Canoo goes East
Today, Thursday June 18th, we have been invited by CIS Computer Information Systems to give an update about the new ULC features to an audience of 75 people in Bratislava. The venue took place in the busines park of Kerametal.
CIS is a very successful partner of Canoo, based in the capital city of Slovakia. CIS has 7 employees and exists since 18 years. They are specialized in IBM Rational, Oracle WebLogic, UltraLightClient and other RIA technologies.
Twice a year, CIS is inviting customers to a one day conference. In spring more product, in fall more hands on focused. Even if this time the products where in focus, it was an all technical oriented event. The presenters mostly where sitting in front of their PC’s, talking and programming in parallel. It looked like this was the style the audience was used to and so Marcel Rüedi gave his UltraLightClient pitch in the same way. Marcel was presenting all new features and functions within 45 Minutes in perfect Swiss English 
All other presentations have been presented in Slovakian language and guess what, it is not really similar to German, so we didn’t understand anything.
During the brakes we where talking with the CIS developers, mainly Anton Levcik and Pavol Diveky. Anton is the ULC specialist at CIS. In this role he is supporting customers in developing ULC based applications and interfaces. Several times a year he’s giving ULC trainings in Slovak language. So if you’d ever need a ULC training in Slovak….
Anton and Dalibor have introduced us to several ULC customers:
- Smart Management: SW developer, which has replaced an AS400 based solution for a Slovak hotel group.
- SZP: Slovak health insurance company for public services (police, army, etc.), semi government working with an ULC based application to internally handle customer information
- Ness a.s.: worldwide group, SW developer with 13 ULC Licenses.
- Siemens: developing applications for T-Systems and government.
CIS and all customers, where extremely pleased with ULC and that they had a chance to talk with Canoo directly.
Next Steps:
- CIS is trying to arrange for us a view into some of the customers application
- CIS will invite us to the conference in November. They are very interested in ULC / Groovy & Grails integration, ULC / FX and ULC Mobile.
