ARC Advisory Group, the leading research and advisory firm for industry and infrastructure, has again ranked Intergraph® as the world’s No. 1 software provider, this time in its recently released ‘Process Engineering Tools (PET) Market Analysis and Forecast through 2015.’

The ARC study provides an in-depth analysis of the PET market for process manufacturing by industry segment and geographic region. The tools and applications covered in the PET study include a large portion of those necessary to manage engineering activities that create or use engineering data throughout the lifecycle of a plant or marine asset. Profiles for major suppliers servicing the PET market are also listed.

In addition to ranking Intergraph as the overall global leader, the ARC Advisory Group study also places Intergraph first in numerous individual categories, including the No. 1 provider of engineering design tools and engineering design 3D software.

ARC ranks Intergraph as the top supplier to many industries, including chemical, mining and metals, oil and gas, pharmaceutical and biotechnology, and refining. Intergraph is also ranked No. 1 geographically in all three of its regions: North and Latin America; Europe, Middle East, India and Africa; and Asia-Pacific.