Graitec acquires Autodesk VAR Lineis

Bièvres, France, February 2019 – Graitec, an international BIM, Fabrication and Design software developer for AEC, Autodesk® Platinum Partner across Europe and Gold Partner across USA, Canada and Russia announced today that it acquired 100% of the shares of Lineis on Wednesday February 20^th. (The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.)

The acquisition of Lineis reinforces the position of Graitec in France where the company is already operating as (1) Autodesk Platinum Partner; (2) software editor of world class standard structural analysis & design software: Advance Design and Advance BIM Designers, Advance Workshop, and Arma+ software; and (3) as service provider and Research & Development partner for engineering offices and manufacturers. Lineis brings with them a team of BIM experts as well as over 30 years of presence and customer commitment in the French market. 

Now with the full support of a major international group, Lineis will gain an extended capacity to deliver a new range of professional services around BIM. This in turn will deliver more value to customers with an extended portfolio of unique complementary products, an example of which, is that all Graitec subscribers to Autodesk Revit receive a complimentary Graitec PowerPack with over 50 bonus tools to increase their productivity.

Lineis will be merged within Graitec France in the coming weeks and both teams will combine their strengths to better serve customers and develop the business of Graitec in France. 

François Tabusse, Lineis CEO comments: “The ambition of Lineis is to consistently offer an unparalleled level of technical expertise. Our dedicated staff is passionately committed to providing quality customer service. We were impressed and immediately attracted by the vision and strategy of GRAITEC and are extremely happy to be part of a truly professional and customer focused company. We are confident the company and our customers are in very good hands.” 

Francis Guillemard, GRAITEC President adds: “We look forward to welcoming Lineis customers to the Graitec family and helping them meet today’s industry challenges supported by a strong base of Graitec technology. The Lineis acquisition builds on our existing presence in the French markets and adds an increased depth of experience, while demonstrating our commitment to growth and the delivery of world class solutions, services and support to our expanding customer base.  

About Lineis

The company Lineis started in 1989.

Operating through 3 offices in France, Lineis is delivers first class BIM professional services and technologies to companies who want to improve their design and production process in the AEC space. As an Autodesk Reseller and Autodesk Training Centre, Lineis trains, integrates and consults on all Autodesk Solutions, such as Revit, AutoCAD, 3DSMax and all the Autodesk BIM360 cloud services. Known today for their huge expertise in BIM (Building Information Modelling) helping Architects, Owners, Engineering digitalize their design processes. Lineis advises and helps its customers to successfully achieve their business challenges through innovative solutions and services.

For more information, please visit www.lineis.fr

Graitec Acquires Spanish Autodesk VAR 2aCAD

Bièvres, France, February 2019 – Graitec, an international BIM, Fabrication and Design software developer for AEC, Autodesk® Platinum Partner across Europe and Gold Partner across USA, Canada and Russia announced today that it acquired 100% of the shares of 2aCAD, Spain on Thursday February 14th. (The terms of the deal have not been disclosed.)

The 2aCAD Spanish acquisition strongly reinforces the position of Graitec in Europe, where the company is already operating with branches in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Romania.

The acquisition of 2aCAD in Spain strongly reinforces the position of Graitec in Europe where the company is already operating as (1) an Autodesk Platinum Partner; (2) a developer and reseller of several world standard software solutions in the Structural Analysis and Fabrication Management space with Advance Design, Advance BIM Designers, Advance Workshop and Arma+ software; and (3) as a service provider and research & development partner for engineering offices and manufacturers.

2aCAD brings with them a team of BIM experts as well as over 30 years of presence and customer commitment in the Spanish market, clients will experience an absolute continuity of service as 2aCAD will continue to operate as before the acquisition.

With the full support of a major international group 2aCAD will also gain an extended capacity to offer a new range of professional services around BIM, which in turn will deliver more value to customers through an extended portfolio of unique complementary products, an example of which is that all Graitec subscribers to Autodesk Revit will receive a complimentary Graitec PowerPack with over 50 bonus tools to increase their productivity.

An increased investment capacity will also in time, allow for the enlargement of the current operational area and an expansion of market focus to include advanced simulation and fabrication management systems to better serve current and new customers.

Javier Beltran, 2aCAD CEO comments: “I am pleased to join the Graitec Group. We are thrilled with the vision of building a strong international group together. We are very excited and looking forward to start bringing the deep knowledge and expertise to the Graitec Group and join forces to fulfil customer’s needs, maintaining quality and services for them. The company and our customers are in very good hands.”

Francis Guillemard, GRAITEC President adds: We look forward to welcoming 2aCAD customers to the Graitec family and helping them meet today’s industry challenges supported by a strong base of Graitec technology. The 2aCAD acquisition builds on our existing European presence and adds an increased depth of experience, while demonstrating our commitment to growth and the delivery of world class solutions, services and support to our expanding customer base.

About 2aCAD
The company 2aCAD started in 2008 from the merge of ADA Computer and ApliCAD, two leading companies in graphic software with more than 35 years of experience in the sector. In 2013 it became part of the ADA Group.

Operating through 10 offices in Spain and Portugal, 2aCAD offers to their customers, increased productivity through the implementation and development of global and integrated graphics solutions, based mainly on the complete portfolio of the manufacturer Autodesk, for continuous improvement and competitiveness through personalized attention. 2aCAD helps its customers successfully achieve their business challenge through innovative solutions and services.

2aCAD is accredited by Autodesk in the sectors of Architecture, Engineering and Construction, Manufacturing and Multimedia.

For more information, please visit www.2aCAD.es

GRAITEC ACQUIRES Opentree – Publisher of Cabinet EDM solution for Document Lifecycle Management

16th January 2019 – GRAITEC, an international BIM, Fabrication and Design software developer for AEC, and Autodesk® Platinum Partner across Europe, is delighted to announce the acquisition of Opentree, a U.K based company that provides EDM solutions for the management of the entire document lifecycle of projects, and conforms to BIM standards and BS1192 workflows.

At a time when there is increasing industry complexity especially around BIM projects and delivery, the need to effectively manage internal W.I.P (Work in progress) project documentation from the outset is becoming increasingly important across all AEC sectors.

Practices and businesses with a further requirement to publish project data externally to a hosted environment are then often faced with the challenge of interfacing with multiple CDE (Common Data Environment) vendors , as the choice for construction and manufacturing professionals is vast, but with Opentree you can effectively manage all of your internal documentation and model information locally throughout the project lifecycle and then publish to the CDE of your (or the principal contractors) choice as and when a particular project dictates.

Francis Guillemard, GRAITEC President comments: “With Graitec’s recent acquisitions, coupled to the fact that we are an extremely large Autodesk partner, and a software developer in the BIM area. Our solutions in the BIM arena provide many ’000,000’s of models, documents and ancillary information, this acquisition will be pivotal in helping our customers with the day to day management of their project documentation from initial conception and tender, through to project delivery!

Andrew Frank, OPENTREE Managing Director comments: “By joining Opentree and Graitec, our customers will further benefit from being owned by a company with a long history in design & collaboration, who have the skills and expertise to push Opentree even further into the market of W.I.P management, We see this a key strategy for all customers to manage this process better than they do today.

Steve Houlder, GRAITEC COO comments: “The BIM market and the BIM for Manufacturing market is growing at a rapid rate in many countries. One of the major difficulties faced by our customers at all levels from housing development through to capital projects, is the management of data from project conception to the start of the collaboration phase, ensuring data consistency and adherence to standards being one of the most important topics. With Opentree we can address this growing issue for many of our customers, aligning, Graitec and Autodesk technologies.

Graitec will now offer Data Management and W.I.P management to all our customers who have been trying to solve the problem by various means for a long time. By helping customers to adhere to data standards, deliver consistency, conform to both BS1192 and the upcoming ISO19650 BIM standards, Graitec are at the forefront of helping customers manage their data and projects effectively enabling them to achieve time and cost savings, as well as improving internal and external data quality processes.

About Opentree
The company was established in 1992 as tsaADVET Ltd selling networked PC based CAD solutions from Intergraph, Bentley and Autodesk. The focus was on large engineering companies who had hundreds of thousands of drawings to control across very large facilities. We introduced a third party Electronic Document Management Software (EDMS) system (Falcon/DMS) which we sold and supported to enable the tight management of the CAD data. This included management of CAD Reference/XRef files which are vital to ensure data integrity of the drawings.

As the business continued to grow, we soon realised that the EDMS product was not meeting all of our customers’ needs. So in 2000, we developed our own EDMS, CAB-i-NET (now Cabinet).

Since it was first adopted by Tata Steel (formerly British Steel) and Siemens (formerly Westinghouse Rail Systems) in 2003, we’ve never looked back. Thanks to our partnership approach with various multinational blue chip companies, Cabinet evolved to manage all forms of office documents as well as CAD drawings.

Following a decade of success, a management buyout enabled the company to strategically plan for its future growth. This resulted in the opening of a dedicated development office in Sheffield, followed by a complete rebrand to Opentree in 2014.

For more information, please visit www.opentree.co.uk

GRAITEC Launches BIMUp

Bièvres, France, September 2018 – GRAITEC, an international BIM, Fabrication and Design software developer for AEC, Autodesk® Platinum Partner across Europe and Gold Partner across USA, Canada and Russia announces today that it has launched Graitec BIMUp. Graitec BIMUp is a tried and tested BIM methodology designed for its customers entry into the BIM arena and ongoing support and testing of the methodology.

BIMUp was designed with the background of over ‘000’s of successful BIM Implementations across the globe. By breaking down 5 pillars of BIM:

• The BIM technology implementation
• Individual/Personalised training
• BIM project management
• BIM standards deployment
• Collaboration

And adding Graitec productivity tools such as Graitec Advance PowerPack for Revit, and full technical support, customers can be safe in the knowledge that partnering with Graitec will provide a clear path to their BIM Journey and enable them to be up and running quickly.

Steve Houlder, Graitec COO comments: "We have designed BIMUp with the help of over 200 professionals across our business who have successfully helped 1000’s of our existing clients implement their BIM processes. ” By splitting the implementation into 5 pillars we can work with our clients in strategic areas so start or enhance their BIM journey. All of this is backed by technical support from 11 countries, in 13 languages and multiple time zones, making Graitec, the partner of choice for many looking to implement or refine their BIM strategy."

Manuel Liedot, GRAITEC CEO adds: “GRAITEC has a long-standing history as an Autodesk partner and is currently one of the fastest growing international Autodesk VAR’s. We have been offering BIM implementation through our branch network for many years, but this formalised approach will enable customers to leverage the success of many implementations and be productive a lot quicker. By combing the power of Autodesk and Graitec technologies, and the wealth of experience we have available, there is a clear benefit to partnering with Graitec."