SAP has great 2011, but cloud is tiny

SAP has great 2011, but cloud is tiny

Jan 25, 2012 | Hot Topics

SAP today announced Q4 and full-year 2011 results that confirm its news release on January 13. In a nutshell, total revenue in 2011 was €14.2 billion, up 14%, while software revenue was just under €4 billion, up 22% from a year earlier (helped by the Sybase...

SofTech: sequential increase

Jan 12, 2012 | Hot Topics

Ahh, earning season. Get ready, ‘cause here we go. By all accounts, 2011 wasn’t bad — global economies were tense, foreign exchange rates were unpredictable, wars continued and natural disasters too, but consumers kept buying because … that’s what they do....

SofTech’s reinvention continues

Jan 4, 2012 | Hot Topics

Welcome back! I love how quiet the world gets around the end of each year, with even junk email slowing to a trickle. Then the new year starts, full of bustle and purpose. A lot of news tends to get lost in that transition so I’ll try to get us all caught up over the...

ESI reports Q3 revenue up 10%

Dec 15, 2011 | Hot Topics

ESI Group reported today that third quarter 2011 revenue was €17.6 million, up 10% both as reported and in constant currencies on strong demand for its services offerings.  ESI CEO Alain de Rouvray said that the third quarter results “show the offensive and defensive...

ESI announces Efield acquisition

Dec 14, 2011 | Hot Topics

Last month, ESI Group said that it had opened a 7-year, €30 million credit facility to help fund its acquisition strategy — and today we learn of the second* deal under the new financing arrangement: the acquisition of Efield, a Swedish supplier of...

Cimatron: new license revenue up 18% in Q3

Nov 21, 2011 | Hot Topics

Last week, I briefly noted that Cimatron had reported Q3 revenue of $9.6 million, up 10% from the $8.7 million reported last year. Here are a few more details about what actually was a really good quarter for Cimatron: License revenue was 42% of total, or $4.0 million...

Autodesk Q3 revenue up 15%

Nov 21, 2011 | Hot Topics

Autodesk’s FQ3 earnings announcement yesterday surprised a lot of people, coming in well ahead of analyst estimates and near the top of its own earlier guidance. There had been concerns over Europe, the channel and how buyers would react to the suites offerings,...

AVEVA revenue up 9% in H1 2012

Nov 15, 2011 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today announced results for the six months ended September 30 that were both true to the the upbeat tone of last month’s interim statement’s and cautiously optimistic about the future. The results mirror what we’ve come to expect in the engineering software...

Rand FQ1 slightly under expectations

Nov 14, 2011 | Hot Topics

Rand Worldwide today reported results for its first fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2011, with revenue of $22 million coming in slightly below expectations, but up from $17 million last year (though not an apples-to-apples comparison due to the closing of the...

Quick update: Siemens/Vistagy, CENIT, Cimatron

Nov 14, 2011 | Hot Topics

I was away from the office all of last week, attending Bentley’s Be Inspired event in Amsterdam (more on that soon) and sitting in on meetings in London, but the world of engineering software kept going. Here’s news you might have missed: Siemens PLM to...