Cleverlance Enterprise Solutions A.S. is a company specializing in

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. The company's headquarters and branches are located in

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and

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respectively. Cleverlance develops its own products, integrates IT platforms, and provides analytical services as well as software

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. These services are offered to clients ranging from

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telecommunication Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...

s, to

automotive industries Automotive Industries Ltd. (, ''Ta'asiyot Rekhev Natzrat Ilit'', AIL) is an Israeli automaker and major supplier of the Israeli Security Forces. History Located in Nof HaGalil, the company was founded in 1966 by Automotive Equipment Group as ...

. Since the 30th of October 2017, Cleverlance has been a member of the Association of Virtual and

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. The company is currently working on several applications of VR and AR.

History

Origins

Cleverlance was founded in 1999 in Czechia as a company that specialized in developing the

Java EE Jakarta EE, formerly Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) and Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), is a set of specifications, extending Java SE with specifications for enterprise features such as distributed computing and web serv ...

platform. The founding members were Jakub Dosoudil, Jan Šeda, and Dobromil Podpěra. Jan Šeda later sold his share in the company to the other founders. In 2004, Cleverlance Group was founded.

Death of Dosoudil

During the 2004 Christmas holidays, one of the founding members of Cleverlance, Jakub Dosoudil (27 years old at the time), went to Thailand with his girlfriend, Michaela Beránková (25 years old at the time, also working for Cleverlance). They died in the

Indian Ocean tsunami On 26 December 2004, at 07:58:53 local time (UTC+7), a major earthquake with a magnitude of 9.2–9.3 struck with an epicentre off the west coast of Aceh in northern Sumatra, Indonesia. The undersea megathrust earthquake, known in the scient ...

, which killed almost 230,000 people. The rest of the employees and owners of Cleverlance were trying to find the couple, along with their families, after Dosoudil and Beránková were reported missing. Their bodies were found and identified in 2005. The deaths of Dosoudil and Beránková were a huge loss for the company and created a very chaotic situation for the company overall.

Later development

In 2017, the annual revenue of the company crossed 1 billion Czech crowns. In 2019,

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group became the new majority owner. In June 2023, Cleverlance, Seavus, Komix Digital, Stratiteq, Clearcode, and Musala Soft merged to create Qinshift with 3,000 IT specialists.

Invinit Group

Invinit Group (formerly known as Cleverlance Group) is a family of different IT companies, connected to the founding firm Cleverlance and dealing with many different aspects of information technologies. Apart from Cleverlance Enterprise Solutions, the companies include:

AEC

AEC is a Czech IT company,thath was created in 1991 and deals with various facets of

cyber security Computer security (also cybersecurity, digital security, or information technology (IT) security) is a subdiscipline within the field of information security. It consists of the protection of computer software, systems and networks from thr ...

. AEC became a member of Cleverlance Group in 200, through an acquisition agreement between the companies.

Eicero

Eicero became a member of Cleverlance Group in 2010. The company deals in the complex diagnostics of

photovoltaic Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry. The photovoltaic effect is commercially ...

power stations and the elimination of PID ( Potential-induced degradation), which causes lowering of output of a given power station. The main product of Eicero is PID Doctor, a device that regenerates photovoltaic panels that were damaged by PID and restores their performance.

TrustPort

TrustPort is a provider and developer of computer safety solutions. TrustPort products are based on

antivirus Antivirus software (abbreviated to AV software), also known as anti-malware, is a computer program used to prevent, detect, and remove malware. Antivirus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses, hence the name ...

and

encryption In Cryptography law, cryptography, encryption (more specifically, Code, encoding) is the process of transforming information in a way that, ideally, only authorized parties can decode. This process converts the original representation of the inf ...

technologies,

anti-spam Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email ( false positives) as opposed ...

methods and anomaly behavior monitoring AI techniques. TrustPort became a member of the group in March 2008. The company was created as an independent subject within Cleverlance Group after the acquisition of AEC, from which TrustPort became independent.

IT education

Cleverlance periodically holds so-called Academies, in which members of the public can learn about specific IT topics and be granted a certificate after going through this intense crash course. After the course is completed, the best scoring people are offered a job position in Cleverlance. The most often held Academy is the Testing Clever Academy, designed to teach attendees the ins and outs of IT testing within a single week and Testing Java Academy, focused on developers early in their careers. Cleverlance also organizes education academies for the

.NET The .NET platform (pronounced as "''dot net"'') is a free and open-source, managed code, managed computer software framework for Microsoft Windows, Windows, Linux, and macOS operating systems. The project is mainly developed by Microsoft emplo ...

and

database In computing, a database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on the use of a database management system (DBMS), the software that interacts with end users, applications, and the database itself to capture and a ...

technologies.

Name of the company

The name is a combination the words „clever“ and „lance“, which both have connotations of sharpness. The name was thought up by the founding member Jakub Dosoudil, while on vacation in Mexico.

References

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