The deal hasn’t officially closed yet — Trimble is angling to wrap up the deal in the fourth quarter — and it hasn’t reported a purchase price yet. But it closes the book on a 23-year run of independence for Cityworks, which began in 1996 in Utah.
Since then, the company has grown to serve more than 700 utilities and local governments. Its enterprise asset management (EAM) software, integrated with Esri’s widely used ArcGIS mapping program, is used to keep track of infrastructure, manage projects and handle permitting.
In a press release, Trimble described Azteca Systems — the company that makes Cityworks — as having customers across all sizes of local government, but with a particular emphasis on mid-sized jurisdictions.
The acquisition adds EAM to a large suite of software that Trimble sells for customers in the construction, transportation, utilities and other sectors.
"Cityworks is a pioneer in developing software to address the global challenges associated with managing aging, critical infrastructure," Trimble President and CEO Steve Berglund said in the statement. "Trimble has a long history of transforming industries by combining technologies and providing full solutions that help customers measure, assess, design and construct infrastructure at scale. With Cityworks, we now expand our solutions portfolio enabling customers to manage and optimize the performance of their assets across the entire infrastructure life cycle."
