Erika Grófcsik Nyáry

After his final exams (in 1968), he first encountered a computer (at the Csepel Car Factory, ICL 1905 mainframe), during the commissioning of which he interpreted for English engineers. Inspired by this, he applied to the Computer Center of the National Leadership Training Center (OVK) as a software development intern for the newly arrived ICL 1905E machine. He participated in study trips to England courtesy of the International Labor Organization (ILO), which founded OVK (programming-organizing courses, database education, university courses, study of computer library systems).

In 1972, he moved to the Computer Laboratory of the Computer Coordination Institute (SzKI), where his first job was the computer processing of the institute's library collection, then, within the framework of the software development cooperation between SzKI and Siemens, he participated in the testing of the Siemens BS2000 operating system in Munich and in related programming work. This was followed by the design and creation of the computer system of the Hungarian National Bibliography in cooperation with the National Széchenyi Library (OSZK) (for which he received the Minister of Culture's award in 1978). During the 14 years of operation of the system, its supervision and implementation of further developments remained his responsibility.
In 1980, SzKI - based on a contract with the Munich-based Software Engineering Services (SES) - entrusted him with the project management of the development of the first element of the SoftOrg software technology tool family: the SoftSpec system supporting requirements specification. Due to the success of the product, during the eighties, he and his team visited several large German companies, installed, trained, maintained the product and led projects based on its use.

In 1992, he founded a joint company (Softing Kft.) with four colleagues and the head of SES, whose main profile was the development of software technology methods and tools for German, Swiss and Austrian companies, but in accordance with the changed circumstances, the focus was on the computer analysis, documentation (reverse engineering), reengineering of old systems, and the transfer of programs and databases to a new platform (migration). He was not unfaithful to library automation either, and with his colleagues he prepared the version of the Hungarian National Bibliography booklets and Hungarika publications available on the web interface of the National Széchenyi Library (OSZK).