When CAD Isn't CAD

The headline from today's press release from Intergraph sounded interesting:

"Toronto Fire Services Realizes Immediate Benefit After Implementing Intergraph Public Safety's CAD-to-CAD Interoperability Solution"

Why would, I wondered, a fire department care about CAD interoperability. So I read on:

" ... Toronto Fire Service has successfully deployed IPS' CAD-to-CAD interoperability solution known as InterCAD. With this solution, the IPS computer aided dispatch (CAD) system can share incident data [through XML], as well as mutual aid requests, with other third-party CAD systems, shaving off precious seconds or even minutes when responding to emergencies."

It turns out that the CAD software offered by CAD vendor Intergraph isn't CAD at all. Disappointing for us, the true CAD users. I guess we can't go so far as to call Intergraph a cad.

Press Release.

Comments

[Paul]

Having been in both CAD businesses, Design and Dispatch; I'd like to point out that Dispatch was invented first. Though Dispatch systems precede this date, the first CAD (Dispatch) my company built was in 1972.