Historically Datakit moved from offering standalone application targeting end-users to components embedded inside CAD systems. This tendency, started in 2000, was clearly confirmed these past years. Supplying components accounts for 70% of Datakit revenues.

Data exchange impacts an increasing range of disciplines. This makes it natural and imperative to work with vendors to enable as many end-users as possible to exchange their CAD data. Datakit collaborates as an OEM with some fifty vendors. The company is now starting to operate on a market where customers are upgrading existing solutions. Its independence, the skills it has on board, and its ability to listen to customers and propose solutions definitively explain the company’s success. On the technical level it is able to support metadata, in addition to purely geometric information. Actually, it is increasingly dealing with issues such as the management of assemblies, annotations and tolerancing data. Basically all the data that comes under the headings FD&T and PDM. New customers work in the fields of design, reverse engineering, creation of interactive documentation, viewing, rendering and QC.

Its success in making a software module compared to developing an independent application relies on:

• Its ability to focus on breaking down the entities into the finest grained detail possible.
• Its building structures that enable data to be stored thoroughly and then used as needed by different applications.

Datakit proposes 2 different ways to cooperate with software companies

• File-to-file transfers using intermediary files – an easy solution to test the robustness and the capabilities of the components. Then, if software companies need functionalities that are specific to their software, they realise the full advantage of using the second solution.
• Fully integrated transfers into the vendor’s software solution: conversion of all entities one by one including data attributes processing. This gives a powerful grasp on the transferred data. This solution meets the needs of most of Datakit customers (Software companies) that seek to go beyond mere file-to-file transfer with sophisticated capability for processing data attributes.

Satisfaction requires deep and close relationship between supplier and customers. Datakit has the ability to listen and propose solution and will make sure its solutions will meet your needs now as well as tomorrow.