| Altair Engineering, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | Troy, Michigan, USA (1983) |
| Headquarters | Troy, Michigan, USA |
| Key people | Jim Scapa, Founder, President and CEO Jim Brancheau, CTO Tom Perring, COO |
| Industry | CAE Software, Product Design and Development Services, and Grid Computing |
| Products | See complete products listing. |
| Employees | 1200 (FY 2007) |
| Website | www.altair.com |
Altair Engineering is a product design and development, engineering software and grid computing software company. Altair was founded by Jim Scapa, George Christ, and Mark Kistner in 1985. Over its history, it has had various locations near Detroit, Michigan, USA. It is currently headquartered in Troy, Michigan with regional offices throughout America, Europe and Asia. Altair Engineering is the creator of the HyperWorks suite of CAE software products.
Organization
Altair is divided into three business divisions: Product Design (PD), HyperWorks CAE Software (HW), and PBS Grid Computing (PBS).
Portfolio
The principal product offering from Altair's Commercial Software division is its HyperWorks line of software, including the optimization software OptiStruct and multibody solver MotionSolve. The Enterprise Computing division develops and manages PBSpro software, developed from OpenPBS.
