PLM earnings check: AI, tariffs, and longer sales cycles

PLM earnings check: AI, tariffs, and longer sales cycles

PLM earnings check: AI, tariffs, and longer sales cycles Earnings season kicked off last week. No true PLM heavyweights yet, but enough software and industrial results to start looking at sales and demand trends. And some interesting bits and pieces. Fasten your...
PLMish earnings so far: mostly cautious but upbeat

PLMish earnings so far: mostly cautious but upbeat

PLMish earnings so far: mostly cautious but upbeat Bentley Systems and Trimble reported results yesterday, so while we have weeks to go still in this earnings season, it seems reasonable to do a recap of the main themes so far. As you may know, I listen to a lot of...
PLMish earnings so far: mostly cautious but upbeat

Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my!

Many newsy bits on a Thursday: deals and earnings, oh my! What did I see this morning? We’re not even at the end of January, and it already feels like a very long year … something like that. You too? We’ll get through it together! While the wider world...
MuM starts PLMish earnings on a strong, but mixed, note

MuM starts PLMish earnings on a strong, but mixed, note

MuM starts PLMish earnings on a strong, but mixed, note Mensch und Maschine reported its July/August/September results a few days ago. If you recall, Mensch und Maschine is both an Autodesk reseller and a supplier of its own software. As of mid-September, Autodesk...
A wander through PLMish earnings so far

A wander through PLMish earnings so far

A wander through PLMish earnings so far This has been an unusually long and somewhat fraught earnings season. We started with Dassault Systèmes’ preannouncement, wandered through the drama around Autodesk’s delayed publication of its fiscal 2024 (ended 31...
A wander through PLMish earnings so far

MuM didn’t see problems in Q2; reports record half-year

MuM didn’t see problems in Q2; reports record half-year Mensch und Maschine (MuM) today reported results for the second quarter—and the good news is that it was the strongest H1 in the company’s history. Of course, it is not selling megadeals to aerospace and...
A wander through PLMish earnings so far

DS starts PLMish earnings on a down note

DS starts PLMish earnings on a down note And here we go—it’s the start of the third calendar quarter, which means we’ll hear from the publicly traded PLMish companies about how the second quarter went and what they expect for the rest of 2025. I admit, I didn’t see...
Autodesk’s FQ1 overshadowed by accounting – but it was actually really good

Autodesk: everything is fine; nothing to see here

Autodesk: everything is fine; nothing to see here A quick update since so many of you have asked: On Friday, Autodesk said it had concluded its investigation into free cash flow and operating margin calculations and that there would be no restatement or adjustment of...