Intergraph became the main sponsor of the tournament and brought in id Software to help give the event a boost.
- CAEX has been developed within the DKE K 941 together with major industrial partners of the process industry; Bayer, BASF, Linde, Uhde, Wacker, Intergraph, Innotec, ABB and the RWTH Aachen.
Some of the companies visiting the campus are - Cognizant, Infosys, Wipro, Deloitte, MAQ, Accenture, Capgemini, Intergraph, Hitachi Consultin, Computer Science Corporation etc.
Its initial development was a result of Bentley Systems's experience developing PseudoStation released in 1984, a program designed to replace the use of proprietary Intergraph graphic workstations to edit DGN files by substituting the much less expensive Tektronix compatible graphics terminals.