ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

Apr 16, 2015 | Hot Topics

Add together acquisitive leanings and the trend to all things cloud, and what do you get? ESI yesterday announced that it has acquired Ciespace, which appears to have figured out a way to get around performance , scalability and real-time collaboration issues to...
ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

Altair scales up with Multiscale Design Systems

Apr 8, 2015 | Hot Topics

Acquisition news continues to roll. Yesterday, Altair announced that it has acquired Multiscale Design Systems, makers of the MDS suite of products that enable modeling, simulation, testing and optimization using multiple spatial and temporal scales. I know, I...
ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

ESI goes big — data, that is

Apr 1, 2015 | Hot Topics

ESI Group is on a roll, announcing two acquisitions in less than a week. Today, the company said it is acquiring the assets of Picviz Labs, which creates data-mining and cyber-security technologies. Picviz Inspector enables users to examine large, complex datasets...
ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

Hexagon acquires Q-DAS for factory optimization

Mar 30, 2015 | Hot Topics

Two acquisitions in a weekend — consolidation continues as engineering software suppliers broaden their reach, hunt for new customers and deepen their hold on existing clients. We wrote on Saturday about ESI’s acquisition of CIVITEC, which will enable it...
ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

ESI gets deeper into automotive controls

Mar 28, 2015 | Hot Topics

ESI announced today that it is acquiring CIVITEC, maker of Pro-SiVIC, a platform for the modeling and simulation of sensors in what it calls “perception assistance systems”. You’ve seen the commercial for the car that parallel parks itself: how does...
ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

Very quick: Intergraph acquires Visual Vessel Design

Mar 19, 2015 | Hot Topics

Dashing to the airport (from warm and lovely San Diego, to a cold and possibly snowy Boston — what am I thinking?!) and just got an email announcing that Intergraph has acquired Ohmtech, makers of Visual Vessel Design, an analytical tool to design pressure...
ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

Trimble’s Fifth Element for the Connected Forest

Mar 10, 2015 | Hot Topics

AEC acquisitions have been all the rage so far this year — and Trimble keeps the ball rolling with today’s announcement that it’s bought Fifth Element (no, that was a movie; this is forestry), based in Finland. Financial terms were not disclosed....
ESI acquires Ciespace to bring CAE to the masses

Trimble acquires Linear project to boost corridor planning

Mar 5, 2015 | Hot Topics

Trimble today announced that it has acquired Linear project GMBH, a privately-held provider of scheduling software for linear or corridor infrastructure projects –that’s highways, railways, pipelines, tunnels, transmission lines and similar built assets...
FARO snaps up kubit

FARO snaps up kubit

Mar 4, 2015 | Hot Topics

Well, well, well. Another independent, gobbled up. FARO, maker of laser scanners for metrology (very tight tolerances) and infrastructure applications (huge data sets, accurate, often outdoors) just acquired kubit, a German company that has been a leader in developing...
MSC acquires Simufact for forming, welding

MSC acquires Simufact for forming, welding

Feb 17, 2015 | Hot Topics

MSC Software just announced that it has acquired Simufact, maker of Simufact.forming and Simufact.welding, nonlinear simulation software technology for manufacturers. Yes, for forming and welding — it costs a lot of money to trial these manufacturing processes,...