Company history
Concrete was founded in 2003 by Tristan Rogers and Andrzej Michalski. The company set out to design and build web based tools for commercial picture libraries, to help them better promote and sell their images through the internet. From the beginning, all applications produced at Concrete were made available as Software as a Service to their customers.
The early products were based on digital asset management services, built for the web. Experience from the picture library and photographic sector gave Concrete a thorough knowledge of handling high resolution and high quality image files, that also needed to be compact and portable in size for download over the internet.
In 2004 Concrete's services were introduced to Marks and Spencer, as a possible solution for their international marketing distribution challenges. This lead to a pilot project being run to see if Concrete's DAM platform could reduce the time to market of this marketing collateral.
Four years on, Marks an Spencer is still a client, along with an increasing number of major high street names, but also other brands of prominance in the Consumer Packaged Goods arena and the Travel and Leisure industry.
Concrete's DAM solution, Vault, is now part of a much larger suite of applications called Connect. Connect has come about through Concrete's continued investment in its client's needs. At the heart of these needs, is the desire to communicate and collaborate better across the workforce, wherever that workforce is, and whatever time is convenient. To connect with the extended workforce, whether internal staff, suppliers, agencies or customers, the connection must be easy to make, with simple tools that require little or no training or specialist equipment. These attributes remain core to all developments created and supplied at Concrete.
Concrete
32 Great Sutton Street
Clerkenwell
London
EC1V 0NB
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)20 7251 8090
Fax: +44(0)20 7251 8780
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