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The Story of Cooperative Systems

Cooperative Systems started in 1993 when Bob DeLisa, a network engineer, followed his dream of running a business doing something he loved to do - working with computers and helping people. For eight years prior, he had worked in corporate environments in and around the Hartford area. During that time, Bob gained a great deal of experience in both early Windows operating systems and PC networking.

When Cooperative Systems opened it doors, the Pentium computer had recently been launched, Windows version 3.1 was a hot seller, e-mail was starting to become commonly used by larger organizations and the World Wide Web was in its infancy. Novell NetWare commanded about 80% of the NOS market, while organizations throughout the world started migrating their desktop PCs from DOS to the Microsoft Windows platform.

When the decision to launch the business was made, Bob new that coming up with a fitting name for the business was important. Bob was always looking for solutions to his customers information technology problems without causing finger pointing among different vendors and their common customers. Because systems integration was so difficult and competition was fierce, he knew he could differentiate himself by actively promoting the idea of cooperation through systems integration.

The name Cooperative Systems was born from this idea of ‘cooperative technology’ and the company has adopted this concept in our customer relationships and teaching it to our valued employees. The name underscores our belief that cooperation with our customers and partnership in their business success is the key to Cooperative Systems’ success.

For nearly a decade, Cooperative Systems focused its efforts on consulting and getting both public sector and private organizations into the Internet age. The company had 5 full time employees by 2001 and by then had developed IT competencies in education, public sector, real estate, law, banking, insurance, non-profits, and hospitals.

By late 2003, the company outgrew its office in West Hartford Center and moved to a 4500 square foot space in the South Meadows district located right off of I-91 in Hartford, CT. In 2006, a new management team was formed, office space was expanded, and lab and training rooms were established. A satellite office location was also opened up in Woburn, Massachusetts to support our clients in the Boston area.

As time goes on, technology evolves, and the needs of the customer change – we make the necessary adjustments. We’ve known since the beginning that we must constantly innovate to stay ahead of the technology curve, remain competitive and sometimes just survive. Bob once came up with the phrase “helping humanity deal with technology” to define what we're all about. We like to think that this core belief is what gives us the ability to roll with the changes and be a great company.