CoKinetic is an independent software company based in White Plains, NY, with offices in Bangalore, India, Boston, Massachusetts, Hangzhou, China and Lake Forest, California. We are experts in the interface between people and technology, with extensive experience creating “virtual integration” software. Our team is highly creative, instantly responsive and focused on solving problems.

“Our customers are often trapped with a collection of technologies that forces them to operate in ways that aren’t the best for their businesses,” says Stevens. “They may actually have all the technology they need – but they need to combine it differently. They need disruptive technology to help them with the rapid production and distribution of applications. That’s what we provide.”

CoKinetic does one thing better than anyone else – we enable customers to pull together an unlimited array of back-end systems and display them in a user-friendly, highly responsive interface that’s easy to create and deploy.

Our Story

In the Beginning…
Our company began inside Deutsche Bank. Years ago, our leadership team had responsibility for operations and IT at Deutsche Asset Management. They had a tough assignment: to combine the capabilities of financial systems located all over the world into seamless applications – with user interfaces that worked well for people in many different countries. “We twisted ourselves into a pretzel trying to figure out how to create really great applications that combined every conceivable back end system and platform,” says Kris Stevens, who’s now our CEO. “We knew exactly what we needed – the power and versatility of fat-client software combined with the easy distribution and updating possible with http. There was only one problem: This tool simply didn’t exist.”

Stevens and his team looked into purchasing custom software, but it was expensive and difficult to install on computers worldwide. The team had to create what they needed themselves. So they did – using open standards such as XML and JavaScript. Inside the bank, it was called Project Flubber – so named because it was the birth of something new and revolutionary.

Several things made this solution unique:
‣ It could tap into virtually any back-end system – no matter whether it was inside the bank or outside
‣ It presented this data to users in a highly customizable GUI that displayed it in their native language
‣ The GUI could be easily authored centrally and distributed instantly via http (as easily as creating web pages)
‣ It used open standards like XML and JavaScript
‣ It operated from the client side, rather than trying to control and package data with a portal approach

An Independent Company

For Deutsche Bank, the solution created by Project Flubber was a highly affordable alternative to developing custom software. Says Stevens, “We were convinced this was bigger than the bank. This was something the market needed.” Deutsche Bank agreed. They invested in CoKinetic and spun us off as a separate company.

Since our creation in 2001, CoKinetic has launched a number of versions of our software products. It allows our clients to build almost any type of user interface and pull data from virtually any background systems.

When BearingPoint consultants record their time and expenses, they’re using CoKinetic software. Nearly every Wall Street firm uses an application called BrokerMerit to rate client satisfaction – developed by Deutsche Bank with our technology. A variety of companies in Korea use CoKinetic software to put Korean-language interfaces on all types of systems.

A Revolution in IFE

Continuing our focus on developing software for embedded systems, CoKinetic introduced AirPlay for in-flight entertainment systems in 2004. This revolutionary independent software platform for IFE enables airlines to run multiple applications simultaneously, develop and deploy new features themselves and upload changes to their aircraft whenever they want. Today, AirPlay by CoKinetic powers the experience for millions of passengers, with millions more being added every month.