15 Years in Custom Software Development
Today, we celebrate 15 years since our company first started to deliver custom software development services for the commercial IT market.
Founded by three developers in 2004, we shared the experience of many of today’s leading IT companies by starting out in a rented apartment. Our first project was with a growing company, RealtyTrac. We moved existing infrastructure from ASP to ASP.NET and set up a platform for all new development. Since then they have become the third largest mobile and online real estate resource in the United States.
Simultaneously, we developed a project for a New York company connected with Princeton University in the United States.
Where did all this come from? All the stakeholders of Diatom Enterprises are steeped in software development and therefore provide cutting-edge delivery with consistent quality from the start. Our focus on quality from day one meant that we received not only repeat orders but also new orders as word of mouth spread our name, and we began to grow.
This reflected our dedication to efficient process, quality and communication. Thanks to their successful experience with us, many of our clients returned with new ideas to implement or referred us to new clients. These referrals brought not only new but also challenging projects, many of them from Silicon Valley. In 2010, our office was 200 feet from Facebook in Palo Alto, California.
From the very beginning, our company emulated the most advanced and efficient North American communication, development and project management techniques and style. At the same time, we stand out in this world of unicorns as a Latvian, European company that delivers every solution with optimal value. In line with the American style of business, Diatom usually takes care of all communication, evaluation and project launch from the very beginning, which makes working with us easy for customers.
That is why we often work as subcontractors and software development vendors for startups in North America, the Nordics and Western Europe.
From a tech point of view, our services and expertise have been wide-ranging over the years. We’ve worked with ASP.NET in 2004, MVC 2006-2008, SaaS, Amazon Web Services 2008-2010, Google Cloud solutions, MS Azure 2012-2016, microservices 2016-2019, native mobile and tablet app development and cross-platform development with Xamarin, Apache Cordova and React Native. For front-end development, we use TypeScript, Angular, React and Vue.js.
In addition, even though we started as a Microsoft .NET software firm, over time we have founded and organized strong departments in Ruby on Rails and Node.js.
In 2016, we began actively experimenting with robotics software development, partnered with SoftBank Robotics and acquired our robot Pepper, with which we have been able to carry out several commercial projects.
Currently, our clients include SMEs as well as business-sector leaders from the United States, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Among these is the largest private resort club in the United States, one of the top 3 American companies in the real estate software business with over 95% of American properties, and Eurostar, the pre-eminent rail link between the United Kingdom and Europe.
We work seamlessly together with our customers’ existing IT departments, effectively increasing their production capacity. We also successfully help organizations whose software development processes do not yet exist, organizing all processes from scratch using our rich experience. How? We invest in our people: you’ll find them living in the partner country for 6 months, gaining an appreciation of cultural norms.
Diatom Enterprises is extremely grateful to all our clients. Thanks to you, together we are making our world a better place through technology and efficiency.
Once again, thank you all for your collaborative efforts. We are sure that the future years will be full of interesting developments as we turn the pages of time.