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. and a development office in London. 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. Rights to the product were sold in 1994. Wincad continues to be developed and maintained by Informatix Inc.,[7] Japan, through their UK subsidiary[8] although it is now named MicroGDS. 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.[9]

Market

Cadcorp SIS has applications in the following UK markets[10]

Open Geospatial Consortium

Cadcorp has been a Technical Committee[11] member of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) since 1997. In 2004, Cadcorp’s technical director, Martin Daly was awarded[12] the OGC Kenneth G. Gardels Award,[13] 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.

The Cadcorp SIS product suite is certified OGC compliant[14] 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
  6. ↑ AGI Corporate Members Directory entry
  7. ↑ Informatix Inc., developer of MicroGDS (Wincad)
  8. ↑ Informatix Software International
  9. ↑ Changing hands at Cadcorp
  10. ↑ Cadcorp case studies
  11. ↑ OGC Technical Committee membership
  12. ↑ Kenneth G. Gardels Citation for Martin Daly
  13. ↑ Kenneth G. Gardels award
  14. ↑ Cadcorp OGC compliance records
  15. ↑ OGC Simple Features for OLE/COM
  16. ↑ OGC Grid Coverage Service
  17. ↑ OGC Coordinate Transformation Service
  18. ↑ OGC Web Map Context
  19. ↑ Cadcorp desktop products
  20. ↑ Cadcorp server products
  21. ↑ Cadcorp web mapping products
  22. ↑ Cadcorp developer tools
  23. ↑ Cadcorp specialised applications

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