Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

Jan 22, 2013 | Hot Topics

Just because we’re off celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day or the US Presidential Inauguration, or here in Orlando at SolidWorks World doesn’t mean lots wasn’t happening in the rest of the world. A quick recap of what you might have missed:...
Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

Quickies: Catching up on earnings

Jan 14, 2013 | Hot Topics

While some of us were out of the office over the holiday break, others were clearly hard at work generating news, including a couple of earnings items. Softech continues to get its financial house in order, completing both a private placement of shares in December and...
Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

Delcam says Q4 strong, sees record rev in 2012

Dec 18, 2012 | Hot Topics

Delcam Plc, the British maker of design, manufacturing and inspection software, today issued an interim statement that sent its share price up 6% mid-day in London. Why? Because the company announced that it now expects record revenue for 2012 as well as profit before...
Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

ESI Q3: full steam ahead

Dec 14, 2012 | Hot Topics

ESI Group yesterday reported third quarter revenue of nearly €22 million, an increase of 25% as reported and up 20% in constant currencies. CEO Alain de Rouvray said that growth was “balanced between the various sectors and geographical zones, with a high rate...
Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

Autodesk reports bumpy FQ3

Nov 24, 2012 | Hot Topics

As you probably know by now, Autodesk missed its fiscal third quarter targets, citing a weakening global economy as undoing any gains made by its improved execution over FQ2. There were pockets of good and not so good — a lot like a bumpy flight across the US....
Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

AVEVA H1 2013 revenue up 15%

Nov 12, 2012 | Hot Topics

Switching gears from the day’s activities here in Amsterdam but still staying with the infrastructure/AEC theme, here is a quick update on AVEVA’s solid results for the first half of fiscal 2013, with broad-based growth reported in many regions,...
Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

PTC, DS results highlight strategic differences

Nov 9, 2012 | Hot Topics

Earnings news from engineering IT companies has been a mixed bag of late: misses and downgrades of expectations for the remainder of 2012 but also some stronger-than-expected results. Why did each company report as it did and what can we learn about the demand for...
Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

Quickie: ANSYS reports, too

Nov 1, 2012 | Hot Topics

I knew I had missed one — ANSYS reported, too. Their GAAP revenue of $197 million and non-GAAP revenue of $199.8 million were in the midrange of guidance. Non-GAAP is up 16%, (up 12% excluding currency). In constant currency, the lease business was up 21% to $71...
Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

Quickies: PTC & FARO disappoint, AspenTech upbeat

Nov 1, 2012 | Hot Topics

A huge day in engineering IT earnings, as PTC and FARO explain their miss to investors while AspenTech and Trimble issue earnings reports. A very quick headline on each and then I dash to the airport — more to come. PTC reported last night that revenue for its...
Quickies: Hexagon acquires, Geometric reports

Quickies: Earnings good to tepid so far

Oct 31, 2012 | Hot Topics

We’re still recovering from hurricane Sandy here in New England. Schools are open as are most roads, but a lot of people are still without power and assessing damage. It could have been a lot worse, so we’re grateful. It’s interesting that the New...