Bentley ramps up utility pole management offering with SPIDA acquisition
Bentley ramps up utility pole management offering with SPIDA acquisition You may know that, over the years, I’ve judged various categories for Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure Awards and learned so much in the process. One year, an entry was all about...
Quickie: Siemens adds proFPGA for hardware verification
Quickie: Siemens adds proFPGA for hardware verification Super quick, as I (virtually) run between events: Siemens Digital Industries Software just announced that it has signed an agreement with PRO DESIGN Electronic GmbH to acquire its proFPGA product family of Field...
Quickie: Siemens nabs Nextflow for meshless CFD
Quickie: Siemens nabs Nextflow for meshless CFD Siemens just announced that it has acquired Nextflow Software, maker of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) solvers. Siemens says that Nextflow’s Smooth-Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) solver doesn’t require the...
4 on a Thursday: 3D Systems divests, Autodesk talks Upchain roadmap, Luxion gains investor & new CEO, Panasonic buys Blue Yonder
4 on a Thursday: 3D Systems divests, Autodesk talks Upchain roadmap, Luxion gains investor & new CEO, Panasonic buys Blue Yonder So much news, so little time! 3D Systems continues to reinvent itself, announcing this week that it sold off its on-demand...
AVEVA says demand improved in H2, leading to FY2021 pro forma revenue up 2% occ — it’s complicated
AVEVA says demand improved in H2, leading to FY2021 pro forma revenue up 2% occ — it’s complicated There’s a lot going on at AVEVA, with the close of the OSIsoft acquisition, the end of a fiscal year, a new CEO, a global pandemic, and the recovery...
Bentley’s Q1 revenue up 14%, cites SMB progress
Bentley’s Q1 revenue up 14%, cites SMB progress Bentley reported results way back on May 11 but I haven’t had time to finish a deeper analysis — so here’s a quick piece on those results and a little bit on what it all means. Even more quickly:...
Siemens to acquire Supplyframe for EDA supply chain, broader digital marketplace
Siemens to acquire Supplyframe for EDA supply chain, broader digital marketplace I just noticed that Siemens today announced that it will acquire Supplyframe for $700 million, in a deal that is expected to close sometime before the end of September 2021. I am not...
Ansys acquires Phoenix Integration & its ModelCenter
Ansys acquires Phoenix Integration & its ModelCenter Ansys just announced that it has acquired Phoenix Integration, maker of ModelCenter, a tool used by many who apply the principles of model-based engineering (MBE) and model-based systems engineering (MBSE). The...
