About us

AI has changed software development. Our principles haven't.

For more than 30 years, we have seen how software development has evolved. AI-assisted development is making the work faster than ever. But good architecture, testability, maintainability and system-level thinking are still essential.

Aerial view of the Scriptum office building

Our company first achieved national recognition for its electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias. We specialize in developing linguistic, semantic, and data quality assurance software, which we successfully implement in the fields of finance, logistics, and telecommunications. We work in our own office building, where we provide all our colleagues with comfortable and personalized workspaces. Our systems are used by a number of large companies, including the OTP Group, Hungarian Postal Service, and Hungarian Telekom Inc.

Our Strengths

Expertise

Our lead developers have 25+ years of experience.

Business Analysis

If we do not understand something, we ask – we also perform business analysis tasks to facilitate effective communication between business and IT.

Legacy systems

We are up to date, but we are not afraid of legacy systems either, because we adapt well to older environments and solutions.

Modern tools

We create stable, well-maintainable systems. We use state-of-the-art technology and tools that are always up to date.

Important years in our history

1990
Scriptum Ltd. is founded
1990-
The era of electronic (GIB) dictionaries begins, making us nationally known.
1997
Start of research and development activities in the fields of linguistics, semantics, data cleaning, and data quality assurance.
1998
The company is transformed into a joint-stock company.
1998-2006
Based on our R&D results, we participate in projects implemented at government institutions and telecommunications service providers (e.g. Constitutional Court, NDA/NAVA, IKV Ltd., Invitel Ltd.).
2004
Our own office building is completed, where we have been working ever since.
2006-
The beginning of our banking and logistics projects, in which we participate as software developers.
2010
The first version of the MAKETT software is completed. It has unique address cleansing capabilities and has undergone further development every year since its release.
Trial option: cimklinika.hu
2025
Our largest customers:
OTP Group
(OTP Bank Inc., OTP Mortgage Ltd., OTP Real Estate Point Llc.)
Hungarian Postal Service
Hungarian Telekom Inc.

Who we have built for

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Clients
Project types

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Main applied development toolset – by time period

  1. –

    From the era of dictionaries to the JVM

    1990–1997: the era of dictionaries

    Microsoft C/C++ (later Visual C++)
    From 1995 Microsoft SourceSafe code repository

    From 1997: we build our software on the JVM (Java Virtual Machine)

    Code repository management: Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, then CVS, then SVN (Subversion)
    Development environment:
    Microsoft Visual J++, Sun Java 1.02-1.3
    Tested/used environments: Forte, VisualAge for Java, Visual Cafe, Borland JBuilder, Emacs JDEE
    Ultimately: Eclipse (10+ years), then SpringSource Tool Suite (STS)
    Task management: Bugzilla, then FogBugz and Kiln
    Other: From 2000 Ant, From 2009 Maven
  2. –

    Our infrastructure continues to evolve

    Microsoft C/C++ (later Visual C++)
    Code repository management: Mercurial (hg), From 2020 Git (Gitea)
    Development environment: From 2015 IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate
    Task management: JetBrains YouTrack
    Other supporting tools:
    From 2010: Hudson (later Jenkins) and Sonar (later SonarQube) Gradle based projects (if requested by client, Maven also)
    From 2020: We started using Git, currently: only Gitea, with locally hosted Git code repositories
  3. –

    New languages, AI tools

    Getting to know Kotlin through a pilot project (mainly for Android and server development)
    Exploring and adopting AI tools on our own internal projects (Claude Code, OpenCode)
    From 2026: we have also started testing increasingly capable open-source models that can run locally

Our most commonly used technologies

Backend

JVM with
Java SE 11, 17 or 21 versions
(depending on requirement)
Spring Boot

Frontend

We have two main directions for web interfaces

In our legacy systems JSF environment with PrimeFaces toolkit.
In our new projects ReactJS environment with PrimeReact, Formik tools, and GraphQL based communication.

Databases

Oracle and PostgreSQL
(EnterpriseDB)

Data communication

E-mail, Kafka
REST/SOAP WebService
MQ, (S)FTP

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