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How aware are CAD users of ASPs?
CAD
users reveal how loyal they feel towards their suppliers
The
CADAC / Meta4 merger - what does it all mean?
Joining
forces with strategic partners
Research
findings from the CAD/CAM user market
The
big issues facing the US market - industry interview
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Each month CAD
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will provide market intelligence from our database* of nearly
20,000 UK CAD/CAM user sites. This
database contains in-depth information for each record covering
some150 separate data items. The
data is updated on an ongoing basis by our specialist IT
researchers. The scope
for analysis is huge, but here are a few facts taken from interviews
conducted within the last six months with over 1,800 sites (selected
to provide a representative sample of the total UK CAD/CAM market).
How
dominant are the key players in the CAD/CAM market?
Half of all CAD/CAM
sites in the UK have AutoCAD, and one in three have AutoCAD LT.
The nearest contender to AutoCAD is Pro Engineer with a
penetration of 8% of UK CAD/CAM sites.
The table below shows all software brands with a penetration
of 2% or more.
Percentage of sites using each software package
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AutoCAD
AutoCAD LT
Pro/Engineer
AEC
MicroStation
AutoSketch
CADDS5
CATIA
Mechanical Desktop
Architectural Desktop
Easy PC
FastCAD
I-DEAS
OrCAD
SolidWorks
Unigraphics
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52%
30%
8%
5%
4%
3%
3%
3%
3%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
2%
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Purchasing
intentions amongst CAD/CAM user sites
One in ten CAD/CAM
user sites plans to invest in additional CAD/CAM hardware, software
or related services in the next 12 months.
Equal opportunities for sales appear to exist in all areas of
the country, as surprisingly there are no significant differences by
geographical region or by which application area it is used for
i.e., Mechanical Engineering, AEC, Process Engineering, Facilities
Management, EDA etc.
Equally, AutoCAD
users are no more or less likely to purchase in the next 12 months
than non-AutoCAD users (9% planning to invest compared to 11%
respectively).
Whilst there is a
slight difference in purchasing intentions by size of company, as
expressed by the number of employees, this is not as marked as might
be expected. Eight percent of companies with 1-25 employees plan to
invest, compared to 12% of companies with over 500 staff.
Number
of seats per site
One quarter of all CAD/CAM
sites only have one seat of software and a further quarter have just
two or three. However,
the average number of seats per site is 12, due to the minority
of sites that have a very large number of seats – 4% have over 50.
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Number of seats
1
2-3
4-5
6-7
8-10
11-20
21-50
51-100
100+
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Percentage of sites
26%
26%
12%
9%
6%
8%
9%
2%
2%
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*For
information on the UK CAD/CAM User Site Database — up to 20,000
company sites using CAD/CAM; some 140,000 CAD/CAM seats; some 60,000
named senior decision makers — please click here
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