Siemens

Employing more than 400,000 people, Siemens competes globally in a wide variety of industries operating through multiple business groups including Information and Communications, Automation and Control, Power, Transportation, Medical, Financing and Real Estate and Lighting. Consistent with its philosophy of maintaining a "global network of innovation," Siemens provides its highly diverse product development groups with a variety of computer-aided design (CAD) software applications to promote design creativity and flexibility. However, multiple CAD applications produce multiple formats that cannot be easily shared among the various engineering organizations.