Company History

Naviasys was founded in 1989 by Pieter van der Woude and four colleagues in Rotterdam , the Netherlands to fill a gap between the burgeoning technology systems  and small to medium sized businesses that were not fully automated and had systems that were not compatible.  There was constant frustration because companies found that when they decided to upgrade their business systems, they also had to completely reengineer the data bases that were in the applications.  This caused companies to either hire large temporary work forces or face cyclic expansions and contractions associated with business upgrading. Pieter van der Woude saw the need to create a system that would allow disparate systems and processes to be merged without the need for completely re-entering the data.  In the early years the main systems for ERP were from Baan and this was over 80% of the business until the late 1980’s when the company decided to take on a broader scope of business clients with the same commitment to service and problem solving that had made the company successful in Europe . Naviasys grew from just under 600 employees in 1980 to over 3,000 by the mid-1990’s via acquisitions and organic growth mainly in Europe .  By 1992, the company decided to expand operations into Asia and opened a small sales office in Tokyo , Japan with just four employees, and after a successful trial in Japan, purchased another company in Kyoto and Beijing, China, Australia, Canada and Argentina soon followed and the company grew to more than 4000 employees, culminating in the most recent purchase of TCI in the United States in late 2007.  Naviasys’ move into the US enabled the company to look not only at a broader scope of clients, but also to gain a deeper penetration in the professional services arena, partnering with Fortune 500 companies and medium sized B2B’s.