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From 1996 to 2000 Brokat Technologies (formerly listed at the NASDAQ and the German Neuer Markt) was one of the German shooting stars of the New Economy age. In November 2001, it declared insolvency during the bust of dot-com bubble. Brokat was a global leader in software that enables user-centric business. Brokat's product families multi-channel infrastructure software, rules management and personalization technology, mobile payment software, and e-finance applications were used by over 3,500 enterprises worldwide including Deutsche Bank, ABN Amro, Allianz, Bank of America, Blue Martini Software, Charter One, DaimlerChrysler, DBS Bank, Fidelity Investments, IBM Corporation, LBBW, MasterCard International, SE-Banken, Sun Microsystems, Swiss Post, T-Motion (a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom), and Toyota. Strategic partners, among others, included Compaq, Intel, IBM, Siemens, and Sun Microsystems. With dual headquarters in San Jose, California and Stuttgart, Germany, Brokat employed over 1,400 people in 17 countries. Brokat Technologies (also Brokat AG; former names were BROKAT Informationssysteme GmbH and BROKAT Systems) was founded 1994 by Stefan Roever, Boris Anderer, Achim Schlumpberger, Michael Schumacher and Michael Janßen. When Brokat went public in 1998 Stefan Roever became CEO together with Boris Anderer as Co-CEO. Michael Janßen became CFO and Achim Schlumpberger became CTO. In 1999 Anderer and Schlumpberger quit their Executive positions; Anderer became Chairman of Brokat working on the US expansion and Schlumpberger became Chief Architect of Brokat core technology. Both left the company end of 2000. The company was first headquartered in Böblingen, Germany and it moved to nearby Stuttgart in December 1997. 1998 Brokat went public at the German "Neuer Markt". 1999 Brokat entered the U.S. market by acquiring the Atlanta-based Transaction Software Technologies, Inc. (TST).〔(Brokat acquires Transaction Software Technologies, Inc. (TST) )〕 Furthermore Intel invested 10M EUR in Brokat.〔(Brokat Announces Intel Investment (business wire) )〕 End of 1999 Brokat achieved a market capitalization of more than $5 Billion. In 2000 Brokat expanded in the U.S. market by acquiring Gemstone Systems, Inc.,〔(Brokat closes acquisition of Gemstone (The Free Library) )〕 Blaze Software, Inc.〔(Brokat completes acquisition of Blaze Software (the free library) )〕 and Automated Financial Systems.〔(Brokat acquires brokerage software company (eai journal) )〕 Furthermore Siemens invested 73M EUR in Brokat.〔(Siemens Announces Joint Venture with Brokat (the free library) )〕 In spring 2000, Brokat also issued a high-yield bond of €125 million led by the West LB bank. In November 2001 Brokat declared bankruptcy after it was unable to negotiate a restructuring agreement with the creditors of the high yield bond.〔(Brokat declares insolvency ) ITworld.com 11/26/01〕 During the liquidation, the e-payment engineering core was acquired by eOne Global (a First Data company) and maintained as a legal entity called Encorus Technology.〔(eONE Global Finalizes Acquisition Of The Mobile Business Unit Of Brokat Technologies(planet pda magazine) )〕 The name Encorus was developed by WildOutWest() and derives its meaning from Latin etymology "All together" with the goal to establish a standard for wireless/ mobile payments. Encorus focused on software and professional services for the "mobile payment" business (payment by the means of mobile phones). In 2005 the Encorus business was acquired by Qpass.〔(Qpass Continues European Expansion with Acquisition of Encorus Software Business (business library) )〕 The Professional Services department and the rest of Brokat was bought by Brokat's longtime opponent in the German market, Data Design AG in 2001. In 2003 Data Design was finally acquired by the Hungarian Interactive Net Design (IND).〔(Datadesign Stuttgart bought by Hungary's IND (telecom paper) )〕 ==Technology== Brokat developed mostly banking-related software and provided professional services mainly to financial institutions. Brokat was known for its encryption server and applet technology named XPresso, which made strong encryption (128bit symmetric) available without US (especially NSA) interference. Brokat sold its software to many large financial institutions mainly in Europe, especially Germany. In addition to providing systems to established institutions, Brokat also created solutions for startup companies. A prominent example for the latter is Cortal Consors. The company tried to get in the middleware software business by developing the application server Twister. Twister was the base technology for nearly all customized solutions implemented by Brokat. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Brokat」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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