Autodesk, Pitney Bowes Enter Strategic Partnership for AEC
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RAFAEL, CA, Jan 10, 2012 - Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK), a world leader in 3D design, engineering and
entertainment software, and Pitney Bowes Software, Inc., a global leader in
customer data, location intelligence, analytics and communication software and
services, today announced they have entered into a strategic alliance agreement.
The new agreement will serve as a framework for both companies to provide
resources, services and solutions to help infrastructure owners and
architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) organizations make more
informed decisions and drive greater efficiencies across the plan, design,
build, manage lifecycle of infrastructure.The relationship will enable the
parties to provide infrastructure professionals
in transportation, government, utilities, and
other key industries with the broadest range of
coordinated solutions available today to help
fully realize the value of project information
from planning and asset management to design and
on through to operations and management. Under
the terms of the strategic alliance agreement,
Pitney Bowes Software and Autodesk will join
forces to better address the needs of a global
customer base. In addition, through coordinating
the integration of existing applications, both
companies will work together to deliver
solutions which address some of the more
immediate business issues within a number of
identified vertical markets.
“We see tremendous synergies between the
offerings of Autodesk and Pitney Bowes
Software,” said Paul McRoberts, vice president,
infrastructure product line group, Architecture,
Engineering and Construction Solutions,
Autodesk. “Users of our BIM for Infrastructure
Solutions, including the Autodesk Infrastructure
Design Suite, can gain tremendous benefits from
the deep insights that the MapInfo product
family can provide, particularly during the
planning and asset management phases of
infrastructure projects. With our combined deep
industry expertise and solutions for GIS,
analytics, BIM, and asset management, we will be
well positioned to offer a much more
comprehensive end-to-end solution to the market
than other providers.”
“Shared global reach and industry sectors
reflect the strong affinity between Autodesk and
Pitney Bowes Software. Our complementary
capabilities will enhance the value of our
solutions and create enormous efficiencies for
our customers,” said James Buckley, Senior Vice
President & General Manager, Customer Data &
Location Intelligence, Pitney Bowes Software.
“AEC experts will be able to take advantage of
unique solutions which will shorten the modeling
and construction phases within projects and will
help organizations to determine optimum location
and environmental impact of design scenarios and
optimize asset maintenance management so that
infrastructure monies can be maximized across
the entire asset lifecycle.”
“A tremendous amount of valuable data is
locked up in traditional GIS systems. Unlocking
that value has the potential for delivering
increased operational efficiencies for
infrastructure projects,” said Jeff Vining,
Research VP at Gartner. “This is particularly
important for agencies and local government
departments around the world looking to
implement smart government initiatives.
Combining the power of location intelligence
with BIM modeling will help agencies and local
governments improve decision making across the
plan, design, build, manage lifecycle.”
This strategic alliance agreement also
provides both organizations with a unique
opportunity to develop specific, industry
related, solutions in the future using the
industry knowledge, products and services of
both companies.
About Autodesk BIM Solutions
Building Information Modeling (BIM) is an
intelligent model-based process that provides
insight for creating and managing building and
infrastructure projects faster, more
economically, and with less environmental
impact. Autodesk BIM solutions for building and
infrastructure lifecycles are based on
intelligent models created with Autodesk Revit
and AutoCAD Civil 3D software. Helping to expand
the benefits of BIM is a powerful set of
complementary solutions for visualizing and
simulating projects virtually, documentation and
professional drafting, and data management and
collaboration. The Autodesk Building Design and
Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suites offer a
comprehensive set of tools to support BIM
workflows in a single, cost-effective package.
About Pitney Bowes Software
Pitney Bowes Software (PBS) was formerly
Pitney Bowes Business Insight (PBBI).
Pitney Bowes Software provides multichannel
solutions that optimize data to create relevant
dialogue between organizations and their
customers. These solutions enable lifetime
customer relationships by integrating data
management, location intelligence, sophisticated
predictive analytics, rules-based decision
making and cross-channel customer interaction
management to increase the value of every
customer communication while also delivering
operational efficiencies.
Pitney Bowes Software is a wholly-owned
subsidiary of Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI), a
customer communications management technology
leader. For more information, please visit
www.pbinsight.com.
About Autodesk
Autodesk, Inc., is a leader in 3D design,
engineering and entertainment software.
Customers across the manufacturing,
architecture, building, construction, and media
and entertainment industries including the
last 16 Academy Award winners for Best Visual
Effects use Autodesk software to design,
visualize and simulate their ideas. Since its
introduction of AutoCAD software in 1982,
Autodesk continues to develop the broadest
portfolio of state-of-the-art software for
global markets. For additional information about
Autodesk, visit
www.autodesk.com.
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