In 2008 D-One introduced and sold the Nios3 management system. We developed the first version in 2005, whereas the second was ready in 2007 and the fourth and last version in 2018.
Now, what certainly surprised everyone was this time skip between the first three versions. Indeed, while at the beginning we tried to develop a product every year or two, we waited 10 years to get the last version out.
The answer to this question is quite simple. As all the management software in the same price range, the Nios project entered the vicious circle of being constantly reinvented to justify the cost of the annual update to its customers.
If people were favourably impressed at the release of Nios1 by its few and practical functions, the users of Nios3 complained about having too many features they would never have used. We created those features because a small number of users needed them, and so we forced others to have them anyway.
If this first factor crashed with the vision of D-One, which is a company that has always developed customized software for customer’s specific needs, the second real problem was just the historical moment, i.e. the transition from the concept of “computer at work” to that of “mobile working”. Indeed, 2008 was the year where people could start seeing the potential of the iPhone and understand through Facebook what meant the term “Internet 2.0”.
In that world which started understanding it and unconsciously diving into those technologies that would really change everyone’s life, software for Windows called Nios3 was developed. A software that, like a goldfish, understood overnight the difference between the fishbowl and the ocean.
Beyond the limitations of the software, we also realized the limitations of the company due to the lack of knowledge of this new ocean. And so, we decided to develop a program with two simple but powerful characteristics:
1) Everyone could and should have their management software designed for their specific needs
2) The system should be used everywhere and in any condition
This was the beginning of Nios4: wanting to create a system with unique features that should not be reevaluated every year and that would be always used everywhere.
Finally, in August 2009 the project took shape and we realized what we had to do to reach the goal. During these 10 years, D-One hired staff that would specialize in mobile and web computing and developed the technology and the know-how to get that software today.
They were not ten easy years, however, seeing what we created, we realized that they were necessary sacrifices to get on June 7, 2018, and write this post.
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