In an effort to reduce cost and maintain global competitiveness, many Western corporations adopted, since the 1990’s, the concept of software development offshoring to eastern European countries, Russia, India and other low-cost environments. True innovation, however, was kept in the home markets. In parallel, the Israeli hi-tech industry developed into a leading source of creativity and innovation, fueled by a mixture of highly-educated human capital, government incentives, military influence, and culture. What characterizes the Israeli hi-tech scene today is an exceptionally high-level of creativity, ingenuity, and entrepreneurialism, which have earned the country such titles as Start-Up Nation and Silicon Wadi.
Take Efcom, for example (www.efcom.co.il). This is not your typical run-of-the-mill software company. They develop and integrate software and hardware solutions where the need might be known, but not the path to address it; where requirements are so stringent, they rarely make sense to ordinary thinkers; where accuracy, reliability and durability are so important, lives actually depend on them; where if not for their integrity and confidence, some of the most sensitive industries would not risk employing them.
“Our vision is to be among the select few boutique companies known among global players as the go-to provider of software and hardware solutions where there’s a necessity for a high-level of creativity and out-of-the-box thinking, based on a multi-disciplinary set of skills applied to a wide range of industries,” says Alex Efros, who founded the company in 2006 and serves as its CEO.
Alex served in an elite technology unit of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), where his ability to think outside the box and to develop highly creative solutions, actually saved lives. He assembled a team of exceptional talent, with background in such areas as software and hardware engineering, physics and electro-optics, UX and algorithm expertise.
Companies in a variety of industries, such as FDA-approved medical systems for hospitals and surgery rooms, defense and homeland security optical and vision systems, industrial automation and CNC systems, biomedical drug-development research systems, and sophisticated data management systems reach out to Efcom when they require a high-level of creativity and support in the development of unique solutions, often in challenging environments and withconstrained resources. “No engagement is typical” says Alex. “Each begins with an in-depth understanding of the customer’s goals, challenges and needs, and relies heavily on the team’s deep understanding and experience in a wide range of content types and technologies and on their ability to integrate this variety into an effective and optimal solution” he adds.
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