The story of Enea tracks back till October 1968. A year that has gone down in history as a year of revolutions, even if the “Get up and fight!” spirit did not change as much as many people hoped.
Since then, Enea has grown into a company that is now a world leader in the area of embedded systems and advanced technical system development.
Enea history by decade:
1960’s:
• Enea is founded. Four Swedish students are given the
assignment to solve how best to store data in air-traffic
control systems. By solving the task of how to store data in
air-traffic control systems Enea is already on track to
becoming a world leader in embedded solutions.
1970’s:
• Enea grows from 5 to 70 employees. Customers are
ASEA, LM Ericsson, Facit and the Swedish Military
Defense, among others. Enea consultants work across
industries doing real-time programming for automation,
robots, computers, medical equipments and air cargo.
1980’s:
• Enea grows from 70 to 153 employees and becomes a
publicly held company. Enea becomes the base node in
the Swedish part of Usenet, which is a precursor of
today’s Internet..
• In 1983 Enea receives the first Swedish e-mail. In 1989
Ericsson chooses Enea OSE as the operating system for
their GSM-project. Today, this particular RTOS handles
half of the world’s daily 10 billion telephone calls. It is
installed in half of all the world’s 3G telephones and base
stations.
1990’s:
• Enea continues to develop and grow. During five latter
years of the decade Enea is
the most successful share on the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Enea OSE is deployed
in various industries; telecom, automotive and automation.
2000-till present:
• Enea grows outside the Nordic region with offices in
Japan, China, France and Germany. With acquisitions
new Enea offices open in North America and Romania.
The strategy during 2000 has been to grow the software
offering by extending and developing the software
portfolio.
• Today, 2008, Enea is reknown as a world leader in
embedded systems and advanced technical systems
development.
