CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
9 February 2005
Financial News
Intergraph Leads Process Plant Creation And Shipbuilding Market
Intergraph Corporation leads the global plant creation and shipbuilding software markets with a 30 percent revenue-based market share for 2004, according to a leading research firm. For the 12th consecutive year Intergraph also led the worldwide overall plant creation market with a revenue-based market share of 31 percent.
Intergraph's sustained leadership position is based in part on revenue growth for new software licenses in key market areas-plant creation and shipbuilding, overall plant creation, physical plant creation and conceptual plant creation.
Intergraph's revenue growth is underscored by a number of business achievements during 2004, including commercial delivery of SmartPlant® 3D, the most advanced plant design environment available. SmartPlant 3D gained a strong foothold during 2004 and adoption of the software steadily continues.
More than 30 customers are now using SmartPlant 3D ( http://ppm.intergraph.com/smartplant/3d/ ). Customers include major, worldwide plant owner/operators, engineering, construction and procurement firms and shipbuilders.
Notable software deliveries in 2004 include SmartPlant Electrical 3.0, SmartPlant Foundation 3.6.2, SmartPlant Review 5.1, SmartSketch® 5.0 and the MARIAN Corporate Control Module. The Intergraph software suite is integrated through SmartPlant Foundation with The Engineering Framework and comprises the SmartPlant Enterprise.
In other business highlights, Intergraph in late 2004 acquired the EYECAD 3D plant design software from Asahi Kasei Engineering, expanding the Process, Power & Marine customer base within Japan and accelerating Japanese localization of the SmartPlant suite. Intergraph announced the transaction Jan. 19.
Gerhard Sallinger, president, Intergraph Process, Power & Marine, called upon competitors to join with Intergraph to explore ways of working together to improve interoperability and incorporate consistent software data standards to benefit the industry.
Sallinger also said, "Ultimately, industry leadership is about where a company takes its customers by delivering on vision and supplying solutions that meet the needs of the evolving plant owner and engineering firm environments now and in the future. On the business front, it means financial stability, sustained profitability with organic growth and a unified software platform versus debt accumulation, maintenance of mixed platforms and acquisitions of dubious success," Sallinger said.
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