Sweco helps plan and design communities and cities of the future. It does this by offering qualified services in the fields of consulting engineering, environmental technology, and architecture. It was working with a large land developer, Bonava, who needed to connect and have visibility into design data from the initial design phases all the way to construction for its staff spanning 8 countries. To address this, Sweco turned to Safe Software.
Safe Software began in 1993 by helping forestry companies exchange maps with the provincial government. Though it was technically possible to share maps, the process was gruesome. It would take them hours of fighting with the data to get to the outcome they needed. Often, an incredible amount of information was lost in the process. The founders built a solution to change that, and their passion for freeing data was ignited. Safe Software is now the maker of a spatial data transformation platform, FME.
Sweco is a customer of Autodesk,…