About Us
24U s.r.o.
24U s.r.o. is a customer-oriented company, based in Prague, Czech Republic, active on Czech and global IT market since February 2000. In the software area we focus on development, modification, and maintenance of custom software solutions, mostly integrated information systems and database, web, and native business applications, professional software testing, and creation of electronic books. We supply and provide long-term care for information technologies in education and businesses with focus on Apple technologies. We also integrate hardware technologies with software.
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Customers in 79 countries
Thanks to the internet and ease of travelling, we can help help you with your systems, wherever you are. See where we have customers already:
Outsourcing services in the area of information technologies
We offer outsourcing of all kinds of services around information technologies to small, middle and big businesses. This included design and implementation of IT strategy, information security, custom software and hardware solutions, and also professional testing of software applications.
Our company excels not only by great knowledge and orientation in the IT industry, but also our ability to understand our customers. We combine proven methods into functional system, and thanks to that we are able to provide efficient solution tailored to the specific needs of each customer.
Expert in Apple technologies for Education and Business
We supply information technologies from Apple to businesses and schools, provide advisory, training and complementary services since 2003. Since 2010, we have been authorised by Apple Distribution International to act as an Apple Solution Expert Education. Currently in the Czech Republic this authorisation is not officially in place, but we are still an Apple Authorised Reseller and continue to work with schools and to help them with Apple technologies. Since 2011 our portfolio of solutions includes iKufr, our own product for secure storage and transportation of tablets and mobile classrooms. We regularly host Teachers Summit, a whole-day educational conference about using modern technologies in education. Within Czech Republic we cooperate with over 250 schools, we have made over 150 iKufr cases, and organized 13 summits, visited by over 1800 attendees. We also help to the community forum iSen and provide an online education portal for schools called ucime.digital.
Software testing
We have a greatly coordinated team of over 25 qualified regularly trained specialists, consisting of a test managers, test analysts, testers, programmers, analysts and developers. Our experts are specifically focused on a complex offer of services in the area of quality assurance (QA) and testing. They have more than 15 years of experience with managing large and small testing teams, coordination and management of team members during preparation and execution of tests. They are professionals in every way, they know and follow standards and can find a solution for any requirements you may have.
With our team we will design, offer and perform testing of your solution, including optimal testing strategy. This way we have already tested more than 100 projects and completed more than 500 releases for customers from over 10 countries. Learn more about our services in this area on our Quality Assurance page.
Here's a brief overview of technologies and tools we use every day:
Claris Platinum Partner
We provide consulting and resell the FileMaker platform licenses since founding the company. We joined the FileMaker Solutions Alliance in July 2002 and remained well known member when it was renamed to FileMaker Business Alliance. In October 2016 we became a platinum level partner. In 2019, when FileMaker Inc. got renamed to Claris International, we became Claris Platinum Partner.
30 years of experience with the Claris FileMaker®
HOnza Koudelka, co-founder of 24U and head of the 24U Software, developed his first Claris FileMaker solution back in 1991 (back then it was called FileMaker), nine years before founding 24U. He remains the consultant for our whole FileMaker development team, sharing all his knowledge, and even won the FileMaker Developer Cup at FileMaker DevCon 2015, so the expertise we are offering to every customer is a real non-cumulated experience that goes far beyond the existence of our company.
5 FileMaker Certified Developers
We let our developers learn fast and from the best experts. Thanks to our internal training strategy every member of our FileMaker team achieves the FileMaker’s certification and then keeps it current with future versions going forward.
Integrating variety of technologies
We constantly keep meeting new technologies in our practice and one of our biggest strengths is fast adaptation and new skills development. Even though there is a wide range of technologies we keep returning to, mostly because we found them highly reliable, convenient, cost effective, and sustainable.
We have worked with and integrated together:
- macOS and Apple Mac computers, Windows, Linux, Android
- iOS, iPad, iPhone, iPod touch
- XCode, ObjectiveC, Swift - development of native apps for macOS and iOS
- Claris FileMaker - database and innovation platform for macOS, Windows, iOS, iPadOS and web
- AppleScript - original scripting language of macOS
- Apache, MySQL, PHP, JavaScript - popular platform for building web applications
- HTML5, CSS3, AJAX - modern tools for building front-ends for web applications
- WordPress - popular CMS for administration of simple dynamic websites
- MailChimp - popular and easy-to-integration e-mail marketing system
- iKufr - our own product for secure storage and transportation of tablets and mobile classrooms
- FM Bench - our own product for optimization of database solutions and business processes
- Phidgets, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi - modular systems for custom hardware solutions
- RFID & NFC, Bluetooth, RS-232, weighing scales, refractometer, barcode scanners, label and receipt printers, POS payment terminals, motors, environmental sensors, encryption dongles, LCD displays and RGB LED Strips, telephone switches
- peristaltic pumps
- magnetic resonance, CT, ultrasound, DICOM - compliant medical devices, Terra Lab laboratory system
28 FileMaker plug-ins created since 2001
We begun developing FileMaker plug-ins immediately after FileMaker released the first plug-in SDK and released the first plug-in under the name of 24U in 2001. Additional plug-ins followed, some of them as custom project, some are still available as our products:
Current products:
- Bridge for Arduino
- Bridge for Phidgets
- Gonector
- Phone Companion
- SimpleDialog
- SimpleFile
- SimpleTalk
- SimpleHASP
- SimpleSound
- Toolbox
Developer Tools:
Discontinued products:
- SimpleChart
- SimpleHelp
- SimpleHighlight
- SimpleCode (originally released as Transcoding Plug-In)
- Preferences+Globals
- VirtualUser
- Plug-In Template
Custom-made plug-ins for:
- Scales
- Microsoft Lync integration
- Event tickets reservation capacity checking
- Airline ticket data processing
- Print quality barcodes generation
- Optometric refractometer communication
- XML data parsing
- DBF import pre-processing
- External 3rd-party dynamic library integration
- QuickTime movie precise playback
Plus several internal use plug-ins
58 international events presences
To let our customers from around the world meet is in person we regularly appear at the main developers conference, hosted in the United States, originally named FileMaker Developer Conference, renamed to Claris Engage in 2020. Since 2011 we participate in several local events as well.
European conferences
- Pause On Error - Pause[x]London 2011
- Tech Net - Genius Wanted London 2012
- Pause On Error - Pause[x]Berlin 2013
- FileMaker Konferenz Salzburg, Austria 2016
- FileMaker Konferenz Salzburg, Austria 2017
- FileMaker Konferenz Malbun, Liechtenstein 2018
- FileMaker Konferenz Hamburg, Germany 2019
- DevCon Scandinavia Helsingør, Denmark 2019
- Engage U Malmö, Sweden 2022
- Rome FileMaker Week Rome, Italy 2022
- FileMaker Konferenz Basel, Switzerland 2023
- Rome FileMaker Week, Italy 2023
- EngageU in Antwerp, Belgium 2023
- Eastern European RFID/RTLS Conference, Brno, Czech Republic 2023
American conferences
- FileMaker DevCon Palm Desert, California 2002
- FileMaker DevCon Phoenix, Arizona 2003
- FileMaker DevCon Phoenix, Arizona 2004
- FileMaker DevCon Phoenix, Arizona 2005
- FileMaker DevCon Orlando, Florida 2007
- FileMaker DevCon Phoenix, Arizona 2008
- FileMaker DevCon San Francisco, California 2009
- FileMaker DevCon San Diego, California 2010
- FileMaker DevCon San Diego, California 2011
- FileMaker DevCon Miami, Florida 2012
- FileMaker DevCon San Antonio, Texas 2014
- Pause On Error Portland 2014 (remotely over Skype)
- FileMaker DevCon Las Vegas, Nevada 2015
- FileMaker DevCon Las Vegas, Nevada 2016
- FileMaker DevCon Phoenix, Arizona 2017
- FileMaker DevCon Dallas, Texas 2018
- FileMaker DevCon Orlando, Florida 2019
- Claris Engage Virtual 2020
Meetings & Webinars:
- FileMaker Performance Lab Meeting - November 2020
- FileMaker Performance Lab Meeting - January 2021
- DIGFM: Generate Barcodes & Manipulate PDFs Natively with FileMaker Calculations (presentation at a remote meeting of the California FileMaker Developer Group on PDF Links, PDF Canvas and PDF Barcodes) - September 2021
- FMTraining TV - Performance Update on FileMaker Server 19.4 - February 2022
- FMTraining TV - fmRESTor and FileMaker and Bypass Russian Censorship with FileMaker with HOnza Koudelka - March 2022
- FMTraining TV - Turning FileMaker Databases into iOS Apps (Day 1) - March 2022
- FMTraining TV - Turning FileMaker Databases into iOS Apps (Day 2) - March 2022
- FMTraining TV - Turning FileMaker Databases into iOS Apps (Day 3) - March 2022
- FMTraining TV - Turning FileMaker Databases into iOS Apps (Day 4) - March 2022
- FMTraining TV - Turning FileMaker Databases into iOS Apps (Day 5) - April 2022
- 24U Claris Studio Partner Meeting - May 2022
- 24U Claris Studio Technical Lab Meeting - June 2022
- FMTraining TV - Performance Update on FileMaker Server 19.5 - June 2022
- AutoEnter Live (Claris Community virtual conference) - July 2022
- FMTraining TV - FileMaker Performance Tuning - script triggers, custom menus, and tool tips - August 2022
- FMTraining TV - FileMaker Performance Tuning - November 2022
- Claris Partners' Meeting - Winsoft region - May 2023
- FMTraining TV - Calculation Magic: Manipulating PDF documents in FileMaker - August 2023
- FMTraining TV - Calculation Magic: Creating PNG images and barcodes on-the-fly - August 2023
- FMTraining TV - Inventory Race: Barcodes vs RFID - September 2023
- FMTraining TV - FileMaker 20.3 Performance - November 2023
- FMTraining TV - FileMaker Server on Raspberry Pi - December 2023
- FMTraining TV - Optimization Case - January 2024
- FMTraining TV - FileMaker Calculation Performance: When a millisecond can matter - February 2024
- FMTraining TV - Party Time in FileMaker - March 2024
- FMTraining TV - How E-mail Works - April 2024
Electronic books
Since the release of iPad in 2010 we help experts in their industries to create great e-books, which are not only digitized versions of their paper originals, They bring full interactive experience and maximum utilization of the technology to their readers. The e-books we create contain videos, interactive hyperlink, and mini-applications, they can adapt to impaired user, as well as provide full visual experience to aesthetical epicures. Our team stands behind electronic version of the most successful cookbooks authored by Roman Vaněk and published by Prakul Production, and behind the website NejlepsiKucharky.cz.
ISO 9001 Certified
Since April 2004, 24U is ISO 9001 certified for design, development, customization and implementation of software. Updated to the ISO 9001:2015 standard since March 2018.
We were pleased with the inventivity of 24U developers in response to some of our very specific needs. Our complete all-in-one solution allows us to quickly manage and view our data in all of its relationships. With people at various locations, remote access is vital for us and has proven highly useful.
Ruud van Donselaar, Dartin spol. s.r.o.
24U provided us with innovative solutions to develop, maintain and deliver real time reports within our intricate database system. Their software expertise has been instrumental in order to build our custom software and hardware integration projects, retain our clients and deliver solutions.
Randy LeClaire, Airtek Environmental Solutions
In one of our solutions we had a very complex recursive calculation that took ages to complete with large amounts of data. We decided to ask 24U to develop a plugin to manage that calculation and we went from tens of minutes to fractions of a second in getting the result. Now our clients love us and we now love 24U. Thank you!
Pep Espunyes, Andròmina eBusiness, SL
The International School of Prague and 24U.cz have had an extremely positive collaboration in supplying IT and supporting our FileMaker Pro databases. We have used them to provide training, audits, troubleshooting, and consultancy for development of our databases. The professionalism, and outstanding customer service they provide is excellent. They provide creative solutions in a short timeline, and at the same time always very supportive both via phone and face to face.
John Mikton, International School of Prague
We were trying to connect some older equipment and get data from it to FileMaker and we had no idea how to do it. I would recommend 24U to anyone who have a tricky problem. because 24U really help me to figure it out and I was surprised they could do it!
Craig Cutler, OD
24U developed a super clear CRM for our company and we could have thrown away Excel. Everything was done relatively quickly. What I appreciate most is the ease of transition and tweaking of the system.
Michal Mag, MyTimi
I am excited to be playing with 24U FM Bench to really take the solution to the next level.
Donovan Chandler, Beezwax Datatools, Inc.
I would recommend 24U because I have not encountered any problems. Because there's always great communication and it just... works.
Jitka Rambousková, ZŠ Nýřany
We are very very very happy with 24U’s custom development… It allowed us to concentrate on our FileMaker development instead of worrying about development in another environment.
Jeff England, Neb’s Fun World
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