- Aveva
Infobox Company
company_name = AVEVA Group plc
company_logo =
company_type = Public (LSE|AVV)
foundation = 1967
location = High Cross, Madingley Road,Cambridge , UK
key_people = Nick Prest, (Chairman )
Richard Longdon, (CEO )
industry =CAD /CAMSoftware
revenue = £127.6 million (2008)
operating_income = £43.2 million (2008)
net_income = £34.2 million(2008)
num_employees = circa 750
homepage = [http://www.aveva.com www.aveva.com]Aveva Group plc (LSE|AVV) is a British-based
technology company which produces software for the power and marine industries. It is a constituent of theFTSE 250 Index .History
"The Computer-Aided Design Centre" (or "CADCentre" as it was more commonly referred to, and later formally became) was created in
Cambridge UK in 1967 by the UK Ministry of Technology. [http://www.aveva.com/about_us_history.php AVEVA Group History] ] Its mission was to developcomputer-aided design techniques and promote their take-up by British industry. Its first director was Arthur Llewelyn who initially contracted out the recruitment and management of specialist staff to ICL.The centre carried out much pioneering
CAD research, and many of its early staff members went on to become prominent in the worldwide CAD community, such as brothersDick Newell and Martin Newell. Dick Newell oversaw the creation of the extremely successfulPlant Design Management System (PDMS) for 3D process plant design, and later co-founded two very successful software companies - Cambridge Interactive Systems (CIS) which was well known from its Medusa 2D/3D CAD system, andSmallworld with its eponymous Smallworld GIS (Geographical Information System).Martin Newell later went to theUniversity of Utah where he did pioneering 3Dsolid modelling work; he was also one of the progenitors ofPostScript .Along with the
Cambridge Science Park , CADCentre was arguably the most important single factor in what became known as theCambridge Phenomenon - the transformation of Cambridge from a distinguished and beautiful but rather sleepy small University town into one of the world's high technology centres within a few short years in the 1980s. Many people who had worked at CADCentre went on to found their own successful software companies.CADCentre became a private company in 1983, was the subject of a management
buyout in 1994 and became a publicly quoted company in 1996. It changed its name to Aveva in 2001.The company acquired the
Tribon ship design software in 2004.Operations
UK
The company offers the following products:
* Aveva Plant: Aveva PDMS 12, a tool to design, build and operate plant [ [http://www.aveva.com/products_services_aveva_plant.php Aveva Plant] ]
* Aveva Marine: tools to design, build and operate complex ships and offshore vessels [ [http://www.aveva.com/products_services_aveva_marine.php Aveva Marine] ]
* Aveva NET: PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) solutions [ [http://www.aveva.com/products_services_aveva_plant_net.php Aveva NET] ]International
Aveva has about 50 branch offices in 39 countries. It is organised as follows: [ [http://www.aveva.com/region.php Aveva: Regional] ]
* Americas (based inHouston ,Texas )
* Asia Pacific (based inKuala Lumpur ,Malaysia )
* Central, Eastern & Southern Europe (based inMoscow /Frankfurt /Paris )
* Western Europe, Middle East and Africa (based inCambridge , UK)Aveva is currently seeking to improve its market share in the
United States . [ [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/sharewatch/the-investment-column-aveva-is-capable-of-engineering-some-impressive-returns-for-new-investors-835220.html Aveva is capable of engineering some impressive returns] ]References
External links
* [http://www.aveva.com Official website]
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