Altium continues to invest in the engineers of the future.
Here’s how: Total number of universities and research projects and competitions worldwide supported by Altium: over 900
Number of Altium Designer software licenses donated by Altium last year: over 250

These licenses get used in teaching and in university research projects covering everything from space to formula motor racing, from mining research to robot development. Whatever the application, common themes bind these new users of Altium technology – innovation, a competitive spirit and a passion for engineering.

Altium continues to grow our teams and to attract world-class talent. Here’s how:

Number of new employees: 103
Total headcount increase: 20%

Our engineers work years ahead of the market, developing solutions that will enable ideas and concepts to become commercially viable. They also have the freedom to identify trends and develop software and features that reflect these trends – testing designs through to manufacture, ensuring that we develop products that engineers want.

The development and retention of our people remains a strategic focus for Altium:

Number of skills development workshops delivered: 41
Number of employees who attended these: 290

Altium has a reputation for supporting our customers. Here’s how:

People we met at seminars: 2,644
Number of people we met at exhibitions: 8,274
Number of customers we trained: 5,793

Our web-based TRAININGcenter opened for business in January 2007, with over 21,500 training videos accessed in its first six months of operation.

The net result:New users of Altium Designer 6: over 9,000
Total Number of Altium Designer 6 users: over 20,557.
Increase: over 87%.

At the heart of our company are our people and Altium Designer, our flagship product for unified electronics design.

Increase in R&D budget: 22%
Number of new features: 2.5 every working day.
Number of new versions: 4
Our strategy: to remove all obstacles to innovation in electronics design.

Our focus: bringing the benefits of unified electronics design – shorter development times, faster design of more intelligent products, the unification of hardware and software design – to reality.

New product highlights include Altium's Desktop NanoBoard, a reprogrammable platform that simplifies hardware design to support embedded applications.

Combined with Altium Designer 6, the Desktop NanoBoard brings the unified future of electronics product design one step closer.