About Erudine
Company
Erudine and its core technology, the Behaviour Engine, were born from extensive research into human decision-making and the practical experiences of software development in the nuclear industry.
The CTO of Erudine, Philip Rice, spent 15 years engineering mission-critical applications for repair robots operating inside nuclear reactors. With each robot using plasma cutters and welding torches in such a hazardous environment, there was no margin for error.
The beginning
During this time, Philip realised that a great deal of development time was spent on repetitive tasks but because they were expert in nature, only certain individuals could perform them. This was the birth of the Behaviour Engine as an idea: a technology that could fundamentally simplify software development, automate key software engineering skills, and capture expert knowledge directly.
Erudine was founded in 2002 and work immediately began on recruiting an expert team of academics and programmers to create an automated software development toolkit. In 2003, an early version of the technology, provisionally named System 42, was tested on a retail loyalty card system, where it proved successful at visualising complex data and vastly reducing work times.
Following this success, the Erudine team moved to Harrogate and bolstered their expertise by attracting high-level developers from different backgrounds all over the world (part of the company’s policy to recruit the top 5% of candidates). As the first full version of the technology continued in development, it was further tested and refined on several new projects. System 42 was successfully used to build complex systems for loan and credit approval, emergency response, and transport ticketing.
First release
In early 2005, version 1.0 of the Behaviour Engine, now the software’s official name, was released as a complete toolkit. By this time, the technology had already attracted interest from several multinational blue-chip companies, with proof of concept projects underway at the likes of defence group EADS and system integrator Atos Origin.
Today, Erudine has several international partners and the Behaviour Engine is the ‘technological discriminator’ on numerous enterprise-scale projects for a number of multinational companies.