MSC acquires FFT, Actran

Sep 6, 2011 | Hot Topics

MSC Software today announced that it has acquired the Belgian company Free Field Technologies (FFT), a provider of acoustics and NVH simulation software for the automotive, aerospace and other industries. MSC’s press release says that “bringing FFT together with MSC’s...

What you might have missed, 1 Sept

Sep 1, 2011 | Hot Topics

A lot happened while I was on vacation, and I’m still trying to catch up. A couple more headline-y bits from the overflowing inbox:Spaceclaim 2011+Spaceclaim last week announced the 2011+ release of its eponymous software. This release has a heavy focus on building...

What you might have missed, 23 August

Aug 23, 2011 | Hot Topics

So I went on vacation last week. And the world of engineering software kept going, perhaps even ramped up a bit even though I wasn’t around to pay attention. Here are a few of the news bits I found most compelling from my time away:SGI acquires OpenCFDLast week SGI...

News roundup for August 12

Aug 12, 2011 | Hot Topics

Last week’s earnings fever has died down, but there were still a couple of items of note this week when much of the northern hemisphere is on vacation: CENIT CENIT reported this week that it saw “increased demand … especially from the manufacturing industry and...

Trimble and Hexagon – mixed picture

Aug 5, 2011 | Hot Topics

It was a very busy week of earnings and economic news as global markets tried to figure out how the budget situation in the US would play out. In general, though their share prices were dragged down by larger economic news, engineering software company reports were...

ANSYS Q2 makes investors smile

Aug 4, 2011 | Hot Topics

ANSYS today announced results for Q2 and outlook for the rest of the year that sent shares up by over 5% in early trading on the NASDAQ and finally answering some questions about its Apache acquisition. ANSYS reported revenue for the second quarter of 2011, up 18% to...

Makers, the new super geeks?

Aug 1, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk’s acquisitive ways continue as the company today announced its purchase of Instructables, a website that lets people share their do-it-yourself ("DIY") project ideas. There are many interesting aspects to this acquisition – not the least of...

DS: balanced growth in Q2

Jul 28, 2011 | Hot Topics

The first thing to note about Dassault Systèmes’ earnings release is that it is a complicated, day-long affair that involves face-to-face meetings with analysts in Paris, interviews with Bloomberg news and other outlets and an analyst earnings telephone call —...

PTC Q2 beats – and it’s not due to MKS

Jul 27, 2011 | Hot Topics

Parametric Technology Corp. (PTC) reported fiscal third quarter revenue of $292 million, nicely ahead of earlier guidance of revenue between $275 million and $285 million and up 20% from a year ago. Some of the upside came from MKS, which contributed $6 million in the...

MuM all according to plan

Jul 25, 2011 | Hot Topics

The engineering software public reporting season starts in earnest this week, with Mensch und Maschine (MuM), PTC, Dassault Systemes and Nemetschek releasing information on their second quarter performance and their view of the year still to come.MuM kicked things off...