ANSYS INC: directors' dealings · United States · SEC (Form 4)

About ANSYS INC

ANSYS INC (ticker: ANSS) is a leading engineering simulation software company focused on multiphysics analysis and digital design tools. Historically listed in the United States on the NASDAQ market, the company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Its core business is to develop and market software that helps engineers virtually design, test, and optimize complex products before physical prototyping. That capability lowers development costs, shortens design cycles, and improves product performance and reliability. Over time, Ansys became widely recognized as one of the global leaders in engineering simulation, with a broad international customer base and deep penetration in demanding industrial end markets. The product portfolio spans a wide range of physics and use cases, including structural mechanics, fluids, electromagnetics, optics, thermal analysis, acoustics, embedded software, digital twins, and systems engineering. Key products include Ansys Mechanical, Fluent, HFSS, Icepak, Discovery, Zemax OpticStudio, Speos, and Workbench. These solutions are used across aerospace, automotive, energy, semiconductors, industrial equipment, and healthcare. This diversified exposure is strategically important, because the company sits at the intersection of industrial digitalization, simulation-led innovation, and AI-enabled engineering workflows. From a competitive standpoint, Ansys historically benefited from strong switching costs, deep technical credibility, and extensive integration into customer R&D processes. Its platforms are mission-critical for large engineering organizations, which supports customer retention and creates meaningful barriers to entry. During 2024 and 2025, the company continued to emphasize AI, cloud, and automation capabilities, with releases such as 2025 R1 and 2025 R2 highlighting productivity gains, data-driven workflows, and smarter simulation automation. Ansys also announced expanded collaboration with NVIDIA around Omniverse to enhance visualization, digital twin workflows, and physics-based AI use cases. The most important recent development for investors is the completion of Synopsys’ acquisition of Ansys on July 17, 2025. As a result, Ansys is now part of Synopsys, marking a major structural change in the investment case. For French, Belgian, and Swiss investors reviewing the name ANSS, the company should therefore be understood as a historically standalone U.S. NASDAQ-listed industrial software leader that has been folded into a broader “silicon to systems” design platform under Synopsys.