Inventive Designers

Inventive Designers is a privately owned software development company, based in Antwerp, Belgium. The company was founded in 1994 by Guy Dehond and Patrick Morren.

Inventive Designers
TypePrivate company
IndustrySoftware
Founded1994
Headquarters
Antwerp
Number of employees
38 (November 2014)
Websitehttp://www.inventivedesigners.com

Guy Dehond was one of the beta testers of the AS/400 (codenamed "Silverlake") at IBM. Dehond and Morren had worked with this system for years, and their first products were for the AS/400. Later they started to design products for cross-platform environments. Today, the company specializes in software for customer communications management in the public, financial, telecommunications, utility, insurance and healthcare industry, in over 30 countries.

In 2010, the company received a CIOnet Innovation Award.[1]

The company participates in the AFP Consortium[2] and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). At the W3C, Inventive Designers was active in the XSL Working Group, and Chief Technical Officer Klaas Bals was the editor of XSL Requirements 2.0[3] document. Currently, the company plays an active role in W3C's Forms Working Group.[4]

At the end of 2012 Guy Dehond handed over the company to his daughter Joke Dehond and his son-in-law Klaas Bals.

In May 2017, Jim Verbist was named CEO of the company.[5] In December 2018, the company was acquired by UnifiedPost.[6][7][8]

Company timeline
1994 Inventive Designers BVBA founded by Guy Dehond and Patrick Morren in Belgium[9]
1996 Alteration of Inventive Designers BVBA into Inventive Designers NV (comparable to limited liability company)
1998 Introduction of EverGreen/400 to allow 5250 non-programmable workstations to act as a full e-mail capable terminal
1998 Worldwide distribution of EverGreen/400 by IBM
1999 Introduction of DTM for AS/400 or DTM for iSeries, capable of converting OfficeVision documents to XML
1999 Inventive Designers' Litrik De Roy is co-author of the IBM Redbook: How to Replace OfficeVision/400 in Your Applications[10]
2000 Move to new offices
2002 Worldwide distribution of DTM for iSeries by Lotus Software
2002 Introduction of Scriptura XBOS, one of the first what-you-see-is-what-you-get XSL editors
2004 Release of Scriptura Designer and Scriptura Engine, first steps towards a document composition tool
2004 IBM's Watson Research Group invites Inventive Designers to join the XSL Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
2005 Release of Scriptura XSL Business Output Suite, a platform to compose templates and generate multi-channel output. Introducing electronic forms.
2006 The company joins the AFP Consortium[11]
2006 Director Joke Dehond receives XPlor's Electronic Document Professional[12] certification
2007 Release of the Scriptura Post-Processor, enabling grouping, bundling, sorting ...
2009 Release of IntelliStamp (patent pending), a hybrid signature to secure electronic and paper documents
2009 Inventive Designers is selected for the Benelux short list of Logica's 'Global Innovation Venture Program' contest
2009 Release of Scriptura Document Flow, a what-you-see-if-what-you-get interface to design and execute document flows. Replaces the Scriptura Post-Processor
2009 Partnership with Xerox for Belgium and Luxemburg
2010 Scriptura’s newest version gets a new name: Scriptura Engage
2011 IntelliStamp project at IAK wins DCM award[13]
2012 Mechelen and Antwerp first cities worldwide to use IntelliStamp
2012 IntelliStamp Antwerp laureate ‘Accenture Innovation Award 2012’[14]
2012 In December Joke Dehond and Klaas Bals took over the company as co-CEOs[9]
2013 The IntelliStamp Center now offers IntelliStamp as a cloud service
2014 In April Scriptura Engage is named[15] in Printing and Imaging by Gartner
2014 Scriptura Engage launches its own product website[16]
2015 DataNews[17] named Joke Dehond as ICT Woman of the Year 2015[9]
2015 Inventive Designers sells IntelliStamp to Cipal, to focus on the internationalization of Scriptura Engage[18]
2017 Jim Verbist takes over as CEO[9]
2018 Acquisition of Inventive Designers by UnifiedPost[8]

References
  1. "CIOnet Awards voor Guy Dehond en Kurt De Ruwe (CIOnet Awards for Guy Dehond and Kurt De Ruwe)" (in Dutch). 17 November 2010. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  2. "Inventive Designers joins AFP Consortium". Archived from the original on 2010-10-13. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  3. XSL Requirements 2.0
  4. Forms Working Group
  5. "Jim Verbist nieuwe CEO Inventive Designers". Engineeringnet.be. 10 May 2017. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  6. Cahoon, Olivia (4 December 2018). "UnifiedPost Acquires CCM Platform Developer Inventive Designers | DPS Magazine". Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  7. Petitjean, Frederic (30 November 2018). "UnifiedPost neemt Inventive Designers over". Computable (in Dutch). Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  8. "UnifiedPost neemt Inventive Designers over - Nieuws - DataNews". knack.be.
  9. Leemputten, Pieterjan Van (2018-11-30). "UnifiedPost engloutit Inventive Designers". DataNews. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  10. "IBM Redbooks - How to Replace OfficeVision/400 in Your Applications: Looking at Domino for AS/400 and AS/400 Alternatives". ibm.com. Archived from the original on 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2011-08-03.
  11. "Digital Print Industry Leaders Agree to AFP Open Standards Initiative". In-plant Impressions. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
  12. "Xplor EDP Class of 2005". Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-05-11.
  13. YouTube. youtube.com.
  14. "Innovation Awards - De prijs voor vernieuwing!". innovationawards.be.
  15. "Inventive Designers named as Cool Vendor by Gartner". Scriptura Engage.
  16. "Scriptura Engage". Scriptura Engage.
  17. "Technologie - DataNews - Knack.be". knack.be.
  18. Leemputten, Pieterjan Van (2015-03-05). "IntelliStamp engloutie par Cipal". DataNews. Retrieved 2020-10-21.
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