Feb 12, 2012 | Hot Topics
I’m in San Diego for SolidWorks World, looking out at the harbor and trying to catch up on last week’s news. It’s in the 50s here, cloudy and windy. Wonderful for this New Englander, but cold to the natives who huddle around outdoor propane heaters. It’s likely colder...
Jan 19, 2012 | Hot Topics
Hexagon today announce that it has acquired MicroSurvey Software Inc., a Canadian developer of software used in the surveying, construction, and for forensic reconstruction. I first became aware of MicroSurvey more than 10 years ago, when I worked on my first Daratech...
Oct 27, 2011 | Hot Topics
Hexagon reported a solid third quarter 2011, with total revenue of €521 million, up a whopping 55% as reported and up 13% excluding acquisitions and foreign exchange effect — meaning Intergraph and other recent acquisitions accounted for about €150 million in...
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...
May 10, 2011 | Hot Topics
Hexagon AB today reported an 18% increase in organic revenue but a 77% increase when including last year’s Intergraph acquisition — which led to a near-doubling of reported earnings before taxes. Hexagon is a complicated business that, in the last year alone,...
Jan 10, 2011 | Hot Topics
Laser scanning is hot. Process plant design software vendors such as AVEVA, Bentley Systems and Intergraph have long had partner programs to integrate LIDAR models into their design and operations workflows; Autodesk is now actively promoting it — and last month...
