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Vertical market and departmental application software companies sell software applications to narrowly defined or niche segments of a market. In other words, vendors in this space, develop software which is usually consumed by a specific industry. Niche solutions come in many flavors and serve a multitude of industries, both large and small. The application could be an enterprise level application sold to a small, medium or large sized business or an application critical to the operations of a single department of an enterprise.

There is a wide variety of vertical subsectors, we cover in greater detail some of the largest:

A/E/C
Communications
Energy & Environment
Financial Services
Healthcare
Public Sector
Other

Autodesk acquired NavisWorks

NavisWorks, a United Kingdom-based developer of 3D digital designs in the building, plant and marine markets

NavisWorks is a customer oriented organization that develops and markets software to enable full exploitation of the benefits of 3D digital designs in the Building, Plant and Marine markets.

“The combination of NavisWorks and Autodesk technology is an excellent match,” said Peter Thompson, CEO of NavisWorks. “Our products augment the coordinated, consistent and computable information produced by the Revit platform for building information modeling and can aggregate that information with data from other sources, including AutoCAD, Inventor, Civil 3D as well as many non-AutoCAD products, to build the most complete understanding possible of the overall project.”

“This transaction was a logical evolution of the symbiotic relationship that had developed prior to the deal,” added Miro Parizek, managing director of Corum Group International. “Now Autodesk can fully integrate the additional visualization tools NavisWorks had developed mostly for Autodesk users.”

Announcement Date: September 7, 2007
Deal Value: Undisclosed

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