Gravic’s 30th Anniversary

Bruce Holenstein
President and CEO

Hello Everyone,

Thirty years of innovation and counting! We have seen our share of business cycles over the past three decades. Swings in the economy, stock market, inflation, regulation changes, customer fads, and even the price of oil were met as opportunities and not problems. We are proud to have met these challenges, and prospered (eventually!) through them all, growing on average 20% per year over the last decade. We are a modest sized business, with very big goals and ideas.

How do we measure this success? It is in making progress toward our core purpose of Improving Society Through Innovation. We have devised metrics for measuring our progress on many fronts. With respect to innovation, we can point to our two product lines, Remark and Shadowbase, and the multiple products in each. We can point to our respected Gravic Labs center and our dozens of patents granted and pending. More exciting are the plans in the works, so please stay tuned as we roll out our newest ideas in the coming year. For a company our size, we are inventive! It is all with a point, though, to improve society. Our ability to improve the human condition is manifest in the tens of thousands of teachers, researchers, and other Remark users who no longer have to process surveys, tests, and forms by hand. It is manifest in the numerous industry-leading and household-name companies that rely on Shadowbase to keep their data centers operational in the event of disasters that routinely put unprotected businesses into bankruptcy.

For me, how do I personally measure our success? It is in the satisfaction that our employees express in working for a company that they feel is doing right by the world. Our core values, including honesty, integrity, and commitment, permeate all of our actions, both internally among employees, and externally with our customers. We are a humble group and temper our successes with the belief that we can do even better.

Thank you for using our products and services. We hope to serve you for another thirty years and beyond. And for those of you that cannot yet call Gravic a supplier, we look forward to earning your trust and business.

Sincerely,

Dr. Bruce Holenstein
President and CEO

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