Success Stories

The largest model railway in the world is located directly on the Elbe in Hamburg's Speicherstadt warehouse district.

Hamburg's number-one tourist attraction and Germany's most popular site attracts 1.5 million visitors from all over the world to its exhibition floors every year and inspires model railway enthusiasts. A unique miniature world has been created on 1,700 square metres of model space in around 1.2 million hours of work. In addition to sophisticated technology, it is characterised above all by its wealth of detail, with 290,000 lovingly staged figures, moving trains and cars, ships, and even aeroplanes that take off from Knuffingen Airport every minute. It is a breathtaking miniature cosmos that cannot be seen anywhere else in the world.

reichelt elektronik has established itself as a global mail-order company for electronics and computer technology.

More than one million customers worldwide rely on the extensive range of over 150,000 branded items. The company's own infrastructure in the areas of warehousing, logistics, and control is entirely programmed in Delphi. reichelt elektronik demonstrates the sustainability of Delphi projects, from the long life of the code to its wide range of applications.

‘There's no such thing as impossible.’ reichelt elektronik lives by this credo with every fiber of its being. The company has overcome much adversity and has forged its own innovative paths in numerous areas by replacing standard solutions with in-house developments. The high degree of independence in software development, coupled with the advantages of Delphi and the creative realization of new ideas, have made reichelt elektronik a prime example of flexibility, resilience, and speed.

e-vendo AG, based in Berlin, has created a software solution to bundle all of a retailer's business processes in one system and one database. As a pioneer in the omnichannel sector, e-vendo was one of the first systems to implement a complete solution for stationary retail and e-commerce. Thanks to this modular all-in-one solution with merchandise management, cash registers, online shops, and the integration of marketplaces, e-vendo has created a perfectly interlocking system with Delphi and InterBase/FireBird that is unrivaled.

With Delphi's decades of experience and 35 years of expertise, microtech GmbH has a very modern ERP system on the market that can rightfully be called sustainable.

As a satisfied Embarcadero Delphi customer, microtech GmbH can provide its software to over 15,000 customers. Customization and Individualization with on-board tools is the unique selling point of the application. This is where the strength of the company and the microtech ERP system lies.

With MIND2FIND^®, the company Bröker & Laskowski GmbH has decades of experience and thus a continuously improving solution on the market that is successfully used in a variety of industries and company sizes, both centrally and decentrally. A wide range of files are processed, from just a few documents a day to 30,000 documents or more a month. In many cases, more than 1 million documents per customer are managed by the MIND2FIND^® document management solution (DMS). The system is developed in the current Delphi version 11, based on the VCL framework.

From a small idea that grew during his work break during the coronavirus pandemic, Philipp Hofmann founded the startup Indoor Training UG and developed with Delphi an indoor cycling app with countless training options. The company has been growing ever since and offers the software on a subscription basis, although the costs are a fraction of comparable offers on the market.

The icTrainer app is a lightweight application for roller trainers and other fitness equipment with customizable options and the connection to countless training devices. It supports heart rate monitors, cadence monitors or speed monitors via Bluetooth BLE or ANT+. The multi-platform app runs on Windows PCs, macOS computers, iOS tablets/iPads and Android tablets.

The PILOT AOI software from GÖPEL electronic is a perfect example of how a medium-sized company can develop high-quality software with Delphi in a cost-effective and flexible way. For 25 years GÖPEL electronic has been programming the AOI software very successfully with Delphi. The company is internationally successful for more than 600 customers and considers itself to be at the forefront of the industry in Europe.

TachoEASY GmbH is the market leader in Germany and Austria for telematics systems in the area of fleet management. Under Managing Director Gerhard Mairhofer, the company currently has over 40,000 customers and has located more than 10,000 trucks across Europe with its telematics systems.

Thanks to the FireMonkey multiplatform framework, the TachoEASY project and code base were used to develop not only the Windows version but also the macOS version, as well as adaptations for Android and iOS. By combining desktop, mobile apps, and data access via the web, BlueLOGICO has combined the best of all worlds and, with Delphi, offers a high level of technology security for years.

First developed by Lamantine Software in 2001, Sticky Password is an award-winning password manager that provides secure, multi-device and multi-platform password management services. With a rich feature set, Sticky Password offers a full set of access and security functions — everything from automatic login and forms population to data sync between devices, secure credit card management, and military-grade data protection and password generation.

Tischenko and his team considered several IDEs but each had its limitations. In the end, they opted for Delphi. “Compared to Visual Studio, Delphi is a modern tool for adaptive Rapid Application Development (RAD) with high-speed compilation. Visual Basic would have allowed us to quickly build the user interface, however it was too limited in its language features,” Tischenko says. “Delphi allowed us to build and change the user interface easily and quickly react to user feedback. I had already used Delphi on other projects, so I was familiar with its flexibility and advantages.”

Syntax GmbH, an IT system house from Oldenburg/Germany, has been developing corporate annual planning software especially for small and medium-sized companies since 1980 and complements the business side with hardware, IT services, and training.

The planning software planbar, developed in Delphi, is an ideal supplement to existing industry software.

The German company Oriolus Lernprogramme GmbH has been developing learning programs for use in educational institutions and for learning at home since 1994. Several appearances at the book fair and other education fairs led to much praise and a total of twelve Comenius awards.

The available learning packages start in preschool, go through elementary school, and reach even to high school. The subject areas are mathematics, German, English, French, and general studies.

Finland's OpusCapita Solutions Oy has grown to become one of the leading providers of digital solutions and transaction processing for source-to-pay, cash management, and product information management.

Serving over 3,000 organizations from their 8 offices around Europe and USA, OpusCapita's hosted software enables full automation of invoice processes within Accounts Receivable and Accounts Payable while handling the complexities of distribution to multiple suppliers, and multi-region regulatory.

Ansgar Becker has been developing a lean database client using Delphi since 1999. In the beginning it was only meant for MySQL, but over the years HeidiSQL has established itself worldwide as a very popular and frequently used OpenSource tool, as have SQL Server, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

Applications created with Delphi/Pascal are primarily used in the fields of science and technology as well as in business. The development environment is seldom used to create art. With ArtGen, programmer and artist Volker Diefenbach has managed to create a fantastic combination of two worlds that can be described as “algorithmic art”.

ZICONDIS Technologies from Austria has successfully developed desktop, web, and mobile applications for many years. One of the focal points is in the area of waste management.

RAD Studio with Delphi and RAD Server have proven to be an ideal combination with a short development time. Both the user interface for the mobile apps and the back end programming were solved without any technology break by using the same programming language. Simply a clean solution!

Broken Games is a small, ambitious independent game development company based in Berlin, Germany. Their flagship game, Rise of Legions, is a multiplayer RPG available for the Windows platform. Co-founders Tobias and Martin focus on bringing people together through game playing with games that easily accessible to new gamers but provide sufficient challenges and depth for hardcore audiences.

BS software development GmbH & Co. KG is part of the Bucher Group, which has been producing innovative software solutions in the medical sector for over 20 years. The company focuses on networking and supporting the various players in the healthcare sector in their daily work.

Established in 1986, BUSICOM is a solution provider, offering a POS register app. and related systems for boutiques/specialty stores and solutions for duty-free shops serving inbound tourists that enhance store efficiency. They have been proactively offering solutions for cashless payment, consumption taxation amendments and so on.

Having achieved Development productivity higher than expected with Delphi 10.1 Berlin’s rich libraries, FORUM8 now offers a 64-bit version of its large-scale 3D VR software “UC-win/Road”.

DK Corporation (Daiichikankyo), a water metering/billing services contractor, built “AQUA-V, “a total solution for water supply utilities and started its full-scale operation. They chose Delphi XE, a cross-platform development solution, for their software development project. AQUA FIELDER, a system supporting the field metering/billing services, used Delphi XE in developing not only a main office desktop system but also software for metering with an Android device.