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Intergraph company history timeline
In 1969 James Meadlock left his position as an engineer at IBM to found the consulting firm M & S Computing.
1969 – A group of engineers from IBM's Federal Systems Division in Huntsville, Ala., who developed guidance software for the Saturn rocket, form M&S Computing.
In 1970 M&S Computing was founded by two engineers from the NASA space program.
Its flagship CADD product, IGDS (Interactive Graphics Design Software), was developed in the 1970’s.
By 1972 the company introduced a graphics system to the United States Army Missile Command, its first major customer, by creating software for government-supplied hardware.
In 1975 Avions Marcel Dassault (AMD), later Dassault Systemes, purchased CADAM (Computer-Augmented Drafting and Manufacturing) software equipment licenses from Lockheed, becoming one of the very first CADAM customers.
By 1977, AMD assigned its engineering team the goal of creating a three-dimensional, interactive program, the forerunner of CATIA (Computer-Aided Three-Dimensional Interactive Application). Its major advance over CADAM was the 3rd dimension.
By 1980, what had been known as the "computing industry" was moving forward so fast that a whole new atmosphere with new information technology companies was emerging.
The company was later renamed to Intergraph Corporation in 1980.
1981 – Following its IPO, Intergraph stock splits twice.
1981 – Intergraph teams up with Zydex Engineering, Inc., to develop a new plant design system.
By 1983, Intergraph had a sales force of only 65, while IBM's comprised thousands.
In 1983 Intergraph started shipping InterAct and InterPro.
Finally, Intergraph entered an entirely new market, marrying graphics to word processing in a technology suitable for the electronic publishing industry. It improved its position in the mechanical design industry, with 20 percent of 1983 company revenues coming from that market.
By December 1984 Intergraph acquired the remaining majority ownership of its Canadian affiliates.
While Intergraph's equipment orders were 20 million less than expected in fourth quarter 1984, its long-term growth prospects were still considered excellent.
Their first standalone workstation, the InterPro 32 was introduced in 1984.
Bentley Systems, Incorporated was founded by Keith and Barry Bentley in 1984.
A decline did occur, becoming apparent in January 1985, when manufacturers in general began slowing production.
The company also made an aggressive move to establish a Japanese subsidiary in March 1985.
1985 – Jim Meadlock is awarded the Congressional High Technology Award
1985 – The company becomes the second-largest CAD vendor in the world, trailing only IBM
Setting its sights on new workstation technology, in July 1986 Intergraph introduced new graphics workstations designed with Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation's Clipper 32-bit microprocessor.
By 1986 Intergraph branched out once again, acquiring Massachusetts-based Optronics, Inc., a producer of computer peripherals and optical scanning equipment.
1986 – Intergraph is one of North Alabama's largest employers with 5,100 employees
In 1987, Intergraph Corporation acquired exclusive sales and marketing rights to MicroStation which became a worldwide standard for large-scale engineering projects on all platforms.
Intergraph developed their own version of UNIX for the architecture, which they called CLIX. In 1987, Intergraph bought the Fairchild division responsible for the chip.
In a last attempt to control its investment, in April 1988 Intergraph acquired an additional 32 percent of Tangent Systems for $3.5 million.
Although competition was stiff, Intergraph finally outstripped IBM and DEC, moving to number one in CAD/CAM/CAE sales in North America for 1988.
By 1988 CATIA Version 3 contained AEC functionality and was ported to IBM’s UNIX-based RISC System/6000 workstations.
By March 1989 Intergraph changed course entirely, deciding to exchange its 82 percent Tangent ownership for shares in Cadence Design Systems.
Fortunately for Intergraph, in August 1989 several major software providers announced they would port packages to the corporation's Clipper workstations, providing Intergraph customers with a number of software options.
Intergraph increased its holdings in 1989, acquiring Quintus Computer Systems in October for $6.5 million.
By November 1990, Intergraph announced its decision to buy Daisy/Cadnetix Inc., a CAD/CAE software producer, for $14 million.
The year 1990 proved a decisive success overall: Intergraph reached $1 billion in revenue, becoming the second-ranked CAD/CAM/CAE vendor in the world and the first in North America.
In fact, in April 1991 the company was awarded a $362 million Navy contract, beating out tough competitors.
In 1992, he decided to abandon the proprietary hardware aspect of Intergraph's business and concentrate instead on a standard-platform strategy, a transition harking back to the early years of the company.
The new strategy embraced in 1992 touched off a troubled era in Intergraph's development, in spite of its historic importance.
1992 – The company has revenues of $1.18 billion and ranka #315 in the Fortune 500
Founded in December 1993, SolidWorks Corporation introduced the first powerful 3D CAD software available for a native Windows® environment.The product was based on the Parasolid kernal.
In 1994, for instance, Intergraph sold 41 percent more workstations and servers than it did the previous year, yet workstation and server revenues crept up a mere four percent.
Intergraph claimed that after several years of mutually beneficial work, in 1996 Intel began making unreasonable demands for royalty-free rights to Intergraph patents already being used in Intel microprocessors.
In 1997, Intergraph began pursuing litigation against Intel and other computer hardware manufacturers based on the intellectual property developed in Clipper.
1998 – First data and document management system specifically for the plant industry is introduced
In 1998, Dassault acquired the French Matra Datavision company, creators of the EUCLID systems for free-form surface modeling, NC control and injection molding simulation.
1999 -- SmartPlant® P&ID is released following collaboration with industry leading customers
On July 21, 2000, it sold its Intense3D graphics accelerator division to 3Dlabs, and its workstation and server division to Silicon Graphics.
2000 – Intergraph exits the hardware design and manufacturing business, restructuring its worldwide operations around vertically focused divisions
2000 – Due to Intel’s actions, Intergraph was forced to exit the hardware design and manufacturing business.
Intel pays Intergraph $150 million to settle the 2001 PIC patent case.
In October of 2002 Intergraph won that $150M lawsuit.
Intel and Intergraph settled the suit in 2002.
2004 – Intel agrees to pay $225 million to the Intergraph Corporation to settle remaining claims that its Itanium chip infringed on Intergraph’s patents.
On October 28, 2010, Intergraph was acquired by Hexagon AB. The transaction marks the return of Intergraph as part of a publicly traded company.
2012 – PP&M creates the Greater China Region, its fourth global operating region.
On December 2, 2013, the geospatial technology portfolio was split out from under the Intergraph Security, Government and Infrastructure division to form the Hexagon Geospatial division.
Our global headquarters in Madison, Ala., USA -- which officially opened on October 2014 – is a five-story, 250,000-square-foot building featuring office space for 1,100 Hexagon employees.
On October 13, 2015, the Intergraph Security, Government & Infrastructure division was rebranded as Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure.
2015 – Acquires EcoSys Management LLC, a company that broadens PP&M leadership position as a Project Enterprise solution provider by adding project controls to our existing portfolio
On June 5, 2017, the Intergraph Process, Power & Marine division was rebranded as Hexagon PPM.
2018 – Acquisition of Bricsys makes Hexagon the world's largest AEC/BIM & CAD company
2019 – Hexagon strengthens its industrial facility operations portfolio with the acquisition of j5 International, a market-leading developer of operations management software for ensuring safe, efficient, and compliant operations of industrial sites
2020 – Acquisition of PAS Global expands Hexagon's presence in the owner operator market and broadens its capabilities by extending Hexagon solutions to operational risk management and OT cybersecurity
2021 – In one of the largest deals in its history, Hexagon acquires the global enterprise asset management (EAM) business from Infor, a global leader in business cloud software specialised by industry.
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| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IBM | 1911 | $62.8B | 270,000 | 3,996 |
| Wind River | 1981 | $359.7M | 1,801 | 54 |
| Juniper Networks | 1996 | $5.1B | 9,400 | - |
| Adobe | 1982 | $21.5B | 11,847 | 1,114 |
| Micro Focus (US), Inc. | 1976 | $3.0B | 12,000 | - |
| VMware | 1998 | $13.4B | 31,000 | 2 |
| Citrix | 1989 | $3.2B | 9,000 | 6 |
| Esri | 1969 | $1.1B | 3,801 | 322 |
| Bentley Systems | 1984 | $1.4B | 4,500 | 46 |
| Geo-Comm | - | $17.5M | 100 | - |
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