ICAL has spent 15 years in the cloud. Yes, we know, we don’t need to state the obvious, but seriously, we have been developing and later hosting remote applications for 15 years. When we started building remote applications, they weren’t even called cloud services. We just thought of them as remote programs, just like the network applications we had been building for years.
With the Dot Com bubble burst in 2000, we started approaching brick and mortar companies that could use web technology to enhance their business.
ICAL developed its first customer web application in 2001. That year we developed a document image retrieval system for First American Title Insurance. This system began a series of projects that let agents get their own information and order policies directly, online. Previously, company staff had to send document copies via courier or fax to their attorney agents.
This led to 12 years of service and improvements to the company’s agency business systems. It was transferred to another portion of the company in 2012 and re-written, but the basic system design and functionality continues to this day.
2004 marked the first time that ICAL hosted applications for customers in our data center. We began hosting an accounting solution for a Central American customer. We built a series of servers in our data center to host a Platinum Accounting system for renewable energy developers operating in Guatemala and Costa Rica.
That same year, we developed a web application for CHI Energy, another energy client. This was a web based production reporting system. It tracked energy production and outages for renewable plants in the United States and Canada.
CHI Energy was later purchased by Enel Energy. We continued to support and maintain this application for the next 11 years until it was retired in 2015.
ICAL has gone on to develop and host many ‘cloudy web applications’ since then. Today, we regularly develop web applications and hybrid desktop programs that rely on web services both in our data center and elsewhere.
If you have a need for a distributed, web, desktop or hybrid application contact us today.
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