Quickie: DS acquires No Magic for MBSE, has mixed Q3

Quickie: DS acquires No Magic for MBSE, has mixed Q3

Oct 25, 2017 | Hot Topics

I’m at AVEVA World Summit this week, so this has to be brief: DS announced earnings today, and as part of that package of news said that it intends to acquire No Magic, a maker of model-based systems engineering and architecture modeling solutions for software...
Hexagon doubles up, announces 2nd acquisition in a week

Hexagon doubles up, announces 2nd acquisition in a week

Oct 6, 2017 | Hot Topics

In between flights, so this may not even rise to the level of a quickie: Hexagon just announced the acquisition of the dimensional data management, quality planning and analytics technology, called eMMA, from Kronion GmbH. Not surprising, the Kronion team and the eMMA...
Hexagon doubles up, announces 2nd acquisition in a week

Hexagon acquires Luciad for real-time sensor integration

Oct 4, 2017 | Hot Topics

Hexagon today announced that it has acquired Luciad, a Belgian software company that makes solutions for visualizing and analyzing real-time geospatial data. Luciad was spun out of the University KU Leuven (like LMS and countless others) in 1999 as an open solution...
Quickie: DS acquires No Magic for MBSE, has mixed Q3

Super quickie: AVEVA shareholders approve Schneider deal

Sep 29, 2017 | Hot Topics

Over 99% of AVEVA shares voted in favor of the combination with Schneider Electric’s Software Business, the entity that includes SimSci, WonderWare and other software assets of Schneider Electric SE. According to the plan outlined earlier this month, that leaves...
Hexagon doubles up, announces 2nd acquisition in a week

Altair continues buildout, buys developer of ESAComp

Sep 14, 2017 | Hot Topics

Altair just announced that it has acquired Componeering, the Finnish developer of the ESAComp composites simulation software suite. I didn’t know this, but Altair’s announcement says that ESAComp came out of a project funded by the European Space Agency...
Quickie: DS acquires No Magic for MBSE, has mixed Q3

Aras secures investment, poised for serious growth

Sep 11, 2017 | Hot Topics

Aras announced last week that is has secured $40 million in funding in exchange for a minority stake in the company and a board seat. Silver Lake Kraftwerk and GE Ventures partnered for the investment. Aras said it will use the funds to drive growth, expand operations...
Hexagon doubles up, announces 2nd acquisition in a week

Quick add to AVEVA + Schneider

Sep 6, 2017 | Hot Topics

A couple of people have gotten in touch about yesterday’s post, where I asked whether third time’s the charm for an AVEVA/Schneider Electric software deal. It’s important to note that: The only thing that could derail this combination now is if...
Quickie: DS acquires No Magic for MBSE, has mixed Q3

Here we go again: AVEVA + Schneider

Sep 4, 2017 | Hot Topics

While many of us Yanks were off celebrating the unofficial end of summer, the British and French were apparently hard at work. The Financial Times and other media report that AVEVA and Schneider Electric are about to announce yet another attempt at a merger...
Quickie: DS acquires No Magic for MBSE, has mixed Q3

Quickie: AVEVA + Schneider unlikely right now

Jul 27, 2017 | Hot Topics

There’s so much going on right now, between earnings, acquisitions and other news-worthy stuff, that I keep starting posts and having to move on before I can finish them. I will, I will! When, though … But many of you are asking about possible acquisition...