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Informatix Software International acquired for Britain
Press Release: Cambridge, UK February 6th 2009.
On January 28th, Selective Software Holdings (SSH), a British-owned company with interests in software marketing, purchased the UK business of Informatix Software International Ltd (ISI) (www.informatix.co.uk) from Informatix Incorporated, the Japanese parent company.
ISI was established in 1997 to develop and market the CAD and rendering applications, MicroGDS and Piranesi, acquired from the original developers, Convergent Group, a US consultancy business.
The company, which will retain the Informatix Software International name, will now be owned and managed entirely within the UK. ISI owns the rights to market its products world-wide, with the exception of Japan, where such rights will be retained by Informatix Inc.
The on-going support and future development of MicroGDS and Piranesi, together with any future new products, will continue to be undertaken by the existing technical team at the Cambridge, UK development centre. New versions of MicroGDS and Piranesi are due for release later this year.
The new management team is fully committed to continued investment in both products and over the coming weeks will make public road maps for the future development of each of the products. The staff and management of ISI will continue to offer excellent service and support to its end-user customers and resellers worldwide and will ensure that the products are maintained to the highest level.
The MicroGDS product family is designed to meet the 2D and 3D CAD needs of architects, engineers, facility planners, and interior designers no matter how big or how small an organisation or project.
MicroGDS is an easy to learn product, packed with features which will ensure that users can create and edit their work more quickly and reliably than with other CAD products. On larger projects, the advanced multi-user capabilities allow many team members to work on the same drawing at the same time without conflict, even if they work from different sites.
Piranesi excels at turning conceptual 3D models into wonderfully atmospheric, stylised and, most importantly, persuasive visualisations, with a whole host of effects to allow the user to focus the eye and the attention to the key elements of the design.
Piranesi is also adept at delivering both photorealistic and non-photorealistic renders of fully-detailed images either for marketing use, planning applications or even award submissions.
The key differentiator with Piranesi is its understanding of "depth". Unlike other rendering applications, when a "cutout" (eg a person, tree, vehicle etc) is placed into a render, Piranesi scales the cutout depending on where it is placed, ie larger towards the foreground, smaller in the background, as well as placing it behind or in front of existing objects without the need for masks, resulting in increased productivity.
ISI's products are available through a network of distributors and resellers worldwide, and direct from the company's Cambridge office.
For further information, please contact Lynn Hayes
Informatix Software International Ltd,
509 Coldhams Lane,
Cambridge,
CB1 3JS,
UK
Tel: +44 (0)1223 246777
Fax: +44 (0)1223 246778
Email info@informatix.co.uk
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