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Cleverlance
Cleverlance Enterprise Solutions a.s. is a company dealing in information technologies with HQ in The Czech Republic and branch offices in Prague, Brno, Bratislava and Bremen. Cleverlance develops its own products, integrates IT platforms and provides analytical services as well as testing of software. These services are offered by Cleverlance to a large spectrum of clients, ranging rom financial institutions, through telecommunications to the power or automotive industries. Cleverlance places strong emphasis on innovative approaches to problém solving and utilizing the most up to date technology to do so. This can be seen in their active engagement with virtuál and augmented reality technology – since the 30th of October 2017, Cleverlance became a member of Association of virtual and augmented reality and is currently working on several applications of VR and AR. Another aim of Cleverlance is to help and promote IT start-ups, which sometimes spring up within the company itself, from projects of Cleverlance employees.

History

Cleveralnce was founded in 1999 in Czechia, as a company which specialized in developing in the Java EE platform. The founding members were Jakub Dosoudil, Jan Šeda a Dobromil Podpěra. Jan Šeda later sold his share in the company to the other founders. At the start, the company mainly dealth with clients outside of Czechia, but not too long after the founding, first large-scale Czech clients approached Cleverlance with IT projects. The first one of these was Komerční Banka, for whom Cleverlance created the systém of internet banking. Around the year 2003, Cleverlance became the largest local developer for the J2EE in Czechia, as well as Slovakia. The proces of professionalization and the growth of the company continued at a higher rate after Jiří Bíba became the main sales manager of Cleverlance, developing longterm plans. In 2004, Cleverlance Group was founded. It’s a group of IT companies connected to Cleverlance, either through acquisition or by becoming independent as a start-up. Magazine Inside named Cleverlance the quickest growing IT company in Czechia. Cleverlance has also placed the highest of all Czech companies on the „Technology Fast 50“ list for Central Europe. In 2017, the annual revenue of the company crossed 1 billion Czech crowns.