Atego (company)
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Software development |
| Predecessor | Interactive Development Environments, Inc., Thomson Software Products, Artisan Software Tools |
| Founded | November 1996 |
| Defunct | July 1, 2014 |
| Fate | Acquired by PTC |
| Headquarters | San Diego , United States and United Kingdom |
Area served | United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy |
| Products | AdaWorld, Ameos, Architecture Component Development, ObjectAda, PERC, RAVEN, SmartKernel, Software Through Pictures, TeleUSE |
| Parent | PTC (from 2014) |
Atego was a software development firm with headquarters located in both the United States and the United Kingdom, and it maintained branches in France, Germany, and Italy. The company emerged from the consolidation of Interactive Development Environments, Inc. and Thomson Software Products, operating under the name Aonix from 1996 until 2010. In 2014, Atego became part of PTC through acquisition.
History
The inception of Aonix occurred in November 1996 following the combination of Interactive Development Environments—specializing in modeling, analysis, and design software—with Thomson Software Products (TSP), which was based in Norwalk, Connecticut, with engineering and support teams situated in Norwalk and San Diego. TSP had been founded in 1995 as a U.S. branch of the French company Thomson-CSF by merging Alsys (San Diego) and Must Software International (Norwalk). While the Norwalk team concentrated on client/server fourth-generation language (4GL) and middleware solutions, Alsys focused on developing high-efficiency Ada development environments alongside the TeleUSE graphical user interface tools.
Acquisition
In December 1998, private equity firm The Gores Group purchased Aonix. Among its portfolio were product lines such as Nomad software, Ultraquest, and Select Solution Factory until January 2003, when management buy-out led to a division into two entities. The newly formed organization, Select Business Solutions, was headquartered in Boulder, Colorado, yet remained under Gores Group's ownership. That same year, Aonix joined forces with NewMonics, a Tucson, Arizona-based provider of real-time and embedded Java tools, thereby incorporating the PERC product line.
January 2010 marked the merger of Aonix with UK-based Artisan Software Tools to create Atego, with its main office located in San Diego. Shortly thereafter, in March 2010, Atego expanded by acquiring BlueRiver Software, a German company known for its X32 C/C++ interactive development environment. In 2011, Atego further extended its offerings by obtaining the ApexAda Ada compiler family from IBM’s Rational Software division.
On July 1, 2014, PTC publicly announced its purchase of Atego for approximately $50 million in cash.
Products
The company's portfolio included products such as AdaWorld, Ameos, Architecture Component Development, ObjectAda (currently PTC ObjectAda), PERC (now PTC Perc), RAVEN, SmartKernel, Software Through Pictures, and TeleUSE (currently PTC TeleUSE).