WebRatio: 25 Years of engineering and creativity for people who build software

On October 1, 2001, three students and two university professors founded our company, WebRatio, with a clear goal: to streamline the work of people like themselves—software engineers—with a tool designed to bring innovation to the market.

Today, 25 years later, our team has grown to 50 people, and we are part of RES Group, which has more than 250. This journey would not have been possible without the combination of three seemingly very different factors: a rigorous engineering methodology, pragmatic creativity, and a focus on the work of developers and all the stakeholders involved in the development lifecycle.

Looking back at the milestones in our history, closely tied to the evolution of our development platform, WebRatio Platform, we can see that it all began with web development, when we created the first modeling language to visually describe the flow of users and data online. 
In 2013, that visual language became IFML (Interaction Flow Modeling Language), the first OMG (Object Management Group) standard dedicated to modeling interactions between users and applications. 
It is the result of a pragmatic approach to creatively implementing the theoretical model, combined with a rigorous engineering methodology to deliver a reliable system that performs a complex task—automatically generating applications from visual models—while remaining easy to learn and use. 

Our focus on software engineers and their work has always played a central role, combining methodology and creativity to make development simpler, more collaborative, and more accessible. 

The evolution of our platform to include BPM, mobile apps, and microservices has consistently pursued these goals. WebRatio Platform and IFML make them possible by providing a common language for everyone on a team, including developers, business analysts, designers, and application managers. 

Today, Artificial Intelligence is helping people participate in digital projects. This is one of the goals of ALGO, our latest project, which aims to create a new approach to development through a conversational interface. It continues to draw on all the benefits of the Low-Code model to make the software lifecycle even more accessible to developers of all experience levels, as well as everyone else involved. 

The secret behind WebRatio’s evolution over the years is not methodology, creativity, or a focus on developers alone, but a combination of these three elements—a distinctly personal and unconventional mix—that has brought us to our 25th anniversary, marked by continuous innovation in software development. 

25 years of heritage, looking ahead.

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