Alain de Rouvray, ESI Group’s Chairman and CEO, comments: "The solid performance in the first half-year shows the widening adoption of ESI Group's Virtual Prototyping solutions and reflects the transformation of leading industrial firms to the smart digital factory. This structural trend drives strong growth of Licenses, particularly in the installed base, and is indicative of the strength of ESI's industry standard solutions and the Group's robust business model. The restructured Services division, although held back by some cyclical effects, posted healthy growth in high value added engineering studies which eventually lead on to recurrent License sales. The cost control policy also delivered further substantial improvements to profitability without reducing the R&D investment which is core to the Group's development strategy. Notably, ESI Group continues to differentiate itself clearly from its competition by technological innovation and adoption of disruptive technologies, including those represented in recently acquired activities. The unique positioning of

 PTC today announced its Chief Executive Officer, Jim Heppelmann, was named CEO of the Year by the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council (MassTLC) during the 2015 Technology Leadership Awards gala. “I am honored to be included with an elite group of companies who are positioning the state as a leader in creating technologies which are changing the world,” said Jim Heppelmann, CEO, PTC. “This award validates PTC’s vision, leadership and product offerings to help our customers deliver value by quickly creating new applications for a smart, connected world in this Internet of Things (IoT) era.” The IoT is an industry- and world-changing wave of transformation for companies across many new industries. It also has an impact on companies’ operations and organizational structure for how the products are developed, the importance of harnessing product data and data analytics, and the benefits to be gained when departments across an organization are part of the strategy.

Mentor Graphics} Corporation announced that it has acquired its majority-owned subsidiary, Calypto Design Systems, Inc. Calypto will be merged into Mentor as a standalone business{ unit, an organizational decision demonstrating Mentor's commitment to the future potential of Calypto's products and technologies. Badru Agarwala, a pioneer in design and verification improvements and the former CEO of both Axiom Design Automation and Frontline Design Automation, will assume the role of General Manager of the Calypto business unit. When the Catapult technology and resources were originally transferred to Calypto in 2011, it was with the goal of creating an integrated high-level synthesis (HLS) and C-to-RTL verification flow. Four years later this goal has been accomplished. During that time Catapult became the only HLS tool that can automatically generate production-quality RTL from a C/C++ and SystemC description, establishing Catapult as the technology and market leader. The readiness of customers such as Google, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and ST Microelectronics to publicly discuss their production results using

CIMdata, Inc., the leading global PLM strategic management consulting and research firm announces the release of seven additional country-specific PLM Market Analysis Reports. These new reports follow the release of the 2015 China PLM Market Analysis Report earlier this year. The CIMdata PLM MAR series presents CIMdata’s analysis of the 2014 product lifecycle management (PLM) market. The complete global analysis provides CIMdata’s perspective on PLM across a variety of industry and geographic sectors, identifies market trends, reviews investments in PLM-related software and services during 2014, and forecasts PLM investments for 2015 through 2019. It includes charts that present the overall PLM market and its various sectors as defined by CIMdata. These include collaborative Product Definition management (cPDm), tools and tools sub-sectors, and digital manufacturing. In addition to its global reports, CIMdata now offers eight country-specific PLM Market Analysis Reports: Brazil China Germany India Japan Russia South Korea United States These reports focus on the PLM market in each country, including its

As an industry leading developer of civil engineering and AEC software, a Bricsys partner, and longtime member of the Autodesk Developer’s Network, CGS plus introduced Autosign, a new addition to its line-up of innovative software solutions for design professionals worldwide. Autosign is a multi-faceted software that takes sign design and reporting to new levels by allowing users to easily incorporate traffic signs and road markings into their design plans. This is accomplished by eliminating many of the manual steps usually associated with placing signs in designs. Given this, Autosign not only enhances the look and accuracy of designs, but also saves users time thanks to an easy-to-use program that can be integrated into any operation. A special version of the software is now available in the United States, complete with a library of all U.S. traffic signs. “Autosign offers many timesaving features and enhances the look of your designs. New levels of

The strengthening of the U.S. dollar compared to foreign currencies had a significant impact on results in the quarter. Total Revenues were $8.4 billion, down 2% in U.S. dollars but up 7% in constant currency. Cloud plus On-Premise Software Revenues were $6.5 billion, down 2% in U.S. dollars and up 6% in constant currency. Total Cloud Revenues were $611 million, up 29% in U.S. dollars and up 34% in constant currency. Cloud software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) revenues were $451 million, up 34% in U.S. dollars and up 38% in constant currency. Cloud infrastructure as a service (IaaS) revenues were $160 million, up 16% in U.S. dollars and up 23% in constant currency. Total On-Premise Software Revenues were $5.8 billion, down 4% in U.S. dollars but up 4% in constant currency. Total Hardware Revenues were $1.1 billion, down 3% in U.S. dollars but up

Three game-changing Vero Software CAD/CAM brands will be on show at the Siane 2015 trade fair in Toulouse, France, between October 20 and 22. The Midi-Pyrénées region is currently experiencing an economic boom, especially in the aeronautic and aerospace sectors which employ 75,000 people at 550 companies. As well as those two industries, the Siane show also attracts representatives from other fields, including automotive, medical and electronics. Samantha Mayet, Vero’s Marketing Co-ordinator in France, says this makes the exhibition a perfect showcase for the latest releases of Edgecam, VISI and WorkNC. “Quality is of paramount importance for aeronautic, automotive and medical components to meet special technological challenges specific to these industries. For example, the use of lightweight composite materials or extremely hard alloys, machining of very complex forms, milling and turning very large parts, removal of large amounts of material on structural parts, and machining parts featuring very thin walls.” Edgecam, VISI

ModuleWorks, the leading supplier of CAD/CAM components for 5-Axis machining and CNC simulation, and Hurco, providers of unique, innovative software and CNC controls that are integrated into their growing product line of CNC machines, are delighted to present the latest results of their partnership at EMO. The latest version of the WinMax control from Hurco includes built-in simulation developed in partnership with ModuleWorks.   Hurco has a long history of innovation in software and control technology that is focused on leveraging technology to increase the profitability of their customers.  The latest developments illustrate the results of many years of research and development and include simulation of the machining process. ModuleWorks specializes in developing the core technology used for Simulation and Toolpath creation. Recent developments have made this technology available on the CNC control to bring all these benefits to the shop floor. The partnership between Hurco and ModuleWorks has proved to be very

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today introduced its new LumenRT CONNECT Edition subscription. With this innovative offering, infrastructure professionals need no longer become computer graphics experts to integrate life-like digital nature into their simulated infrastructure designs and create high-impact visuals for stakeholders. Bentley users engaged in the capture of existing conditions to provide context for their designs can further benefit from reality modeling “enlivened” with digital nature. The new subscription includes Bentley’s LumenRT software plus Azure-cloud access to rich content libraries containing plants, trees, people, vehicles, architectural objects, civil engineering elements, and more. LumenRT empowers visual optioneering by providing “live,” real-time immersive interaction, animating infrastructure environments with traffic simulations, active characters, wind-swept plants, seasonal trees, rolling clouds, and rippling water. Through the “cinematic” quality of LumenRT scenes and the software’s intuitive, hands-on interface, every infrastructure professional can readily envision his or her proposed design alternatives as they would be experienced

Bentley Systems, Incorporated, a leading global provider of comprehensive software solutions for sustaining infrastructure, today introduced its new LumenRT CONNECT Edition subscription. With this innovative offering, infrastructure professionals need no longer become computer graphics experts to integrate life-like digital nature into their simulated infrastructure designs and create high-impact visuals for stakeholders. Bentley users engaged in the capture of existing conditions to provide context for their designs can further benefit from reality modeling “enlivened” with digital nature. The new subscription includes Bentley’s LumenRT software plus Azure-cloud access to rich content libraries containing plants, trees, people, vehicles, architectural objects, civil engineering elements, and more. LumenRT empowers visual optioneering by providing “live,” real-time immersive interaction, animating infrastructure environments with traffic simulations, active characters, wind-swept plants, seasonal trees, rolling clouds, and rippling water. Through the “cinematic” quality of LumenRT scenes and the software’s intuitive, hands-on interface, every infrastructure professional can readily envision his or her proposed design alternatives as they would be experienced