TechniGraphics, Inc. was a multi-national company with its headquarters in
Wooster, Ohio
Wooster ( ) is a city in Wayne County, Ohio, United States, and its county seat. Located in northeastern Ohio, the city lies approximately south-southwest of Cleveland, southwest of Akron and west of Canton. The population was 27,232 at the ...
, USA. It was involved in geospatial and engineering services. In November 2010, the company was acquired by
CACI
CACI International Inc. (originally California Analysis Center, Inc., then Consolidated Analysis Center, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation, multinational professional services and information technology company headquartered in Nor ...
International Inc.
History
TechniGraphics started out as Technicolor Graphic Services (TGS), a division of the "Color by Technicolor" company. The company began working with early GIS systems like
GRASS
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and
MOSS
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in 1982, progressing with the maturing industry to
ESRI
Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., doing business as Esri (), is an American Multinational corporation, multinational geographic information system (GIS) software company headquartered in Redlands, California. It is best known for ...
's
ArcInfo
ArcInfo (formerly ARC/INFO) is a full-featured geographic information system produced by Esri, and is the highest level of licensing (and therefore functionality) in the ArcGIS Desktop product line. It was originally a command-line based system ...
in 1989, and most recently to the object-based GIS embodied in
ArcGIS
ArcGIS is a family of client, server and online geographic information system (GIS) software developed and maintained by Esri.
ArcGIS was first released in 1982 as ARC/INFO, a command line-based GIS. ARC/INFO was later merged into ArcGIS De ...
9.0. The company abbreviated its name to TechniGraphics, Inc. in 2005.
The company was acquired by Dee and Mary Vaidya in 1993 and turned around with the help of the former
Rubbermaid CEO,
Donald E. Noble, who became a shareholder when he purchased the shares of an earlier partner of the Vaidya's. The Fort Collins, Colorado, company was a federal contractor and produced digital maps for the
United States Geological Survey
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and the
Defense Mapping Agency.
In 2002, to win additional volume of work for the same kind of digital maps it had produced since inception, TechniGraphics again applied to be a prime contractor, this time to the
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and superv ...
, and in 2003 was awarded a 10-year, $200 million Prime Contract that led to explosive growth for the organization.
In 2006, the company purchased the $10 million per year
Product Lifecycle Management
In industry, product lifecycle management (PLM) is the process of managing the entire lifecycle of a product from its inception through the engineering, design, and manufacture, as well as the service and disposal of manufactured products. ...
business of
MSC Software and another $5 million per year company, Axiom Systems. These purchases added six offices, almost 100 people and expanded the company into
Europe
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. TechniGraphics acquired another similar company, CUTit, in Germany in 2007, which firmly established it in the engineering services field.
In 2010, TechniGraphics' Geospatial activity was purchased by
CACI
CACI International Inc. (originally California Analysis Center, Inc., then Consolidated Analysis Center, Inc.) is an American multinational corporation, multinational professional services and information technology company headquartered in Nor ...
. The engineering services activity was spun off to form a new company, Noble Technologies, d.b.a NobleTek.
On May 21, 2013, CACI closed its operations in Wooster.
Locations
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Fort Collins, Colorado
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*
St. Louis, Missouri
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Further reading WKYC.com - What Works: Slice of Silicon Valley growing in Wooster
References
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External links
TechniGraphics website (no longer valid)Noble Technologies Corp. dba NobleTek
Companies established in 1993
Companies based in Wooster, Ohio