Timeline
2021 |
new office in venlo
With the Covid measures and increasing number of colleagues, our space in Venlo started to get a bit too crowded. So we have moved across the street and are setting up a bigger office in the same cool style than the office in Gouda.
2021 |
Take on the world!
2020 |
what, no xmas party?
Usually, the Xmas party is one of the highlights of the year at Starware. Due to the covid lockdown, there is no way to organise this safely this year, so we have opted to bring a bit of the xmas spirit to everyone. Dressed as santa and his reindeer, Marc & Roland drove 2000 kilometers in 3 days to deliver everyone a freshly chef-prepared xmas dinner along with a wine arrangement and entertainment for a perfect xmas night. In lack of a true santa sleigh, we used our friends of the parcel delivery services and video calling to even mimic the experience for our new colleagues in Australia and Canada.
2020 |
WORLD PANDEMIC
2019 |
brand new office
The come of new employees meant Starware's current office was slowly becoming too small, so we moved to a new office in the center of Gouda with more space, great coffee and the latest technologies.
2018 |
SEVEN DEADLY SINS
2018 |
STARWARE IS BECOMING A HOUSEHOLD NAME
2017 |
Starware 25 years!
Starware becomes a quarter of a century old! And we celebrate with our "Fireball rally," racing from different locations in the Netherlands to Germany. The whole program was shrouded in secrecy again, teams were told to assemble on a beach in Bergen aan Zee in pre-formed teams. In true cannonball run style, teams arranged special transport and matching outfits. What followed was a competition of rally driving to unknown locations. Days and nights filled with surprises like carpool karaoke challenges, rib-boat rides to the dutch wadden islands, a nightly bonfire on the beach along with musical entertainment, tank driving (yes in a real tank!), laser gaming, biking, food challenges...the list never stopped. The ultimate winners of these 4 crazy days were crowned champions at a local beach club on the riverbanks in Hamburg. Next to the eternal fame, they earned a joyride in the new company car: a fully restored 1967 Ford Mustang that Marc & Roland bought for the occasion.
2016 |
ICH BIN EIN HAMBURGER
2015 |
THE END OF MYSCILS
2015 |
JDA PARTNER AWARD
2015 |
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?
2014 |
A FOOT IN THE DOOR
2013 |
RED PRAIRIE BECOMES JDA
2013 |
BALANCING IT OUT
2012 |
20 YEARS OF STARWARE
2012 |
we were on a break!
After this monster project, we all need a well-deserved break. Roland takes the opportunity to wander around New Zealand with his family for a couple of months, and other project members also take some extended holidays. When everyone returned, we realised that we had now all gained so much experience in configuring the red prairie stem and solving issues that we can easily run full implementations on our own from now on.
2011 |
OUR AHA-ERLEBNIS
2009 |
RED PRAIRIE
2008 |
BOOM
2007 |
15 YEARS
After 15 years of being in business, we totally transform our company, move to a new great office, and go to Iceland with the whole team to celebrate our anniversary on a long weekend packed with adventure, beautiful landscapes, and long nights in Reykjavik.
2006 |
GOING GLOBAL
2004 |
the grid
2003 |
Do they know it's Xmas time?
Our renewed focus makes work much more enjoyable and Starware profitable again. We celebrate the end of the year with a legendary party at the local tapas restaurant. Not every one of our young staff could handle all the sangria very well at this point, but we managed to get everyone home safe and sound again.
2003 |
the world of logistics
After that, we get into more and more projects to create full warehouse batch scanner applications for 3PLs customers like Nokia. These applications open up an array of possibilities for the operation that are unheard of till now. We spend a lot of days and nights in the warehouse in Roosendaal to get everything working in record time. Consequently, the customer was so happy with the solution that we flew all over the world to implement it at the other sites in Finland and Brazil.
2002 |
WAIT FOR THE BEEP
We have discovered that our combined knowledge of logistics and ICT is scarce. Moreover, we've always enjoyed tweaking the logistics and supply chain aspects of our own operation. The case is, we are lucky enough to know a guy that is working at one of the biggest 3PL's in the Netherlands at this time: Nedlloyd. He is aware of an issue they are having in the warehouse with a scanner that refuses to play a confirmation beep at the right time. We fixed the issue in minutes, where others were struggling for weeks. Soon after that first impression, we are invited to join a project to set up a Business Intelligence system 'Avant la Lettre', that enables standardisation and measurements of logistic processes across customers and warehouses.
2001 |
before the "clean your desk policy" 😉
Work is coming at us from all these angles, and we are having some serious growing pains. It is already getting clear that we will need to clean up our act (and our desks), regroup, and focus our efforts again to make the work a little less crazy again.
2001 |
the perfect storm
After years of growth, a number of things are happening at the same time, and it feels like the perfect storm: the first internet bubble just burst, computers have become a commodity, and the world economy is holding its breath after 9-11. Our plans to refocus go into the maelstrom. We are forced to re-invent ourselves quickly and let go of some great employees. This is probably the hardest period of our existence.
2000 |
last Starware computers
1999 |
the Xmas party like it's 1999...
Oh wait, it's actually 1999... Till now, we have been so busy working that besides visiting the local bars or joining a house rave now and then, there has been no need to organise real parties. Well, a lot has changed ever since: after the first try with a great karting event and a very, very late dinner, we could not get enough, and we set a precedent for many parties to follow!
1998 |
GROWING again
We keep on growing: Marc's brother, Sander, is joining the company, and Roland's father Ab is always helping out where he can: getting the administration straight for us, painting the office, or getting a better deal on cars at any garage. Next to that, we hire a small army of part-timers from our old schools, provide work for interns, and employ other local talents from our extensive network.
1997 |
first company cars
Our hard work locally gets us in touch with bigger and bigger local companies, and one of our local role models (SPS) takes us under their wing. We are building specific monitoring PCs for them and helping them providing system support services at large corporations like the former dutch broadcasting company (NOB), the dutch waterworks, and potato giants like Aviko. But, of course, we need a more reliable mode of transport for all this, and it's the first time Starware's blue Citroën Saxo's are leased, completed with a Starware logo!
1997 |
GROWING PAINS
1996 |
The original Starware computers
As Starware's computers are becoming a household name in Reeuwijk and far beyond, we are coming up with a whole line of the latest hardware, making more and more professional brochures, and selling and building many computers. At the same time, we are developing SIS, Starware's information system in Visual Basic, and an access database. We now can do item and category management, stock management, automated ordering and invoicing, stock counts, creating delivery notes and packing lists. Before we knew it, we had built our own little WMS.
1996 |
OUR FIRST TRADE SHOW
Now that we have gathered some local fame as the kids that know everything about computers, we are getting invites for local business clubs and trade shows. As we have never done such a thing and are very intrigued by the concept of free drinks afterwards, we quickly decide to join. It turns out to be very successful and we are reaching new record levels of sales!
1995 |
the first Starware office
It's 1995, and Roland's parents are finally fed up with trucks blocking the street, unloading pallets of computers, and us hauling everything up and down the stairs. They can also do without the nightly faxes with new pricelists from Thailand and us finishing all the beer in the house for "creative inspiration." So, after spending a summer holiday partying on the Spanish Costas and giving our first large customers support via a payphone on the beach, we decide to quit our education and go all-in on Starware. We found a small office near our homes in Reeuwijk and worked our asses off to get an actual business going.
1992 |
THE original attic office
This is the place it all started for us: a couple of extended desks, some chairs, and a filing cabinet in Roland's childhood bedroom at his parent's house. Also, not the unmistakably 90's style fashion we are wearing. In this picture, we are probably having a thorough deliberation about using either sound blasters or adlib music cards in our next line of Starware computers. We offered them via a very well-designed printed price list on our school's bulletin board!
2021 |
new office in Venlo
With the Covid measures and increasing number of colleagues, our space in Venlo started to get a bit too crowded. So we have moved across the street and are setting up a bigger office in the same cool style as the office in Gouda.
2021 |
Take on the world!
2020 |
what, no Xmas party?
Usually, the Xmas party is one of the highlights of the year at Starware. Due to the covid lockdown, there is no way to organise this safely this year, so we have opted to bring a bit of the Xmas spirit to everyone. Dressed as Santa and his reindeer, Marc & Roland drove 2000 kilometers in 3 days to deliver everyone a freshly chef-prepared Xmas dinner along with a wine arrangement and entertainment for a perfect Xmas night. In lack of a true Santa sleigh, we used our friends of the parcel delivery services and video calling to even mimic the experience for our new colleagues in Australia and Canada.
2020 |
WORLD PANDEMIC
2019 |
brand new office
The come of new employees meant Starware's current office was slowly becoming too small, so we moved to a new office in the center of Gouda with more space, great coffee, and the latest technologies.
2018 |
SEVEN DEADLY SINS
2018 |
STARWARE IS BECOMING A HOUSEHOLD NAME
2017 |
Starware 25 years!
Starware becomes a quarter of a century old! And we celebrate with our "Fireball rally," racing from different locations in the Netherlands to Germany. The whole program was shrouded in secrecy again, teams were told to assemble on a beach in Bergen aan Zee in pre-formed teams. In true cannonball run style, teams arranged special transport and matching outfits. What followed was a competition of rally driving to unknown locations. Days and nights filled with surprises like carpool karaoke challenges, rib-boat rides to the dutch wadden islands, a nightly bonfire on the beach along with musical entertainment, tank driving (yes in a real tank!), laser gaming, biking, food challenges...the list never stopped. The ultimate winners of these 4 crazy days were crowned champions at a local beach club on the riverbanks in Hamburg. Next to the eternal fame, they earned a joyride in the new company car: a fully restored 1967 Ford Mustang that Marc & Roland bought for the occasion.
2016 |
ICH BIN EIN HAMBURGER
2015 |
THE END OF MYSCILS
2015 |
JDA PARTNER AWARD
2015 |
SPRECHEN SIE DEUTSCH?
2014 |
A FOOT IN THE DOOR
2013 |
RED PRAIRIE BECOMES JDA
2013 |
BALANCING IT OUT
2012 |
20 YEARS OF STARWARE
2012 |
we were on a break!
After this monster project, we all need a well-deserved break. Roland takes the opportunity to wander around New Zealand with his family for a couple of months, and other project members also take some extended holidays. When everyone returned, we realised that we had now all gained so much experience in configuring the red prairie stem and solving issues that we can easily run full implementations on our own from now on.
2011 |
OUR AHA-ERLEBNIS
2009 |
RED PRAIRIE
2008 |
BOOM
2007 |
15 YEARS
After 15 years of being in business, we totally transform our company, move to a new great office, and go to Iceland with the whole team to celebrate our anniversary on a long weekend packed with adventure, beautiful landscapes, and long nights in Reykjavik.
2006 |
GOING GLOBAL
2004 |
the grid
2003 |
Do they know it's Xmas time?
Our renewed focus makes work much more enjoyable and Starware profitable again. We celebrate the end of the year with a legendary party at the local tapas restaurant. Not every one of our young staff could handle all the sangria very well at this point, but we managed to get everyone home safe and sound again.
2003 |
the world of logistics
After that, we get into more and more projects to create full warehouse batch scanner applications for 3PLs customers like Nokia. These applications open up an array of possibilities for the operation that are unheard of till now. We spend a lot of days and nights in the warehouse in Roosendaal to get everything working in record time. Consequently, the customer was so happy with the solution that we flew all over the world to implement it at the other sites in Finland and Brazil.
2002 |
WAIT FOR THE BEEP
We have discovered that our combined knowledge of logistics and ICT is scarce. Moreover, we've always enjoyed tweaking the logistics and supply chain aspects of our own operation. The case is, we are lucky enough to know a guy that is working at one of the biggest 3PL's in the Netherlands at this time: Nedlloyd. He is aware of an issue they are having in the warehouse with a scanner that refuses to play a confirmation beep at the right time. We fixed the issue in minutes, where others were struggling for weeks. Soon after that first impression, we are invited to join a project to set up a Business Intelligence system 'Avant la Lettre', that enables standardisation and measurements of logistic processes across customers and warehouses.
2001 |
before the "clean your desk policy" 😉
Work is coming at us from all these angles, and we are having some serious growing pains. It is already getting clear that we will need to clean up our act (and our desks), regroup, and focus our efforts again to make the work a little less crazy again.
2001 |
the perfect storm
After years of growth, a number of things are happening at the same time, and it feels like the perfect storm: the first internet bubble just burst, computers have become a commodity, and the world economy is holding its breath after 9-11. Our plans to refocus go into the maelstrom. We are forced to re-invent ourselves quickly and let go of some great employees. This is probably the hardest period of our existence.
2000 |
last starware computers
1999 |
the Xmas par like it's 1999...
Oh wait, it's actually 1999... Till now, we have been so busy working that besides visiting the local bars or joining a house rave now and then, there has been no need to organise real parties. Well, a lot has changed ever since: after the first try with a great karting event and a very, very late dinner, we could not get enough, and we set a precedent for many parties to follow!
1998 |
GROWING again
We keep on growing: Marc's brother, Sander, is joining the company, and Roland's father Ab is always helping out where he can: getting the administration straight for us, painting the office, or getting a better deal on cars at any garage. Next to that, we hire a small army of part-timers from our old schools, provide work for interns, and employ other local talents from our extensive network.
1997 |
first company cars
Our hard work locally gets us in touch with bigger and bigger local companies, and one of our local role models (SPS) takes us under their wing. We are building specific monitoring PCs for them and helping them providing system support services at large corporations like the former dutch broadcasting company (NOB), the dutch waterworks, and potato giants like Aviko. But, of course, we need a more reliable mode of transport for all this, and it's the first time Starware's blue Citroën Saxo's are leased, completed with a Starware logo!
1997 |
GROWING PAINS
1996 |
The original Starware computers
As Starware's computers are becoming a household name in Reeuwijk and far beyond, we are coming up with a whole line of the latest hardware, making more and more professional brochures, and selling and building many computers. At the same time, we are developing SIS, Starware's information system in Visual Basic, and an access database. We now can do item and category management, stock management, automated ordering and invoicing, stock counts, creating delivery notes and packing lists. Before we knew it, we had built our own little WMS.
1996 |
OUR FIRST TRADE SHOW
Now that we have gathered some local fame as the kids that know everything about computers, we are getting invites for local business clubs and trade shows. As we have never done such a thing and are very intrigued by the concept of free drinks afterwards, we quickly decide to join. It turns out to be very successful and we are reaching new record levels of sales!
1995 |
the first Starware office
It's 1995, and Roland's parents are finally fed up with trucks blocking the street, unloading pallets of computers, and us hauling everything up and down the stairs. They can also do without the nightly faxes with new pricelists from Thailand and us finishing all the beer in the house for "creative inspiration." So, after spending a summer holiday partying on the Spanish Costas and giving our first large customers support via a payphone on the beach, we decide to quit our education and go all-in on Starware. We found a small office near our homes in Reeuwijk and worked our asses off to get an actual business going.
1992 |
THE original attic office
This is the place it all started for us: a couple of extended desks, some chairs, and a filing cabinet in Roland's childhood bedroom at his parent's house. Also, not the unmistakably 90's style fashion we are wearing. In this picture, we are probably having a thorough deliberation about using either sound blasters or adlib music cards in our next line of Starware computers. We offered them via a very well-designed printed price list on our school's bulletin board!