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FROM AVANTECH TO EVOLUDATA: WHY, WHEN AND HOW

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How it all started.

In 1998, Marc Laporte founded AvanTech, which was later rebranded as EvoluData. For a number of years prior to that, he was a freelance developer providing solutions locally and internationally that were primarily related to e-commerce, websites, and web apps. He was using many proprietary and Open Source software solutions including Tiki. As the world was just opening up to the "World-Wide Web" and witnessing its business potential, it comes as no surprise that a lot of important web-centric projects started this time around, such as Tiki.


EvoluData is a new company with a new brand and a new website. You might think we’re a start-up, but actually our history dates back to 1998, when EvoluData’s CEO, Marc Laporte, registered AvanTech.net. That’s a track record of over 20 years in designing, delivering and deploying enterprise Open Source applications.

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SO WHY THE NEW BRANDING?

We caught up with Marc Laporte and asked him. He says:

We wanted to signal an important shift in our direction and be much more specific about how we bring value to clients. With AvanTech, we were refining how Open Source solutions could play a pivotal role in the enterprise to deliver improved communications, information management and business workflows – centered around the culture and ethos of Open Source values and behaviors. While AvanTech as a brand has served us well, the management team felt that 2020 was the right time to have a refresh and focus our brand story around the core value proposition we’re able to provide today.




He adds,

We wanted our new brand to focus on the evolution of data that’s happening in the enterprise and how our team is contributing to that story. Twenty years ago, enterprise systems operated largely behind the firewall, department heads bought apps to suit their functional needs without considering how the enterprise could re-use data to work smarter, and of course we didn’t have social computing, or clouds, or big data. The world of enterprise information management has evolved, and Open Source has evolved with it. Our latest developments includes advanced technologies like machine learning along with the mature WikiSuite feature set of wiki tools; natural language search; messaging; database input, storage and report capabilities; activity management; and collaborative tools. Through our huge commitment to exploratory R&D and the energy of our growing team, EvoluData is helping enterprise IT evolve.

OUR TIMELINE

1998 AvanTech.net domain registered.

1999 AvanTech.net launched – helping clients take advantage of technology with a focus on web apps and e-commerce.

2000–2001 Added Open Source collaboration tools, such as TUTOS, Horde and IMP Webmail, PostNuke and PhpWiki to our tech stack.

2002 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is born. Openfire too!

2003 Shifted focus to Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware for all new projects as we were convinced that the capabilities were superior.

2009 Our interview by computer.org. "A Process That is Not" highlighted the unique approach to software development of the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project.

2010 A proud moment – Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is awarded a 2010 Bossie award (Best of Open Source Software) by InfoWorld, in the Applications category.


2011 WikiSuite is born, offering clients more functionality and better integration, with Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware and Openfire as the main components, for asynchronous and synchronous collaboration.

2012 Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Passes 1 Million Downloads!

2015 Moved to Avan.Tech domain name when .tech domain names were launched.

2020 AvanTech is rebranded as EvoluData – a new brand but not a new business.

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