Soulé Software is proud of not only our 35+ year company history but also of our legacy in the industry that spans back 110 years.
Soulé Software is proud of not only our 35+ year company history but also of our legacy in the industry that spans back 110 years.
Edward Soule, a graduate of UC Berkeley, begins to work as an engineer for John B Leonard in San Francisco.
Edward Soule witnesses the devastation of the San Francisco earthquake. Prior to the disaster, the city had primarily been built with unreinforced masonry and wood frame construction.
John B Leonard, Edward Soule's boss, is among a select group of engineers with previous experience using reinforcing steel in construction.
Soule learns how to oversee the placement of reinforcing bars (aka "rebar") during construction.
The company is awarded contracts from Eureka, CA to San Jose, CA (including the San Francisco Bay Area).
While America is engaged in World War I, the company starts to receive large orders to export steel, requiring additional export managers and salespeople.
By 1920, the Edward L Soule Company sells over $1 million of steel, primarily to Asia.
The Soule Steel Company is formed from the merger of the Edward L Soule Company, the American System of Reinforcing, and the Concrete Engineering Company of California.
Edward also buys the controlling interest of the Concrete Engineering Company of Omaha.
1961 – The Company Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary
Soule Steel Company introduces multiple new products and services, cementing its place as one of the leading steel companies of the Western United States. Despite inflation and the high cost of scrap steel, profits more than triple in the 1970’s.
A global recession and numerous other factors lead to the closure of the Soule Steel Company:
Leveraging his rebar industry and software experience from Soule Steel, Sandy Soule starts the Soule Teleprocessing Corporation just north of Silicon Valley in Northern California.
Soule Teleprocessing introduces standalone Estimating, Detailing, and Tagging programs that are designed to run on the newly available personal computers (PCs).
At first, the programs are MS-DOS based, later rewritten for the new Microsoft Windows 3.1 platform.
Sandy's son, Kevin, graduates from UCLA with an undergraduate degree in engineering and begins working full-time at Soule Teleprocessing in January of 1996.
After being introduced to computer programming in the third grade, Kevin studied computer science through junior high and high school.
During his summers in high school and college, Kevin worked on developing many of the software modules for Soule Teleprocessing and answered telephone support questions from customers.
Soule Teleprocessing begins attending the World of Concrete tradeshow and is introduced to a multi-plant East coast fabricator who has been searching for a complete rebar software solution.
With looming Y2K software concerns, many companies like Barker Steel Company have spent the last few years searching for a comprehensive rebar software package to address their estimating, detailing, and tagging needs, while also tracking their business flow from sales to accounting.
Soule Teleprocesssing begins developing a new package that incorporates their Estimating, Detailing, and Tagging modules with their mainframe-based VAX business system (built on the logic originally developed for Soule Steel Company).
The new ERP system, Contract Management, is the first rebar software solution to cover Estimating through Contract Billing and Job Costing, handling multiple locations, divisions, and sales locations in a single database.
Contract Management replaces Barker Steel’s proprietary business software along with the Estimating and Tagging software produced by Soule's competitor.
Soule Teleprocessing Corporation is renamed to Soule Software to better reflect the transition from mainframe-based telephone line computing to Windows desktop and server-based solutions.
Ed Soule went to work for John B Leonard in San Francisco as an engineer
Ed Soule saw first-hand as an engineer the devastation that occurred because the city was built mainly with unreinforced masonry and wood frame.
Ed began taking on his own jobs independent of John B Leonard, unofficially started Edward L Soule Co
Edward L Soule Co, a single proprietorship was formed.
Awarded jobs from Eureka, CA to San Jose, CA including San Francisco.
America was at war in Europe and the company started to receive large orders to export steel, thus requiring hiring export managers and salespeople.
Purchased American System of Reinforcing which began the company’s 63 year history in the Los Angeles region.
A new entity, the SOULE Steel Co was created comprising the Edward L. Soule Co., Inc , American System of Reinforcing, Concrete Engineering Co
An office and a plant was built in Portland, Oregon to further expand the business. Opening the Portland
After 30 years of making, selling and installing steel reinforcing bars, Soule Steel Co suddenly found itself in the shipbuilding
Completion of The Carson Mini-Mill (100,000/tons of yearly Production) Perhaps more than anything, Soule
Two days before Ed Soule’s 89th Birthday, Soule died of complications of a stroke and the Soule son’s would find
Soule Steel Co rolled through the 70’s prosperously, introducing new products and services, stacking out its claim to be
Before the decade ended, 75 years after a former farm boy started the Soule legacy with a few dollars from his family,
Sandy Soule starts Soule Teleprocessing Corporation just north of the Silicon Valley in Northern California, leveraging
Sandy introduces standalone Estimating, Detailing, and Tagging programs that can run on the newly
Kevin Soule (Sandy’s son) graduates from UCLA with a degree in engineering. He begins working at Soule
Soule partners with a large East coast fabricator, Barker Steel, to take the existing software modules and expand
Soule Teleprocessing Corporation is renamed to Soule Software to better reflect the transition from
The company experiences rapid growth across the United States and into Canada. The software is translated into
Soule Software develops the first rebar online customer portal where the fabricator’s customers can order rebar online
Soule Software adopts a new logo to pay homage to their Soule Steel legacy. The company