History
GloMidCo was established in September 2000 and is based in Haarlem, The Netherlands. The company sprang from a TIBCO Real Time Market Data environment at a large Dutch financial firm. At the end of 2007 GloMidCo opened her second office in Eindhoven and mid 2008 a Malaysian branch was established. Currently, GloMidCo employs approximately 20 full time experts. The knowledge and skill levels of GloMidCo's consultants range from junior developer to medior consultant to senior architect.

Mission statement
GloMidCo's main expertise are Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Application Integration. The company goal is to be an independent adviser on SOA and EAI topics. To gain the knowledge to meet our goal GloMidCo partners with the most important leaders and visionaries in the SOA field like Progress Software, Software AG and Tibco. Where possible, GloMidco's Consultants are certified product specialist in the products of our partners. Apart from a profound knowledge of the products of our partners, GloMidCo's consultants have a broad knowledge and experience with IT products and concepts, such as network protocols, relational databases, operating systems, programming languages, J2EE, ERP, Data Warehousing etcetera. GloMidCo mainly operates in the financial, utilities (energy), retail and telecommunications markets.

Learning within
The concept of knowledge gathering is very important to GloMidCo. Because of this we keep a close eye on the rapidly changing market. For education and research, GloMidCo has built an extensive laboratory environment that is being adapted and expanded in response to and anticipation of the latest developments in technology. This goes for software as well as hardware; platforms used include MS Windows, Sun Solaris and Linux. By using advanced networking equipment and VMware instances, every test configuration imaginable can be replicated in the GloMidCo laboratory. This includes executing Proof of Concepts (POCs), emulating a production environment or researching new software or hardware.

Education
Apart from providing middleware consultancy services, GloMidCo has established close cooperative partnerships with universities and other institutes for higher education. GloMidCo offers middleware education courses focusing on Message Oriented Middleware. Students are given opportunities for research in this field, in the form of internships or graduation work.