PROLIN AWARDED GOVERNMENT RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT GRANT
San Mateo, California – September 28, 2011 – PROLIN, an innovator in SaaS-based enterprise IT Service Management (ITSM) solutions, announced it has been awarded a €50,000 Research & Development grant from the government of the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation.
The grant was awarded for R&D activities targeting PROLIN’s innovative software engineering approach in developing ‘ITSM as a Service’
“Most competitive solutions are built on infrastructures that are antiquated and don’t serve the increasingly demanding needs of their customers,” said PROLIN CEO and founder Jerome H. Mol. “We are developing ITSM as a true service to companies – an easily scalable solution with predictable costs that will support the growth rate of any enterprise – on the ground or in the cloud.”
All entrepreneurs in the Netherlands who plan to conduct R&D work, regardless of their company size or business sector, are eligible to apply for the WBSO (Wet Bevordering Speur- en Ontwikkelingswerk). PROLIN was awarded the government grant from more than 13,000 application submissions. The grant is disbursed via tax credits the company earns through its R&D expenditures.
“The architectural foundation of delivering IT Service Management hasn’t fundamentally changed since we created the market well over a decade ago,” said Jan Maarten van Dongen, Chief Technology Officer of PROLIN. “This grant validates our vision of revolutionizing IT Service Management and providing our customers with a new competitive advantage”.
About PROLIN
PROLIN, the renowned pioneer in ITIL-based ITSM in the ‘80s and ‘90s has reunited to revitalize IT Service Management with ITSM as a Service. PROLIN’s team of experienced engineering and business professionals are focused on bringing leading-edge technology, and fun, back to IT service management. PROLIN is privately held and has headquarters in San Mateo, CA, USA; development teams in Roseville, CA, USA, and Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Sales & Support Centers in San Mateo, CA, USA; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Antwerp, Belgium; and Melbourne, Australia.
Please visit PROLIN at: www.prolin.com
Under the auspices of the Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation, WBSO provides a fiscal facility for companies, knowledge centres and self-employed persons who perform R&D work. In this context, R&D means technical scientific research, the development of technologically new physical products or physical production processes (or parts thereof) and the development of technologically new software (or parts thereof).
www.agentschapnl.nl/programmas-regelingen/wbso
