www.ysoft.com

Y Soft is a Czech company that operates on a global scale to offer a unique print management solution

(software & hardware). Our product enables businesses and other organizations to effectively control

printing costs, reduce waste, increase user convenience, and have a positive impact on the environment.

Y Soft Corporation

Headquarters Brno, Technology Park

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Y Soft was founded in the city of Brno in 2000. At a time when no entrepreneurial incubators existed

in the Czech Republic, a student company – today we would call it a “startup” – was created

with the vision of developing into a truly global Czech company.

To successfully compete in today‘s global environment takes not only innovative thinking, great ideas

and resources, but also a sense of fairness. Y Soft wants to go even farther, making ethical business

one of our key values.

Y Soft first emerged as a tiny sprout from a few grains of sand. In the beginning everyone said we were

crazy – and they were right. The first five projects we participated in failed. But our founders persisted,

saying, “We look for ways to succeed, not excuses for failure.” In 2003 our sixth project, YSoft SafeQ,

succeeded – and the success of this product enabled Y Soft to grow into the global company it has since

become. Today Y Soft employs more than 180 people, 135 of whom are based in the Czech Republic.

So who are we?

8000Customers

90726

20,5Export (%)

Export countries

Continents

Turnover (FY2012/13, mill. USD)

what do we do?

Headquarters Full-service office

Regional headquarters Local representation

Y Soft is a product-oriented company. The core of our business

is the YSoft SafeQ family of products for medium-sized and large

businesses. Our portfolio continues to grow into the future,

with new solutions such as the Public Cloud.

Y Soft creates products that answer our clients’ immediate needs

– products they can use now, in a year or five years. YSoft SafeQ

is used by four of the five biggest companies in the Czech Republic

and by numerous Fortune 500 enterprises, financial institutions,

large manufacturers and service organizations. You can find YSoft

SafeQ everywhere – in banks, insurance companies, car factories,

hospitals, universities and high schools – and also in government

offices, power plants, manufacturing operations and oil rigs.

YSoft SafeQ – isn’t that the software that keeps track of what I print?

Yes, but it’s much more than that. YSoft SafeQ is the print management solution that offers three basic

benefits: security, cost tracking, and greater convenience. How many times have you left a document at the

printer that wasn’t supposed to be left there for anyone to see? Have you ever had to wrestle with a broken

printer or wait in a line of people like you’re at a supermarket? We solve these problems and handle many

other sophisticated needs for our clients. We help with the administration of print volumes that may climb

to hundreds of millions of sheets of paper every year, assign costs to departments on a monthly basis, and

track the carbon footprint of print operations. All this in environments that include hundreds of print servers,

thousands of printers, and hundreds of thousands of people who need to print. Color printing is expensive

and wasteful – but you would not believe how many prints users make and then never even pick up.

They just leave them at the printer! This is the kind of waste YSoft SafeQ prevents.

We are not alone in this!

Y Soft collaborates with producers of multifunction printers and with other technological partners.

Y Soft is a platinum partner of Konica Minolta (www.konicaminolta.com) and Xerox Corporation

(www.xerox.com), and is a development partner for many other corporations such as Ricoh, Sharp,

Toshiba, and HP. In the domain of identification technology we are a major partner of LEGIC

Identsystems, HID Corporation, and Sony.

produCtS

We work with advanced user

authentication mechanisms and provide

24/7 service. Thanks to this service,

users in multinational businesses can

print their documents in Brno and pick

them up when they arrive at their New

York subsidiary by simply swiping their

ID card on the local printer.

What software do we work with?

• InJavaweworkinEclipse,and/orinIntelliJIdeausingWindowsandLinux.Weare

currentlyworkingontheJava6platformandwillsoonbeginworkingwithJava7or8.

• OntheMicrosoft.NetplatformweuseMicrosoftVisualStudio2010/2012

with a De-vExpress CodeRush plugin.

Ourproductcomprisesseveralsubsystemsandmodules.WeworkwithJ2EEapplications(Tomcat/

Apache) on the frontend layer, with the backend implemented as services supported by a service-

wrapper container. We use relational and object-oriented databases and work with data cubes and

datastoragesystems.TodayYSoftSafeQisadistributedsystembuiltontechnologieslikeJBoss

Infinispan.WhenitcomestoallthespecialbuzzwordslikeMaven,Gradle,JUnit,TestNG,NuGet,

LinqPad,JProfiler,OSGI–yes,ofcourseweusethemall.

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teChnologY

How do we work?

We believe in small teams. Each team of developers consists

of5–6membersandaTeamLeaderwhocoordinatestheworkofthe

whole team. Each team has great freedom in organizing its work – and

the team’s client is not a crowd of managers but the Product Owner.

…and what is our development environment like?

we enjoy our success and invest in the infrastructure we work on.

for research and testing, we have an internet testbed, a farm of dell

servers running the VM ware Cloud Suite, and other tools. we have

96 Cpu cores available (with hyperthreading this amounts to 192 virtual

processors), 1.5 tB of raM, and an equallogic storage system with

a total capacity of 11.5 tB for fast data saving on SSd disks. running

on top of all this is our continuous integration system, automatic loaders,

and function tests (we use Selenium and Quick test pro). all developers

can have a test environment customized for their needs. if we need

to fine-tune any specific function, we can even transfer the entire

production environment from the client to our site.

deSigned BY Y Soft in the CzeCh repuBliC

aSSeMBled in the CzeCh repuBliC

our clients need to be able to rely on our hardware products for 4 – 6 years after deployment. imagine that you go

to the bank to sign a contract and your banker cannot print it because the card reader on the printer does not work.

this is why all hardware products are tested in our climate lab where they are exposed to, among other things,

extreme temperature and humidity environments. this way, we can simulate aging and verify the quality of the

materials and components used.

the fitting technology based in the headquarters Brno is “more fun than a washing machine”. the machine fits

18,500 components per hour – all with an accuracy of about 30 μm, i.e. 0.03 mm. the final soldering process

is done in a lead-free nitrogen atmosphere.

for quality control during the production process, we use a machine called aoi (automatic optical inspection).

this machine scans printed circuit boards with electromagnetic radiation of varying wavelengths and benchmarks

the resulting image against a pattern, so it can automatically evaluate the quality of connectors, accuracy

of component positions, etc.

at Y Soft we believe that if we want to supply top-class products and professional services on a global level, we need

to offer professional working conditions to our staff. we therefore pay great attention to the work environment.

So, for instance, to ensure sufficient daylight in our Brno head office and identify better with the environmental

aspects of our products, we cut our building in half and planted 10 trees down the middle.

work ergonoMiCS

toner ankS aMong the 2 MoSt expenSiVe CoMM ditieS in the orld!

how ManY reSourCeSare needed to Make one ton of paper?

printing represents an environmental burden. By using the YSoft SafeQ print management solution

and ensuring that employees print responsibly, companies save up to 30% on their printing, copying

and scanning costs. in addition to the financial benefits, our clients also help conserve environmental

resources thanks to lower paper consumption – saving trees that would otherwise be cut down.

and reducing the use of toner helps to mitigate the negative effect on the environment

of the chemical processes involved in toner production.

the YSoft SafeQ Central reporting System provides accurate,

reliable data about the entire print environment, which our

clients’ print administrators can analyze in order

to optimize all their print resources.

eCologY

one ton of paper repreSentS 200,000 SheetS of paper. an aVerage large CzeCh Bank printS thiS nuMBer of pageS in a Single afternoon.

1.2 tons OF COAL

112 kWh OF ENERGY

46 kg OF SULFUR

7.2 m3 OF WOOD

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