The company was founded in 1979 in Stockholm,
Sweden as a
software development company aimed at the market of personal computers
that
was evolving in those days.
In 1985 the company specialized in computer aided design - CAD - and changed
its name to "cadett" to make this specialization clear to the market. The
development of "elNett", an electrical design software, started.
At the same time in Mönchengladbach, Germany the company MG-Data GmbH
was founded to develop and market the electrical design software MG-CAD.
In 1986 at a fair in Birmingham, England, cadett and MG-Data met for
the first time. The result was that the further development of elNett
and MG-CAD merged into a joint venture.
The Scandinavian version of the resulting software was marketed under
the name cadett ELSA. The somewhat different German version was still
sold under the name MG-CAD.
The cooperation was continuously intensified and in 2003 the two
companies finally merged under the name cadett.
The two national software versions that then existed was replaced
with one single multi-lingual and multi-standard software called cadett
ELSA.
| 1979 |
The Swedish company is founded and publishes its first
catalogue of in-house developed micro computer software. |
| 1982 |
The company extends its business to also include
computer hardware. |
| 1985 |
The CAD-business in Sweden is started. |
| |
MG-Data GmbH is
founded in Germany, introducing MG-CAD 1.0 (later cadett ELSA). |
| 1986 |
The name of the
Swedish company is changed to "cadett
ab". |
| 1987 |
cadett ELSA 2.0 is
introduced in Sweden. In Germany the software is called MG-CAD 2.0. |
| 1988 |
cadett a/s in Norway is founded. |
| 1989 |
cadett ELSA 3.0 is shown for the first time. |
| 1990 |
The deliveries of cadett ELSA 3.04 starts. |
| 1991 |
cadett ELSA 3.05 sets a new standard of quality. Among other
important enhancements is a new complete documentation. |
| 1992 |
cadett ELSA 3.8 is an enhancement in functionality to a seldom
seen degree. One of the new features is automatic wire numbering in the
drawing. First in the world! |
| 1994 |
In cadett ELSA 3.85 a new revolutionary technology is introduced:
OnLine! |
| 1995 |
In cadett ELSA 4.1 network support is introduced. |
| 1996 |
cadett ELSA 4.15 is our first product supporting Windows NT. By doing that
we are moving to the platform where we still belong today. |
| 1997 |
All hardware related business is discontinued. Since
this point of time 100% of the business is related to software for
electrical design. |
| |
cadett ELSA 5.0 is presented. The deliveries starts 1 february
1998. This version introduces a new user interface - based on Windows. Thus the
product is more easy to use.
|
| 1999 |
cadett ELSA 6.0 with
Dynamic OnLine is shown for the first time.
This is another technological break-through.
|
| 2001 |
The deliveries of cadett ELSA 6.5 with support for
AutoCAD 2002
and with a renewed drawing environment is started.
|
|
2002 |
cadett ELSA 7.0 is yet another mile-stone in the development of
the product. A completely new catalogue introducing client/server technology
and a new drawing manager, combined with a new user interface, enhances the
performance of the software drastically. |
| 2003 |
cadett aquires MG-Data GmbH in Germany and opens an
office in Jülich, Nordrhein-Westfahlen. cadett GmbH and cadett ab
becomes sister-companies, both 100% owned by cadett Sverige AB. |
| |
cadett ELSA 7.5 is the first cadett ELSA product
available in several variants in different levels. |
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cadett ELSA 7.5 also introduces a powerful revision handling function, which automatically created lists describing in detail all the
changes that have been made. Another important new feature is the automatic
item designation generation that is taking place OnLine. The new version
supports AutoCAD 2004. |
|
2004 |
cadett ELSA Start is introduced. This new complete
electrical design product has an extremely competitive pricing. |
| |
cadett ELSA View is introduced, a low-cost product
only for viewing with no editing capabilities. |
| |
cadett ELSA 7.7 introduces extended symbol related
functionality, support for AutoCAD 2005 and a large number of other
features. |
| |
cadett decides to use the new product AutoCAD
Electrical as a new platform for cadett ELSA. |
| 2005 |
cadett ELSA 8.0 is introduced with support for
AutoCAD
2006 and an improved catalogue, among other new features. |
| |
cadett is introducing AutoCAD Electrical as a
complementary product to cadett ELSA. |
|
2006 |
cadett ELSA 9.0 is introduced. It supports
AutoCAD and AutoCAD Electrical 2007. |
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cadett's introduction of AutoCAD Electrical has now
made cadett the by far largest supplier of AutoCAD Electrical in Sweden,
larger than all competitors combined. |
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cadett GmbH becomes VAR (Value Added Reseller) for
AutoCAD Electrical. |
| |
cadett makes a sales record. |
|
2007 |
The deliveries of
cadett ELSA 10.0 with the biggest news in many years are started.
Multiple concurrent users in the projects are now possible. Another new
feature is super projects, where multiple sub projects are connected to
one another. AutoCAD and AutoCAD Electrical 2008 are also
supported. |
| |
cadett makes yet
another sales record. |
|
2008 |
cadett ELSA 11.0 is delivered. AutoCAD and
AutoCAD Electrical 2009 are now supported. |