History
After his Ph.D. in Physics dr. Nico Windgassen and his wife Hanny in 1980 started a software company, they still fully own. With Travers we became market leader in bookkeeping software, rented through partners on the first PC's. From the repeating revenue of Travers, in 1985 we (Pluriform Software) developed an object oriented toolbox, with which companies could improve their primary processes. Of course the software had to be easily adaptable on the specific character and changing strategy of each company. From that idea Pluriform originated.
With that tiny Pluriform we realised in cooperation with IBM and the first users the handling of criminal cases at the Court of Appeal in 's-Hertogenbosch by 50 legal professionals of both the court and the state.
We clearly demonstrated our ability to build software that is able to follow variation and change. This principle has been repeated in many Pluriform models and as in our own technology (Pluriform itself). Migrating from a textual to a graphical user-interface, from OS/2 to Windows, all Pluriform customers could easily upgrade to the next technology, keeping all their costly functionality, with automatic conversion of data. Pluriform's sustainable knowledge management keeps your business logic Forever Young.
From 1993 Pluriform enables one to develop new business models with maximal reuse of existing building blocks. A Pluriform partner can, at its own pace, adapt and add building blocks, without a complete make over his development model.
In 1997 we developed the first branchemodel for GTI (now called Cofely owned by Gdf-Suez) for ‘service logistics’. A branchemodel targets a specific business type, reusing standard building blocks from PluriformBase and adding extra features for specific customers (or subsidiaries).
Since 2001 Pluriform has been rolled out internationally by Euler Hermes, after we made the system multilingual and added a product configurator to their Pluriform development model (credit insurance), enabling better management of the different types of policies for different countries. Instead of Pluriforms own integrated financial functionality we interfaced the model to Oracle Finance. Today Pluriform is used by 1000+ Euler Hermes employees in 28 countries and interfacing to SAP, the current financial standard of Allianz.
Pluriform Software is growing organically by focusing on partners: companies providing a solution for a specific market or larger enterprises with internal customers, each with their specific requirements.
We at Pluriform Software are focussing on complex information sharing in healthcare and public security. These networks have no dominant party, who would normally invest in improving poor collaboration among the participants. We are empowering such networks by setting up virtual communities geared to the professionals participating in the network to manage their ideas for improving their collaboration.