Desklance is a European, Portuguese and United States of America multinational content management systems, client relationship management and hosting, domain registration provider that develops, creates, customizes, implements and supports quite a large range of web ware solutions for MySQL based platforms.

Initially headquartered in Azores, Terceira Island, Portugal, but now having offices as in Chicago and Atlanta, United States of America, its foremost requested services diverge from WordPress, Drupal, phpBB3, Invision Power Board and many others as Joomla and Magento Commerce, especially if blending these last two into one single management platform.

The company was founded mostly to deliver semi-dedicated hosting solutions to a Portuguese marketplace, from small reseller accounts to virtual private servers. However, its products soon turned out to be obsolete amongst a stronger and international competitor retro respective, as the company was merely reduced to national ground due to its server locations, back then in Lisbon and Porto.

2002: Founding
Back in early 2002, Desklance surges under the name of PTiGest, a brand new project that raised some major controversy from the Portuguese scene due to its pricing and attitude, which provided some media attention as well for been one of the very few on the market that handle to provide services as low as up to 70% when compared to its competitors. Regarding exposure, the company featured on a Portuguese newspaper for months with full to medium sized advertising, which was something new on the field and never taken to such extremity by any other local or national company, something that brought along some major interest from prospective customers. Besides featuring on the newspaper, it also appeared on national media broadcasting such as independent television live shows, such as SIC Radical and RTP Madeira for instance, on which one of its sites developed to a customer was exposed to an audience around 143.000 expectations, later on awarded by a couple of websites online as well as widely and positively reviewed on some well known magazines.

2003-2004: Side-Projects
Following a series of events, Alex Borba (CEO: Chief Executive Officer) and Carla Borba (COO: Chief Operations Officer) ventured toward the online social communication media by releasing Jornal Online, a national non-profit online newspaper that had a daily publishing of up to 30 up-to-date news, articles, opinion writings which soon reached over the 5.000 visitors online per day and was sharing fresh news through an RSS Application on hundreds of blogs online.

During one year, Jornal Online (often called of "JO") was growing fast with a database almost reaching the 10.000 archived articles, to then be stopped due to inconstant server failures, crashes and other misfortunes.

2005-2007: Restructuration
Between 2005 and 2007 the Portuguese law changed, and companies with the PT initials on its name were forced to either remove it or re-register under a completely different name. Such was the case for PTiGest which couldn't go on with PT at the beginning of its name. Therefore, and after having some discussion, a new name was found on the form of Desklance (often mentioned as "DESK[l]ANCE" or "DL"), a more suitable name that also not only allowed the people at Desklance to refresh their platform but as to seriously consider the opportunity to explore other markets and open many doors on the international market as well.

2008: The Invasion
With a short collaboration which resulted on innumerous conflicts between the people at Desklance and Kinasnet, leading Kinasnet do dissolve, Desklance was re-inventing itself by gaining ground everywhere it was passing, now not only providing the initial products that it had since the very first beginning back in yearly 2002, but also as a complementary force adding novelties to its branch such as management and maintenance services alienated with others as installation, setup and additional configurations.

The aim is, as always, to short out the need for freelancing recruitment by offering a wide choice of solutions, with optional implementations, ready to be delivered within 24h to 48 hours prior to purchase.

As time went by the company constantly grew, so its number of employees now strengthening both support and sales department, all cupped up with a extremely strong web promotion that ranges from simple banners to the inclusion of news in all major directories.

2009: The Growth
Last year, Desklance became a name easily recognizable by practically everyone, thanks to the urge to socialize and interact with everyone, keeping as friendly ambience and environment between the working crew and the people that keep on following them either by Twitter, MySpace, FaceBook, LinkedIn or even YouTube (currently the number of social networks on which the company is participating have surpassed the three dozen) or by RSS subscriptions.

Our newsletter have reached an astounding number of one and a half million subscribers worldwide, which certainly has proven the major impact the company has gathered so far by been of one of its kind amongst hundreds of other companies that day by bay struggle to be on the surface.

At the end of the year, the company went abroad and opened a new office, located at Georgia, Atlantida, United States of America, while planning Brazilian Office opening as well.

2010: The Present
Today we are the company with the highest level of growth in the Azores, and one of the largest in Europe.

A company that decided to cross the virtual hosting with managing scripts provided with approximately 16.000 customers online.

In March, we started negotiations to acquire iNova, company headquartered in Lisbon - Portugal, which boasts a portfolio of customers above the 9.000, with more than 250 employees.

April

In April is noticed a greater interactivity perhaps due to official acquisition of iNova, which also resulted in the safeguarding of 250 job positions on this company.

May

In May the company begins the process of internationalization, contacting their official sources from the United States of America while changing it's domination from Ltd. to Incorporated. In the middle of the legalization process, acquires a new address in Chicago, Illinois, putting aside their Portuguese headquarters.

On 16 may is launched the The Marketplace Blog, a blog geared more to marketing, special offers, new features, exclusive general comments on bringing more from a commercial company and their relationship between supplier and customer.

Also in May, and much due to the response to the incessant requests for video tutorials, the company launches on 25th the Screencast Tutorials, a site that explains in video format, the following steps in the configuration of the most important systems that currently exist to its availability.

June

Jay Schechter, best-known as an Operational Consultant with over 38 years of experience at Fortune 50 companies which is also a  Project Management Professional, certified ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library), and a Disaster Recovery Specialist joins the company, handling the restructuring so that the company's products and services may be more feasible within the American market. He also creates his own blog in the company, called The TechTalk Blog, launched on 4th of June 2010.

Also during this month, we launched the new version of our online store, with an improved visual, many promotions and 100% functional.

The most relevant promotions confined ACE low prices, special pricing format, with the related installation services of OpenX AdServer, Drupal, Joomla, phpBB3, WordPress, not forgetting the mega promotion in our products for SEO and SEM plans, be it at a advanced, enterprise or lifetime level.

To close this month, we came up with a new service called ASSIST, which consists on providing technical support to new site beginners, either or not, hosted and maintained by us.