About SSI

Every so often something shakes up a market, creating a niche and an opportunity for new players and new initiative. So it was in the late 1980s, with the gradual maturing of the microcomputer and the emergence of something less familiar—something called Electronic Data Interchange, or EDI.

In 1987, the two brothers Mark and Gary Rodenbeck were working for a large data processing company, and were involved in a project to electronically process freight billings on magnetic tape. The project focus was the implementation of one of the first 30 EDI pilot sites with Federal Express, and it promised to make the internal A/P function much more efficient. The two brothers saw an opportunity.

Two years later, armed with little more than an initial investment of $5,000 and an idea, a small start-up firm called Software Solutions Unlimited, Inc. was formed. The corporate headquarters was an extra bedroom in a rental house. The R & D lab was in an apartment across town. The newly formed company's most valuable piece of equipment? A used magnetic tape drive interfaced to a 286 PC.

Today, SSI occupies an entire floor of a modern office complex, and EDI is no more than a small part of a much larger business model. The organization bears little resemblance to that two-employee start-up firm of 1989, but some of that culture still remains. The same two brothers and cofounders are still actively involved in the management of the business and in leading it into the future.

The SSI of today remains committed to the legacy of innovation that began over 20 years ago. In this way, perhaps more than any other, SSI strives to be an industry leader.

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