written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . september 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message open cascade sas type private subsidiary of capgemini industry computer software predecessor matra datavision founded 2000 headquarters france number of locations 3 sites head office in guyancourt france offices in lyon france and nizhny novgorod russia area served worldwide key people mikhail kazakov products open cascade technology salome services specific software development number of employees 120 parent capgemini website www.opencascade.com open cascade is an information technology company of capgemini . 1 open cascade provides services in the domain of scientific and technical computing and simulation tools . 2 open cascade is primarily known to public for its open source platforms the company has been maintaining improving and distributing free of charge for many years open cascade technology occt for 3d surface and solid modeling visualization data exchange and rapid application development salome software free software that provides a generic platform for pre and post processing for numerical simulation open cascade builds its business model on using its open source software in the development of commercial software for various customers worldwide . 3 the company s head office is located in guyancourt france and there are production sites in lyon and nizhny novgorod russia . 4 open cascade employs around 150 engineers and developers in france and russia . contents 1 share holders 2 historical background 3 see also 4 references 5 external links share holders edit open cascade is a subsidiary of capgemini . 5 capgemini employed 180 000 people in 2015 . 6 historical background edit the history of open cascade company starts in the 80 s of the 20th century . 7 1980 matra datavision a french company released the euclid cad system . 1987 euclid is the first integrated cad cam system appeared . 1993 euclid 3 was released . this was a completely new and unique system that supported concurrent engineering . euclid software made matra datavision a true market leader in the field of cad cam . euclid was employed in the widest variety of engineering domains from general mechanical and automotive engineering to the complex robotics and aerospace industries . 1993 a development platform called cas.cade computer aided software for computer aided design and engineering created by matra datavision was released . cas.cade had been used by matra datavision as a platform to develop euclid quantum . 1996 matra datavision released euclid quantum a new generation of euclid . 1998 matra datavision changed its strategy and became a software service provider . that year the company signed an agreement with dassault syst mes that acquired some products from the quantum product line euclid styler euclid machinist strim etc. since the primary focus was made on services matra datavision established a new business model around cas.cade . 1999 matra datavision published cas.cade in open source on the internet as open cascade while focusing on rendering services around it . 2000 on december 7 matra datavision announced the foundation of open cascade sas its subsidiary for support and development of the open cascade platform as well as for carrying out numerous custom development projects for its customers . 2003 matra datavision the parent company was purchased by ibm while open cascade was acquired by principia research & development a french editor of finite element solvers and provider of engineering services . 8 2004 open cascade platform was renamed to open cascade technology to avoid name confusion with the company itself open cascade . 2007 open cascade sas became a subsidiary of euriware which was a subsidiary of areva group . 2014 euriware the mother company of open cascade sas was purchased by capgemini . 9 2015 euriware was merged with capgemini 10 open cascade sas became a direct subsidiary of capgemini . see also edit open cascade technology salome software references edit open cascade on linkedin about open cascade european e business market watch case study open source based services by open cascade s.a. open cascade locations 2014 annual financial report list of the main consolidated companies by country capgemini website open cascade history principia website company history capgemini newsletter merger agreement external links edit official website open cascade technology website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title open cascade & oldid 740756962 categories companies of francehidden categories articles with a promotional tone from september 2016all articles with a promotional tone navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more 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