Quickies: AVEVA and Hexagon

Quickies: AVEVA and Hexagon

Sep 10, 2012 | Hot Topics

It’s not even 8AM here on the East Coast of the US, and we’ve already had a boatload of news to get the week off to a running start. First up, AVEVA announced that it is partnering with Infosys to speed delivery of its AVEVA NET engineering information...

AVEVA’s F12 ahead on all counts

May 30, 2012 | Hot Topics

It’s hard to come up with a single headline. Total revenue: £195.9 million, up 13% and ahead of analysts’ forecasts of £192 million. Profit before tax of £62.3 million versus median estimate of £61.5 million. Cash balance of £178.9 million against...

AVEVA’s fiscal 2012: “strong finish”

Apr 16, 2012 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today offered a sneak preview of its performance during the September 2011 – March 2012 portion of their fiscal year. Full results will be announced on May 28. The wording of the announcement makes it a bit difficult to parse, with not-particularly-glowing...

DS strengthens composites sim

Oct 4, 2011 | Hot Topics

Dassault Systèmes today announced that is has acquired Simulayt Limited, a provider of composites and advanced draping simulation technology. We all know composites are where it’s at in terms of reducing weight while meeting performance requirements, so this...

AVEVA making steady progress

Jul 7, 2011 | Hot Topics

AVEVA released an interim statement today, in which it briefly goes over business trends seen in the June quarter (AVEVA reports in more detail twice a year). The statement used words such as “further growth”, “strengthening” and “steady progress” — so while no...

PP&M: Solving Complex Problems

Jun 8, 2011 | Hot Topics

My head is spinning after 2+ days at Hexagon’s first user conference since the close of the Intergraph acquisition. This is one complicated company!  First, a couple of general impressions, then some detail from the PP&M keynotes. I attended Monday’s investor...

AVEVA has a banner F2011

May 25, 2011 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today announced that revenue for the year ended March 31, 2011 grew 17% to a record £174 million, with strong performance in the oil and gas vertical and in Asia. Three percent of growth came from acquisitions (ADB and Logimatic’s MARS business last June), which...

Hexagon says 2011 off to good start

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,...

AVEVA says all’s still ok

Apr 19, 2011 | Hot Topics

AVEVA released one of its cryptic interim statements today, in which it said that fiscal 2011 was “in line with expectations” and that all was “consistent with trends” discussed in an (equally cryptic) January 2011 statement. I shouldn’t pick on AVEVA; this...

Bentley engineers the wind

Apr 7, 2011 | Hot Topics

Last month Bentley Systems announced the acquisition of the SACS business from Engineering Dynamics, and most people said, who? There wasn’t time then to answer the question, but today we can catch up a bit. Engineering Dynamics, Inc. was founded in 1973 by three...