ASCON 08 Revenue Up 14% to $30.6M
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PETERSBURG, Russia, Apr 2, 2009 - ASCON, one of the leading developer of
CAD/AEC/PLM solutions, at an annual press conference presented an overall
results of its activity for the last year. The company's annual sales
turnover in 2008 amounted to $30.6 million, 14% more than outcome
of 2007. Currently list of customers of commercial versions of ASCON
solutions consists of about 4500 enterprises and companies in different
industries: machinery, automotive, shipbuilding, aerospace and defense,
architecture, electronics and many others. Fraction of big contracts in
sales structure increased: during last year were concluded 2 agreements with
value over $1 million (US), 3 contracts – more than $500,000 and 32 exceeded
$100,000.
Considerably growth rate in industry segment was shown in oil and gas –
almost two times increase of sales volume compared with prior period. 55%
growth was recorded in one of the most priority directions of ASCON – automation
of engineering and construction design. A new version of the company's MCAD solution,
KOMPAS-3D V10, was launched with a great success, the software became more
available for users all other the world with the fully localization of German
version and with appearance of KOMPAS-3D in Polish and Chinese, substantially
extending the resellers network, making KOMPAS even closer to users, ASCON took part
in many international fairs (Hannover Messe, EuroMold etc.) and as a result got
a lot of prosperous contacts and partners.
In the current year of company's 20th anniversary, ASCON will continue further
development and release of its high-technology, powerful and innovative
CAD/AEC/PLM solutions. By estimates of Maxim Bogdanov, CEO of ASCON Group, this
year according to existing economical situation is expected to find reduced
investments in IT area and value of average contract. ASCON has always tried to meet
demands of its customers and now will pursue a policy of collaboration with them
by offering its professional, modern and what is very important now
cost-effective solutions, which allow fast implementation in production and as a
result return of investments in a very short period of time. The company has
already addressed new offers with flexible pricing policy to its customers:
discounted update from Demo and LT version of KOMPAS-3D to Professional License
within one month after downloading of freeware, software for rent, cross updates
and CAD trade-in.
About ASCON
ASCON - CAD/AEC/PLM developer and integrator founded in 1989. ASCON software
solutions address key issues of engineering design, such as preparation and
release of drawing and design documentation, business process development and
engineering data management. Hight-tech software from ASCON have been
successfully used across various industries: machinery, automotive,
shipbuilding, aerospace and defense, architecture, electronics and many others.
The mechanical computer aided design solutions from ASCON, KOMPAS-3D, provides
effective industrial product development, Parametric 3D solid modeling,
full-scale 2D design, special add-ons for photo rendering, motion simulation,
kinematic and dynamic analysis. ASCON offer easy learning solutions, with
professional functionality at affordable and reasonable price. ASCON Partners'
program gets together high-class value-added resellers, leading software and
hardware producers, as well as service companies, professional developers and
consultants in order to bring our customers full-functioning, powerful,
software- and hardware- compatible high-class solutions at reasonable price.
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For more information, visit
www.ascon.net.
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Additional News
Feb 16 - ASCON Releases Czech, Polish KOMPAS-3D v11
Aug 11 - ASCON Announces KOMPAS-3D v11.0 for MCAD
Jul 28 - ASCON Continues KOMPAS Rental Program
Jul 21 - ASCON Localizes KOMPAS-3D for Poland, China
Jul 13 - ASCON, Cybercom Join to Integrate MCAD with 3D Printing
Jul 6 - ASCON Announces 7th KOMPAS 3D Modeling Contest Winners
Apr 14 - ASCON Extends KOMPAS-3D Modeling Contest
Apr 2 - ASCON 08 Revenue Up 14% to $306M
Mar 6 - ASCON Offers 25% Off on KOMPAS After Demo Usage
Mar 2 - Ascon Announces KOMPAS-3D Users Contest
Feb 19 - ASCON Releases KOMPAS-3D v10 SP2
Feb 9 - KOMPAS-3D Collaborates with Different CAD Solutions
Feb 2 - KOMPAS-3D Training Center Launched in Germany
Jan 27 - ASCON KOMPAS-3D Available for Rent
Nov 26 - ASCON Localizes KOMPAS-3D Beta for Czech, Poland
Aug 27 - ASCON Releases KOMPAS-3D v10
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