History



	[December] Go Live of the first GTI solution based on Microsoft Dynamics AX at Jerini AG in Berlin. [June] The 3. Scarabaeus conference from 22. to 23.06.2006 was attended by 27 of our employees and 10 of our customers. On this successful event several new software features were demonstrated and the questions and problems of users were discussed. In addition, in the workshops on the second day our customers received much useful information to improve their daily work. [May] GTI presented their product range on the ACHEMA (15. – 19. May) in Frankfurt for the third time.

	[October] GTI proudly presents the full range of its Pharmaceutical Business Software at this year’s TechnoPharm in Nuremberg—making it the company’s fourth time around at this pharmaceutical industry trade fair. This year’s highlights include the realisation of the client capability of the pharmaceutical PPS / MES, Scarabaeus+, making it suitable for deployment by companies with dispersed locations. [March]: At the CeBIT fair, GTI presents its forthcoming Scarabaeus AX pharmaceutical ERP (on the basis of Microsoft Dynamics™ AX ) at the partner stand of Microsoft Business Solutions for the first time.

	[October]: GTI is becoming a Microsoft Solution Provider. The objective here is a technical relaunch of our time-proven Scarabaeus+ PPS / MES solution, thereby expanding our traditional target group to include other pharmaceutical industries, as well as medium-sized businesses. Our new technological basis will be Microsoft Dynamics™ AX . [September]: The 2nd Scarabaeus Conference between September 23 and 24, 2004, drew 30% more participants than last year’s event. While Day 1 was dedicated to the new release 05.00.0007 as well as to the extensions MIS, DMS and the integration of financial accounting, Day 2 was used for training sessions in the areas of “Reporting” and “Production Planning Using MS Project.” [July]: GTI becomes OEM (Original Equipment Manufacterer)-Partner of Saperion AG, a leading supplier of document- and knowledge-management-systems in Germany. Building on the established Saperion components, GTI wants to offer a DMS (PharAO®)for the regulated industry starting in late 2004. [June]: For the first time GTI is represented in France with an own commercial agent. [March]: In a difficult economic environment GTI presents its products for the third time in a row on the TechnoPharm in Nuremburg. The most important innovations are the integration of an MIS-function into Scarabaeus+ for business administration, quality and production related analysis and the Electronic Signature configurable for every module.

	Recent additions to the staff include another programmer and an assistant for the marketing sector. GTI presented itself for the for the second time at the ACHEMA (May 19 through 24) in Frankfurt/Germany. The internet pages are expanded to include English pages. The new GTI Forum gives customers and guests the opportunity to exchange their views on any question arising in the context of GTI products and -services. At the 1st Scarabaeus Conference in Kleinmachnow near Berlin on March 27 and 28, new software features and application issues were part of the agenda. The conference was very well received among the participating users, suggesting regular repeats of the conference in the future. GTI agrees on a cooperation with the Dutch distribution partner IAP

	The first six months stand wholly under the sign of qualifying Scarabaeus+. GTI installs its own GMP- and FDA conforming quality management system, and completes the development documentation on Scarabaeus+, taking into consideration the latest GAMP recommendations. Scarabaeus+ is expanded to include audit trail functionalities in compliance with FDA 21 CFR Part 11. The qualified version is given the version number 5 to distinguish it from the foregoing versions. In the context of a customer project for the US market that is to be FDA approved, GTI passes the preliminary customer audits and the Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) with Scarabaeus+ 5 without any problems. In the context of the export subsidies of the Federal Republic of Germany, marketing launches extensive efforts in order to acquire suitable cooperation- and distribution partners in neighbouring European countries such as Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxemburg and France. The design of GTI's internet presence is subjected to a complete overhaul. At the trade fair TechnoPharm 2002 in Nuremberg, GTI successfully presents-aside from the new Version 5 of Scarabaeus+ ("FDA 21 CFR Part 11 compliant")-the new validation service for computer-aided systems.

	At the trade fair TechnoPharm 2001 in Nuremberg, GTI is once again represented by a stand of its own. It is becoming more and more obvious that the issue of qualification and validation of computer systems is becoming the decisive criterion for system selection. On the basis of its own activities in various areas of quality assurance, GTI is well prepared to meet this challenge head-on. Office space in Stahnsdorf is enlarged to more than twice its former size in order to cope with the increasing demands in respect to human resources and technology.

	Scarabaeus+ is presented with its own trade fair stand at the Achema 2000 in Frankfurt/Main for the first time. The interest generated and the deals concluded reconfirm the new product strategy. Founding the Northern Branch Office in Hamburg, and celebrating the 15th anniversary of the company.

	There are strong indications that Scarabaeus+ is about to become the key product of GTI throughout the years to come. GTI decides in favour of a complete redesign of Version 4 of the software, and expands the performance spectrum significantly. The quality control, the resource planning, and the mapping of all manufacturing steps are integrated into the system. All of the existing modules are subjected to a complete overhaul. More and more customers use Scarabaeus+, generating ever more differentiated requirements. Implementing these requirements makes the product ever more versatile and efficient. By now, Scarabaeus+ 4 is as suitable for contract manufacturers as it is for manufacturers and distributors of pharmaceutical products. Scarabaeus+ is given a multilingual surface that downloads the screen masks labelling from the database. A version with a French operating surface is created and successfully installed for customers in Belgium and France.

	In answer to current customer demands, Scarabaeus+ CAW (Computer Aided Weighing) is created as autonomous weighing system with universal interface to external material management systems. Initially, Oracle 7.3 is used as database. The system is consequentially upgraded for implementation under MS SQL Server. In the following year, Scarabaeus+ CAW is linked to a customer's system using SAP R/3 and successfully validated as central weighing system. GTI becomes an Oracle Value Service Partner.

	Development of the database supported operating- and evaluating software TTS for tablet testing machines under MS Windows. Development of the laboratory information- and management system SLaM for a reference laboratory in the Ukraine. Release of Version 3 of Scarabaeus+ after shifting to the new 32-bit technology under MS Windows. GTI becomes authorized dealer of Microsoft Germany (Microsoft Deutschland GmbH).

	Continued expansion of the Scarabaeus+ system. Integration of new functionalities, e.g. data input from tablet testing machines, communication with external sites, rough capacity planning, etc. Relocation of the corporate headquarters to Stahnsdorf (state of Brandenburg), 3 km outside the southern city limits of Berlin, into new constructed prestigious office space at the end of 1996.

	Upgrade of Scarabaeus+ to use Microsoft SQL Server as data base system, and release of Version 2.0. Meanwhile, Scarabaeus+ has become a full-grown pharmaceutical material management system. In December of 1995, GTI is able to look back on 10 successful years in business.

	Development of the first version of the pharmaceutical PPS / MES Scarabaeus+, originating in a customer's order for a replacement of the dated Toledo weighing system that is used by a pharmaceutical contract manufacturer. In close cooperation with Stephan Walz, a trained pharmacist and the production manager at the time, GTI begins to specialize in software solutions in the GMP-regulated sector.

	With the appearance and the overwhelming success of Microsoft Windows 3.1, and the drastically increased performance envelope of PCs using Intel processors, the technical advantages of ATARI ST computers evaporate. GTI withdraws in time from the collapsing ATARI ST market, and regroups for software developments under MS Windows from then on. Contract development of a field bus system in close adaptation of the standard professional bus for multi-circuit loop control systems and control rooms in building services technology. ToWin is created, once more in cooperation with the DIGALOG Industrie Mikroelektronik GmbH in Berlin, as a very cost-efficient, component-based visualising solution under MS Windows. ToWin is mainly used for visualization purposes in control rooms for building services- and supply technology.

	In close cooperation with the company DIGALOG Industrie Mikroelektronik GmbH in Berlin, responsible for developing the hardware, the real-time enabled, interference-proof network system eLAN is created. This network concept conforming with the Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP) is available for diverse computer systems (PC, ATARI-ST, VMEbus), and is capable of linking diverse types of computers with each other in a joint network. In the ATARI ST sector, eLAN shares the network market merely with two noteworthy competitors. ATARI USA is considering to include the product eLAN in its own product program. Negotiations fail, however, on account of the non-realizable low price requirements defined by the Americans. In December of 1990, GTI celebrates its fifth business anniversary at the Grand Hotel on the boulevard Unter den Linden in Berlin, finally open to the public now, i.e. after the reunification.

	The Berlin Wall comes down, und Germany is unexpectedly reunified. GTI commits itself in the new East-German states and takes over a 50% share of the company PASStec Industrie-Elektronik GmbH, founded together with an East-German partner in Saxony. Today, PASStec is completely independent, manufacturing high-quality electronic modules and products of their own on the basis of LON technology.

	Specialization on computer systems using Motorola processors of the 68000/68020 family. GTI makes a name of itself as one of the leading software houses on the professional ATARI ST market. Much to the amazement of the American manufacturer ATARI who sees its computer as mostly a game console, ATARI ST conquers a respectable market share among campuses, businesses and professional users, compared to DOS PCs on account of its GEM graphic surface and a random access memory of several megabytes. Diverse products for deployment in the computer-aided measuring technology and quality assurance (IEEE488 measuring instrument control) come into being. GTI develops, and very successfully markets, one of the first database programs having a graphic user surface open to free arrangement. The product IsGemDa (ISAM-GEM database) is sold more than 2,000 times for use with ATARI ST.

	Relocation to larger offices in Berlin-Lichterfelde. GTI implements, as a subcontractor, the complete software for controlling an incremental manufacturing- and testing line for the bases of electrical irons on SIMATIC S5 systems of the Siemens Corporation, to be taken into operation at a new plant of the Bosch Corporation in Barcelona (Spain).

	Diverse custom software developments, primarily in the area of quality assurance in the manufacture of electronic modules, using automated test systems.

	GTI, Corporation for Technical Information Science, Ltd., is founded by information scientist Manuel Droesler and whole-sale merchant Dieter Droesler of the "Engineering Office for Technical Information Science" that Manuel Droesler has been successfully operating together with a former fellow student ever since he finished his studies of information science at the University of Applied Sciences Berlin (TU) in the year of 1984. Commencement of business activities at a location in Berlin-Spandau.