About

hsolutions was formally incorporated as a Sàrl in 2005. Our activity, however, predates that, and some clients have trusted us since 1999.

That span is not just a line on a brochure. It means we have carried systems for ten or fifteen years: evolving them, migrating them, taking over ones somebody else had built, and occasionally deciding they had to be retired. That is not experience you acquire by delivering projects and moving on.

One idea governs the work: technology must adapt to the client’s processes and needs, not the other way round. Offering an off-the-shelf product and asking users to conform is easier to sell, but it gets paid for over years afterwards.

So we set out to understand a business before writing a line of code. That means asking questions that do not sound like IT questions, and sometimes saying that no development is needed at all.

The rest follows: aim for a solution that is extensible, reliable, secure and genuinely usable; prefer choices that hold up over time to fashionable technologies; and remain the responsible counterpart once the project is in production.

We have written software for the early generations of Windows and macOS, for Linux across its distributions, for personal digital assistants and the first mobile phone systems, through several successive waves of web and interactive animation technology, and on to today’s architectures.

We mention that path because it explains a way of working, not because it constitutes an offering. Having watched dominant platforms disappear makes you careful about technology bets — and, more usefully, able to take over an old system without rewriting it by reflex.

For a long time we managed and installed IT fleets — fifteen to a hundred and twenty machines, for fifteen to two hundred and fifty users, across successive generations of Windows and macOS, with all the business software that came with them.

Our approach there was already the same as elsewhere: put the effort in at the start so as not to have to intervene later. Workstations were set up so a user found their files, preferences and working environment from any machine, and so a failed machine could simply be swapped for a spare — the person carries on working, losing nothing.

This is no longer part of what hsolutions offers commercially. We mention it here because it belongs to our experience and explains our attention to operational questions, not because we sell it today.