Ericpol
Ericpol (formerly Ericpol Telecom) is a Polish company operating in IT field. It specialises in the production and development of software for telecommunication and M2M, as well as enterprises that base their activities on modern technologies. The headquarters is in Łódź, branch offices in Kraków and Warszawa and the company has subsidiaries in Sweden (Linköping), Ukraine (Lviv) and Belarus (Brest). The Ericpol Group employs 1,790 people (in 2012).
History and development
Ericpol was founded in 1991 in Łódź. The first job consisted in testing telephone exchange monitoring software for Ericsson. Two years later Ericpol's employees begun to participate in projects run by Ericsson's R&D departments outside Poland. In 1996, the second office was established in Kraków, and in 1998 the total number of staff exceeded one hundred. In 2004 Ericpol set up the first foreign branch offices in Linköping, Sweden and Lvov, Ukraine. In 2005 the company became a Leader of Modern Technologies. In 2007 a new subsidiary in Brest, Belarus was opened. A year later "Teraz Polska" emblem was awarded to Ericpol. In 2010 a new modern office in Kraków (in Kraków Technology Park located in a special economic zone) was opened.
Today, Ericpol offices in Poland, Sweden, Ukraine and Belarus employ 1790 staff, including over 1300 engineers.
In Łódź, the company purchased an old factory (erected in the early 20th century) which was later revitalized and adapted into office space. The newly restored building was nominated to “The Best Interior of the Year 2008”. In Kraków Ericpol also acquired a tenement house on the Vistula river in the vicinity of Wawel Castle. The quality of the renovation works gained it a nomination for the Janusz Bogdanowski Award. In 2010 Ericpol Kraków moved to a new business office in Kraków Technology Park, (located in a special economic zone), giving 500 places of employment.
For a last few years Ericpol has been taking leading places in the Polish IT rankings: Computerworld TOP200 and Teleinfo500.
According to annual report of IDG publishing, "Computerworld TOP 200 – Polish ICT Market" for 2011 Ericpol takes:
- 1 position among companies earning income from export,
- 1 position among companies rendering customized software services,
- 1 position among companies achieving income from services for the telecommunications sector,
In 2010 the company was recognized as the best and the most innovative company among small and medium enterprises of the Lodz province, according to "Business Wings" report. (prepared by Polish ‘Gazeta Prawna’ under the Department of Economy patronage).
In February 2011 Ericpol became a laureate of “Forbes Diamonds” (created by Forbes Magazine).
In 2011 Ericpol – as the first and the only Polish company – was ranked among the top 100 outsourcing companies in the world (in the group "Rising Stars") according to the ranking of world's top outsourcing and advisory companies, The Global Outsourcing 100 (prepared by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. IAOP is a global organisation setting outsourcing standards. The results were presented in February 2011, during the IAOP’s 2011 Outsourcing World Summit in Indian Wells, California. In 2011 and 2012 Ericpol was also ranked among 500 world's biggest software and services suppliers. The Software 500 ranking was prepared by Digital Software Magazine, the Software Decision Journal publishing house. In 2012 Ericpol and Mill Studio received a Red Dot Design Award 2012 in the ‘communication design’ category for Agilendar, an original calendar based on Agile methodology. In 2013 Ericpol has been included on the Europe’s 500 ranking, which lists the top-growth private companies in Europe. The company took 17th place.
Main areas of business
For over 20 years Ericpol has been operating in the field of modern technologies with the use of high accessibility software, taking full responsibility for services provided in the following areas:
- Dedicated IT solutions and applications
- IT Outsourcing
- IT Consulting
- Customizations
- Trainings
Ericpol specializes in five segments:
- Telecommuniactions (services of designing, maintenance and testing of software for hardware and software manufacturers all over the world; consultancy and training services).
- M2M - Machine to Machine (engineering services – mainly in the area of designing and testing embedded systems software, which are used by the leading manufacturers in the car industry, i.e. Peugeot and Citroen). In 2010 Ericpol became a core member of GENIVI Alliance.
- Healthcare (specialist software packet “Dr Eryk” for managing doctor’s surgeries and outpatient clinics and ErLab - a communication system between medical centres and cooperating laboratories), In 2008 “Dr Eryk” got “Teraz Polska” emblem in the category of products and services.
- ERP and Business Intelligence applications (applications for effective business management applied in the industry, broadly understood trade and production management).
- Finances and Banking solutions (Enterprise Management Support Systems, Sales Support Software, Debt recovery support solutions, Advanced integration services based on data buses (ESB) and process engines (BPM), Video-teleconferencing systems, B2B portal solutions, Data and document processing based on cloud solutions).
During 22 years of operation Ericpol has executed over 750 comprehensive long-term projects in 75 countries.
Ericpol Science Ecosystem
Ericpol regularly cooperates with the Technical University of Łódź, the Jagiellonian University, the University of Łódź and the AGH University of Science and Technology in Kraków. The company actively participates in the didactic process of the students of telecommunications, applied mathematics and computer science through lectures and seminars conducted by Ericpol’s specialists.
The International Banach Prize
Ericpol constantly expands the scope of cooperation in terms of both telecommunication and information technology, and mathematical sciences, which is confirmed by the establishment of the International Stefan Banach Prize. It is a joint initiative of Ericpol Telecom and the Polish Mathematical Society. The prize reflects the company’s recognition for the unique role played by mathematics in the contemporary world. The prize’s objective is to both promote and financially support the most promising young scientists in mathematical sciences who hold a PhD diploma in this field.