European AEC software: surprisingly strong Q1

European AEC software: surprisingly strong Q1

European AEC software: surprisingly strong Q1 Autodesk, the Big Daddy of AEC, reports Q1 results tomorrow so it’s time to play catchup on the earnings of its public competitors. Bentley, the #2 player in AEC, is not saying anything publicly right now because it...
European AEC software: surprisingly strong Q1

At least in AEC, 2020 looks … OK

At least in AEC, 2020 looks … OK European companies report preliminary results for a financial year in February and then follow up with a final report at the end of March. Nemetschek and RIB Software reported on schedule (see the reports here and here,...
European AEC software: surprisingly strong Q1

Nemetschek reports revenue up 21% in 2019

Nemetschek reports revenue up 21% in 2019 It’s a big day for PLMish earnings, with Siemens, Hexagon and Nemetschek all announcing results for the year ending quarter, so let’s get right to it. Nemetschek issued preliminary results which include only...
Quickie: Nemetschek adds to its media brands

Quickie: Nemetschek adds to its media brands

Quickie: Nemetschek adds to its media brands Just across the newswire (well, into the inbox since that’s how it all works nowadays): Nemetschek, best known for its BIM brands Allplan and Graphisoft, also has a media and entertainment division called Maxon....
European AEC software: surprisingly strong Q1

Nemetschek’s Q2 strong, slows slightly from Q1

Nemetschek announced today that Q2 revenue was up 15% on an organic basis and 21% overall to €138 million. That’s very, very good but investors will likely focus on the fact that Q1 growth was 27% as reported (23% cc) and 21% on an organic basis. The details:...
Quickie: Nemetschek adds to its media brands

AEC Quickie: NEMT sells, RIB buys

You might remember that Nemetschek co-owned a company called DocuWare, which is focused on document management and the AEC workflows that surround project documents. The companies have been intertwined for at least a decade but now DocuWare is being acquired by Ricoh...
Nemetschek ups rendering with Redshift

Nemetschek ups rendering with Redshift

The Nemetschek Group just announced that its Maxon subsidiary has acquired Redshift Rendering Technologies, maker of the Redshift rendering engine. Redshift (the tech) is a GPU-accelerated renderer that’s available as a plugin to Maxon’s own Cinema 4D as...
European AEC software: surprisingly strong Q1

Quickie: Lots of good PLM earnings news

It’s a big earnings day and I’m about to settle in for a long (wifi-free) flight, so a quick recap will have to hold us until I can dig into the earnings in more detail — but it sure looks like the PLMish universe is doing very well, indeed. Dassault...
Quickie: Nemetschek adds to its media brands

Nemetschek acquires to boost building ops portfolio

Nemetschek just announced that its MCS Solutions business will acquire Axxerion, developer of facility and property management software, for €75 million. This adds to Nemetschek’s existing “Manage” offerings to address what the company sees as a...