As a part of the Export Days hosted by the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO) on June 21^st, 55 young Austrian companies were awarded as “Born Global Champions”. The Award was handed over from State Secretary Harald Mahrer and WKO President Christoph Leitl (see picture).

This special award is for young companies (founded in 2010 and younger) which are acting on an international scale literally since their day of birth, and grow rapidly. This year Augmensys was among those 55 companies and feels very grateful for getting an award for companies “… that are successful worldwide in special areas with excellent products or services”.

The ceremony took place in the WKO SkyLounge, which is offering a fantastic view over the City of Vienna. The award also comes with a company summary printed in a special edition of the international magazine FRESH VIEW, entitled “Austria’s Born Global Champions II”. This magazine will be available in all 109 WKO bases across the globe and Augmensys can be found on page 32. The excellent Augmensys Team deserves a sincerest Thank You, without our dedicated staff such a success would have never been possible.

What was our motivation to take part in this year’s Constantinus? A nomination, of course the prospect of a prize, but above all the conviction that we have achieved something outstanding for our customers.

That’s why we ventured to submit our successful BASF Augmented Reality project. Many companies speculated that they could take home the Constantinus Award, Austria’s largest consulting and IT prize, because it was already awarded for the 14th time and year after year the popularity increased continuously. With the e-mail that invited us as nominees to the gala, it was finally clear that we were among the top 5 of more than 150 submitted projects in the category Industry 4.0/ Internet of Things. Now the guesswork began. Was it possible to read from this email what place we had reached? How do you prepare for the worst-case scenario? Who from the company can attend the big gala in Linz?

Microsoft and Augmensys began their relationship as development co-operation in 2013. The first common goal was to make Augmented Reality work on the briefly before published Windows 8 platform for Enterprise and industrial customers. Therefore, UBIK was no longer developed just for android but also for devices based on the Microsoft touch environment.

After close to three years they had a silver anniversary gift for each other. In the competence area „Application development “Augmensys qualified itself for the silver partnership. A silver competence partner today is better prepared for high-specialized customer requirements than in former times a Microsoft Certified Partner was, and has to prove those competencies constantly. Partners for a silver competence must employ two Microsoft Certified Specialists in the respective area, proof several customer references, as well as complete certain competence tests successfully.

Augmensys experience the many advantages out of this partnership already live. As a bright example, is here the successful conversion to Office 365 to mention, which we could smoothly implement within a few days. Above all has the silver partnership triggered a still deeper co-operation within the development, marketing and distribution of our common products!

The alliance isv4industry was founded in 2015 by four independent, global software vendors, namely Augmensys, COPA-DATA, icomedias and PROLOGICS. These for companies offer a cross-system application for the end user, based on the interaction of their products and technologies. The industrial expertise of all members leads to extensive solutions for the intelligent factory of the future.

Purpose of isv4industry is to present  industrial companies the practical benefits of the latest technological developments and how to implement them to existing infrastructures. This includes applications in the areas of maintenance / servicing, commissioning, quality management, energy data management, logistics and more. With the holistic approaches of the alliance, existing infrastructures can be qualitatively optimized, work processes can be done faster and more efficient, costs can be reduces, flexibility and competitiveness increased.

Click here for the isv4industry homepage!

UBIK® is broadening its target audience significantly, since our latest partner Pixis will help to introduce the Augmented Reality solution in the South American Metal- and Mining industry.
Headquartered in Santiago de Chile, Pixis is a leading provider of high-end technology solutions and services, primarily serving clients in the metals & mining industry, which is predominantly copper-related in the region. Pixis has been instrumental with regional services & support of Intergraph PP&M’s global client base as well as delivering professional services related to Hexagon’s Brand businesses, from training & support to as-built plant modeling and for information management & data handover activities.

We are very happy to have Pixis as a partner and we’re looking forward to provide the benefits of UBIK the Augmented Reality solution to new verticals and new regions!

Following preliminary meetings at the HXGN live event in Las Vegas in June 2015, PerfectProjects Inc., based in Houston Texas and Augmensys GmbH have signed a partnership agreement. The scope of the agreement includes software sales and distribution and consulting services for software implementation.
This move is significant for both businesses, as Augmensys continues an impressive global expansion program, and PerfectProjects adds a unique and revolutionary software component to its previous expert asset information management consulting practice.