Feb 15, 2011 | Hot Topics
2010 was a big year for Dassault Systèmes as it tightened control on its distribution network by buying IBM PLM, closing the biggest acquisition in DS’ history. Did this distract management? Lead to complications in merging sales teams and assigning territories and...
Feb 11, 2011 | Hot Topics
A Bank of America Merrill Lynch report arrived in my inbox this morning with the title “Do earnings never end” — how true. Here are two quick notes on today’s announcements to keep you up-to-date while I finish going over the results reported by Dassault...
Jan 27, 2011 | Hot Topics
(Sorry. The Optima is a model of Kia automobile. Bad pun, I know, but hard to resist.) PTC is usually the first PLM company to report results and is therefore seen as a bit of the canary in a coal mine (send in the canary; if it dies, there’s not enough oxygen for...
Nov 26, 2010 | Hot Topics
This week saw a rather strange battle of the press releases: Siemens PLM announced that Daimler AG will phase in NX as its standard for worldwide vehicle development starting in 2012. Dassault Systèmes followed a short while later with a press release that said this...
Oct 29, 2010 | Hot Topics
Yesterday the PLM world finally got a look at what PTC has been teasing for months. The good: PTC focused attention on CAD and articulated the problems many users have with traditional tools. The bad: PTC had hyped this launch to such an extent that nothing short of...
Oct 28, 2010 | Hot Topics
Lots going on today — PTC makes its big announcement (and, I think, slipped up a bit on some timing), DS reports that Q3 was really good, Altair acquires SimLab and Hexagon closes on Intergraph. Briefly, before I flit off to the PTC event: •PTC’s been so loudly...
Oct 27, 2010 | Hot Topics
PTC released results on Tuesday that showed that it returned to the billion dollar level in fiscal 2010, returning to a growth trajectory that stalled in 2009. For those keeping track, PTC last reported a billion dollars in revenue for two consecutive years in 1999....
Oct 19, 2010 | Hot Topics
Still trying to catch up from nearly a month of personal and business travel, so here are a few interesting things from my overflowing in-box: Autodesk commissioned a survey of online consumers that showed that the majority prefer to examine potential purchases in 3D...
Aug 18, 2010 | Hot Topics
Surprise! Rand Worldwide and Avatech Solution announced on Tuesday that the companies have been combined in a reverse merger. A reverse merger is often known as a “reverse IPO” because the acquisition of a public company by a private one avoids the costly process of...
