Quickies: Bentley Day 1, some catch-up and more sheep!
A lot happened while I was walking around Yorkshire and we need to cover Bentley’s Year in Infrastructure Day 1, too, so let’s get right to it: ESI Group announced that it has acquired 75% of the equity of CyDesign Labs, a Silicon Valley company that many...
Quickies: DS preannounces Q3 miss, Hexagon acquires
It’s a holiday for some here in the US, but the PLMish world hardly slows down! First up, Dassault Systèmes announced that it had missed its Q3 targets, with preliminary data showing non-IFRS revenue of €496 million, €24 million short of the company’s...
Hexagon’s snaps up AHAB for surveying
It’s only Tuesday and Hexagon has already announced two acquisition this week! Yesterday, it was mining and Devex; today it’s GIS and Airborne Hydrography AB (AHAB), which develops and markets airborne laser survey systems for hydrographic (seabed) and...
Hexagon expands mining footprint with acquisition of Devex
A new week, another acquisition. This time it’s Hexagon, which announced that it has acquired Devex, a Brazilian company that makes mine management and automation solutions. Hexagon says that Devex had revenue of 35 million Brazilian Real, about $16 million or...
Quickies: PTC acquires, DS closes, Hexagon sells
There’s a lot of acquisition news coming out of the PLMish universe, so let’s catch up a bit while we wait for earnings to really heat up later this week. PTC last week announced that it acquired Enigma, a company whose products aggregate and deliver...
Earnings update, AEC edition — a mixed bag
This earnings season has been incredibly busy and I have fallen far, far behind in summarizing the highlights. To try to catch up a bit, I’ll be grouping these companies by general product category for you, since that’s so much more useful than chronologically by...
Quickies: Hexagon, Bentley – oh, and Yale wins hockey crown
I’d normally be writing this week about COFES, the annual engineering software gathering in the Arizona desert, but I didn’t attend this year. Shocking, right? Instead, I played hookey to watch the best collegiate athletes in the US play hockey. Every year...
Many signals positive as HEXA, NEMT and TRMB report
We’ve recently heard from three of the main publicly traded players in infrastructure software and this week we start hearing from some of their main customers. It seems, therefore, like a good time to review what’s being said about the climate for...

