Fact Sheet GeneXus™
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Contents
ABOUT US 3
GENEXUS™ SUITE 3
GENEXUS™ 16 4
COMMUNITY 4
CUSTOMERS 4
BUSINESS PARTNERS - GENEXUS™ DISTRIBUTORS 5
GENEXUS™ SOLUTION PARTNERS 5
STRATEGIC PARTNERS 6
COMPANY HISTORY 6
OUR OFFICES 9
ON THE WEB 9
CONTACT 9
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About us
GeneXus is a leader in the field of software development tools for agile software, based on capturing and managing knowledge of both users and customers.
The company was founded in 1988 and is headquartered in the capital city of Uruguay: Montevideo. Apart from its branches in Brazil, Mexico, Japan and the U.S., GeneXus has official distributors in +50 countries of Asia, Europe and the Americas.
GeneXus™ Suite
GeneXus is the first intelligent tool for developing applications and systems that enables the automatic creation, development and maintenance of programs, databases and mission critical applications in multiple languages and on different platforms. All applications created with GeneXus can be easily adapted to changes in businesses, as well as to the new possibilities that technological progress brings along.
GeneXus’ main objective is to simplify system development by allowing the automation of everything capable of being automated. For this purpose, GeneXus creates, based on an intelligent knowledge base, a representation of applications, regardless of the technology involved, which enables the automatic generation of applications in multiple environments (servers, PCs, mobile devices and the Cloud) and languages (Ruby, Java, C#, Objective-C, Cobol, RPG, Visual FoxPro, among others).
The vision behind GeneXus is based on over three decades of experience in the creation of automatic generation and development tools for applications.
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GeneXus™ 16
This is the latest version of GeneXus™, the market’s smartest and most comprehensive development platform focused on the user and up-to-date with the most recent advances in technology. GeneXus™ 16 represents a great leap to a yet better way to create applications in the fastest and simplest manner, even with no expertise in a specific programming language or technology. GeneXus™ 16 helps smart companies find their way with real opportunities around Artificial Intelligence, more data management and integration options, Dynamic Transactions, more collaboration features, and more Cloud Computing providers to select the most suitable services for your business (IBM’s Blue Mix, SAP HANA and Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft’s Azure, and Amazon Web Services). It also simplifies interoperability between different business systems as it allows integration with SAP HANA and OPEN API to import and export APIs.
Community
Over 135 thousand developers around the world use GeneXus™ to create applications automatically with the most popular platforms and language, without the need to be an expert in them. The GeneXus Community is an active and open group that offers a wide variety of resources to find the answers to their questions and enables an exchange of experiences and solutions for different problems.
Customers
Approximately 8,700 customers have discovered GeneXus’ competitive advantages in medium to large corporations from a wide variety of industries. Additionally, there are numerous software houses of all scales that build their solutions with GeneXus technology. Today, there are millions of users worldwide who are unaware that the applications they use have been developed and generated by GeneXus.
Antel, Barnes & Noble, Conaprole, DHL, Faber Castell, Salinas Group, ITAU, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mormaii, NEC, Pemex, Roche, Sancor, Sony Computer Entertainment Inc., Toyota, and Warner Music are just a few of the renowned customers who rely on GeneXus for developing their mission critical corporate systems.
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Business partners - GeneXus™ Distributors
Argentina – Bolivia – Brazil – Chile – Colombia – South America Ecuador – Paraguay – Perú – Uruguay – Venezuela
Central America & Costa Rica – Cuba – Guatemala – Honduras – the Caribbean Nicaragua – Panamá – Salvador
Europe Germany – Spain – Italy – England – Portugal
Asia China – Japan – Taiwan – Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
North America Canada – Mexico – USA
Oceania Australia – New Zealand
GeneXus™ Solution Partners
GeneXus Solution Partners are software houses (ISV or Independent Software Vendors) who develop and sell software solutions and knowledge bases developed with GeneXus. All members in the program have access to GeneXus premium technical resources and have multiple ways of increasing their business and profits.
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Strategic Partners
GeneXus has joined the main platform providers to ensure optimal generation with GeneXus for the market’s leading hardware and software platforms.
Company history
Since 1984, the founders of GeneXus, in cooperation with their research and development team, have been carrying out original and significant research activities in the fields of relational databases, application development and artificial intelligence. These activities represented hundreds of thousands of hours of work, leading to the exclusive technology that constitutes the core of GeneXus.
Timeline
Starting point of the research and development work resulting from projects by 1984 the company’s founders Mr. Breogán Gonda and Mr. Nicolás Jodal.
Creation of GeneXus (Artech Consultores SRL) in Uruguay. Market launch of 1989 GeneXus 1.0 with its first RPG and Cobol generator for AS/400. Followed by the release of the FoxPro generator.
1996 Release of the first Client/Server generator.
1999 Release of GXplorer, a Data Warehouse solution.
2000 Release of the first JAVA generator.
2001 Start of operations in China.
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Opening of the Mexico City offices. Release of the first .NET generator and a new 2002 family of products: GXquery (Reporting solution), GXflow (Workflow solution), and GXportal (solution for creating and managing dynamic web portals).
2003 Opening of sales offices in Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Shanghai (China).
The beginning of GeneXus Japan, a joint venture of GeneXus and Japanese 2004 entrepreneurs.
Release of the GeneXus 9 version including Patterns, Ajax, Business Components, 2005 Master Pages, support for MySQL and generating for .NET Mobile.
2006 Starting point of user groups (GUGs) and Collaborative Projects 1.0
Introduction of the Platform Partners program, with the first edition of the 2007 GXChallenge.
Release of GeneXus X with significant enhancements in productivity and web 2008 development.
Release of GeneXus X Evolution 1 focused on the experience of developers. 2009 Presentation of GXserver for simplified team development. Commencement of GXtest sales.
The user community exceeds 75,000 members in the year of the 2010 20th GeneXus Meeting.
2011 Introduction of GeneXus Marketplace.
Release of GeneXus EV2 – GeneXus Smart Devices. Special attendance at CIFTIS 2012 (China). Prize of Unión de Exportadores for export performance in IT industry. Granato Award for its contribution to Digital Inclusion.
GeneXus Tilo Beta incorporates all the advantages of GeneXus X Evolution 2. In 2013 addition, it brings multi-platform solutions for Smart Devices –Windows 8 and iOS7- including in offline environments and GAM security.
GeneXus X Evolution 3 (formerly “Tilo”) is launched to the market as part of the X 2014 GeneXus Meeting in Mexico.
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2015 Release of GeneXus X Evolution 3 (Tilo) and GeneXus ERP Connector for SAP.
2016 Release of beta version of GeneXus 15 Salto at the XI GeneXus Meeting in Mexico. The beta version of GeneXus 15 includes Live Editing. During the GX26 event, GeneXus 15 is released as a fundamental ally for Digital Transformation.
2018 GeneXus 16 is released at GX28.
GeneXus 16 includes features for the following technologies: Angular, Blockchain, 2019 PWA, SAP Machine Learning, among others.
GeneXus 16 includes features for the following technologies and platforms: 2020 Alibaba, Mini Program, Badu, Tencent. GeneXus M and GeneXus Platform are released.
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Our offices
> MONTEVIDEO | URUGUAY > CIUDAD DE MÉXICO | MÉXICO
Av. Italia 6201 Hegel N° 221, Piso 2 Parque Tecnológico del LATU Col. Chapultepec Morales
Edificio Los Pinos - Planta Alta | CP 11500 Del. Miguel Hidalgo +598 2 601-2082 México, D.F +52 55 5255-4733
> MIAMI | USA
> TOKIO | JAPÓN 7300 N Kendall Drive, Suite 470 (1) 201 603 2022 2 27 3 Nishi Gotanda, Shinagawa ku Tokyo, 141-0031 (813)6303 9381 > SAN PABLO | BRASIL (813) 6303 9980 Rua Samuel Morse 120 Conj. 141
04576-060 Sao Paulo +55 11 5502-6722
On the web
www.genexus.com linkedin.com/company/genexus-artech
twitter.com/genexus youtube.com/gxmarketing facebook.com/genexus.artech
Contact
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