For several days on www.dutchsoftware.nl a new platform for product -softwarebedrijven active. Initially, it is still nothing more than a presentation of product software companies in the Netherlands, but according to founder Ben Alfrink is intended that Dutch Software develops into a knowledge network for ISVs
When asked why he beside the existing Software VOC of interbranch Netherlands ICT also sees a role for an independent initiative, he replies, “I want co-operation does not rule out eventually, but right now I think Dutch software it can add the necessary terms of accessibility and transparency. (…). ”
“To be the Software VOC member must first join Netherlands ICT. That still makes for a lot of companies have a significant threshold. For a company of 40 to 50 employees, the contribution for Netherlands ICT will soon be in the neighborhood of 5 to 6,000 euros a year I. treasure
Furthermore VOC software is totally transparent. It is for instance not possible for outsiders to determine which companies are participating in it. (..) Yes, there is a list of Netherlands ICT, but there are also companies that are not active with product software. And they are not just company names, nothing else. For us right now registered over one hundred companies, with extensive information per business . Visitors to our site can search and filter by business sector in which the ISVs focus and / or the type of solutions that they approach those sectors. ”
At this time, states the website of Dutch Software Netherlands-based software companies, their products and markets, supplemented by data on the VC concerned, rankings, industry news, and for software companies relevant meetings. Alfrink think that some ISVs can grow on its site in the short term to about 300.
No Membership
Companies on the website of Dutch software have mostly not himself signed, but collected by the site itself from “public sources”. Membership or anything like that can not be spoken. Listing on the site is also free of charge. The earnings for Alfrink and his co-founder Vincent Blijleven will also be located revenues of knowledge meetings which will hold the platform in the future on issues that concern the management of software companies, including channel development, growth financing, internationalization and governance.
Alfrink: “We marvel for some time about the lack of transparency in the software market. This while the product software companies or ISVs with each other for many years are the fastest growing segment within the ICT, including through international expansion. It is our goal to connect not only the industry with this platform, but also to strengthen knowledge sharing and by making collaboration easy. We will gradually expand this platform and deepen. We also go to our audience, the software companies, examine the need for additional activities and here give meaning to. “
Alfrink set earlier, following a similar formula, a regional platform for ICT companies in the Province of Utrecht.
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