In his pre-Bricsys days, De Keyser led the the expansion of the somewhat over-hyped Bricsnet business around the turn of the century (I have written about Bricsnet’s early days and more recently covered its rebranding as ProjectCenter and the 2016 establishment of its joint venture with Germany’s think project!).
In the opening session, Bricsys CEO (architect turned software developer) Erik De Keyser gave a very brief history of Chapoo. Both Chapoo and Bricsys are privately held, so I couldn’t glean revenue figures but was assured that Chapoo is profitable. While it is a separate company, it is co-located with and shares many of the same developers involved with Bricsys’s core products, and it uses the same internally developed (and impressive!) customer relationship management system, BOA, deployed to support BricsCAD.
Much of the event focused on the company’s BricsCAD and BricsCAD BIM applications, plus a sheet metal modelling application, but the business also has a sister company, Chapoo, spun off as a separate business in 2012, that offers cloud-based collaboration. This week, I attended a Bricsys Insights event held at the headquarters of the Ghent, Belgium-based engineering software developer. This week’s Bricsys Insights press event showed off some of the capabilities of the Chapoo AEC collaboration platform and underlined the growing importance of BIM.
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