Cadcorp

Computer Aided Development Corporation Limited (Cadcorp)
Private
Industry Software
Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Founded Bedford, Bedfordshire (1991)
Headquarters Stevenage, Hertfordshire, U.K. 51°53′50.70″N 0°12′21.52″W / 51.8974167°N 0.2059778°W / 51.8974167; -0.2059778
Products Cadcorp SIS
Cadcorp GeognoSIS
Cadcorp Web Map Layers
Website www.cadcorp.com

Computer Aided Development Corporation Ltd. (Cadcorp) is a British owned and run company established in 1991. Cadcorp has its headquarters in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, U.K.. Cadcorp has a network of distributors and value added resellers (VARs) around the world.[1]

Cadcorp is an ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/IEC 27001:2005 certified company,[2] an Oracle Corporation partner,[3] a Microsoft SQL Server Spatial Partner,[4] an Ordnance Survey Licensed Developer Partner,[5] and a corporate member of the Association for Geographic Information (AGI) in the U.K..[6]

History

Cadcorp’s first product was a Microsoft Windows-based CAD system called Wincad. All rights to the product were sold in 1994. Wincad development and maintenance, carried out latterly by Informatix Inc.,[7] Japan, through their UK subsidiary[8] under the brand name MicroGDS, was stopped in March 2013[9]. After selling Wincad, Cadcorp moved on to developing geographic information system (GIS) software. The first version of Cadcorp SIS – Spatial Information System ("Cadcorp SIS") was released in 1995.

The leadership team successfully completed a management buyout of the company in May 2015.[10]

Market

Cadcorp SIS has applications in the following UK markets[11]

  • Government (local, municipal and central)
  • Emergency Services
  • Land and Property
  • Insurance
  • Oil and Gas
  • Utilities
  • Maritime
  • National Mapping Agencies

Open Geospatial Consortium

Cadcorp has been a member[12] of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) since 1997. In 2004, Cadcorp’s technical director, Martin Daly was awarded[13] the OGC Kenneth G. Gardels Award,[14] made annually to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to advancing the OGC vision of geographic information fully integrated into the worlds information systems.

Several versions of the Cadcorp SIS product suite are certified OGC compliant[15] in the categories of:

Cadcorp SIS also implements support for:

Product Overview

Cadcorp SIS is available in different forms:

References

  1. ↑ Cadcorp Global Distributors and VARs
  2. ↑ Cadcorp ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 certification
  3. ↑ Oracle Spatial Partners
  4. ↑ Microsoft Spatial Partners
  5. ↑ Ordnance Survey Licensed Partner page Archived June 6, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ AGI Corporate Members Directory entry
  7. ↑ Informatix Inc., developer of MicroGDS (Wincad)
  8. ↑ Informatix Software International
  9. ↑ "MicroGDS". microgds.co.uk. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  10. ↑ Changing hands at Cadcorp
  11. ↑ Cadcorp case studies
  12. ↑ "OGC Members | OGC". www.opengeospatial.org. Retrieved 2018-04-25.
  13. ↑ Kenneth G. Gardels Citation for Martin Daly
  14. ↑ Kenneth G. Gardels award
  15. ↑ Cadcorp OGC compliance records
  16. ↑ OGC Simple Features for OLE/COM
  17. ↑ OGC Grid Coverage Service
  18. ↑ OGC Coordinate Transformation Service
  19. ↑ OGC Web Map Context
  20. ↑ Cadcorp desktop products
  21. ↑ Cadcorp server products
  22. ↑ Cadcorp web mapping products
  23. ↑ Cadcorp developer tools
  24. ↑ Cadcorp specialised applications
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