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 (mainly with the Claris FileMaker platform), 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

Since 2003, we have been supplying Apple information technology to businesses and schools, providing consulting, training, and additional services. In 2010, we were authorized by Apple Distribution International to operate as an Apple Solution Expert Education, later rebranded as Apple Authorised Education Specialist. We work with hundreds of schools, enjoy helping them with Apple technologies, and as a result, we earned the Apple Authorised Education Specialist certification.

In 2011, we developed iKufr, our own product for the safe storage and transport of tablets and mobile classrooms. We continue to supply practical charging stations to schools and organize the annual Teacher Summit — a full-day educational conference focused on modern technologies in education. In the Czech Republic, we have already worked with more than 500 schools, produced over 200 iKufrs, and organized 14 summits with a total attendance of over 1,800 participants. We support the iSen community forum and run an online educational portal for schools: 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:

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

70 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
Rome FileMaker Week Rome, Italy 2024
FileMaker Konferenz Malbun, Liechtenstein 2024
Engage U Malmö, Sweden 2024

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
Reconnect 2024 (Brisbane) - online - September 2024
FMTraining TV - FileMaker 2024 Performance Update - September 2024
FMTraining TV - Build a Stand-Alone iOS App with Xgode - September 2024
FMTraining TV - Connect a Native iOS App to FileMaker Server - September 2024
FMTraining TV - Stress Testing FileMaker Server - October 2024
FMTraining TV - Different User Sessions with FileMaker - October 2024
FMTraining TV - Local File Editing Techniques - November 2024
FMTraining TV - Performance Testing in FileMaker with 1000s of Virtual Instances - December 2024
FMTraining TV - BenchTest 2.1 Update with HOnza Koudelka - March 2025

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.

Sváteční - spolehlivé recepty, rady a postupy

Grilování - tipy a postupy krok za krokem

Jednoduše a dokonale - Ryby, Drůbež, Zvěřina

Jednoduše a dokonale - Zelenina a luštěniny

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.

24U offers us a wide range of services that we need. I like the fact that we are partners in that cooperation. 24U can always meet our needs, which are sometimes very demanding. I had an idea and within 2 months we could start making business. They really listen and work with us to have and maintain a clever solution. Now we continue with new developments and I know, that it will work well.
Jiří Šimák, Synelogis s.r.o.

24U not only have a very good product but their technical team is very professional as well. Every time I asked 24U for technical help, they were very responsive.
Jacques Kirouac, Ewe Manage

24U has helped us to completely redefine some film production processes. During our long-term collaboration together, we introduced new, previously unconceivable, processes, such as an automated management of crew members' access rights on the basis of their contract status. Therefore, the production’s information security has dramatically increased, while saving human labour at the same time.
Justin Owen, Useful Companies

Thanks HOnza! Things are going well for us - we are very busy. The door badge integration with Gonector has worked very well. The iPads on our presses continue to perform well - I’ve added a pic showing our typical setup. A lot happens on each iPad with paper roll scans, labels, counts, speeds and time. Gonector helps keep it connected and works in single app mode.
Alan Meinhart, Three Z Printing

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

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.

We have always been satisfied with 24U's services. They are professionals with very good knowledge in their field. In addition, it was fun with their programmers and no problem was serious. 24U services brought us an increase in work productivity through the availability of information in a unified system, the elimination of duplicate administrative work, easier setup of work processes and procedures.
Vladislav Ptašnik, CompoTech Plus

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

24U built us a comprehensive system to monitor and develop the academic and financial relationships between the college and its students. This custom system has been integrated to our financial, invoicing and CRM systems in a way that is excellent. My only regret is that we did not start the process with 24U many years earlier!
Douglas Hajek, Prague College

If you are thinking about the development, if you are tweaking your FileMaker solution and trying to figure out with what's wrong with it and how you can make it better, these guys are a great resource.
Joe King, WorldCloud Inc.

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