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People are great, but the lack of leadership is appalling since the merger - Sales Innovyze Employee Review

2.0
9 Sept 2018
Recommend
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Pros

- Technical folks are really competent (product owners and pre-sales) - Portland's office (former XP Solutions) is nice and well located - They never get behind on salary payments

Cons

- Before the merger with XP Solutions, Innovyze was guided by CEO Paul Boulos. He was a difficult person to deal with, but he was brilliant, bold and a visionary. The current one came from a really small company and his vision and competence are proportional: he is petty, narrow-minded, risk-averse and really, really cheap. - The sales middle management has a mindset from the sixties and love bureaucracy, endless meetings and micro-management. For instance, the small company - XP Solution - which now controls Innovyze - believes that engineering software can be sold like a box and only by phone: there is no culture (or budget) of visiting with prospects and customers, especially international ones. - The lack of knowledge of IT software industry, water/wastewater industry and business culture outside the U.S. is appalling. Textbook ethnocentric company. - The Health Insurance provided is awful, compared to other global engineering software companies, making employees in bad luck or with children get eventually buried in healthcare debt. - Key-products are technically good, but the interface is from the eighties and the competition is free-software (VERY GOOD free software, by the way). This make nearly impossible to sell Innovyze software in emerging global markets (like BRIC countries, for example). They abandoned Southeast Asia and Latin America, and they have always been afraid to explore China and Russian markets. - Sales come from Government-based infrastructure projects, always granted to the cheapest bidder, what makes the sales cycle painfully long and the commissions small and paid in the long term. - There is virtually no Marketing effort, budget or plan. Same for HR.

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5.0
25 Aug 2021
Recommend
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Pros

The entire Innovyze team in the UK, US, and APAC is fantastic, with extensive experience in all aspects of water, sewer, stormwater, and river modeling (as a group!). I am always impressed with the care, knowledge, and assistance they provide to our customers at all hours of the day and week. I can easily name over 200 very talented and dedicated engineers, sales, management, and programmers for our many products. We've also recently added a slew of talented newcomers with Cloud and AI software experience, as well as previous management and programming experience. By transferring knowledge from our new C-Level leaders and Marketing Team, we successfully transformed the company from four separate companies into one. We already had a fantastic R&D team, support staff, and sales and sales enablement teams, and it's been fascinating to see how everything has changed and evolved over the last five years. Growth and change accelerated in 2021, and the water industry's plans for 2021 and beyond are very exciting and wonderful. Our growth in wonderful software will accelerate in 2021 as a result of our recent acquisition by Autodesk Inc. I believe that, for the benefit of our customers, we combine new and old programming ideas in a common culture. We do sell software that has been developed, supported, and taught for over four decades, but our new structure allows us to combine the best of the past and the best of current development threads. Our Support Experts provide Intelligent, Ingenious, and Insightful assistance to our customers. One of the best features of Innovyze software is the help you get from our global support team in running the fantastic Innovyze software. This significance is reflected in Innovyze's corporate structure. Innovyze has benefited from the general new C-Level structure and Creative C-Level hires in recent years. I'm particularly excited about Info360.com's Full Product Plan (FPP), which combines our SSF, Water, and Asset Management software. A previous Glassdoor reviewer of Innovyze stated that the company's "new technology for smart utility management (cloud platform) is exciting - going beyond the company's historical modeling/designing focus." It's fantastic to be a part of such a forward-thinking organization!” Historically, we were referred to as modelers or modelers (depending on which side of the world you work in). I'm more excited about the Cloud for models (Water and SSF especially as well as Asset Management to help modelers). In my opinion, we will always be a modeling agency. It is the foundation of Innovyze and what sets us apart. Moving to the Cloud, on the other hand, will improve our software even further.

Cons

Is there anything negative about working at Innovyze An Autodesk Company? Life isn't perfect, but if you work at Innovyze, you'll be working for one of the world's best engineering software companies, alongside some of the best modelers and software developers. In software, you will be doing important but difficult work. Working outside of normal business hours has long been a tradition at Innovyze; after all, water is important here. "The transition from an engineering software company to an enterprise-level technology company has been difficult - expectations and workload have increased," one previous reviewer said.

5.0
30 Nov 2016
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Innovyze is a company with a soul. Its core values have been propelling its incredible successes and growth captured by a set of consistent and amazing track records. The president and CEO of the company, Dr. Paul Boulos, is a renowned world-class leader well recognized in the water, wasterwater industrial and academic world. With a strong passion to work together closely with those who entrust their professional needs to them, Innovyze seeks to deliver the most innovative solutions with the most advanced technologies to sustain the success of their clients and customers, and helps make the world a better place. Innovyze is also a company recognizing the most important asset is its staff. Employees of the company are united after the common core values and are given the best possible mentorship and various different opportunities to grow. At Innovyze, failures and mistakes, though happen rarely, are regarded positively as opportunities and gateways toward a new level of accomplishment. To sustain its passion, Innovyze is also a company focusing on strong delivery rigorously. The vision and leadership provided by Dr. Boulos keeps the company closely aligned with today's needs of the world, and positions it well to tackle the emerging challenges of the industries they serve.

Cons

With a steady growth throughout the past 20 year, it is important for Innovyze to keep pushing for a new level of success. Innovyze counts on the steadfast leadership, unwavering vision, and strong execution more than ever.

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