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[FOUR] Shift4

A tour through payments: part 3 (SQ, FOUR)

February 2, 2023

Block (SQ) I once argued how by taking the problem of merchant payments acceptance seriously, [...]

[ADYEN] Adyen N.V. [FIS] Fidelity National Information [FISV] Fiserv [GPN] Global Payments

A tour through payments: part 2 (Adyen, GPN, FIS, FISV)

January 16, 2023

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[MA] Mastercard [V] Visa

A tour through payments: part 1 (Visa and Mastercard)

December 22, 2022

This is my last post of the year. Before getting into it, here are some [...]

[SITE] SiteOne

[SITE] SiteOne Landscape Supply

November 28, 2022

SiteOne sources 135k landscaping SKUs from 5k suppliers and distributes to 280k customers, most of [...]

[VRSK] Verisk Analytics

November 28, 2022

One job of an insurance commissioner is to ensure that carriers under their jurisdiction have [...]

[ADSK] Autodesk, [DSY:EN] Dassault Systemes, [PTC] PTC Inc.

[ADSK, Dassault, PTC] Simulation, CAD, and PLM: Part 2

Posted on September 1, 2020July 31, 2021 by scuttleblurb

Autodesk, Dassault, and PTC were all founded as CAD companies in the ‘80s but have since become much more than that. PTC first integrated PLM and is now branching off into industrial IoT and augmented reality. Dassault (which also moved into PLM and simulation) and Autodesk are no longer just supplying software tools to solve […]

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[ALTR] Altair Engineering, [ANSS] Ansys

Simulation, CAD, and PLM: Part 1

Posted on July 30, 2020August 12, 2020 by scuttleblurb

Many of the complex objects and structures around you were conceived as virtual objects modeled in computer-aided design (CAD) software. Those CAD objects may have been converted into millions of small polygons (pre-processing), each one bombarded with advanced calculus to help engineers visualize the polygonal mesh’s response to different simulated physical conditions (post-processing) Source: YouTube: Abaqus CAE: […]