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* Corporate *
Unigraphics Solutions Inc. announced that it has secured a 100 percent ownership position in
dCADE of Berlin, Germany. dCADE develops high-end, automotive process automation and simulation
software.
Open Text Corporation announced it has entered into an agreement with Microstar Software Ltd of
Ottawa, Ontario to acquire all the outstanding shares of Microstar for $2.10 per share payable
in cash. Microstar, which had revenues of $6.2 million for its last fiscal year ended January
31, 1999, is a leader in the XML software field.
Engineering Animation, Inc. announced that it has acquired Kx Verksamhetsutveckling AB, a
privately-held company in Gothenburg, Sweden. The transaction, valued at approximately $3
million, was completed on July 27, 1999.
Inso Corporation released information regarding its restructuring plan which is expected to
result in a second quarter restructuring charge of $6.8 million. The plan includes a
workforce reduction of approximately 150 positions, or more than 20% of staff levels
at December 31, 1998.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced the completion of its tender offer for all of the
issued and outstanding shares of common stock of OrCad, Inc.
Visio Corporation announced results for the third quarter of fiscal 1999. Revenue for the
quarter ended June 30, 1999 was $50.3 million, an increase of 14 percent over third quarter
fiscal 1998 revenue of $44.2 million.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. reported results for the fourth quarter which ended June 30, 1999.
Revenues for the fourth quarter were a record $3.515 billion, up 22 percent compared with
the fourth quarter of fiscal 1998.
Tecnomatix Technologies Ltd. announced unaudited financial results for the second quarter
and six months ended June 30, 1999. Revenues for the second quarter of 1999 increased by
34% to $22,853,000 from $17,067,000 for the same period in 1998.
Documentum, Inc. announced financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 1999. Revenues
for the second quarter of 1999 were $29.2 million, a three percent increase over revenues of
$28.4 million for the same period of 1998.
Cadence Design Systems, Inc. announced second quarter revenue of $264 million, a decrease of
16% over the same period in 1998.
Aspect Development, Inc. announced results for the second quarter ended June 30, 1999, reporting
revenues of $21,140,000 and net income of $326,000, contrasted with revenues and net income of
$20,407,000 and $3,335,000 respectively recorded for the second quarter a year ago.
Auspex Systems, Inc. announced results for its fourth fiscal quarter ended June 30, 1999. Fourth
quarter fiscal 1999 revenues totaled $26.1 million, compared to $36.5 million for the same quarter
last year.
Baan Company N.V. announced results for its second quarter ended June 30, 1999. Revenues for the
second quarter 1999 were $173 million, a 25% decline from the second quarter 1998.
Dassault Systèmes S.A. announced financial results for the second quarter and six months ended
June 30, 1999. Total revenue increased 32% to FF 781.3 million (Euro 119.1 million) in the 1999
second quarter, compared to FF 592.3 million (Euro 90.3 million) in the year-ago period.
Engineering Animation, Inc. announced its financial results for the second quarter ended June 30,
1999. EAI's second quarter financial reports reflects the Company's exit from its Interactive Games
and Science and Technology businesses, which are reported as discontinued operations. EAI
had revenues from continuing operations of $27,227,000 in the second quarter, an increase
of 34 percent over second quarter 1998 revenues of $20,339,000.
Intergraph Corporation reported operating results for its second quarter ended June 30, 1999.
Revenues for the quarter totaled $234 million, down 5% from second quarter 1998.
Spatial Inc. announced final results for its second quarter ended June 30, 1999. Second quarter
revenue was $3,603,000 compared with $3,663,000 in the comparable quarter a year ago.
FileNET Corporation reported results for its second quarter ended June 30, 1999. Revenue was a
record $86.1 million, up 7 percent from $80.4 million for the second quarter of 1998.
Parametric Technology Corporation reported revenue of $264.1 million in the third quarter ended
July 3, 1999, up from $245.0 million in the third quarter a year ago. In Q3, Windchill-related
revenue more than doubled over the prior quarter to $25 million.
RAND Worldwide reported revenue for the second quarter ended June 30, 1999 of $105.4 million,
representing an increase of 31.6% over revenue of $80.1 million for the same period a year ago.
SAP AG announced that its sales for the first half of 1999 grew 17% to EUR 2.34 billion from EUR
2.0 billion in the same period last year.
SDRC reported revenues totaling $111.1 million for the quarter ended June 30, 1999, a 17% increase
over the same quarter last year.
SGI announced its results for its fourth quarter and fiscal year ended June 30,
1999. Revenue for the fourth quarter was $829 million, compared with $774 million in the same
quarter a year ago.
* People *
Hewlett-Packard Company announced that Carleton (Carly) S. Fiorina has been named president and chief
executive officer. Fiorina was president of Lucent Technologies' Global Service Provider Business.
She was recently named by Fortune as the most powerful woman in American business.
Aspect Development announced the appointment of Scott MacDonald, VP of Process Industry Business,
and Vernon Niven, VP of Consulting Services.
Inso Corporation announced the appointment of Robert F. Dudley as Vice President, Chief Financial
Officer and Treasurer.
Documentum, Inc. named Russell A. Harris, 44, vice president of worldwide sales.
Bamboo Solutions, a strategic business unit of VIDAR Systems Corporation, announced that Matthew
J. Artibee, a senior software executive, has joined the company as the division's director.
Verity, Inc. announced that Joseph Lawless has been
promoted to Vice President, Eastern Sales Region, Michael Makely has been appointed Vice President,
Central Sales Region and Sunil D. Nagdev has been named Vice President, Professional Services and
Technical Support.
Xerox Engineering Systems announced the appointment of Massoud Safavi to the position of Chief
Financial Officer and Vice President of Finance. Xerox Engineering Systems also announced the
appointments of John Ufford to the position of Vice President, Product Development and Management
and Keith Wilson to the position of Vice President, Human Resources.
* Implementation *
MatrixOne, Inc. announced receipt of contracts totaling $3.1 million for Matrix software and services
from Siemens Automotive, CAE Electronics, Ltd., Menasco Aerospace and Eaton Corporation.
The e-content company, a division of Interleaf, Inc. announced that ExecuTrain Corp. has embraced
BladeRunner as a new content management backbone for providing customized courseware authoring.
Mentor Graphics Corporation announced that the Hyundai Electronics Industries Company has selected
the Mentor Graphics Calibre physical verification tool as its standard for next-generation memory and
system-on-chip designs.
SDRC announced additional orders of I-DEAS software, Metaphase software, and engineering and consulting
services from Xerox Corporation. The total value of the orders is in excess of $9 million.
Spatial Inc. announced that ProModel Corporation (Orem, UT) is the 500th licensee of the ACIS 3D
Modeling Toolkit.
Unigraphics Solutions Inc. announced that Dunlop Aviation has placed an order valued at over $700,000
for its iMAN PDM software together with application development and support services. UGS also
announced that Berthold Hermle AG, a manufacturer of CNC-controlled milling machines and processing
centers, has signed a contract to expand its use of Unigraphics CAD/CAM/CAE and iMAN software.
WTC announced that Delavan Gas Turbine Products has licensed WTC OpCenter, WTC's deliverables-based
program management solution. Delavan will utilize WTC OpCenter to optimize the design, development
and manufacturing of gas turbine fuel injection components.
* Developments *
Parametric Technology Corporation announced Windchill Release 3.0 with new Enterprise Product Modeling
solutions for connecting engineering workgroups to the extended enterprise.
IBM and Dassault Systemes announced CATIA Version 5 Release 2 for Windows and UNIX.
IQXPERT announced the release of ItemQuest 2.2. The new features of ItemQuest 2.2 include The Shopping
Basket, the Analysis and Report Center, and integration with Mentor Graphics' Design Architect and
Library Management System.
Mentor Graphics announced SupportCenter 2000, a support offering designed to deliver extended coverage
for Y2K issues, eighteen hours a day, seven days a week from December 15, 1999 through January 30, 2000.
Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle8i on Linux after a successful early adopter's
program.
Spatial Inc. announced the availability of implementation and consulting services for MetaSTEP, the
STEP data exchange interface from Metaphase Technology.
WTC announced the availability of WTC PortfolioCenter, a product strategy, market analysis and decision
support solution, and WTC ExecutiveCenter, a product performance analysis tool enabling smarter business
decision making for future products and development programs.
* Relationships *
RAND Worldwide signed a strategic reseller agreement with Parametric Technology Corporation to distribute
Pro/ENGINEER software products and services in Singapore, Malaysia and Australia.
Staffware announced a strategic partnership with Micrografx, Inc. Micrografx's business process analysis
and simulation software will be directly linked to the Staffware Workflow solution.
SDRC announced that Computer Sciences Corporation has joined the Metaphase Enterprise Solution Provider
program. SDRC also announced that it has extended Metaphase Enterprise Solution Provider membership to
EDS.
The e-content company, a division of Interleaf, Inc. announced Science Applications International
Corporation and Microstar Software Ltd. as the first certified Consulting Partners for BladeRunner,
the Company's flagship content management solution.
Hummingbird Communications Ltd. announced it has joined Red Hat, Inc.'s Independent Software Vendor
Program and will participate in joint marketing activities with the developer and provider of open
source operating systems.
WTC announced an alliance with SolidWorks Corporation. This alliance will enable WTC to provide an
integrated solution between WTC's PDM solutions and SolidWorks' Windows-native 3D mechanical design
software. The integrated solution is called CMS Integrator for SolidWorks and is currently available
from WTC.
Hewlett-Packard Company announced that Unigraphics Solutions Inc. is using the HP VISUALIZE Center to
support its Internet-based collaborative engineering efforts at its newly opened Innovation Center
in Livonia, MI.
* Other *
CoCreate Software Inc. announced that a leading CAD-industry user association, ProSTEP Association
in Germany, ranked CoCreate's SolidDesigner CAD solution at the top in independent benchmark tests
that evaluated solid-model STEP-data exchange by CAD software.
Engineering Animation, Inc. and Hewlett-Packard Company announced e-Vis.com, an Internet portal for
enterprise and supplier collaboration, integration and e-services.
Sun Microsystems, Inc. and Unigraphics Solutions Inc. announced internal performance test results
on scalability for Unigraphics Solutions' Information Manager 5.0 (iMAN) PDM application.
With 12,000 iMAN users logged in and running jobs on a 64-processor Sun Enterprise 1000 (also
known as Starfire Server) server, the full system's capacity was never reached.
Unigraphics Solutions Inc. announced a mass worldwide distribution of 500,000 seats of Solid Edge
Origin. The software provides a subset of the features in Solid Edge, the company's 3-D solid
modeling and 2-D drafting software package. The Solid Edge Origin rollout begins with a live web
launch at 1 p.m. (CST) on August 2 at www.solid-edge.com.
STEP Tools announced they received the following announcement from Boeing. It describes a
project Boeing implemented with the help of STEP Tools' ST-Developer.
"On March 1, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group implemented the
eighth of eleven phases of its new standardized business processes
and system called Define and Control Airplane Configuration/
Manufacturing Resource Management. In the first 21 hours of
startup processing, more than 900,000 part numbers were successfully
converted to the Metaphase Product Data Manager. Of those part numbers,
187,000 were then translated to parts lists using STEP. The parts
lists were sent for initialization to eight suppliers at eleven
sites. Between March and April, 850 STEP parts lists were sent from
the new DCAC/MRM production system to suppliers."
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