ANSYS, Inc.

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.ansys.com
Employees: 1,400
Employee growth: 133.3%

ANSYS helps designers and engineers around the world really visualize their ideas. With the company's software, developers and engineers can see a simulation of their design concept on their desktop computer before a prototype is built. The computerized models are analyzed for their response to combinations of such physical variables as stress, pressure, impact, temperature, and velocity. Customers come from a number of different industries and have included Boeing, Cummins, and Motorola. ANSYS sells its products through independent distributors in about 40 countries. The company was founded in 1970 as Swanson Analysis Systems, when ANSYS was the name of the simulation software program.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2007:
Sales: $385.3M
One year growth: 46.2%
Net income: $82.4M
Income growth: 481.9%

Officers:
Chairman: Peter J. Smith
President, CEO, and Director: James E. (Jim) Cashman III
VP Finance and Administration and CFO: Maria T. Shields

Competitors:
Dassault
MSC.Software
Parametric Technology