This is important because in order to truly meet the needs of a region you need frequent communication with the engineers who work there, the types of projects they work on the types of analysis that is frequently done, the little peculiarities of what is emphasized by plan checkers or engineering societies or universities or such.
However, they may not have any developers or engineers that are truly native to the region. it's codes are in English, so they get implemented pretty quickly. Meaning, a company may not be 100% happy with their software, but they look at the cost to switch and decide that it's not worth the effort (in time and money).Īs far as Australia goes, I suspect that STAAD's treatment of the Australian market might be like RISA's. There is just an inertial resistance to change. Now, it is likely pretty difficult for other companies to break into that market. Hence, they had features and codes for that region before other programs.
As such, they both reached out to that market in the early days. Many of their early founders / developers were immigrants from those countries (as I understand it). STAAD (and CSI) both have some very strong ties to India and Pakistan.
