Name for an engineering soft company?

[tonnot]

I'm searching for a name for my company.
I'm going to develop software for civil engineering.
(Dont use SOFT or WARE, they are very used...)

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

"I'm going to develop software for civil engineering."

That's a broad & vague description. Being more specific of the intent of the software might help to create a suitable name.

 

[KENAT]

CivilCADMonkey

CivilGIGO

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[tonnot]

mmm. The software are going to be similiar to civil 3D or Inroads or Geopack. (design of roads, railways and surface mofification)
But I'd like some 'general' concept related to civil engineering world.
But I want I name for My company not for a program.
Thank you very much.

 

[MiketheEngineer]

CivilSoft

 

[tonnot]

Civilsoft is very simple and already exists...
Thanks.

 

[looslib]

CivilDesign

"Wildfires are dangerous, hard to control, and economically catastrophic."

Ben Loosli

 

[tonnot]

More .more ....
Thanks

 

[MiketheEngineer]

CivilSoftDesign??

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Actually there are Marketing/Advertising/Sales companies that can assist you --- but you probably don't want to spend the bucks!!

 

[corus]

Looking at existing companies it seems that using your own name is a good idea. Then again, if your pseudonym 'tonnot' is short for Tony Not, then calling your company Not-Engineering might now be such a good idea.

 

[JohnRBaker]

You should take a page from George Eastman's book.

A company name should be unique, easy to remember and totally meaningless.

Hence we have Kodak.

Or like one of the early pioneers (the 80's) making dedicated word processors, NBI.

Which was an acronymn for 'Nothing But Initials'.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

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To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[SomptingGuy]

We had a merger many years ago with a company called xyz International (not xyz really). For the new combined name, we took one word from our company (it only had one word anyway) and one word from their name: "International". I think some of their founding people got a beating in the pride department.

- Steve

 

[JAE]

NCS

"No Clue Software"

 

[SomptingGuy]

A few spins on this:

http://www.company-name-generator.com

produces some good names. I quite liked "Roundmillimeter". Probably not the best for this purpose, but some pretty interesting and memorable names popped up.

- Steve

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Your name should offer some insight as to what you do. Example, Xerox - if they weren't so big and well known I would have NO CLUE what they do...

At least "Scotch Tape" or "Pevely Dairy" makes some sense

 

[SomptingGuy]

Nokia is another abstract name. They've changed their core product/business hugely over the years, but kept the name.

- Steve

 

[JohnRBaker]

Xerox falls into the same category as does Kodak (and the fact that both companies are headquarted in Rochester, NY probably didn't hurt either).

The advantage of a 'nonsense' name is that YOU get to decide exactly WHAT it means, not someone elses assumption based on how the words used might have a relationship to something that the reader preceives to be the case.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

UG/NX Museum:

http://www.plmworld.org/p/cm/ld/fid=209

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[KENAT]

Or you take a real vaguely relevant word and deliberately misspell it.

Qinetiq for instance.

Or you take a long name and just use the initials.

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[ajack1]

We went for the same line of thinking as JohnRBaker describes. A company name should be unique, easy to remember and totally meaningless. Finally decided on using the initials of the two directors and came up with JASP Design Solutions Ltd.

It seems to work well on many levels not least getting domain names.

You could try and be clever with something like 2B Civil; after all IT is good to be civil.