Intergraph
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Subsidiary | |
Industry | Software Geographic Information Systems [httpgraph/--ID__13799--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml] |
Founded | 1969 |
Headquarters | Huntsville, Alabama, United States |
Key people
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Ola Rollén, CEO Mattias Stenberg, President, Process, Power & Marine Steven Cost President, Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure Mladen Stojic President, Hexagon Geospatial |
Revenue | $808.4 million USD (2008) |
Number of employees
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4008 |
Parent | Hexagon |
Website | ppm |
Intergraph Corporation is an American software development and services company.It provides enterprise engineering and geospatially powered software to businesses, governments, and organizations around the world. Intergraph operates through three divisions: Intergraph Process, Power & Marine (PP&M), Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure, and Hexagon Geospatial. The company’s headquarters is in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. In 2008, Intergraph was one of the hundred largest software companies in the world.[1] In 2010, Intergraph was acquired by Hexagon AB.
History[edit]
Intergraph was founded in 1969 as M&S Computing, Inc., by former IBM engineers who had been working with NASA and the U.S. Army in developing systems that would apply digital computing to real-time missile guidance. The company was later renamed to Intergraph Corporation in 1980.[2]
In 2000, Intergraph exited the hardware business and became purely a software company. On July 21, 2000, it sold its Intense3D graphics accelerator division to 3Dlabs, and its workstation and server division to Silicon Graphics.[3]
On November 29, 2006, Intergraph was acquired by an investor group led by Hellman & Friedman LLC, Texas Pacific Group and JMI Equity, making the company privately held. On October 28, 2010, Intergraph was acquired by Hexagon AB.[4] The transaction marks the return of Intergraph as part of a publicly traded company. As part of the Hexagon acquisition, Hexagon moved the management of ERDAS, Inc. from under Leica Geosystems to Intergraph, and Z/I Imaging sensors from under Intergraph to Leica Geosystems.[5]
On December 2, 2013, the geospatial technology portfolio was split out from under the Security, Government and Infrastructure division to form the Hexagon Geospatial division.[6]
On October 13, 2015, the Security, Government & Infrastructure division was rebranded as Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure.[7]
Software and services[edit]
It provides enterprise engineering and geospatially powered software to businesses, governments, and organizations around the world.
Intergraph software products include the computer-aided dispatch application I/CAD, the geographic information system (GIS) application GeoMedia, the image processing application ERDAS IMAGINE, the photogrammetry application ImageStation and the InService outage managements system for electrical utilities.
SmartSketch[edit]
The company's incorporated SmartSketch, a drawing program used previously for the PenPoint OS and EO tablet computer. When Pen computing did not take off, SmartSketch was ported to the Windows and Macintosh platforms.[8][9]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "The World's Largest Software Companies". Software Top 100.
- ^ Weisberg, David (2008). "The Engineering Design Revolution: The People, Companies and Computer Systems That Changed Forever the Practice of Engineering" (PDF). Chapter 14. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 26 June 2016.
- ^ "SEC quarterly result mentioning the sales of graphic accelerator and computer activities". Secinfo.com. Retrieved 2012-10-05.
- ^ "Hexagon AB - Press release". Cision Wire. Retrieved 2010-10-25.
- ^ "Intergraph and ERDAS: From GeoMedia to IMAGINE-The Big and Little Picture for this Geospatial Marriage". Retrieved 2013-03-11.
- ^ "Hexagon Announces Changes within Technology Division and New Appointments to Group Management". Retrieved 2013-12-02.
- ^ "Intergraph SG&I Becomes Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure". Retrieved 2015-10-13.
- ^ Intergraph's smartsketch
- ^ Intergraph's smartsketch (cadinfo)
External links[edit]
- Hexagon PPM (formerly Intergraph Process Power & Marine)
- Hexagon AB
- Hexagon Geospatial
- Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure