History

Catalytic Group was officially formed in May 2000 but its back-story begins in 1990.

1990-1993

• Seth Aron works as a senior software engineer at a company creating database publishing products to dynamically generate print documents.
• John Sciorra works on some of the largest, most complex, highest performing, distributed financial applications. He and Seth meet through a mutual friend.
• Ernie Nounou is director of Spencer Analysis, a company providing computer technical support and training. He and Seth meet when the two business share office space.

1994

• Seth and two partners start up Small World Software to produce fantasy-style, mass-player sports games. After a year, Small World moves its game platform to the World Wide Web, one of the first web applications.

1995

• Small World's transactional database application begins to attract corporate clients who want help in designing and building their web applications so it spins off a new business to address this need.

1996

• Small World and Spencer Analysis partner and provide technical support and software development services to each other's clients.
• John joins Small World.
• Small World innovates many technologies common today in off-the-shelf products: the web application model; session management; custom-tag-based dynamism; database connection pooling; large database integration; load balancing and fail over; and massive scalability.

1997

• Small World sells the web shop to Atlanta-based iXL to form iXL New York with John remaining as VP Technology.

1998-1999

• Spencer Analysis is acquired by IBS/Digital Fusion.
• Small World sells the sports games to The Sporting News, a Paul Allen company.

2000

• The corporate rollup craze continues as the new-media industry consolidates. The larger companies created out of these mergers seem to lose that combination of creativity, technical savvy, and lean business practices needed to thrive. Sensing a need, Seth and Ernie form Catalytic Group and John comes on board.

2003

• Having created dozens of custom content management solutions for clients, Catalytic Group assembles the most requested functions into SiteWide CMS® and starts offering this affordable, feature-rich product to the market.

2004

• Building on its success with SiteWide CMS, Catalytic Group releases SiteStarters™, a suite of web application modules that allow developers to quickly and easily assemble complex interactive functionality.

Today, Catalytic Group continues its spirit of innovation, developing new and better ways to solve technology problems.