Tekla is also a spelling of Thecla

Thecla

Thecla was a saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The only known record of her comes from the apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla, probably composed in the 2nd century.-Biography:...

, an early Christian saint.

Tekla Corporation is a software engineering corporation specializing in model-based software products for building and construction and infrastructure management. The company was founded in 1966. The headquarter is in Espoo

Espoo

Espoo is the second largest city and municipality in Finland. The population of the city of Espoo is . It is part of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area along with the cities of Helsinki, Vantaa, and Kauniainen. Espoo shares its eastern border with Helsinki and Vantaa, while enclosing Kauniainen....

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

, but there are offices all over the world. The company has been listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange

Helsinki Stock Exchange

The Helsinki Stock Exchange is a stock exchange located in Helsinki, Finland. Since 3 September 2003 it has been part of OMX, referred to as OMX Helsinki . Since NASDAQ's acquisition of OMX in February 2008, the official name of the Helsinki exchange has been NASDAQ OMX Helsinki.- History :The...

 since May 2000.

Name

The name "Tekla" is a given name

Given name

A given name, in Western contexts often referred to as a first name, is a personal name that specifies and differentiates between members of a group of individuals, especially in a family, all of whose members usually share the same family name...

, used in the Nordic countries and in Poland. It is a form of the Greek word "Theokleia", which in turn is derived from "Theo" (God), and "kleia" (reputation). This can be interpreted as "praiser of God", or alternatively "famous through God". The name is in the Finnish

Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

 and Swedish

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 almanacs in memory of a woman, who was converted into Christianity by Paul the Apostle. The oldest recorded of its use is from 1725 in Sweden. However, in this case it is an abbreviation of the Finnish words Teknillinen laskenta, which means technical computation.

Software

Tekla Structures is 3D building information modeling

Building Information Modeling

Building information modeling is the process of generating and managing building data during its life cycle.BIM involves representing a design as objects – vague and undefined, generic or product-specific, solid shapes or void-space oriented , that carry their geometry, relations and attributes...

 (BIM) software used in the building and construction industries for steel and concrete detailing. Tekla Structures was formerly known as Tekla Xsteel.

Tekla BIMsight is a software application for building information model-based construction project collaboration.

Tekla Solutions offering consists of sets of software applications and services designed for the infrastructure

Infrastructure

Infrastructure is basic physical and organizational structures needed for the operation of a society or enterprise, or the services and facilities necessary for an economy to function...

 and energy industries

Energy industry

The energy industry is the totality of all of the industries involved in the production and sale of energy, including fuel extraction, manufacturing, refining and distribution...

. The offering is directed to energy distribution, public administration and civil engineering sectors. Energy distribution customers include electricity and district heating companies, electricity utilities’ operation departments and multi-utilities; companies working with gas networks; and fiber optic network operators. Public administration solutions are targeted to organizations involved in municipal building processes. Civil engineering offering is directed to customers working with roads, streets, railroads, bridges, and water and sewage networks.

Both the Tekla Solutions offering as well as Tekla BIMsight were launched in early 2011. Tekla Solutions replaced Tekla’s last remaining X-products.