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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
May 29, 2013 | Hot Topics
First day back from a lot of travel –ask me about Vienna, the SIMULIA user conference and the General Clinton Canoe Regatta, pictured below, when you next see me– and there’s lot’s of news — oh, and a big acquisition to cover, too....
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”...
