The mid 90's. MS Windows operating system is changing computing habits and reshaping a powerful industry, where popular products such as Lotus 123, WordPerfect, disappear from the face of the earth faster than dinosaurs at the end of the Cretaceous period. Personal computers are disseminated everywhere. With Novell, the local area network is a burgeoning field but Internet is still in its infancy. Circumscribed among the scientific community, IP packets travelled by e-mail or ftp within Unix accounts both in academia and in the military. Mosaic was still a novelty when it was quickly overshadowed by a new strange technology, the World Wide Web. Within this framework, weird concepts such as "groupware" emerge; Software designed for group collaboration. A group of entrepreneurs in the University  of Arizona starts a company that gets noticed by major business publications. Fortune magazine spreads the word. Groups can be more productive thanks to software specifically designed to address their collaboration needs. Parallel processing, anonymity are the critical factors that combined with a new management culture of group empowerment led to the appearance of a new breed of consultants. They are goupVision's founding fathers.

Ever since its origins, groupVision has been a company specialised in improving group collaboration. Starting as European distributors of groupware manufacturers, the company has attracted a network of affiliated companies and group facilitators that develop a unique set of skills and experience in software-based consultancy. The old company logo reflected this break-through, cutting edge perspective with an Aztec stylised sun, which was also the symbol of collaborative knowledge creation.