Central PA native and Penn State graduate Treff LaPlante lived, worked and studies among the legends in California’s tech boom of the 1990s. He realized a problem, that business software was not effective, affordable or robust enough for many small companies. So LaPlante started building a platform that he put on his back and took across the country back to his home region. Now, WorkXpress is taking advantage of the growth of cloud computing to make a name for itself--and its customers.
The company offers the world's only 5GL Platform as a Service, which allows non-programmers to create limitless, sophisticated business applications using five building blocks in an intuitive environment. It's as easy as drag-and-drop and point-and-click, and is meant to be a self-serve experience from purchase to deployment.
WorkXpress is housed in the Murata Business Center and primarily serves smaller businesses throughout the region in various fields, like healthcare, light manufacturing and insurance. Word is spreading, however, and the company is starting to businesses in all corners of the globe. It is rolling out its WorkXpress University that will help users manage the process on their own, in addition to its own consultants who help users develop the software.
With cloud-computing gaining widespread acceptance, WorkXpress figures to grow as it makes its platform even easier to adopt.