Type Private Founded New York City | Industry Computer software Products Aurigo Masterworks | |
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Headquarters Austin, Texas, United States Key people Ravi Gulati, Chairman
Balaji Sreenivasan, CEO
Kevin Koenig, CTO
Sheila Gulati, Board Member
Sridhar Manthani, Board Member | ||
Aurigo Software is a global software company that provides cloud based capital program and project portfolio management software solutions for large capital infrastructure owners in the public and private sector industries. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas, and has offices in New York City, Toronto, and Bangalore. It also maintains project offices for some of its strategic customers at Calgary, Portland and Denver.
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Aurigo is known for its multi-year software agreements with state departments of transportation (DOTs) and large cities and counties, who are using Aurigo’s products to plan and deliver their capital infrastructure programs. Local government customers include Port of Portland, the City governments of Houston, Texas, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Fargo, North Dakota, Pinellas County, Florida and Las Vegas, Nevada, and several state transport departments, including those of Oregon, Colorado, Wisconsin, Massachusetts and Ontario, Canada. According to The Telegraph of India, the company is “involved the automation of processes such as project cost estimation, electronic bidding (tendering), contract management, facilities management, asset management, real estate operations, and field inspections”.
Background
Aurigo was established in January 2003 by Balaji Sreenivasan, an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) in Tiruchirappalli, India and the University of Florida, Gainesville. Sreenivasan is also a member of The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and in 2016 was awarded the Young Alumnus Achiever (YAA) Award for entrepreneurial achievement by the National Institute of Technology. Aurigo's current chairman, Ravi Gulati, is an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and Carnegie Mellon University, and founded Stonybrook Software in the 1990s, which later became Ascend and then Lucent in 1999, when Gulati was appointed President of their NSO business division. He became director of Aurigo in December 2005, and has been chairman since 2006.
History
In 2007, Aurigo entered into an agreement with The Oregon Bridge Delivery Partners (OBDP), who have been using its capital project management application to automate the Oregon Department of Transportation’s (ODOT) $2.5 billion OTIA III State Bridge Delivery Program. The City of Lincoln, Nebraska began working with Aurigo in 2012.
In August 2013, Aurigo moved its headquarters from New York City to Austin, Texas. Three months later it was reported that the company had managed to attract an additional $6.3 million. In June 2014, Aurigo entered into a seven-year deal with Ontario's ministry of transportation. Gulati said of the agreement: “Infrastructure is falling apart. Governments don't have money to spend. So let the beneficiaries (the contractors) pay. It also increases project efficiency and brings savings for all”. In January 2015, the company announced that it had reached a three-year agreement with Canadian energy company TransCanada, with TransCanada agreeing to use Aurigo's software in its pipeline projects. Another agreement was made with Utah DOT for providing project controls software the same month. UDOT has reportedly estimated that using Aurigo Masterworks will bring them annual savings of between $9.5 and $19 million, in six different areas of improvement. The following month, Aurigo announced that it had entered into a five-year multi-million dollar agreement with the Port of Portland, who now use Aurigo for its capital project management. In March, Aurigo entered into a five-year deal with Tampa Bay Water, taking responsibility for their project management system, which prior to the deal had been self-managed. In June, the company entered into an agreement with Colorado’s Department of Transportation, followed by a three-year deal with the City of Houston's General Services Department in August 2015.
In January 2016, Aurigo beat off the likes of SciQuest, CDW-G, Birlasoft and BidSync to be awarded the responsibility for Wisconsin Department of Transportation’s management software project portfolio, managing its “contract solicitation, selection, development, execution, and tracking”. In August Aurigo entered into an agreement with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. In November, Aurigo made agreements with the City of Las Vegas, Nevada and the Regional Municipality of York, Ontario, Canada. Aurigo also has agreements with Fargo, North Dakota and Pinellas County, Florida.
Products and services
According to the Austin Business Journal, Aurigo “develops a suite of business automation tools for capital planning, property management, capital project management, and collaboration and document management”. It has provided a management solution for ports, roads, bridges, pipelines, water utilities, oil and gas refineries, ports, and buildings, and is also adept in operating in business automation and business workflow engines. Construction Week Online states that the company’s clients are principally construction companies. As of 2014 it has some 50 high-profile clients, many of which are city and state departments in the US and Canada, totalling over $250 billion in capital programs.
Aurigo Masterworks is a cloud based enterprise Capital Project Management Solution (CPMS), a software system that automates capital planning and program management processes to help capital infrastructure program owners plan and deliver mid-sized to large capital programs. It is specifically designed to improve the efficiency of organizing projects. According to The Telegraph of India, it also “provides end-to-end capability, including automation of processes like project cost estimation, electronic bidding (tendering), contract management, facilities management, asset management, real estate operations, and field inspections”. Mena Report documents that its modules include “Planning and Forecasting, Estimation and Bidding, Project Management, Property Management, Document Control and Collaboration, and Mobile Inspection”.
The Aurigo Masterworks suite ships with a business automation platform that includes an in-built intelligent Drag-N-Drop Forms Designer, Reporting Engine, and Business Workflow Configurator. Aurigo's product suite also includes a native mobile application that supports iOS, Android, and Windows Mobile. It is fully compatible with ERP platforms such as SAP, Microsoft Dynamics AX and Oracle.