Cincom

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Cincom Systems, Inc.

Type	Private
Founded	1968
Headquarters	Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Key people	Thomas M. Nies., CEO and Founder
Industry	Computer software IT Services
Products	Contact center Document automation Data management Application Development
Revenue	$143 Million (2006)
Website	http://www.cincom.com.

Cincom Systems is a privately held, multinational, computer technology corporation founded in 1968 by Thomas M. Nies., Tom Richley and Claude Bogardus.

Cincom manufactures enterprise software, and provides information technology (IT) hosting services.

Cincom has 39 offices in 18 countries distributed over five continents.

According to its website., Cincom ranks among the top 5% of all software companies worldwide in terms of revenue.

Cincom Systems, Inc. was one of the first companies to sell software separately from hardware, helping to revolutionize the way computers and their components were sold, and helping to pioneer the software industry.

On August 20, 1984, President Ronald Reagan called Cincom and Tom Nies “the epitome of entrepreneurial spirit of American business.”

Cincom founder Thomas M. Nies. is currently the longest actively serving CEO in the computer industry [2], and is featured alongside other pioneers of the industry such as Bill Gates (Microsoft), Larry Ellison (Oracle) and Steve Jobs (Apple), in the Smithsonian Institution's Computer History Collection.

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Cincom is one of the oldest and largest privately held software firms in the United States. *Tom Nies has been the CEO of Cincom Systems since he founded the company. The company was founded on the TOTAL Database Product. This was a network database which Cincom successfully marketed. It ran on IBM mainframes and was ported to many different platforms and sold thousands of copies in 1970s and 1980s. Cincom developed related software including a TP monitor, a Query Tool and a ERP Manufacturing package. It the 1980s they picked up a 4th Generation Development tool (4GL) called Mantis to complement the database. This was also successful and sold over a thousand copies. In the 1990s the relational database vendors like ORACLE eclipsed the non-relational database vendors. Recently they purchased the commercial smalltalk products of several vendors and have become known as the main supplier of commercial smalltalk..

Cincom provides software in five major categories: