ZWDirect Blog

ZWSOFT CEO Chats

4/27/2017

Hello,

As his talks are always quite compelling, many US/Canadian customers and prospects have asked to hear from Truman Du, the CEO of ZWSOFT.

We'll be sharing 3 short/weekly "CEO Chats" with Truman, taken from his talks at the recent GPC conference to over 200 attendees:

Company 2017 Update: Making ZWCAD Great Again!
ZWCAD 2017 Product Update: Welcoming the 3rd Generation
A Compelling Future: ZWSoft Strategic Focus and Goals

The chats begin below!

Thanks much, we hope you enjoy, and let us know if you'd like to be included in a personal briefing with Truman over the summer.

Best,

Yatin Suri
yatin .suri@zwdirect.com

1. Company 2017 Update: Making ZWCAD Great Again!

The past two years have been very challenging and exciting for our company.

We not only globally settled our legal dispute with Autodesk but also made major progress in our business and product lines.

From our Global Partnership Conference (GPC) last month, with 107 Partners, 90 Major Accounts, and over 200 attendees from 32 countries in the audience, we were very happy to report:

A 20% growth and an all-time high in revenue
Growth as well to over 550,000 users including 11,000 schools
Strong reception to our 3rd generation ZWCAD product (now 93% of sales)
Our 2D/3D product line expanded to ZWCAD, CAD Pockets (mobile), and CAD Chat
Our 3D line expanded to ZW3D, CAD Bro, and 3D One
We have moved our headquarter office into the beautiful Pearl River Tower in downtown Guangzhou -- please consider a visit!

For all this progress, we thank our customers, partners, and employees -- it was a total team effort and we appreciate your support! And, given this team, our management, and our strategy, we look forward to even greater progress in 2017 and 2018.

Looking forward to our next chat on our strategy going forward -- our company is very focused and very enthused to increase the success of our growing customer base around the world!

Truman Du
CEO, ZWSOFT

2. ZWCAD 2017 Product Update: Welcoming the 3rd Generation

We're happy to welcome the successful and inspiring arrival of our 3rd generation CAD platform, available as ZWCAD 2017.

In order the make a great product, we started with a great development process:

Our software strategy had 3 pillars: structural design, fast iteration, and optimal use of automation
Our product goals had 5 rings: rich features, outstanding performance, powerful API, cross-platform capability, and elastic structure
Our manpower was world-class: 40 engineers working 1.5 years producing 4 million lines of code
Most importantly, the results were outstanding: completed in 40% less time and delivering 15% more functionality than originally planned!

Those results are scaling in point releases: the 3rd generation platform is now vastly superior to the 2nd generation in stability, performance, features, and API coverage.

Specifically, ZWCAD 2017 SP3 now offers:

Support for 64bit technology that boosts speeds by 40% or more
An ultra-modern, ribbon-based user interface
Dozens of rich new productivity features and innovations
Support for the DWG and DGN (MicroStation) formats
Inherent, new 3D viewing capabilities
Soon, support for Linux and Mac
As always, affordable and available as a perpetual, non-expiring license.

We believe ZWCAD 2017 sets a new milestone for the industry and look forward to making our expanding base of 550,000 existing and new customers extremely successful and satisfied with our 3rd generation CAD platform.

Truman Du
CEO, ZWSOFT

3. A Compelling Future: ZWSoft Strategic Focus and Goals

ZWSoft has certainly recovered strongly from a challenging past two years -- we've grown by 20%, now serve over 550,000 global users, and have fully modernized our 2D and 3D platforms to propel us and our customers confidently into an exciting future.

Speaking of the future, I'm honored to share our 8 Principles for continuing to grow our company and expand our customer success:

Remain highly-specialized and 100% focused on CAD.
Continue to invest in our people and R&D to offer unique and compelling advantages to our customers.
Be the market leader in product affordability, performance, quality, and openness.
Deliver market-leading functionality in the areas judged most important to users, specifically 2D/3D drafting, 3D modeling, and CAM.
Offer a state-of-the-art API set and integration for other customer priorities, including PDM, Simulation, and PLM.
Seek and execute on smart industry acquisitions to increase our value to customers.
Continue to share our business opportunity and success with global partners.
Always offer perpetual licensing, never force subscriptions on customers.

Following these principles, we believe we can reach or exceed our top 2 Goals:

Continue to make our customers extremely happy and successful.
Double the revenue of ZWSoft in the next two years.

Thanks much for your time, we appreciate your consideration of our products, and I hope we have a chance to meet soon!

Truman Du
CEO, ZWSOFT

ZWSoft HQ at Pearl River Tower