Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE

Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE

CFD has been hopping lately, with Exa announcing results from its first quarter as a public company, while ESI acquired OpenCFD from SGI and announced its own results for the most recent quarter. Here’s a quick overview of the recent activity: Exa’s July...
Quickies: Autodesk Sim, MSC, Siemens

Quickies: Autodesk Sim, MSC, Siemens

Once again, news is flowing faster than normal human beings can keep up. More on each of these as time permits, but for now: Autodesk finally took the wraps off its Simulation 360 offering, which lets customers run flow, thermal, and stress analysis in the cloud with...
Trimble keeps moving with partnerships, acquisitions

Trimble keeps moving with partnerships, acquisitions

Last Friday, Trimble Navigation and FARO announced that they signed an OEM and distribution agreement for FARO’s 3D laser scanners. Under the agreement, FARO will provide Trimble with a differentiated product based upon the FARO Laser Scanner Focus3D. Trimble...
Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE

PTC bolsters SLM offering with Servigistics

PTC today announced that it will acquire Servigistics for $220 million in cash to further fill out its offering for the very long services tail of a product’s life — an area where manufacturers are increasingly looking for revenue opportunities....
Trimble keeps moving with partnerships, acquisitions

Gemcom and GEOVIA, a tale of two brands

During its earnings call last week, Dassault Systèmes (DS) continued to explain its vision of  moving beyond “product experience” (engineering and design), to the larger concept of 3DEXPERIENCE, which adds business intelligence and other apps to its offering in...
Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE

ANSYS customers “receptive to LT vision”, boost Q2

ANSYS reported results today that were at worst in line with and often ahead of expectations, causing shareholders to drive the stock price up 12% in early trading. CEO Jim Cashman summed it up this way: “All key metrics of our business were strong, including...
Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE

Quickies: 3D Systems, CENIT, FARO & Stratasys

While you’re undoubtedly thinking “beach”, earnings news continues to roll. In general, Q2 seems to have been quite strong but there is concern about the rest of the year, with some companies reporting that activity in Europe started to drop off...
Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE

Quickies: DDD acquires, SAP beats

It’s earnings season, so there’s all sorts of news coming out. Two quick items to note: 3D Systems announced that has acquired Viztu Technologies, the developer of an online platform that turns pictures and videos into printable 3D objects. DDD plans to...
Exa & ESI: Positive signs in CAE

MuM scales back acquisitions

A quick update: German company Mensch und Maschine Software (MuM) announced today that a “solid Q2” build on the success of a “strong Q1” to lead to a “good first half of fiscal year 2012”. Recall that MuM sold its distribution...
Oracle acquires Skire for project portfolio mgmt

Oracle acquires Skire for project portfolio mgmt

The big continue to get bigger. Last Thursday, Oracle announced that it was acquiring the assets of Skire, a Silicon Valley maker of capital projects management software for the process industries. I first ran across Skire about ten years ago at a Daratech Plant...