Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

Jul 21, 2016 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes announced its Q2 results this morning (good, acceleration expected in the second half of the year) and also said that it has agreed to acquire acquire Computer Simulation Technology AG (CST), a maker of electromagnetic and electronics simulation, for...
Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

Autodesk acquires PCB design for Fusion 360

Jun 29, 2016 | Hot Topics

Interesting. I just saw that Autodesk has acquired Cadsoft Computer GmbH, a German company, from Premier Farnell. Premier Farnell distributes electronics components though many different channels, including online markets,and maintains the element14 online...
Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

AVEVA + Schneider a no-go

Jun 15, 2016 | Hot Topics

In a very brief statement even by UK standards AVEVA just said, “Following the termination of the preliminary discussions between AVEVA Group Plc (“AVEVA”) and Schneider Electric SE, AVEVA has applied to the UKLA for the suspension of its shares to...
Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

Deal and … maybe deal

Jun 13, 2016 | Hot Topics

What happens when I spend the day on a plane? News! Briefly, AVEVA and Schneider Electric have resumed their tango. AVEVA today addressed press speculation by issuing an announcement that it was again in talks with Schneider Electric about a deal that would combine...
Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

AspenTech acquires Fidelis for asset optimization

Jun 7, 2016 | Hot Topics

You may remember that Aspen Technology was rebuffed earlier this year when it tried to acquire KBC and its refinery optimization expertise. Well, that didn’t slow them down much: Today, AspenTech announced that it has acquired FidelisGroup, maker of Titan 2,...
Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

Quickie: DS acquires Ortems for production scheduling

Jun 2, 2016 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes just announced that it has acquired Ortems, a provider of on-premise and on the cloud capacity constraint-based production scheduling and dispatching software. Ortems’ solutions, Agile Manufacturing and PlannerOne, manage manufacturing operations...
Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

Vela Software acquires Tecplot

May 19, 2016 | Hot Topics

Tecplot, Inc., a leading provider of visual data analysis software for engineers and scientists in the aerospace and oil & gas vertical markets, today announced that it has been acquired by Vela Software, an operating group of Constellation Software, Inc. If...
Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

Altair acquires CEDRAT to continue build-out of emag capabs

May 12, 2016 | Hot Topics

Altair announced this week that is has acquired French CEDRAT S.A. and its New York-based subsidiary, Magsoft Corporation. CEDRAT makes technology that simulates low frequency electromagnetics for motor design. Its Flux, GOT-It & InCa3D enable designers to...
Quickie: DS to acquire CST for €220 million

Quickies: OnShape, Bentley, Hexagon and PP&M — oh my!

May 2, 2016 | Hot Topics

So much news, so little time. A quick roundup of interesting news: A couple of weeks ago, OnShape reported that it has now sold shares valued at a total of $105 million, an increase of $25 million from last year’s announcement. By my reckoning, this...
Autodesk adds to its renderers, buys Solid Angle

Autodesk adds to its renderers, buys Solid Angle

Apr 18, 2016 | Hot Topics

Autodesk just announced that it has acquired Solid Angle, maker of Arnold, a ray-tracing image renderer for high-quality 3D animation and visual effects creation. Arnold was co-developed with Sony Pictures Imageworks and is now their main renderer. Autodesk says...