The Company That Helped SAP See in 3D
Right Hemisphere - 3D Visualisation Software snapped up by SAP
Right Hemisphere | Consensus Software Award Winner 2006
When Right Hemisphere received a Consensus Software Award in 2006, digital transformation was still in its early stages.
Engineering drawings, technical documentation and complex product data were often locked away in specialist systems, making it difficult for manufacturers, service teams and customers to visualise products throughout their lifecycle.
Right Hemisphere saw a different future.
Its award-winning 3D Visualisation Software transformed complex engineering and CAD data into rich, interactive visual experiences, enabling organisations to communicate technical information more effectively across design, manufacturing, maintenance, sales and customer support.
The technology allowed businesses to bring products to life long before they were manufactured, making engineering information more accessible to people throughout the organisation—not just technical specialists.
The Consensus Software Awards recognised Right Hemisphere for its innovation, technical excellence and commercial potential.
It was technology that would soon attract global attention.
As manufacturers increasingly embraced digital engineering and enterprise-wide collaboration, Right Hemisphere established itself as a global leader in enterprise visualisation software, working with many of the world's largest industrial organisations.
Its innovation quickly caught the attention of SAP, the global leader in enterprise software.
Following a strategic partnership and investment, SAP acquired Right Hemisphere in 2011, recognising the company's technology as a critical component of its vision for the future of manufacturing and enterprise information management.
The acquisition enabled SAP to integrate Right Hemisphere's visualisation capabilities into its SAP Visual Enterprise portfolio, allowing organisations to combine engineering models with business information to create powerful digital representations of products, assets and industrial facilities.
For manufacturers, this meant engineers, production teams, maintenance crews, suppliers and customers could all work from the same visual information—improving collaboration, reducing errors and accelerating decision-making across the entire product lifecycle.
Today, the technology pioneered by Right Hemisphere continues to influence the way global manufacturers manage engineering information, digital assets and product visualisation within enterprise environments.
Its impact can be seen across industries including aerospace, defence, automotive, mining, industrial manufacturing and energy, where complex engineering data has become an essential part of digital transformation strategies.
For Consensus, Right Hemisphere represents exactly the type of company the Awards were created to identify—Australian innovators developing world-class software capable of changing the way global industries operate.
Long before SAP recognised the value of its technology, Consensus had already recognised the innovation, technical capability and commercial potential behind Right Hemisphere's vision.
Its journey demonstrates that Australian software doesn't simply compete internationally.
It helps shape the future of global enterprise technology.