AVEVA hints at good start to F2012

Oct 14, 2011 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today hinted at results for the six months ending September 30 and announced that full details will be published on November 15. As expected, performance was strongest in Latin America, South Korea and Central and Eastern Europe, especially in oil and gas....

AVEVA acquires Z+F UK

Oct 3, 2011 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today announced the acquisition of Z+F UK Limited, maker of the LFM software suite of 3D laser scanning software packages. AVEVA and Z+F UK have been partners for years, releasing increasingly sophisticated tools to integrate the output from laser scanning with...

RAND focuses on profit

Sep 29, 2011 | Hot Topics

Rand Worldwide yesterday reported fiscal 2011 revenue of $89.2 million and net income of $1.8 million. Since this is the first year of reporting after the reverse merger of Rand and Avatech, along with a change in the fiscal year-end, it is difficult to draw...

News you may have missed, 16 Sept

Sep 16, 2011 | Hot Topics

The industry’s acquisition binge continues, with news of a new deal just about every week: Bentley invests in TEEC Bentley Systems announced yesterday that the company has taken a minority equity stake in The Engineering Essentials Company (TEEC) and placed a person...

ESI: CAE Virtual Reality

Sep 15, 2011 | Hot Topics

ESI Group reported today that revenue for the second quarter was up 11% to €19 million, on license revenue growth of 12%. CEO Alain de Rouvray said, “The second quarter saw an acceleration in the growth of our activity, particularly in Europe. Over the first half, the...

Autodesk ramps up its plant offering

Sep 2, 2011 | Hot Topics

Earlier this week, Autodesk announced the release of the Autodesk Plant Design Suite, 3 flavors of integrated apps that support multidisciplinary plant design. You can go here for the details of what is in the standard, premium and ultimate suites packages or to...

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...