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3 Story Software is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company founded in the fall of 2007 and is located in a classic, small New England town 75 miles north of New York City.
Our CEO is one of the original pioneers in the VMS technology sector and the founding team has worked closely together for many years. We had a background at Ensemble Chimes and several of us had written commercial code (for Microsoft, among others). We started in this old "house" with a blank whiteboard, shiny new Macbook Pros, and a big vision for reinventing vendor and workforce management software that runs in the cloud.
Over the first three years we designed and built a heavy-duty platform that would scale up (and out) to support thousands of customers, a platform that runs across many databases and servers, and supports many different languages. We built atop that platform a powerfully simple Web product that solves a large spectrum of problems, from simple temporary workers to complex project services, for big and small enterprises throughout the world.
We also had a simple but elegant concept of everything in this sector starting with the basic idea of a project: a temporary worker showing up for a week at a bank; a security company providing security services at Yankee Stadium; a crew doing a massive turnaround at a power plant, with lots of tasks and milestones. So we built the product around this idea, threw the first version away, then built it again. Now we have a really cool platform and product that we're proud of, and we continue to evolve it every day, so it's simpler and better and more people can enjoy using it and get value from it.
In May of 2011 we were acquired by Hays plc, the UK's leading recruitment company, with a large footprint in 31 countries and over 7,000 employees. We've benefited hugely from the global reach of Hays, their financial strength, the incredible brand, the passion of its leaders, and the vast amount of workforce intelligence from years in the industry. We operate as a stand-alone company but work alongside Hays in markets where they are especially strong, including the UK, Australia, Germany, and many other places.
While the product does much more than the old-fashioned VMS products floating around in the cloud, we have a simple goal in mind over the long haul: VMS for the masses.
For more information about Hays see www.hays.com or www.hays.co.uk.
Our CEO is one of the original pioneers in the VMS technology sector and the founding team has worked closely together for many years. We had a background at Ensemble Chimes and several of us had written commercial code (for Microsoft, among others). We started in this old "house" with a blank whiteboard, shiny new Macbook Pros, and a big vision for reinventing vendor and workforce management software that runs in the cloud.
Over the first three years we designed and built a heavy-duty platform that would scale up (and out) to support thousands of customers, a platform that runs across many databases and servers, and supports many different languages. We built atop that platform a powerfully simple Web product that solves a large spectrum of problems, from simple temporary workers to complex project services, for big and small enterprises throughout the world.
We also had a simple but elegant concept of everything in this sector starting with the basic idea of a project: a temporary worker showing up for a week at a bank; a security company providing security services at Yankee Stadium; a crew doing a massive turnaround at a power plant, with lots of tasks and milestones. So we built the product around this idea, threw the first version away, then built it again. Now we have a really cool platform and product that we're proud of, and we continue to evolve it every day, so it's simpler and better and more people can enjoy using it and get value from it.
In May of 2011 we were acquired by Hays plc, the UK's leading recruitment company, with a large footprint in 31 countries and over 7,000 employees. We've benefited hugely from the global reach of Hays, their financial strength, the incredible brand, the passion of its leaders, and the vast amount of workforce intelligence from years in the industry. We operate as a stand-alone company but work alongside Hays in markets where they are especially strong, including the UK, Australia, Germany, and many other places.
While the product does much more than the old-fashioned VMS products floating around in the cloud, we have a simple goal in mind over the long haul: VMS for the masses.
For more information about Hays see www.hays.com or www.hays.co.uk.