While 1986 doesn’t seem like so long ago, when you consider it in the context of technological advancements it might as well have been the dark ages. Computers were often room-sized when it came to industrial uses and film was still the preferred form of data storage (until those sleek floppy’s came along). So when QiSOFT CEO, Kevin Luxton and his uncle, statistician Peter Daisley successfully collaborated to produce the specification for QIS, it was quite the discovery.

By 1987, Newton Falls Paper Mill in upstate New York had contracted Kevin to complete the first QIS system install. Just two years later in 1989, the first full production of QIS was released and written in “C” language, running on DOS/IBM LAN Manager at the MidTec Paper Mill in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Over the next five years, QiSOFT would continue its growth with installations in Europe at the Dover Paper Mill, England, and another in Luxembourg followed quickly by the development of the first QIS for Windows* in 1994 as well as the launch of ProcessLink and LabLink as part of QIS v4.3.

Ten years after the inaugural install, QiSOFT opened its first US office in Atlanta, Georgia and that same year, in 1997, completed its first South American installation in Columbia. On the brink of a new century, QIS v5 was launched along with the development of QR2 following QiSOFT’s acquisition of QCS and the company’s relocation to Savannah, Georgia.

A mere four years later, another program upgrade, QIS v5.5 was launched and four years after that, the development continued with v6.0, which also marked the first Australian installation of QIS in Melbourne and Adelaide.

In 2008, as new system versions continued to emerge, so too did the expansion of QiSOFT’s software applications to include a new segment with the launch of PoliceIntel and new a focus on Secure Intelligence Sharing product modules. The company’s second US office was opened in Orange County, California in 2009 and that same year, a second European office was also opened in Breda, Netherlands.

With a full suite of process manufacturing applications and a global presence that continues to expand, QiSOFT is poised to launch its largest product-development schedule yet in 2010. Among its new products is the launch of the full SecureIntel Platform, which will serve as an intelligence-sharing platform for a variety of needs in the service industry. Without a doubt, QiSOFT is on the cusp of making history once again

*Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation