Portability between platforms and operating systems, interoperability, capability to guaranty lifetime of archived data, its upgradability, supporting technical innovations without existing data having to be reconverted for transcoding purposes, and modularity, enable time to market to be decreased.

The increasing needs to recover the different data available in a model probably explain in part Datakit’s results which are very positive ones, for the 4 past years

• 2003: 83% growth
• 2004: Stabilization
• 2005: Capitalization
• 2006: 40% Increase

Turnover was about 1.8 Million Euros in 2006.
The company expected at least a yearly 20% growth for the next four years.

Datakit used to target the European market, which accounted for more than 60% of sales, followed by the USA and Asia that contributed around 29% and 8% of turnover respectively.

Datakit currently works in relationships with around 70 software companies. Testimonies of some of them are available within the newsletters. Last year Datakit, convinced 10 additionnal software companies to chose its technology, as it already did during the former years.

Among all the CAD Data exchange solutions available for end users on the web site, the 5 BEST SELLERS are :

• CATIA V5 to IGES
• CATIA V5 to SOLIDWORKS
• CATIA V4 to IGES
• UG to IGES
• CATIA V5 TO RHINO

They all benefit regular updates and upgrades to take into account new releases of Cad software. They are also enriched on regular basis according to requests that appear. New translators are also developed to allow users to exploit new formats such as CGR or JT. They meet the needs of companies that are reluctant to work from native files, either because the files are too bulky, or because they don’t have a license. 

The Cad plug-ins range of translators weighs ever more in the turnover. Generally speaking demand in native interfaces is clearly rising.