NI CITIZENSHIP REPORT
Company Profile
National Instruments transforms the way engineers and scientists around the world design, prototype, and deploy systems for test, control, and embedded design applications. Using NI open graphical programming software and modular hardware, customers at more than 30,000 companies simplify development, increase productivity, and dramatically reduce time to market. With this approach, NI empowers customers to more rapidly develop innovative technologies that address many of the Grand Challenges for Engineering facing the world such as making solar energy more economical, restoring and improving urban infrastructure, and engineering better medicines.
NI is also committed to being a responsible citizen to its global communities and stakeholders. The company achieves this by maintaining a fun and innovative corporate culture , providing tools that inspire and empower engineers and scientists to improve the world, working to reduce its environmental footprint , and giving back to the global community .
2010 Awards Highlights
FORTUNE magazine:100 Best Companies to Work For (12 consecutive years for NI corporate headquarters)
Great Places to Work Institute: Recognized as a Great Place to Work – NI Japan, NI UK and Ireland (five consecutive years), NI Germany (five consecutive years), NI Italy (four
consecutive years), and NI France (three consecutive years)
Control Design: Readers’ Choice Awards winner – data acquisition systems, data recorder, data acquisition software, machine vision systems, and PC-based machine control software categories
Electronic Design: Best Electronic Design in the Test & Measurement/Communications Test Category – NI PXIe-5630 vector network analyzer
Elektra Online: Embedded System Product of the Year – NI Single-Board RIO
Design News: Golden Mousetrap Award in the Motion Control/Automation Category – NI wireless sensor networks
Marketing Leadership Council: B2B Marketing Communications Award from the Corporate Executive Board
Forrester Groundswell Award: "Embracing" category winner – B2B division, for "Embracing Our Customers for Software Development" – and "Energizing" category finalist – B2B division, for "Energizing Engineers at NIWeek 2010"
EDN China: Innovation Award in the Test and Measurement and Programmable Logic Categories – 6.6 GHz PXI Express vector signal analyzer and vector signal generator as well as NI FlexRIO, respectively
NI Memberships and Associations
NI is a member of the following organizations and standards bodies. For 2010, NI focused on gathering a list of memberships
at its corporate headquarters. NI will provide additional global data in future reports as it becomes available.
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CORPORATE FACTS
Headquarters: Austin, Texas
Year Established: 1976
Global Operations: offices in more than 40 countries
Customer Base: more than 30,000 companies in 90 countries
Industry Diversity: no industry makes up more than 15% of revenue
Growth History: 32 years of growth in 34-year history
Manufacturing: more than 3,000 different products
Employees: approximately 5,200 worldwide
Investment in R&D: more than 16% of annual revenue
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