SUMit's history
sam
- sam is a joint venture of ibm, malaysia airlines and swiss air
- henk jan learns
algoritms for shift roster planning
at plaza ibm
internet
- the internet is emerging.
- everybody talks about the new, object oriented programming language: java.
oops
- Just a half year later an economic crisis strikes Asia
- Henk Jan has to end his contract work sooner than planned
back to nl
- Henk Jan ships his stuff back to the Netherlands.
- The cargo is lost for months.
1 shirt
- With just one shirt and tie Henk Jan sets out to find new customers in Holland.
- In the Netherlands Java is virtually unkown.
the name sumit
- Laurella Asselman, former
KLM colleague of Henk Jan,
devises SUMit,
as an abbreviation of
SUMatra
Information
Technology.
- The island of Sumatra (which is next to Java) returns in the 1st SUMit logo.
1st customer
- The first SUMit customer offers Smalltalk contract work for the staff information system
Perman II.
SUMit
- During a lunch break on the 5th of May, Henk Jan formally founds SUMit, at the chambre of commerce in Rotterdam
- SUMit HQ roots in Gouda.
1st invoice
- Shortly after the founding the first customer recieves the first invoice.
smalltalk
A bit of smalltalk contracting increases the SUMit start up funds.
www.sum-it.nl
- Henk Jan explores HTML.
It is a surprising easy
déjà vu.
- www.sum-it.nl goes on-line end of december 1998.
contract work
- Smalltalk contract work generates the larger share of the revenue.
DB course
- In Ireland Henk Jan writes a 3rd SUMit course
efficient database design.
- The dot com hype is at its peak. Internet is booming business.
on line stocks
- The first Java project, contract work via Devote:
a web application for OHRA to trade stocks on line.
little sleep
- Henk Jan sees his programmers crawl under a desk at night to get a few hours of sleep.
exhausting
- Revenue goes sky high
- but the dotcom pace is devestating.
XML interface
- The final Smalltalk contract: link Perman II to a new web system using
XML.
roster software
- a company at Schiphol Airport orders the first SUMit shift roster software.
- It is a milestone for SUMit.
development
- SUMit develops the shift roster generator, using the artificial intelligence made in Sumatra.
yardley
- sumit opens a temporary side office, a software development center in
Yarley, between New York and Philadelphia.
project planning
- SUMit's second tailored software project: a project planning tool
that checks feasibility of deadlines.
- again, sumit develops a project Yardley.
page rank
- during a second research project sumit analysis the google ranking algorithm.
- the sumit website reaches the top of the google search results.
huizentoppers
- SUMit research and development creates www.huizentoppers.nl.
too busy
- Business gets too busy for contract work.
- In 2004 SUMit already serves 51 customers.
contract work
- SUMit finishes the last contract work near Utrechtse:
match questino and demand of computer hardware.
route planner
- SUMit creates
advanced route planner
for the VCC Groep in Utrecht,
using AI algorithms from the previous research project.
international
- SUMit cooperates with the Flemish
Sara Borremans.
For many years to come, Sara does graphical design of SUMit applications.
multi lingual
- SUMit supplies tailored software to
Woodwing,
make their application multi lingual using
UTF-8.
international
- sumit designs a web application to match question and demand for trading meat for the Spanish Market Found.
staff planning
- SCA Gennep asks a
staff planning system.
- It is complex, tailored software for about 40 decentral planners.
design in progress
team works in
- Heijen, Limburg
- Gouda, Holland
- Halle, Belgium;
- Taiping, Malaysia
- Katherine, Northern Territory
- Kiruna, Sweden
welcome
- sumit welcomes dhl schiphol, philips and the amsterdam tourist board as returning customers.
- they find sumit's way of doing business worth repeating.
welcome
- While celebrating 10 years of business
SUMit welcomes new, international customers like
the Royal Australian Navy in Sydney.
shift roster design training
- all over the netherlands, sumit's shift roster design training is now well known.
sweden
- during the long swedish midsummer days sumit cooperates with johan van den boom
for the SCA staff planning system.
design method
- henk jan works on a method for information design,
based on the function psychology of Dr. Leonard Verhoef.
prototypes
- the first paper prototypes made with the new design method see the Swedish light.
generator
- SUMit develops the safety task assignment generator in Malaysia
- The safety staff fail to notice that a computer took over planning.
api route planner
- an API for the sumit routeplanner
is operational so other web applications can have via points sorted
to an efficient route.
- find your recumbent bicycle in a few minutes
english
nederlands
invests his Malaysian ringit in a
IBM thinkpad.
