RamBase

continuing Hatteland’s long history of operating internationally.

“We see that RamBase clearly has international potential, and now we are distinctly focusing on Sweden, Poland and the UK as natural markets for us to enter,” says Karl Inge, explaining that the strategy is to build a partner channel that will both sell the system and help customers put it to good use. What started as a small group with a total of five people, who in the early 90s laid the foundation for what would become RamBase, today consists of 70 employees. As they now focus on building upon RamBase’s history of operating internationally, and once again taking the product out into the world, the need for new, ambitious employees arises.

“I think that employees at RamBase feel like their work contributes to a pretty unique story; we still have owners close to us who represent a journey and an entrepreneurial spirit,” says Karl Inge. Read Full Story: https://www.rambase.com/news/were-conquering-the-world/

Building on the mindset established in the 90s:

Hatteland sits on a story that dates back to the 70s when Jakob Hatteland, out of genuine interest, began selling electronic components to friends and acquaintances from his father’s grocery store in Nedre Vats. As he eventually became acquainted with Ingvar Hognaland, a like-minded electronics and computer enthusiast, they began to build and develop things together.
“This is the early seed that grew to become Hatteland – and by extension, RamBase as well,” emphasizes Karl Inge. When RamBase was started in the early 90s, it was a self-developed product; Hatteland as a business had grown so large that it needed a new computer system to cope with such rapid growth.

“When they saw that there were no solutions in the market that were good enough, they decided to build the system themselves,” says Karl Inge. With Hognaland in the lead, a small group of developers teamed up to develop what is today’s RamBase. Technological decisions led them down a new path, and among other things, the first version of RamBase was developed with a completely separate database platform based on hardware.

“This was a very unconventional choice at the time, but it provided great competitive advantages that led Hatteland as a group to grow rapidly in a demanding international market,” Karl Inge points out. He further explains that RamBase was developed as a system to keep track of Hatteland’s entire store, from sales and purchases to warehousing and finance: everything one needed for electronics sales. And although the thinking behind the original ERP solution is still at the heart of what is RamBase today, the system has undergone major developments since then; Today, it is a broad business system that contains both traditional ERP and manufacturing, and many other modules.