On April 6, 2023, IGE+XAO announced joining forces with ETAP, establishing ETAP as world’s leading electrical design and operations digital twin for infrastructure, building and industry.
As a result, ETAP expands its software portfolio to include the SEE Electrical software suite.
This combined venture will provide innovative software solutions for electrical systems across the lifecycle, from design and engineering to operations and maintenance, empowering users to increase productivity, collaboration, efficiency, and enabling their energy transition journey.
Learn more about ETAP.
For over 35 years, the IGE+XAO Group has been a software publisher designing, producing, selling and ensuring the maintenance of a range of Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software. These software products have been designed to help manufacturers in the design and maintenance of the electrical part of any type of installation.
Since mid 2014 with Prosyst take over, IGE+XAO also offers a complete software range for electrical installation functional simulation.
The software packages are :
- "SEE Electrical Expert" : for major industrial installations and embedded processes for vehicles such as planes, ships, cars, tanks, trains, rockets;
- "SEE Electrical Expert", and "SEE Electrical" : for medium-sized industrial installations.
Our SEE range of software is used for PLCs, process machines, embedded cabling and energy distribution in many sectors such as automobile construction, transport, energy production, agroalimentary, chemicals, metallurgy, public building work…
Turnover: 36,3 M€ Net result: 8 M€ Financial availability: > 27 M€ Financial debts: < 0.15 M€
R&D: 8 M€ or 25% of turnover.
Over 98,000 licences around the world which translates into over 46,200 users.
30 IGE+XAO affiliates and branches in 22 countries. 37 business partners in 30 countries
The build-up of the IGE+XAO Group is the result of a deliberate policy centered on steady and controlled acquisitions. This has led to a complete range of Electrical CAD software packages.
IGE+XAO joins the Schneider Electric Group.
Creation of a subsidiary in India
Creation of a subsidiary in Belgium Creation of a sales office in Moscow, Russia
Creation of a subsidiary in Greece Creation of a subsidiary in Brazil
Acquisition of the remaining 51% of IGE+XAO Danmark A/S Acquisition of 80% of Prosyst SAS Headquarters moving-out to ZAC Ramassiers - Colomiers
Creation of a new office in Tarnow, Poland
Creation of a subsidiary in Turkey
Launching of a wide Chinese sales network based on 3 IGE+XAO commercial agencies and 14 business partners Creation of a new office in Wadowice, Poland
Creation of a subsidiary in Madagascar
Creation of a subsidiary in Morocco
Creation of a subsidiary in China Creation of a development subsidiary in Tunisia
Creation of S2E CONSULTING with the Sogeclair Group Creation of EHMS with Labinal Acquisition of Compodata
Creation of a subsidiary in the USA Creation of a sales office in Nanjing, China Purchase of Hibatec, Switzerland Signature of a wordlwide partnership with Schneider Electric
Purchase of the remaining 49% of CAE Development Aps shares.
Signature of a technical and commercial partnership with Dassault Systèmes with regards to the design of electrical harnesses.
Acquisition of 19% of the French company Anyware Technologies SA, created less than two years ago and whose speciality is a software workshop to develop computer applications for the Internet. Creation of a second commercial agency in Munchengladbach (Germany).
Acquisition of several companies: - the French company INGEDATA DEVELOPPEMENT SARL, - the Dutch company TESSDATA BV, - the Danish company CAE DEVELOPMENT APS (51% of the capital), - and a further Danish company CADdy DENMARK A/S (49% of the capital) Creation of the SA SEE PL@NET, 90% held by the Company, in which the objective is to ensure the development and marketing of software programmes for use on the Internet
Acquisition of a Calculation Software from SOCOTEC Creation of a subsidiary in Germany Distribution of the first dividends
Creation of a subsidiary in the UK Launching of the new generation of the company's software packages (SEE range, Software for Electrical Engineering) comprising the programmes SEE 4000, SEE 3000 and SEE 2000 dedicated to large industries, to PME/PMI and small enterprises respectively New organisation based on a new company project ( SEE WORLDWIDE )
IGE+XAOChairman change: Mr. Alain Di Crescenzo succeeds Mr. Charles Baudron Creation of two commercial agencies, one in a suburb of London (England) and the other in Toronto (Canada)
Listing of IGE+XAO on the 'Nouveau Marché' of the Paris Bourse Creation of a sales subsidiary in Canada Creation of different sales offices in Madrid (Spain), in Tournai (Belgium) and in Rastatt (Germany) Acquisition of Schneider Electric Group and its CAO Electrical business called Handel which is at the very heart of different brands ( Handel, Hcontrol and Hdesign).
Setting-up of the IGE+XAO Holding Creation of a sales subsidiary in Gdansk (Poland) Take-over of IA Micro and its Win-Elec software. Acquisition of 34% of the shares of Vectra Informatique a distributor of computing equipment, ensuring on behalf of the group, services for hardware equipment. Acquisition of Mayridis Voyages becoming the group's internal travel agent
Opening of a sales representative office in Germany Creation of a development subsidiary in Bulgaria
Opening of a sales representative office in Spain (Barcelona) Creation of the Company "La Foliothèque", a subsidiary whose business is the electronic re-copying of existing electrical plans, using the Group's software products
Take-over of Alpage Ingénierie, designer of Alpage-Elec, the electrical CAD software on AutoDesk©'s graphic editor (AutoCad©) Opening of a sales subsidiary in Italy
Take-over of XAO Industry, a company specialising in Electrical CAD software products for work-stations and originating from one of Amine's research centres. The product designed by this company, Xelec, is a sophisticated product which has resulted in an increase in the number of customers in large industrial groups. Group's key figures : 3,600 licenses sold, sales of € 6.1 millions.
Opening of an agency in the Paris area.
Creation of a programming structure in Krakow (Poland) in co-operation with the local university.
The Regional Institute for Industrial Development (IRDI) invests in IGE S.A., acquiring 25% of the Capital.
Mr. Charles Baudron and J Marc Lalane establish the company IGE S.A. and designs "Schema" software package.
