It seems like all great IT projects start in a garage...
...in Norway they start in a barn!
Our industry roots:
ERP built by Electronics Experts
It all started in a barn in a small village called Åmsosen, deep in the fjords of Norway.
There, the son of a merchant Jakob Hatteland loved experimenting with technical gadgets and electronics. He soon realized his hobby could also be his livelihood.
Walking in his father's footsteps, Jakob Hatteland built a business of buying and selling electronics and soon became a major Norwegian distributor of computer components.
Growing up, Jakob learnt at an early age one important business value: Always satisfy your customer.
And what the customer wanted was: the right product - at the right time.
The key to success was control of information. One of Jakob's first employees and fellow electronics nerd, Ingvar Hognaland, started to build a business system.
- Representatives from Philips Electronics visiting Åmsosen, amazed by the self-constructed computers that were in use at the time.
The system not only helped with the right product at the right time but also with the right price. A significant competitive advantage at that time
"There were several smart features in the system. With the real price of components, we also had control of the margins, something that our competitors at the time did not."
- excerpt from the book "Hatteland 150 years of trade and electronics"
In the 1990s, Ingvar Hognaland developed the business system to become a separate product compatible with any similar ERP system worldwide.
...they named it RamBase.
It all started in a barn in a small village called Åmsosen, deep in the fjords of Norway.
There, the son of a merchant Jakob Hatteland loved experimenting with technical gadgets and electronics. He soon realized his hobby could also be his livelihood.
Walking in his father's footsteps, Jakob Hatteland built a business of buying and selling electronics and soon became a major Norwegian distributor of computer components.
Growing up, Jakob learnt at an early age one important business value: Always satisfy your customer.
And what the customer wanted was: the right product - at the right time.
The key to success was control of information. One of Jakob's first employees and fellow electronics nerd, Ingvar Hognaland, started to build a business system.
- Representatives from Philips Electronics visiting Åmsosen, amazed by the self-constructed computers that were in use at the time.
The system not only helped with the right product at the right time but also with the right price. A significant competitive advantage at that time.
"There were several smart features in the system. With the real price of components, we also had control of the margins, something that our competitors at the time did not."
- excerpt from the book "Hatteland 150 years of trade and electronics"
In the 1990s, Ingvar Hognaland developed the business system to become a separate product compatible with any similar ERP system worldwide.
...they named it RamBase
Our system is not for everybody
- Karl Johan Lier, CEO of AutoStore, Norway's first unicorn.
RamBase conquering the world
100+ Employees
20+ Partners in 5 countries
- Stig Hatteland, CEO of RamBase
