Contact us
We are a privately owned German
software house run by its German owner and management
with God but without banks, venture capital or share holders.
We are specialised in:
- Product Content Management and Master Data Systems - Elestore
- Article Information System - EleAIS
- Database publishing software - Elepub
- Product catalog software - Elecat
- All related services and the operating of CATpool.
Our German sister company was founded in 1993 in Germany and
emigrated from Berlin to Slovakia in 1999, where we developed
in Bratislava the EleFamily software products in co-operation
with our main customers:
Messe Frankfurt
GmbH on the Automechanika-CATpool project, a predecessor of
our own CATpool, and the
Philips
group of companies in Eindhoven in Holland have been using Elestore,
Elepub and EleFamily since 2003.
In 2007 we have founded CATpool d.o.o. in Beograd to operate the YellowParts and CATpool portals while major parts of the software development remain in Bratislava and are done by our Slovak sister, which also takes cares of support for the German countries for CATpool and YellowParts.
Why Serbia?
There are many good reasons and the low cost of labour is only one of them enabling us to deliver services at very attractive costs. Another reason is in personal relations of our owner.
Serbia is the most underestimated country in Europe and the general public has a completely wrong perception of this very western country due to the manipulation by the media during the Balkan war. Let us make clear: we are on neither side regarding the Balkan conflicts, not only because foreigners can't understand them anyway but also because we don't condemn the people who had to suffer from a dictator like Slobodan Miloševic or otherwise one would have to condemn all USA citizens of today for that the Bush regime ("administration" in Orwell New Speech) has murdered multiple times more people in the Irak war alone than the former Serbian dictator.
Our recommendation: Before making a judgment, first go there, see, hear and only then make up your mind!
How to contact us
Via email: catpool at catpool.com
Please replace the "at" with "@". This makes
it a bit more difficult for the spammers
and we are getting more than 1.000 spams every day already!
Via telephone:
++44-20-8133 1953 (SkypeIn, therefore a UK number)
Via fax: ++49-30-202 38 29 89 (fax via email, therefore a German
number)
We have CET - Central European Time
You can phone us on Skype:
user name is: hgneumann
English is our second language
On parle Français, bien sur
Hablamos Español
Beszélünk Magyarul
Hovoríme po Slovensky
Rozumíme Cesk
About our software development in Bratislava
In Bratislava our Slovak sister company is developing software
and supporting users in German.
It has been in operation since 1999 and although it does not
operate CATpool and YellowParts it should still be mentioned
here, because it has been and still is working for well-known
large customers (while CATpool d.o.o. is a new sister).
Bratislava / Pressburg / Pozsony is located just 50 km each of Wien (Vienna) ashore the Danube at the border triangle of Austria, Slovakia and Hungary. Slovakia is one of the 10 new EU member states since 01.05.2004.
Here in Pressburg/Bratislava Volkswagen builds the Passat, the Tuareg SUV and the bodies for the Porsche Cayenne and we develop software for product content management, database publishing and CATpool.
We are on the eastern outskirts of Central-Europe and therefore in a highly civilised and culturally extremely rich part of the very "old world", just 50 km east of where Haydn, Mozart and many other famous composers and artists lived. For all who don't really know where Wien (Vienna) and Bratislava are located, here is some geographical help... (do use the zoom function!).
Why moving from Berlin to Slovakia?
We are a German company in Slovakia! We moved away from Berlin in 1999 because of the extremely and ever growing socialist, regulatory, restrictive and dictatorial business situation in Germany and because the owner's hometown Berlin is today again governed by red fascist (i.e. communists) who are basically the same people who build the Wall and divided Germany and Europe or supported this situation over decades.
Also, we were made to feel unwanted in Germany as an independent high-tech company and we were fed-up of being squeezed out by 50-60% taxation plus extremely high social costs plus the devouring German bureaucracy.
