eConvergent expanding Longmont operations

LONGMONT — Sitting on the bare floor of their first office building last September in Longmont with nothing more than a few cell phones, Dane Coyer, Bob Armstrong and Ken Gambon began compiling ideas and facilities for an e-businesses solutions provider.
Since those early days, eConvergent has secured 16,000 square feet of office space in two separate buildings, 10 times the employee base and $15 million in venture capital funding from Crosspoint Venture Partners. This year they will demand more of everything at their Longmont location.
Coyer, the senior vice president of eConvergent, projects the company will lease another 12,000 square feet of office space in the Pratt business park by year end. The new facility houses a network operations and data-processing center that monitors the health and status of clients hooked into the system.
The expansion allows the company to not only double in office size, but also double in employee size.
To date, the company employs 60 people in Colorado and plans to add another 60 with experience in systems integration and project management skills, Coyer said.
Based in Pleasanton, Calif., the company chose to expand the Longmont facility because of the area’s business-friendly environment, the pool of high-tech talent and lower real estate costs.
eConvergent manages e-business customer relations seamlessly through a 24-hour operating network across any contact medium – the Web, voice, e-mail, fax and video. Qwest Communications provides eConvergent with Internet service.
Earning a Silicon Valleylike reputation, Coyer believes Boulder County, more than Denver, can service all areas of the high-tech, Internet business market.
Once off the ground in their new space, Coyer said, eConvergent is laying plans to go public by the end of the year, in hopes of generating revenues for further growth.
To avoid system failure, eConvergent’s network operates system and software fail-over technology and a back-up power generator, all provided from the Longmont branch.
Clients such as RaceGate.com and Candle Software demand that eConvergent’s system run 100 percent of the time, Coyer said. The company is negotiating with four other clients, one “a marquee dot com company.”
“When we release the name,” Coyer said. “You will recognize it.”