History
EASA originated as a project within AEA Technology, itself formerly part of the UK Atomic Energy Authority. EASA was tasked with creating a rapid custom application development solution. The driver behind this project was the frequency of requests from existing AEA Technology customers for custom applications to enhance and extend the AEA Technology software product portfolio. The project was successful and EASA 1.0 was released in early 2002.
Between 2002 and 2005 AEA Technology progressively divested its software businesses. In 2005 EASA was acquired by Coller Capital.
Below are some of key dates in the evolution of EASA:
March 2002
- Immediately after the release of EASA 1.0, EASA won its first client – Solutia. EASA was used to enhance and extend the capabilities of software products already in use.
April 2002
- Monsanto became EASA’s second client. Mission critical DOS based legacy codes were used by Monsanto’s employees around the world. These codes were text based, difficult to use, hard to deploy and susceptible to human error.
- Monsanto considered out-sourcing the coding of modern interfaces for the applications using Visual Basic; however this option was found to be too costly. Instead, Monsanto purchased EASA, and within weeks had created a suite of EASA applications driving the underlying legacy codes, which are still in use today.
August 2002
- A United States Patent was granted, and a UK patent followed in July 2003.
September 2004
- Procter and Gamble started using EASA within one department. Within 6 months, P&G’s corporate IT initiated a corporate roll-out of EASA with a view to deploying it across the entire enterprise globally. Today EASA is in use across the business units, in roles ranging from marketing to manufacturing.
April 2005
- As a result of specific development work performed for customers, EASA released an Excel interface which enables a direct link between an EASA application and one or more underlying spreadsheets. This capability has proved to be invaluable for companies of all types wishing to gain control over their critical spreadsheets.
During this time the EASA customer base has grown to include leading multinational corporations, such as: General Electric, Corning, Canon, ABB, DuPont, Xerox and Hewlett Packard.