Marcos Taccolini
It was 1986 when Marcos Taccolini started a job position at ESCA in industrial software in 1986. This company was in Brazil. He first began working on the manufacturing line for GM, and utilized automation through PCs and Allen-Bradley PLCs. PC computers had become increasingly prevalent for use in factories.
Marcos Taccolini started UNITEC in 1988. UNITEC was a company that created DOS Human Machine Interface- an important software.
UNITEC signed its first substantial OEM with BOSCH in 1994. BOSCH is a company in Germany.
In the mid- 1990s, 1995 to be exact, the UNISOFT LTDA company was initiated to develop a new program for Windows, in partnership with LA LTDA, another Brazilian company.
UNISOFT and CEVIEW (for CE) became available to the market in 1997. Unisoft Sistemas Ltda was launched to resell and provide engineering services for these products.
With a team headed by Marcos Taccolini, the world’s first Human Machine Interface was established. This Human Machine Interface was based on Windows CE operating system.
Many press documents released in 1997 confirm that UNISOFT created the Windows CE product and that the INDUSOFT product is a spin-off of both the UNISOFT product and company. It’s imperative to make this distinguishment as individuals have went off base with regard to marketing strategies and fact-twisting to present themselves as the initial creators, as opposed to appropriately giving credit to the original creators.
Unisoft Sistemas Ltda brought on Ernest Roland to act as a sales representative and for business development in the United States in 1996. In 1997, Taccolini and Roland made the decision to chang the agreement to form a company name INDUSOFT in equal partnership to develop the US market for UNISOFT products. (The name UNISOFT was registered in the United States, which explains why Indusoft was selected).
Between 1997 to 1999, Taccolini and Roland were INDUSOFT’s only two employees. Business costs were aided by Taccolini’s successful UNISOFT company in Europe and South America. The initial ventures of INDUSOFT were the replacements of PDP VMS graphics, a solution cased CRISP-View. After this, Jim Wicker gave Taccolini and Roland consulting to get them back on the right path. INDUSOFT then put more focus on Windows CE HMI and began to promote products created by UNISOFT and LA LTDA, but rebranded as INDUSOFT.
Between the years 2001 to 2007, INDUSOFT did well in the USA and in international markets. This is largely attributed to this success of the Windows CE product, which was created in 1996.
In 2008, the Indusoft partners initiated many legal disputes between themselves. The disputes temporarily slowed down in 2009, when Taccolini decided to leave the company and begin a new company the next year with claims on both sides. The legal dispute over Indusoft assets is an open issue likely to go on for many years, but it is related with ex-partners agreements on that company and has no connection with Taccolini’s current companies, which is not even part of that dispute. It is very important to make this note.
When software platforms had to transition from PDP/VMS to PC/DOS, or from DOS to WINDOWS, it wasn’t enough to work around legacy products or codes- a new design and fresh start were vital. With Marcos Taccolini’s experience, Taccolini realized that is was an appropriate time to begin working on the next generation.
The rise of Cloud technologies, .NET Framework and web tools, advanced graphics, multiple mobile devices, new multi-core CPUs, ios/android, faster wireless, enhanced security requirements and many other IT changes, it was apparent that the products created in the 90’s would be a platform great enough to completely leverage these technologies and provide the foundation for the next two decades.
With this in mind, Taccolini launched TATSOFT LLC in 2009. The company’s goal was to establish a brand new system, based completely on the Microsoft .NET Framework, free from the legacy code and technologies that were being carried from the 90’s, which would allow the creation of real-time data application in the cloud or in premises. It would also support a seamless integration with new technologies such as tablets, operating platforms, and so forth.
Research and Development for Marcos Taccolini’s Tatsoft continued in 2009 and 2010. In 2011, Tatsoft LLC brought operations to Houston, Texas. . In Houson, Tatsoft LLC launched the market introduction for the FactoryStudio product line.
This new product line had increased technologically and had became more powerful than the one he had created prior.
Between 2011-2012, Tatsoft LLC worked with some long-term partners and end-users. With them, Tatsoft LLC worked on certification processes and certain field installations to continue developing the new technologies and product line.
The company began establishing distributions channels in 2013, and brought FactoryStudio 2014 to the market, which is considered the most advanced and real-time framework for the market.
