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Ortec

In: Software Business Start-up Memories

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  • Roderick Cann
  • Slinger Jansen
  • Sjaak Brinkkemper

Abstract

Since its foundation in 1981, ORTEC has grown from a five-person local programming company into an international-product software company with more than 500 employees. Their goal is to support their customers in strategic and operational decision-making by offering advanced software solutions and consultancy services that focus on planning and optimization. The software solutions of ORTEC can be organized into three categories: routing software, people scheduling software, and software that deals with stacking and loading. The first software product that ORTEC developed, Shortrec, is an automated scheduling and routing system. The next-generation version of this software product is called Transport and Distribution and is much more of an integrative software system than the ORTEC product, which is still being sold today. The people scheduling software, which is called Harmony, was developed at a later stage, and Loaddesigner, the software for stacking and loading, was procured by ORTEC. To deliver their software to their more than 1550 customers, ORTEC has offices, besides those in the Netherlands, in Belgium, Germany, France, the UK, Romania, the United States, Singapore and Australia. Figures 12.1 and 12.2 show the growth development of ORTEC from 1990 onwards.

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  • Roderick Cann & Slinger Jansen & Sjaak Brinkkemper, 2013. "Ortec," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Software Business Start-up Memories, chapter 12, pages 112-120, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-28047-3_12
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137280473_12
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