The origins of our products can be found back in 1993

While searching for a good quality and easily financed archiving solution, the future founder of the company realised in 1993 that the solutions on offer were either of inferior quality or were too expensive to allow a classic SME to finance the procurement.

It was first intended to be just a tool for adding key words to scanned documents, but it developed into an application that could already be seen to be related to today’s RichClient product. During this period a great deal of useful experience was also accumulated, which later characterised the company’s philosophy.

The company Archivista GmbH was founded in March 1998 in Zurich. A multitude of products and services have since then joined the real flagship product – the Archivista software. Already in 1999 an English language version of Archivista was released. In the year 2000 we were one of the first European companies to make a commitment to open source databases for our products.

In mid-2003 the development of a brand new product, the ArchivistaBox, was initiated.  At the 2005 Linux Day we presented the ArchivistaBox to the public for the first time, and since then the ArchivistaBox has continually undergone further development. The basis of the ArchivistaBox is formed by development with the GPL open source licence.

In 2008 an ERP module joined the archiving and DMS modules of the ArchivistaBox. Both areas, ArchivistaDMS and ArchivistaERP, will see significant joint further development as part of the ArchivistaBox solution.

60% of Archivista’s customers are based in Switzerland with a further 30% in the rest of the German speaking world. Approximately 10% of the customers are spread across the rest of the whole world. In 2008 a French version of the ArchivistaBox was launched. The over 50,000 downloads of the open source edition are not included in these figures, with these being globally distributed.