Since its founding in 1968, ELCA has continually grown. Today, it is one of the biggest independent Swiss full-service providers for business and technology solutions, and a leader in the fields of IT business consulting, software development and maintenance, and IT systems integration. The privately owned company, with more than 1300 experts, has branches in Lausanne, Zurich, Geneva, Bern, Basel, Paris, Madrid, London, as well as Mauritius, Granada and Ho Chi Minh City (offshore development), all operating according to a common process framework.

ELCA develops innovative, custom-designed and high-performing business and technology solutions for a broad number of industries and customers. The solutions reduce complexity and costs, simplify the organization, and increase innovation cycles, improve business outcome and customer satisfaction. ELCA can develop individual software solutions as well as implement standard and open source technologies. 50 years of experience and a proven agile project and software development methodology enable ELCA to deliver projects successfully, including on a fixed-price basis, offering customers a high level of certainty in their budget and time planning.

ELCA puts great emphasis on identifying and recruiting top talents from leading Swiss and European universities. ELCA thoroughly trains new hires on its specific methodologies and approaches. ELCA’s working methods are regularly reviewed with regard to quality assurance and the company is ISO 9001 certified. The company’s development centre in Vietnam, successfully in place for about 20 years, has been under Swiss leadership from the beginning. The offshore branch has already attained Level 3 of the CMMI evaluation several times and offers ELCA and its clients the capacity to scale capabilities quickly and efficiently.