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While Adaytum was founded by Guy Haddleton in 1990, the product that became Adaytum Planning was initially developed by George Kunzle with the name Kunzle Planning Software (KPS). Kunzle collaborated with [[Morten Kromberg]] and Haddleton to make a [[Dyalog APL]] port of his FREGI software that ran on the [[IBM]] mainframe.<ref name="donnelly">[[Peter Donnelly]]. [https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/files/apl50/Dyalog%20APL%20A%20Personal%20History.pdf "Dyalog APL: A Personal History"].</ref> Haddleton's company continued to develop the product with significant success, while Kromberg joined former [[IPSA]] colleague [[Gitte Christensen]] in the small consulting company Insight Systems, later to merge again with Adaytum.<ref name="cast12">Conor Hoekstra and others. [https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode12-gitte-christensen Gitte Christensen of Dyalog Ltd.]. [[The Array Cast]] episode 12. 2021-10-16.</ref> | While Adaytum was founded by Guy Haddleton in 1990, the product that became Adaytum Planning was initially developed by George Kunzle with the name Kunzle Planning Software (KPS). Kunzle collaborated with [[Morten Kromberg]] and Haddleton to make a [[Dyalog APL]] port of his FREGI software that ran on the [[IBM]] mainframe.<ref name="donnelly">[[Peter Donnelly]]. [https://www.dyalog.com/uploads/files/apl50/Dyalog%20APL%20A%20Personal%20History.pdf "Dyalog APL: A Personal History"].</ref> Haddleton's company continued to develop the product with significant success, while Kromberg joined former [[IPSA]] colleague [[Gitte Christensen]] in the small consulting company Insight Systems, later to merge again with Adaytum.<ref name="cast12">Conor Hoekstra and others. [https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode12-gitte-christensen Gitte Christensen of Dyalog Ltd.]. [[The Array Cast]] episode 12. 2021-10-16.</ref> | ||
Kromberg was CTO of Adaytum for a time, and he and Christensen | Kromberg was CTO of Adaytum for a time, and he and Christensen assisted the company in porting Adaytum Planning from [[wikipedia:DOS|DOS]] to [[wikipedia:Microsoft Windows|Windows]]. They also incorporated [[J]] into the product: because of Dyalog's fixed workspace size Adaytum used [[wikipedia:C (programming language)|C]] to manage large arrays, but this code was replaced with J with the help of [[Eric Iverson]] and [[Roger Hui]] at [[Jsoftware]]. As part of the process Adaytum funded J's sparse array implementation.<ref name="cast13">Conor Hoekstra and others. [https://www.arraycast.com/episodes/episode13-roger-hui Roger Hui (1953-2021)]. [[The Array Cast]] episode 13. 2021-10-30.</ref> In 1999 Eric Iverson became CTO of Adaytum.<ref>Faust, Anne. [http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/general/1999-August/001921.html Press Release - Iverson Software Inc.] J forums. 1999-08-09.</ref> | ||
Following the burst of the 2000s [[wikipedia:dot-com bubble|dot-com bubble]], Adaytum was unable to move forward with plans to go public on the NASDAQ.<ref name="cast12"/> It was acquired by [[wikipedia:Cognos|Cognos]] in 2003 for $160 million.<ref>John Hagerty. [https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Cognos-acquires-Adaytum-and-bolsters-performance-management-agenda "Cognos acquires Adaytum and bolsters performance management agenda"]. Computer Weekly. 2003-01-15</ref> Christensen and Kromberg, who had left the company on acquisition to continue as consultants, accepted an offer made in 2004 by [[Pete Donnelly]] to take over management of [[Dyalog Ltd.]] | Following the burst of the 2000s [[wikipedia:dot-com bubble|dot-com bubble]], Adaytum was unable to move forward with plans to go public on the NASDAQ.<ref name="cast12"/> It was acquired by [[wikipedia:Cognos|Cognos]] in 2003 for $160 million.<ref>John Hagerty. [https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/Cognos-acquires-Adaytum-and-bolsters-performance-management-agenda "Cognos acquires Adaytum and bolsters performance management agenda"]. Computer Weekly. 2003-01-15</ref> Christensen and Kromberg, who had left the company on acquisition to continue as consultants, accepted an offer made in 2004 by [[Pete Donnelly]] to take over management of [[Dyalog Ltd.]] | ||
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