January:
RAND's IMAGINiT division acquires Autodesk-related business of Atlantic Canada based CAD/CAM Systems Ltd.
February:
RAND earns recognition as John Deere "Partner-Level Supplier" for 5th consecutive year and achieves Hall of Fame Supplier Status.
March:
The company maintains leading reseller status of ZANTAZ's Enterprise Archive Solution (EAS) with the “North American Reseller of the Year" award for the 4th consecutive year.
April:
RAND's IMAGINiT division wins four Platinum Club Awards at Autodesk One Team Conference.
May:
The company completes agreements to sell select European Operations, maintaining 40% interest in ongoing operations.
July:
RAND's IMAGINiT division acquires Autodesk-related business of CADVisions, Inc.
September:
RAND's IT Solutions team releases Advanced PST Migrator (APM) V2.1, an application that builds upon ZANTAZ Enterprise Archive Solution (“ZANTAZ EAS”)
functionality to further improve the efficiency of PST file archiving.
November:
RAND is acquired by Ampersand Ventures and becomes a privately held company.
RAND's IT Solutions team releases EAS Entourage Client (EEC), an application enabling Entourage users to access their EAS for
Exchange archived data directly in the Entourage mail client.
2006
March:
RAND earns recognition as a John Deere "Partner-Level Supplier" for 4th consecutive year.
The company maintains leading reseller status of ZANTAZ's Enterprise Archive Solution (EAS) with the “North American Reseller of the Year" award for the 3rd consecutive year.
April:
RAND's IMAGINiT division acquires Autodesk-related assets of Taylor Technologies, Inc. (“TTI”).
RAND launches ProductivityNOW, an enhanced Web-based PLM client support portal.
June: IMAGINiT launches Autodesk version of ProductivityNOW, an enhanced Web-based client support portal.
September:
RAND's IT Solutions team releases EAS Web Access (EWA) application, a web-based portal enabling organizations using ZANTAZ EAS for Exchange, EAS for Files
and EAS for SharePoint archiving solutions to provide staff with access to archived email and documentation over the Internet.
January:
Sale of selected European subsidiaries to Dassault Systèmes is completed from October 2004 acquisition intent.
February:
RAND Worldwide announces intent to acquire SageCAD, a Northeastern USA Autodesk Reseller specializing in Building Systems, Mechanical Design and GIS. SageCAD joins the IMAGINiT division.
March: Company reaches first profitable quarter from continuing operations since Q1 2001.
RAND achieves Dassault Systèmes’ Certified Education Partner Status in North America.
RAND launches SOLO, a searchable online database of learning objects designed to assist engineering software application users with their day-to-day use of Autodesk, Dassault Systèmes and PTC software programs.
April:
Named Best-in-Class supplier in 2004 by the Royal Canadian Mint’s first annual vendor appreciation event.
September: RAND Worldwide's announces an agreement to acquire the Autodesk-related assests of Continental Imaging Products.
October: Acquisition of Autodesk-related assets from Continental Imaging Products is completed with RAND's IMAGINiT division.
November: RAND enters channel partnership with IMlogic, the global leader in
enterprise software for instant messaging (IM) management.
December: RAND enters distribution partnership agreement with Lucid8, a provider of automated disaster prevention,
optimization and recovery software for Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, 2000 and 2003.
January: RAND enters master distribution agreement with a division of The Boeing Company to sell and support a broad variety of the company’s software applications.
March: Software and maintenance services sales are discontinued for Parametric Technologies Corporation (PTC).
RAND Worldwide named IBM’s leading global Business Partner for 2003 in new software license sales, technical education services, and implementation support for IBM PLM solutions.
IMAGINiT division receives all three of the Tier 1 Reseller Platinum Awards for U.S.-based sellers at the Autodesk One Team Conference and is named a Platinum Level Autodesk Partner in Canada.
April: RAND Worldwide and Dassault Systèmes announces plans to create Rand North America, Inc., a new joint venture focused on increasing sales of IBM/Dassault Systèmes PLM software in North America.
July: North American PLM software sales and business unit is transferred to Rand North America, a new U.S. company, formed through a joint venture with Dassault Systèmes and RAND Worldwide.
Rand North America enters into an agreement with RAND Worldwide in which all Rand North America training, maintenance, support, and consulting services will be sub-contracted to RAND Worldwide for a three year period.
RGB Technologies is acquired by RAND Worldwide expanding its product and services offering in the Northeastern region of France, dominated by the automotive customer sector, allowing the company to be active in all the country’s industrial sectors.
October: Dassault Systèmes announces intent to acquire RAND Worldwide’s European subsidiaries and the subsidiary RAND Technologies C.I.S., Inc. as well as increase its ownership share in Rand North America from 60 to 70 percent.
November: ASCENT division and Autodesk Inc. establish a licensing agreement to publish select titles under the Autodesk Official Training Courseware brand.
December: Autodesk Inc. certifies RAND Worldwide’s IMAGINiT division as an Autodesk Authorized Training Center (ATC) partner making it the largest ATC accredited organization in North America with 20 world-class education centers.
March: IMAGINiT division acquires Newton CADesigns Pte Ltd., in Asia, Ketiv Technologies, Inc., located in Northwest U.S., and Aurbis Technical Centre, Ltd. of Saskatoon, SK, making it one of the largest Autodesk resellers in the world.
April: IMAGINiT division receives 15 awards at the Autodesk Inc. Team One Conference, the largest number of awards won by any single Autodesk reseller organization in the world.
May: IMAGINiT division acquires CAD Resource Center and its five locations throughout Canada.
August: ProGroup Australia is acquired and joins the IMAGINiT division.
2000
March: Company founds ENGINEERING.com, a web-based resource tool for the global engineering community.
Company enters AEC market with the acquisition of Technical Software, Inc., located in Cleveland, OH, forming IMAGINiT Technologies, focusing on Autodesk products.
April: Business relationship expands with IBM and Dassault Systèmes global agreement.
May:
CAD Resource Center and its five locations throughout Canada are acquired by IMAGINiT division.
September: IMAGINiT division acquires CADD Development, Corp. of Orlando, FL.
November: IMAGINiT division acquires CADD/CAM Tools, Inc. (CCT) of Chicago, IL. CCT and A.I. Systems, Inc., located in Salt Lake City, Utah adding a Northwestern U.S. presence as an Autodesk supplier.
1998
RAND Technologies changes name to RAND Worldwide and introduces dolphin branding, symbolizing faster, smarter, and friendlier to highlight its global presence, competence, and experience.
RAND enters IBM/Dassault Systèmes relationship through the acquisition of TransCAT.
1995
Company expands into Asia, throughout Singapore, and later Japan and Australia providing a truly global presence.
1993
RAND Technologies goes public on the TSX [TSX: RND] and expands into Europe.
1988
PerTech Systems is renamed RAND Technologies and establishes a strategic relationship with Parametric Technology Corporation (PTC) as a ‘Preferred Systems Provider’ to resell PTC’s 3D parametric solids modeling solution in 1988.
RAND Technologies expands its operations throughout North America and locates offices where customers required engineering support services.
1986
Computer Vision offers VAR status to Rand Engineering for its 3D PC product designed for engineers, architects and designers. Frank Baldesarra and Brian Semkiw found PerTech Systems to manage these sales.
1984
Rand Engineering develops strategic relationship with Computer Vision and developes an integrated AEC package for 3D design.
1981
Classmates Frank Baldesarra and Brian Semkiw found Rand Engineering, a civil engineering firm assisting engineers to optimize building structures.
