About ICS
Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS) of Bedford, MA, is the world's leading provider of advanced visual development tools and services for UNIX and Linux professionals. ICS's BX PRO series of GUI builders has been long recognized as the software of choice for visually creating mission-critical, high-performance Motif applications. Additionally, ICS is the largest independent supplier of add-on products, training, and professional services for the Qt® multi-platform framework developed by Trolltech®.
In 2004, ICS acquired CenterLine Systems, the technology leader in C/C++ testing solutions, combing two powerful product lines to greatly enhance and simplify the entire software development process.
In 2005, ICS also acquired the UIM/X product line from Bluestone Consulting. UIM/X is an award-winning GUI Builder for CDE/Motif application developers. This acquisition solidifies ICS's position as the leader in Motif tools and services. ICS continues to expand its resources to assure ongoing support and development of exciting new tools and services for the Motif, C/C++, and Qt communities.
Recently ICS acquired Project.net, an open source, enterprise scale, project and portfolio management suite.
A Briefing:
- ICS is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.
- ICS products are distributed worldwide throughout the US, Europe, and Asia.
- ICS's client list is primarily made up of Fortune 500 companies.
- ICS's current product offerings include development tools, training courses, and consulting services.
- ICS has a customer base of more than 10,000.
ICS Management
Peter Winston, President and Chief Executive Officer
Peter Winston graduated from Vassar and began working at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
where he was involved in software development for PCs and workstations. After attending the MIT X User
conference in 1987, Peter founded Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS), creating the first company
focused on the burgeoning X community. He has been ICS' President and Chief Executive Officer since its
inception in December of that year.
Peter added training courses to the ICS consulting business after identifying the X community's demand
for these resources at the 1988 X User Conference. Bolstered by the success of ICS training, he started
the X User Group to provide needed information and collaboration to the X community, and initiated the
Xhibition Tradeshow, a technical tradeshow and conference that ran from 1988-1994 and grew to an
audience of 10,000 people. Builder Xcessory, the flagship product for ICS, debuted in 1989. In 1992,
Peter received the Inc. Magazine New England Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
The second half of the nineties saw ICS add the Motif application to its product offerings and expand
into the user interface development business, becoming the largest independent supplier of Motif and
leading the Open Motif project team. The acquisition of Centerline in 2004 and UIMX in 2005
reinforced ICS' commitment to support Motif developers who are maintaining large projects by
combining two powerful product lines and significantly enhancing and simplifying the entire
software development process.
As customers began talking about the benefits of Qt, Peter followed them into the market in 2002,
as ICS became the premier Qt service and training provider by acquiring exclusive rights to resell
Qt extensions and testing tools. The ICS consulting team is the largest independent source of Qt
experts in North America. ICS' focus is on helping people design and deliver world-class user
interfaces on any platform with any toolkit.
In 2006, Peter, again recognizing an emerging market important to ICS' Global 2000 customers,
purchased Project.net. Project.net is a project portfolio management application that addresses the
needs of all corporate and project stakeholders – executives, portfolio managers, project managers,
and team members – for current and accurate information on the status of important projects and the
performance of distributed project teams.
Mark Hatch, Chief Operating Officer
Mark Hatch joined ICS in 1995 as VP of Marketing. Prior to ICS, Mr. Hatch established a successful
consulting practice specializing in the unique marketing issues of early stage software companies.
Previously, Mark Hatch was VP of Marketing for a networking middleware company as well as Manager of
Software Marketing for Apollo Computers. In this latter position, he played a key role in the formation
of a number of industry groups including the Open Software Foundation and the X Consortium.
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