Company history

Meeting customer needs and developing and delivering top quality and extremely reliable software solutions for our customers has always been the mainspring of all of our activities, which are based on our company philosophy. ELO Digital Office had its origins in a respected German company known as Louis Leitz Group of Companies, which is renowned for its outstanding office supply solutions. Virtually everyone who has ever set foot in an office has held a Leitz folder in his or her hand. Already in the mid 1990s, Leitz realized that the growing importance of information technology would soon revolutionize document management processes, and that electronic media would be the main driver of this revolution.

And so in 1996, Leitz created a new division and developed a product that met the needs of this growing market: Electronic Leitz Organiser, for which the initials in German are ELO (Elektronischer Leitz Ordner). ELO focused on the electronic archiving of documents in a fashion that was equivalent to classic office filing methods. ELO's initial customers were small businesses. The market response to ELO products was so positive that in 1998 the Louis Leitz Group founded a subsidiary known as Louis Leitz Digital Office GmbH. ELO was formally established as an independent business unit in August 1998, when Louis Leitz was acquired by the Swedish giant Esselte AB.
ELO's products have continued to be highly successful, which has resulted in continuous growth of the unit.

ELO's first product, ELOoffice was optimized on an ongoing basis by incrementally incorporating into the products solutions that met specific customer requirements. High demand for ELOoffice, combined with customers' growing needs for efficient solutions, led to the development of a companion product to the entry level version that is specifically for large customers and more elaborate requirements. This product, known as ELOprofessional, was the first of its kind to integrate an SQL database and client server architecture. Although it was clear to ELO management from the start that ELOprofessional would be used in a Windows environment, customers increasingly expected ELO products to be compatible with a heterogeneous environment as well. This led to the idea of developing a platform independent and client enabled version, and ELOenterprise was born. The product was launched in 2004.

The ELO product portfolio now services three entire market segments: small businesses (ELOoffice - currently not available in Australia), medium sized businesses (ELOprofessional) and large companies (ELOenterprise).
We are proud to count among our customers industry leaders such as Taronga Zoo, TSCO, Kyocera Mita, Lufthansa, MAN, Debitel, BMW, EADS, Daimler, Zott, and Südzucker, which collectively operate 450,000 ELO workstations. Together with our more than 400 professional ELO partners and our highly motivated team of 280 ELO employees, we look forward to continuing to meet the challenge of developing products and solutions that expedite and streamline our customers' business processes.