Reorg at Autodesk

I fell into this by accident when another press person in conversation before the opening presentation at Autodesk World Press Day here in San Francisco congratulated Chris Bradshaw. I noted my confusion and learned:

Chris Bradshaw, until Jan 31 the VP of Infrastructure Solutions Division, is now the Chief Marketing Officer. His lead spot in geo is now owned by Lisa Campbell. She’ll oversee both products and marketing for a group now called geospatial, which is in turn part of PGP: Platforms, Geospatial and Plant. That’s headed by Amar Hanspal.

The civil part of ISD is no longer with and GIS; it’s integrated with Architecture, Engineering and Construction.

Brashaw noted that geospatial revenues hit $100,000 last year. Revenues have nearly doubled in the last four years.

There’s a new government sales director at Autodesk and since 60% of his sales are from geospatial, that’s key to our space. There’s also a sort of pilot program where sales staff from Autodesk and Oracle are tackling mutual prospects. Most of these are in state/local not federal space. Oracle already does well in federal; it’s looking or new or “switch” accounts from SQLServer.

Disclosure: Autodesk covered travel, lodging, food for me to attend World Press Day. I also received corporate gifts.