Quickies: Earnings good to tepid so far

Quickies: Earnings good to tepid so far

Oct 31, 2012 | Hot Topics

We’re still recovering from hurricane Sandy here in New England. Schools are open as are most roads, but a lot of people are still without power and assessing damage. It could have been a lot worse, so we’re grateful. It’s interesting that the New...
AVEVA unveils E3D to intrigued customers

AVEVA unveils E3D to intrigued customers

Oct 17, 2012 | Hot Topics

For months, AVEVA has been blanketing the virtual airwaves with messaging around its new plant design product, dubbed “the future of plant design” or FoPD for short. Many users were at AVEVA World Summit last week in Paris to take back answers to: Would...
Quickies: Earnings good to tepid so far

AVEVA’s H1 showed “good progress”

Oct 15, 2012 | Hot Topics

AVEVA today gave a quick update on results for its most recent six-month period: the company made “good progress” in the period ended September 30, 2012. As has been the case recently, the oil and gas vertical drove sales in the company’s Engineering...
Quickies: Earnings good to tepid so far

Siemens on PLM, Mars, shipbuilding and so much more

Sep 25, 2012 | Hot Topics

Get this: we’re using Teamcenter to visualize a car, trying to assess the impact of a design change. First, we zoom in on the components that are in a specific area a foot forward of the steering wheel. Then we shift from a location-based view to a system view,...
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...
Quickies: Earnings good to tepid so far

AspenTech revenue up 23% in F12

Aug 22, 2012 | Hot Topics

AspenTech, maker of aspenONE for chemical process and plant optimization, yesterday announced that fourth quarter revenue was $64 million, up 22% from a year ago, leading to total revenue for fiscal 2012 of $243 million, up 23% over last year. Mark Fusco, CEO, said...

AVEVA unveils new vision of plant design

Jun 19, 2012 | Hot Topics

Big news in plant design: AVEVA today announced that it is working on a new product that will “deliver a new level of performance for plant design”. Details are sketchy, but here’s what the company said in a press release: “The need to orchestrate engineering skills...

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...

Bentley focuses on infrastructure

May 23, 2012 | Hot Topics

I spent a few hours last week at Bentley Systems’ annual Be Together user conference. Analysts and journalists are typically not at this event but I was invited to moderate a session on the use of standards in the process industries and took advantage of my time...