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Market : March - April 1999
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Autodesk launches AutoCAD 2000
Comptech renovates itself, now called Comptech Software
PTC Assigns Data Work to Indian Software Companies
Tele Atlas formally launched
Ordnance Survey to use Laser-Scan to edit Geospatial Data
‘GOLDENRETRIEVER’- Barco Graphics’ new archiving solution
Autodesk launches AutoCAD 2000
AutoCAD 2000 to deliver increased performance for Design Community
Autodesk Inc. has launched its new AutoCAD 2000 software, which it claims to be a landmark release and avers it to be a standard in productivity, flexibility and connectivity for design professionals in all markets. The in-built connectivity tools of AutoCAD 2000 enables the users to get connected to the design information clients, companies to identify Windows NT workstations that are ideally configured to take partners and with their colleagues.
The features of this software includes MDE(Multiple Design Environment), which allows users to open, edit and design within multiple drawings in a single session of AutoCAD, and AutoCAD* Design Centre (tm), a central repository that enables users to both browse their existing designs and to excavate design ideas and content from existing drawings. The designers and engineers can now share graphic files over the Internet, broadly expanding the reach of their design products to easily include subcontractors.
A number of significant performance enhancements into AutoCAD 2000 have been programmed and the software will start shipping in the second half of this year.
Comptech renovates itself, now called Comptech Software
Focuses on GIS
The Bangalore-based International Comptech Engineering Services (ICES) has undergone a name change. Earlier called as ICES, now has been named as ICES Software Ltd. The company is restructuring its operations and planning to focus on GIS and Geospatial technologies. According to Mr. N. T. Vaishnav, Chairman and CEO, ICES, their current focus is on high end specialized software segment, and further will be software development and implementation consulting for utility, telecommunications and government sectors, and promote some of its in-house developed software application suite like ACE 98.
PTC Assigns Data Work to Indian Software Companies
Plans sales of "Windchill"
The Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) has announced that it is going to assign some Indian Software companies for its global data conversion. For this, it is negotiating with companies like Pentafour Software, Satyam Computers, DSQ Software and Patni Computers and some more, and these companies have already started working for PTC.
The reasons behind, apart from low cost, is availability of English speaking engineers and the time difference which enables work to be done almost throughout the 24-hour daily cycle. A separate division has been made to push the sales of a PTC’s product management solution called "Windchill" which is a result of acquisition of ComputerVision by PTC. The PTC officials find a strategic market for "Windchill" in India, although the market here is not so good.
Tele Atlas formally launched
The Dutch company,TeleAtlas formally launched its Indian subsidiary in India on March 5, 1999 at Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The company had already started its operations in India since Sept’98, and was continuously engaged in production, marketing and continuous updating databases for major European regions. This new office will be handling the digitisation of paper source materials into databases that will be utilised for Car navigation, Geographic Information System and Traffic and Transport as well as PC and on line applications.
Ordnance Survey to use Laser-Scan to edit Geospatial Data
Laser Scan, the Cambridge-based Geospatial Solutions specialists has bagged a massive project to unify diverse datasets into a new generation of object-based databases using one topological editing system from Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency of Great Britain. Initially to be used in the TOPO 96 program, which are very crucial to the development of geospatial datasets in U. K., the software will be used for other key OS datasets.
The main aim of this work is to provide one consistent geospatial data management system, also called as the Corporate Geospatial Editor, for the convenience of all OS datasets. The software has also an advantage of lending itself to Internet/Intranet-based geospatial applications. It will further be integrated into the Geospatial Management System, and once the data captured, it will be updated repeatedly for different products and services.
www.laser-scan.com
‘GOLDENRETRIEVER’- Barco Graphics’ new archiving solution
Barco Graphics’ new product — ‘GOLDENRETRIEVER’, offers an efficient, versatile and fully integrated solution for archiving the gigantic masses of data in today’s prepress production environment.
It operates on Windows NT and contains a CD-ROM jukebox in a variety of capacities matching to the users’ specific requirements and Barco’s ‘GOLDENRETRIEVER’ software.
Is a tool that refers to very smooth and fast way it retrieves jobs. It’s additional advantage of archiving the application files and FASTLANE files, all the files related to the job can be archived in one place. Also, archiving can be done in batch mode, which allows multiple jobs to be put in a single CD, and creating duplicate CDs for off-site storage can attain further duplication.
Its ability to write duplicate CDs enhances collection of off-site CDs for the customer. Using ‘GOLDENRETRIEVER’, one can easily search and manage the databases, as it allows choosing what is stored in the databases.
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