Nies history

September 8, 1941: In accordance with the spirit of Mao Zedong’s work “Being Realistic”, Central Academy was founded, under which the Office of China Educational Research was set up.

January 26, 1957: The State Council and the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee approved the establishment of China National Institute for Educational Research (CNIER). The core staff of the Office of China Educational Studies became the founding members of CNIER.

He had quit IBM in 1966 and connected with a California company called ISS. Although it was essentially a manufacturer of hardware, ISS supported Salmond's concept of an on-line database and gave him the funds necessary to begin its development.

Upstart Cincom and its rivals in the fledgling software industry got a break in 1969 when IBM "unbundled" its software, technical support, installation, maintenance, and training services from the costs of its computer hardware.

Cincom achieved another industry first in 1971, when it became America's premier software company to export.

Cincom became the first software company to merge database management, report writing, and data extraction with the 1972 addition of SOCRATES, an information retrieval and report-writing system, to its application lineup in 1972.

In 1974, the company established the Quixote Club, an honorary clique of the company's top performers, whether administrators, marketers, salesmen, engineers, or support staff.

July 14, 1978: With the endorsement of Deng Xiaoping and other top leaders, the State Council approved the re-opening of CNIER.

Cincom opened its second decade in business with the 1979 launch of the MANTIS interactive application development system.

In 1984, Tom Nies tapped Dennis Yablonski to succeed him as Cincom's president and chief operation officer, while Nies retained the chairmanship and chief executive office.

In 1987, n fact, Nies had announced that the company would float a &Dollar;30 million to &Dollar;50 million offering, but was thwarted by the October 1987 stock market crash.

By 1991, international sales contributed over 60 percent of Cincom's annual revenues.

1993: Secretary-general of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Jiang Zemin inspected CNIER (one of the experimental schools for a large-scale research project Three-Calculation).