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Seattle Business Magazine Selects Tecplot as One of the “100 Best Companies to Work For”


Company recognized as a top employer for fourth time in past five years

BELLEVUE, Wash. (June 28, 2016) – Tecplot, Inc., developer of the leading data visualization software for engineers and scientists, today announced that it has been named one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” by Seattle Business magazine.

The 2016 award marks the fourth time in the past five years that Tecplot has been honored with this coveted award. The winners were announced last week at a Seattle Business awards banquet at the Washington State Convention Center.

Using detailed responses from anonymous employee surveys, the research firm Fieldwork Webwork determined each company’s score in ten categories: benefits, communication, corporate culture, hiring/retention, executive leadership, performance standards, responsibility/decision making, rewards/recognition, training/education, and work environment.

For judging purposes, nominated companies were separated into four classifications: small (40 or fewer employees), midsize (41 to 100 employees), large (more than 100 employees), and firms headquartered outside Washington. Tecplot ranked 15th among the best “midsize” companies, and achieved its highest score in the “work environment” category.

“The beauty of Seattle Business magazine’s ‘100 Best Companies to Work For’ awards program is that it is based on extensive employee surveys. Firms that make the list get there because the people who work at those businesses like their jobs, their bosses and their benefits,” according to the magazine.

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“We are honored to have been recognized as a great place to work for the fourth time in five years,” Tecplot President Tom Chan said. “I’d like to thank Seattle Business for sponsoring such a meaningful recognition program. More importantly, I’d like to thank our employees for participating in the surveys and rating Tecplot high enough in key areas to once again earn entry into this exclusive club. As a management team, we take very seriously our employees’ suggestions for improvement in all areas of our business. It’s rewarding that our commitment to transparency and communication is seen and felt by our very talented and dedicated employees.”

About Tecplot, Inc.

Tecplot, an operating company of Toronto-based Constellation Software, Inc. (CSI), is the leading developer of Visual Data Analysis (VDA) software for engineers and scientists.

CSI is a public company listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX:CSU) that acquires, manages and builds software businesses that provide mission-critical solutions in specific vertical markets.

Tecplot’s products allow customers using desktop computers and laptops to quickly analyze and understand information hidden in complex data, and communicate their results to others via brilliant images and compelling animations. The company’s products are used by more than 47,000 technical professionals around the world.

Tecplot has been awarded numerous Small Business Innovation Research contracts from DOD, NASA, DARPA, and the National Science Foundation. In 2012, the company was named a Red Herring Top 100 Americas Award winner.

Since its founding in 1981, Tecplot has consistently delivered category-leading innovation to the engineering and scientific communities. Examples of this never-ending innovation include Tecplot 360 EX for lightning-fast analysis of massive CFD simulation data, Tecplot RS for oil & gas reservoir simulation, Tecplot Chorus for analyzing multiple simulations of design-space exploration data, and Tecplot Focus for automating routine data analysis and plotting tasks.

Tecplot, which is headquartered in Bellevue, Wash., has been named one of Seattle Business magazine’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” four times in the past five years.