BASIS – The Big Little Software Company

BASIS software and software tools have been used to develop business solutions for both international corporations and SMEs for over 30 years. More than 1.7 million users across the globe work with the IT solutions tailored to specific customer requirements by BASIS, or its clients and partners.

Operating its own sites in North America and Europe and working with partners in more than 30 countries, BASIS is well positioned on the international stage. The “big little software company” is privately owned and operated.

BASIS Europe is based in Saarbrücken, Germany. From the European Development Center, BASIS creates modules and customer-specific solution components based on BBj, Java and other technologies, for easy integration with the heterogeneous software environments found in most companies today.

Users of BASIS solutions include Bridgestone, Euromaster, Kleiberit Klebstoffe, Lankwitzer Lackfabrik, Lohn24.de, Mitsubishi, Popp Fahrzeugbau, Sheraton, Stollwerck, Tönnies and Tropack.

BASIS, the international SME, offers Java-based software and development tools for business solutions.

The history of the BASIS family of products

Introduced in the 1980s, the company’s first product was a development environment for Business BASIC. Together with COBOL, it was the most widely used programming language for business applications at the time.

The product generations “PRO/5” and “Visual PRO/5” dominated in the 1990s.

The year 2000 saw the birth of the object-oriented BBj development environment for the Java Virtual Machine. It still is the core of our constantly growing BBx family of products.

BBj is backward compatible with earlier BASIS technology generations, going back to the nineteen-eighties. We always keep upgrade paths into the 21st century open for our customers.

The BASIS modules BBx Portal, BBx Scanner, BBx Welcome, and BBx Voice complete the BASIS product family. They can be used with any business solution that is capable of communicating with Java, regardless of whether they were created with BBj or other tools.