technology Ltd., for its fatigue simulation technology, fe-safe. From the press release, “Safe Technology has been working closely with Dassault Systèmes and its SIMULIA applications for more than 15 years and in that...
The ups & downs of license model choice

DS’ Q2 ahead on some metrics, not on others

Jul 30, 2013 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes’ earnings announcements keep getting more complex, mixing lots of different revenue metrics, acquisitions, currency and abstruse international accounting. FQ2 2013 was no exception. Let’s see what we can figure out. The most obvious point from...
The ups & downs of license model choice

Quickies: PTC acquires, DS closes, Hexagon sells

Jul 23, 2013 | Hot Topics

There’s a lot of acquisition news coming out of the PLMish universe, so let’s catch up a bit while we wait for earnings to really heat up later this week. PTC last week announced that it acquired Enigma, a company whose products aggregate and deliver...
Couldn’t get to Vienna? Recap of SIMULIA conference

Couldn’t get to Vienna? Recap of SIMULIA conference

Jun 11, 2013 | Hot Topics

Picture this: we’re in an ancient city of castles, cathedrals and really good cake, meeting to talk about advancements in  cutting-edge technology: simulation. It’s a little like the picture to the right, of St. Stephen’s cathedral reflected in a...
The ups & downs of license model choice

PTC channel doing well, DS/SIMPOE update

May 13, 2013 | Hot Topics

It’s going to be another busy week, with earnings from Hexagon, Cimatron and Stratasys today and then CENIT, ExOne and Autodesk later in the week. Before we start on those, however, there are a couple of bits of old business to handle, too. If “old”...
SIMULIA shines the spotlight on topology optimization

SIMULIA shines the spotlight on topology optimization

May 8, 2013 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes recently announced the acquisition of FE-DESIGN Group, makers of TOSCA for topology optimization. DS’ SIMULIA brand had already released a TOSCA-based Abaqus product, Abaqus ATOM, and the relationship between SIMULIA and FE-DESIGN was good, so...