Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners

Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners

Jun 10, 2019 | Hot Topics

Missler Software announced in April (yes, I know it’s old news, but it is important news, nonetheless) that it will now be known as TOPSOLID. It’s not as random as it sounds: the Topsolid CAM product has a great (if expensive) reputation and few knew that...
Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners

Wipro snaps up ITI

Jun 5, 2019 | Hot Topics

This is a really big deal: Wipro has signed a definitive agreement to acquire International TechneGroup Incorporated (probably better known as ITI), maker of the interoperability solutions that make the PLMish world possible. I saw the news from the Economic Times of...
Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners

Quickie: AVEVA adds asset performance assets

Apr 5, 2019 | Hot Topics

Super-quick, as I’m about to board a flight: AVEVA has apparently decided its offering (the combined Schneider Electric Software and legacy AVEVA products) had a gap in asset performance management that could only be filled by acquisition. To that end, the...
OnScale secures $10 million investment

OnScale secures $10 million investment

Apr 2, 2019 | Hot Topics

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...
Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners

CAE roll-ups continue, with Siemens and Altair active

Apr 1, 2019 | Hot Topics

I work with a lot of investors and software companies, and perhaps the most common question I am asked is, what’s left to acquire? It’s rare that an industrial company acquires a simulation provider (as Juul did when it snapped up Envenio); this is usually...
Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners

Bentley invests in digital twins for water infrastructure

Mar 1, 2019 | Hot Topics

So much news …. Amidst a lot of earnings comes this, from Bentley Systems: Bentley today said that it has invested an undisclosed amount in Digital Water Works, a company that makes digital twin solutions for “smart wet infrastructure” (my quotes),...
Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners

Hexagon adds Thermopylae to its geospatial biz

Feb 25, 2019 | Hot Topics

Another week, another acquisition: Hexagon says it will buy Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, a software provider of geospatial applications, mobile frameworks and cloud computing for enhanced location intelligence, primarily to the US government and other defense...
Bentley gets into street signs

Bentley gets into street signs

Feb 12, 2019 | Hot Topics

I live on a street with the popular girl’s name, Kathleen. Every so often a boy, hoping to impress a girl (likely named Kathleen), steals our street sign. I’ve often wondered how someone monitors those thefts and then causes replacements to be made —...
Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners

Quickie: DS acquires elecworks

Feb 11, 2019 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes said today that it will acquire Trace Software’s elecworks electrical and automation design software product line in an asset transfer. Trace has been a SolidWorks applications partner since 1997; in 2012, Trace became a strategic partner so that the...
Missler becomes TOPSOLID, with new owners

ANSYS buys Granta for materials intel

Jan 23, 2019 | Hot Topics

You saw this one coming, right? Two in one week, though …. ANSYS announced last night that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Granta Design, maker of materials intelligence solutions, critical for accurate simulations of material and device...