Quickie: Altair and Trimble acquire to expand their reaches
Quickie: Altair and Trimble acquire to expand their reaches Super quick, since it’s a busy day: Altair announced this morning that it has acquired World Programming, a company that makes data analytics software used in financial services and insurance. Altair...
Bentley’s Q1 revenue up 14%, cites SMB progress
Bentley’s Q1 revenue up 14%, cites SMB progress Bentley reported results way back on May 11 but I haven’t had time to finish a deeper analysis — so here’s a quick piece on those results and a little bit on what it all means. Even more quickly:...
Quickie: Bentley acquires for iTwin offering
Quickie: Bentley acquires for iTwin offering Bentley just announced that it is acquiring sensemetrics and Vista Data Vision, both of which make software for Internet of Things (IoT) applications targeted at infrastructure use cases. Bentley says the companies will...
4 on a Friday: More on Bentley+Seequent, Markforged to go public, US infrastructure grade upped from D to C+, and Renishaw is for sale
4 on a Friday: More on Bentley+Seequent, Markforged to go public, US infrastructure grade upped from D to C+, and Renishaw is for sale Time for a recap of the week, news bits I don’t have time to write about in more detail. Let’s start with Bentley. Late...
Bentley’s been busy, creating the Acceleration Fund, building Virtuosity and buying a Maximo reseller
Bentley’s been busy, creating the Acceleration Fund, building Virtuosity and buying a Maximo reseller Did you know that Bentley has an Acceleration Fund? Me neither! But it, and the company, have been making newsworthy announcements over the last few days....
Autodesk takes minority stake in Aurigo, for infrastructure project delivery
Autodesk takes minority stake in Aurigo, for infrastructure project delivery Here’s an interesting one that I didn’t see coming: rather than acquiring, Autodesk is taking a minority stake in the privately-held AEC-focused firm, Aurigo Software....
Quickie: London, bristling with infrastructure projects
Yesterday marked the start of the 2014 edition of Bentley’s Year In Infrastructure conference. COO Malcolm Walter told us that he counted over 100 cranes while looking out the window at Bentley’s London offices –and I can see something like 20 from...
Quickies: AEC earnings show upswing in construction
Time to catch up! Nearly 15 companies reported September quarter earnings while I was away, so to get a the general sense of what they’re reporting I’m going to be summarizing them all over the next few weeks. Today, we’re looking at AEC, the world...
