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About Icologiq — Quality & QHSE expertise since 1996
Quality, safety and compliance processes require clear responsibilities, reliable information and consistent follow-up. That becomes harder as organizations grow across departments, sites and countries.
Icologiq is a Netherlands-based software company that develops Icologiq Elements, a modular electronic Quality Management System (eQMS). Since 1996, we have combined software development with practical process expertise to help organizations manage critical Quality and QHSE processes.
Our history
Icologiq was founded in Enschede in 1996, by Peer Reinhard, initially under the name Quality Online. Back then, when the company was created, Quality departments were only starting to embrace new technologies to help improve controls with digital records of documents and process mapping.
Our business started when companies still used Lotus Notes as the backbone of Quality Management and needed expert support to get the most out of that technology. By understanding the needs of our customers and their internal processes, we started to develop successful QHSE client-server applications. Due to their rapid success, we shifted our focus to building software that could be immediately deployed at scale, bringing uniformity and consistency to Quality Management in organizations with global operations.
By 2003 we had our proprietary Java software platform as a replacement for Lotus Notes. As our services and technology kept evolving with our clients, the company's name changed to Icologiq in 2014 to represent the combination of an ecosystem for information management, the logic of processes, and the IQ of a smart organization.
Merging these three aspects, we have developed a comprehensive EQMS platform called Icologiq Elements that has a set of 9 integrated and flexible modules for QHSE that are easy to manage centrally and scalable to other locations or geographies.
"Our mission is to provide software solutions that enable organizations to improve their Quality culture with structured information, processes, and controls for QHSE to prevent flaws, mitigate risks and achieve operational excellence to keep products, collaborators, and customers safe."
Peer Reinhard – Founder & CEO
Our expertise
Over the years, we specialized in providing Quality Management Systems to businesses that demand strict controls and risk mitigation practices to meet high standards with regulatory compliance. Icologiq offers both the technology and process expertise with experienced consultants to help companies implement and maintain best-in-class Quality practices that are consistent and scalable to support growth ambitions.
Quality is a core pillar for several industries we serve, such as Seeds, Food, Animal Feed, Energy, and Medical Devices, working as a license to operate in most cases. The controls, processes, and workflows necessary to keep companies and their clients protected from failure and risk are numerous. They need a proper setting to manage many actions and departments working together with a high volume of sensitive information.
Our team works in a hybrid format, from home or at Icologiq's office in Enschede, a tech-driven city in the east of The Netherlands. Developers, product engineers, consultants, and customer service experts are some of the main roles in our organization, and as we grow with our clients, our team is also growing.
Working at Icologiq
We are proud of our enthusiastic, diverse, and talented team that creates solutions to support our clients with the implementation and maintenance of best-in-class EQMS that runs in multiple countries and languages.
At Icologiq, we don't just sell software. We are customer-driven and believe that understanding each business's specificities is the key to building long-lasting partnerships that will help our clients increase their Quality Management maturity level and reach their organizational goals.
